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VOLUME XXIV. NO. 6 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
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NEVERMORE. .„ 
boiq eriT 
BY D. T. TA/1n. yii),9/da . 
has ,eirocnol• 
We shall meet them nev(rmore 
As we met in days long gone,'`1"?9 
When the sunbeams gilded o'er 
Every path we strayed upon ;— 
There's the same old sweet refrain 
And the same old summer skies, 
But my heart is full of pain edi ii 
And the tears come in my eyes. wiecy, 
Brighter days will surely come,— 
Gold will stand the furnace blast, 
But in vain we ask the tomb 
"Bring once more the vanished past," 
Green the turf above their beds 
Sleep ! ye know no Hain or care ; 
Angels guard the lowly head, 
Christ shall bring the morning fair. 
Happy day that brings release, 
Happy year of Jubilee, 
Christ shall reign the Prince of Peace, 
Give his throne to you and me. 
Farewell all this night of woe, 
Farewell ills, and griefs, and fears ; 
Hail the home to which we go, 
Where the blestshall shed no tears. 
Let us hope, and pray, and wait,— 
Crowns there are for us to win, 
Glory flashes out the Gate— 
Jesus cries Conic in, Come in ! 
Ah ! this hope the spirit calms,— 
Gathered horuethe loved of yore, 
There we'll cross immortal palms 
To be parted Nevermore. 
Castlelon, tint. Feb. 1862. 
Human Life. 
the means and the security of the means of hap-
piness, and also in the leagth of days. In 1860, 
the deaths of British peers numbered twenty-
four; their united ages were sixteen hundred and 
eighty, and the average exactly seventy years. 
This is a remarkable fact. The oldest on the 
list was Viscount Guillamene, eighty-seven, and 
the youngest Earl of Longford,forty-two. There 
were but two under sixty. 
Who are the Great Preachers. 
The great preachers of the world have been 
those who were in direct sympathy with human 
life, and who had an end to gain with the en 
before them. But with culture and scholastic 
habits, men have interpreted the Word of God, 
"Follow me, and I will make you a preacher of 
sermons." The end of preaching is not a good 
sermon, but a holy heart. Fine sermons have 
nearly ruined good preaching. If ministers cared 
more for their people,and less for their sermons, 
they would be more useful. Preaching has al-
most ceased to be a living business between a 
man's heart and the wants of his congregation. 
Learning, rhetoric, eloquence, are good as colla-
terial influences, but no man will win souls, who 
does not feel the throbbing pulse of his whole 
congregation---who does not know their lives---
who does not understand how to take the prima-
ry truths of Chriatianity and apply them to the 
consciences of urea in their daily business of life. 
Such will certainly be efficacious,and such preach-
ing is necessary to the filling up of the church- 
es. Were such preaching universal in our time, 
not only would our churches be filled to over-
flowing, but thousands would have to be built ; 
for you may depend upon it, there is never a 
man who preaches intelligent truth, and preach-
es with a living sympathy for men, that people 
do not flock to hear him. 
The Wedding Garment. 
At the royal marriage of Sultan Mahmoud, a 
few years ago, every guest invited to the wed-
ding had made expressly for him, as the expense 
of the Sultan, a wedding garment. No one, how-
ever dignified his station, was permitted to enter 
into the presence-chamber of that sovereign with-
out a change of raiment. This was formerly the 
universal custom in the East. But inasmuch as 
these garments were very costly, and some of 
the guests invited might plead poverty,and thus 
appear unclad in the guest chamber of the king, 
the cost was defrayed at the Sultan Mahmoud's 
expense. To each guest was presented a suit of 
wedding garments. Had any,therefore, appear-
ed before this absolute sovereign without the 
wedding garment, the Sultan would have deem 
ed his dignity insulted, and his magnificent gifts 
despised. The question, then, "Friend, how earn-
est thou in hither not having on a wedding gar: 
ment ?" (Matt. 22: 12) explains the speechless 
condition of the man. The wedding robe was 
ready, not at the expense of the invited one, bnt 
at the cost of the king. He had simply to obey 
the requirements of Eastern state---put on the 
garment, appear before the king, and do homage 
to him for his rich habit. His refusal to comply 
with this reasonable custom, and presuming, not-
withstanding, to thrust himself into the presence 
of royalty, was an avowal that he denied his au-
thority to rule over him,and despised his power. 
Hence be was bound hand and foot and cast out. 
Woman and the Heathen. 
One of the most striking effects of the Gospel 
is seen in the change it effects in the treatment 
of females, whether girls, wives, or mothers. 
Among us, the little sister is loved and esteemed 
as much as her brother ; husbands speak kindly 
of their wives as their "better halves," and in-
stead of making them do the hardest part of 
daily work, they cheerfully labor for them with 
their head and hands and feel that they are well 
rewarded when they have thus procured for them 
the comforts of' a happy home. But how very 
different the case is in most heathen countries ! 
There the poor women are the drudges and the 
slaves of their selfish and tyrannical husbands, 
who lounge about all day long, smoking, drink-
ing and goSsiping, or if they become active it is 
in hunting, which they follow as much for the 
pleasure they find in it as for the game they kill. 
But perhaps it should be said to their credit, 
that they also milk the cows.---Juv. Miss. Maga-
zine, 
Letter from the Army. 
the Post Office, and there is a nice brick church 
near. A mail of thirty bags arrived last night, 
but has not yet been distributed, It seems quite 
like home. There are five in the room with me. 
Co. K. is next to ours. 
It is nice weather and we think of planting 
something in the garden. I saw some ladies buy-
ing some seeds in a store yesterday. 
We have 197 men on guard, which includes 
three reliefs—each relief standing four hours at 
a time. Our guards are posted at ,the corners 
of the streets, and stop every man, white or 
black, and make him show his pass. If he has 
none we arrest him. No one can bring anything 
to market without permission. I shall have less 
time than I have had, as we go on guard every 
other day : and instead of being on two hours 
and off four, we have to be on four and off eight. 
The reason is, it is so hard to get around with 
the relief every two hours that they relieve us 
every four. 
One of the men in Co. K. died here in the 
hospital on Saturday. He was one of those 
wounded at Kinston, and had an arm off on 
one side and a leg on the other. We had heard 
he was getting better,but he is dead. All the 
wounded soldiers are to have thirty days fur-
lough, and their passage paid home and back by 
the government. 
Your affectionate son. 
HENRY. 
For the Herald. 
Light—Day, 
What is a Bible day, and when does it com-
mence ? 
Let the Bible answer this question. 
" And God said, let there be light : and there 
was light. 
And God saw the light, and it was good; and 
God divided the light from darkm 
And God called the light Day, and the dark-
ness he called Night : and the evening and the 
morning were the first day," Gen. 1:3:4:5. 
These verses establish the fAlowing 
Creation of Light. 
Light is divided from Darkness. 
Light is called Day. 
Darkness is called Night. 
Evening and Morning are the component 
parts of a Day. 
Are not these Bible established points v'ola-
ted by all who write upon the Sabbath ? 
Where is the proof that the day commences 
with the Evening ? or with Mienight ? 
Bible truths are reasnable and common sense 
truths. 
Light was created and is material, has a pos-
itive existence. Darkness is sin ply the absen, e 
of Light, hence, its existence is negative. 
Light was first, being the first day's work, or 
a part of it. Day, la, ing Light, must commence 
with Light,and as Light commences in the morn-
ing, so must Day. 
The sun rules the Day, and the moon rules the 
Night. Gen. 1:16:18. 
Day is composed of a morning and an even-
ing. 
Morning is the forenoon, and evening is the 
afternoon. 
The scriptural limit of human life is seventy 
years while the average of human endurance is 
not over half of that,probably because the wick-
ed do not live out half their days. A virtuous 
life by which we mean a life according to the 
laws of nature, which is the highest physical 
virtue---would probably give the average of 
three score years and ten. There is no class of 
men, who do so much for the individual develop-
ment and preservation as the British nobility. 
They stand at the head of the human race in 
mental cultivation and in physical strength, in 
Camp Amory, on the Trent, 
Newbern, N. C., Jan. 25, 1863. 
DEAR PARENTS :—This is the last letter you 
will get from me from this place. To-morrow 
we go to Newbern, to which place you will di-
rect letters, via. New York as usual. 
At the service this P. M. we were invited by 
Rev. Dr. Stone to attend a prayer meeting on 
Thursday evening next at one of the churches in 
.Newbern. 
When our regiment was on its last march, 
they came across a Female Seminary about two 
miles this side of Pollocksville. It was kept 
by a rebel, who in his circulars offers free in-
struction to young ladies whose fathers are in 
the rebel army. He says he thinks parents 
should not neglect the education of their children 
on account of' the war; and so say we all. Our 
boys were not particularly struck with the ap-
pearance of the young ladies ; who all had a 
lank, yellow look, as if they were clay eaters, 
which to a northerner is rather repulsive. If you 
have read " Among the Pines," you will know 
how they look. 
I am detailed,with two or three others, to stop 
behind tomorrow to see that all the boxes and 
other things are properly forwarded to Newbern. 
And then we shall mount a cart drawn by six 
jackasses and make our triumphal entry into 
that city. 
Newbern, Janztary 27. 
Yesterday we moved into the city. Our com-
pany is on Pollock St. not far from the Neuse 
river. • Our house is a white one, with nice 
green blinds, and with gas in every room and in 
the hall. It is a nice house with a large garden 
hack,—as large as Mr. D's., with fruit trees, and 
some in front. We have a nice view of the riv-
er and street ; and what is more, a nice white 
woman lives opposite, and others pass along the 
street. We are near Adams Express office, and 
42 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
During the morning or forenoon the sun is ri-
sing : during the evening or afternoon the sun is 
descending or going down. 
God labored six days, or six mornings and 
six evenings ; one morning and one evening mak-
ing one day. 
" And the evening and the morning were the 
first day." Gen. 1.5. 
This is a declaration of what constitutes a day 
---the length of time God labored. 
It was during the light God labored. 
We do not suppose he labored during the 
darkness or night. 
I suppose the text literally reads thus---"And 
there was evening, and there was morning--
one day." 
By what authority is this interpreted to mean 
or cover twenty-four hours? By what rule do 
we come to the conclusion that the evening and 
morning mean day and night, or night and day? 
twenty-four hours rather than twelve. 
Jesus says.----" Are there not twelve hours in 
the day ?" John 11:9. 
I am aware the Romans reckon wenty four to 
a day, and also they begin and end the day at 
midnight, I am aware also that we follow them 
in this matter, but what has this to do with the 
Bible mode of reckoning and dividing of time? 
The day was divided into two equal portions---
morning and evening : the sun was rising through- 
out the morning, and setting or going down 
throughout the evening, 
Hence we read of morning and evening sac-
rifices and prayers. 
Among the Jews two lambs were slain daily, 
one in the morning, and the other in the even-
ing, at nine in the morning and three in the eve-
ning. 
In time, prayers were associated with these 
sacrifices. 
Some persons prayed in addition, at noon. 
Says the Psalmist,----Evening, and morning, 
and at noon, will I pray.. ." Psalms 55:07. 
Daniel " kueeled upon his knees three times a 
day, and prayed, . . " 6:10. 
Again---" maketh his petition three times a 
day." verse 13. 
These hours of prayer were 9, 12, and 3.---
" Now Peter and John went up together in the 
temple, at the hour of prayer, being the ninth 
hour." Acts 3:1. This hour was three in the 
evening or afternoon. 
"Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, 
about the sixth hour :" Acts 10:9. 
The Paschal Lamb wis slain at three in the 
evening or afternoon ; thus dividing the evening 
in the middle---two parts. " And the whole as-
sembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it 
in the evening." Ex. 12:6. 
The margin has it---" between the two even-
ings." 
It is well known the Jews had or reckoned 
two evenings in each day, calling them the great-
er and the lesser evenings: 
Says R. Menachem on Exodus 12:6.—" Be-
tween the two evenings, at the time of prayer." 
Let any one, who wishes to have his views 
upon these points in harmony with the Bible, 
take Craden's Concordance and trace the words 
day, morning, evening and night through the 
Bible and see if' the following points are not es-
tablished. 
Day, includes an evening and a morning 
---light---twelve hours---while the sun shines on 
a given place. 
_Evening, then, is no part of the night, 
in the Bible, it is true that we after the man-
ner of the Romans, reckon it a part of the night) 
but of the day. 
Night is darkness, and no part of the 
day. 
Diodorus gives us an account of a singular cus- 
. tom, which prevailed among the ancient Egyp-
tians. When a person died, before the corpse 
was allowed the rites of sepulture, a number cf 
persons, chosen expressly for the office,assembled 
TIMOTHY WHEELER. 
Waterbury Center, Vt. Feb. 2. 1863. 
Judgment of the Dead. 
to sit in judgment upon the life of the deceased. 
All persons who were possessed of any facts con-
cerning the acts of the deceased, were required 
to come forward at that time, and make those 
facts known, and it the number of evil acts out-
weighed the good,the corpse was denied the rites 
of burial. From this singular law not even kings 
were exempt. 
To the Egyptians, who believed that the soul 
perished when the body ceased to exist,this cere-
mony was doubtless most awfully impressive. 
For the Herald 
Methodist Apostacy. 
The happy medium is the curse to be sought 
on all questions. But how netural for poor 
short sighted mortals to run to ex'remes. In 
reviewing and solving the perplexing questions 
urged by materialists, we have had occasion to 
notice one of the extremes on the question.— 
" What becomes of the dead ?" 
The materialists answer;---" They go into a 
state of total unccnsciousness till the resurrec-
tion." 
The Bible answers---" Then shall the dust re 
turn to the earth as it was and the spirit shall 
return to God who gave it." And " In a mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last 
trump, the trumpet shall sound and the dead 
shall be raised incorruptable, and we shall be 
changed." 
And this latter, I had always understood to 
be the faith and teachings of Methodism, as held 
and taught by its illustrious founder, and its 
great luminaries, Charles Wesley, John Fletch-
er, Joseph Benson, Adam Clarke, Richard 
Watson, &c. What, then, was .my surprise to 
find in the, N. Y. Christian Advocate and Jour-
nal, the official organ of the M. E. Church,such 
sentiments as the following, without note or com-
ment ! Are we to understand that the editor en-
dorses the doctrine ? The extracts are From a 
funeral sermon by Rev. Dr. Stricklana on the 
occasion of' the death of Gen. 0. M. Mitchell. 
The preacher says : 
" At the very moment the soul leaves the 
body, its tomb, the spiritual body bursts forth 
from its chrysilis state and bathes its glory plu-
mage in the beams of the sun of Righteous-
ness." 
Come, meditate on that great day, 
When things of' time have passed away, 
This transient world---a life's short stay, 
On changing scenes---but soon we may 
Behold the Rose off Sharon. 
View Paradise arrayed in green 
With richest beauties all serene ; 
How lovely is the radiant scene, 
Life's river flowing on between 
Close by the Rose of Sharon. 
This Rose in full perpetual bloom, 
In Eden yields its rich perfume, 
Dispersing all the menial gloom, 
That hangs around the dismal tomb : 
How fair the Rose of Sharon. 
Its odors sweet and fragrance rare, 
Borne on each gentle breeze of air, 
Proclaim our heavenly Father's care, 
No flowers can with this compare, 
None like the Rose of' Sharon. 
Hear turtle doves with carols sweet: 
Delightful measures they repeat, 
Inviting saints to' their retreat, 
Near by the blood-bought mercy seat 
There blooms the Rose of Sharon. 
Rich music fills the verdant plains 
Celestial notes in joyful strains; 
"Where endless glory ever reigns, 
Jesus his scepter there maintains, 
He is the Rose of Sharon. 
He soon will come to take command 
In the New Earth---the promised land 
With golden crowns in His right hand 
For all the meek who then will stand. 
Praising the Rose of Sharon. 
E. P. B. 
Terre Haute, Jan. 28th. 1863. 
The Rose of Sharon. 
from its earthly Tabernacle,not disembodied, but more highly organized. 
Then quoting from 2 Cor. 5th ch. he says : the serem, or Albumen is it colorless portion. 
" From this it is clear that the soul goes forth The flesh thus differs from blood onlyin being 
 
clothed with a spiritual body. In this spiritual 
It is a characteristic of Fibrine, that it coagu. 
body or organism Moses and Elijah appeared to lates voluntarily. Besides constituting the fibre 
Christ on the mount of transfiguration and held of animal bodies, it is found in vegetable juices. 
converse with their adorable Lord and Savior. Albumen is found in its purest state in the 
It was in this spiritual body, Paul went up to serem of' blood and white of an egg. It coagu. 
the third heavens and saw and heard what it was lates only with heat. The horns, hoofs,and hair of 
impossible to communicate to mortals. animals, and feathers of birds, appear to be a 
" There is no intermediate state. At death modified form of coagulated albumen. It is 
the soul of the believer enters heaven." 
found in vegetable juices, and in a solid form in 
This, if really endorsed by the Methodist or- most seeds,---as in walnuts, almonds, &c. 
gan and authorities, is indeed a gigantic stride These animal principles are nearly identical with 
in apostacy, not only from the Gospel but also the curd'or coagulable part Of milk called Casein. 
from the doctrines of Methodism as it was. This is the principal constituent of cheese, and is 
What would the author, of the following say to found in the juices of vegetables, and in their 
such sentiment? 
seeds—particularly in peas and beans. When 
" In this identic body, I, (11170-0-- fed to animals, it changes to fibrine and albumen, 
With eyes of flesh refined, restored, and so forms muscle. 
Shall see that self same Saviour nigh, These substances are also nearly allied to a 
See for myself my smiling Lord." 
product of the vegetable kingdom, called Glu- 
 
CH. WESLEY. ten : which abounds in wheat and the seeds of 
But what shall we say of it in the light of other grain. 
such scriptures as these ? e All that are in the 
If a portion of flour be enclosed in a cloth, 
grave shall hear his voice and come forth." and worked or kneaded in water, it will give out 
" Many of them that sleep in the dust of the a milk white substance that settles to the bottom. 
earth shall awake." " Shall quicken your mor- When the flour ceases to color the water, that 
tal body by his spirit which dwelleth in you." which remains is gluten—a gray, tough, elastic 
" Shall change our vile body and fashion it af- substance. It contains the same four elements, 
ter his own glorious body," " The Lord him- and in nearly the same proportions, as fibrine 
self shall descend from heaven," &c, " and the and albumen, is changed into those products 
dead in Christ shall rise first." if the soul en- when eaten,and is nearly as nutritive as animal 
ters its spiritual body at, death, why did Christ's food. 
soul remain in ha,des till the third day and then 
The milk white substance that is separated 
his body disappear from the tomb ? 
from the gluten o(bthe flour and precipitated to 
 
J. LITCH. the bottom of the water, is a product called 
Starch. This is universally diffused in the vege- 
Original. 
table kingdom—in the seeds of wheat and other 
,te e 4 
cereals ; in roots, as the potatoe ; in the stein or 
la,,On the Chemistry of Food. 
pith of many plants, as sago; in some barks, 
ounos lied! H' 
' eiede 101 07011; 
''f!r Continued. 1 
as cinnamon ; in pulpy fruits, like the apple ; 
e' 
 
' 
a 
Eating is thus a necessity of our nature, as and in most vegetables, like the carrot, &c. 
 
well as of that of the lower animals ; and as it The constituents of Starch are the same three 
 
must be several times a day repeated, and by all elements, in slightly differing proportions, as 
 
the millions on our globe, it is worthy of consid- those of fat; and it becomes fat in the animal 
eration how this office may be best subserved. system. 
It is found by Chemical analysis, that animal The products known as gum, wax, sugar and 
muscle is composed of the four elements,—Car- woody fibre,are also composed of the same three 
bon, Oxygen, Ilydrogen,and Nitrogen ; and that elements, and will serve a like purpose in the 
fat is composed only of the first three. It is also animal economy, as respiratory food ; but starch 
found that articles of food constituted of the three and animal fat, are principally relied on for 
that purpose. 
elements, will made only fat ; and that combina- 
tions of the four, make only muscle. It is a law Gum is found in most vegetables, and exudes 
of nature that that which replaces, must be con- from the stems and barks of trees. It is little 
stituted of the same elements as that displaced. resorted to for food—though it is said that dur-
And as food is needed for the creation of' both ing the gum-harvest,in gum producing countries 
fat and muscle, it must comprise two kinds of those who gather it mostly subsist on it. Gum 
food—that which is known as Respiratory, or Arabic, or gum Senegal, is, in some climates, a 
breathing food, by which the body is warmed ; leading article of commerce. 
 
and Plastic, or nutritive food, by which the sol- Sugar abounds in the juice of plants—parti- 
id parts of the system are built up. When there ularly in the sugar cane, beet root, maple, &e.; 
is an excess of' the breathing material, fat is de- in the juice of many fruits, to which it gives 
posited on various parts of the body ; when there their sweet and luscious taste,as in the grape,and 
is a deficiency, the body grows lean ; when the apple ; and it is also extracted from the whey 
fat is exhausted, contribution is levied on the of milk, after its curd is separated. It can be 
flesh of the sy-tem to supply the needed warmth ; extracted from starch, woody-fibre, &c., and is 
and if an animal be kept on either kind of food, an essential ingredient in all syrups. When seeds 
to the exclusion of the other, the body cannot germinate, the starch in them changes to sugar; 
preserve its tone and vigor. 
as it also does on being eaten ; after which it be- 
When moist flesh is subjected to pressure, its conies fat. 
various saline, and other substances held in so- The chief bulk of vegetables consists of woody 
lotion, flow out,and leave the meat comparative- fibre, or Lignin,—the purest forms of which are 
ly tasteless. This juice,the most valuable part of seen in hemp, flax, cotten, and paper. In the 
the meat, may be entirely removed by mincing tender plants, it serves as food for herbiferous 
the meat, soaking it in water,and pressure. When animals, for the formation of fat. 
this extract is heated, nearly to boiling, it thick- While lean meat, the white of eggs, curds or 
ens or becomes muddy, and whitish flakes sepa- cheese, and the gluten of grain and seeds must 
rate from it,—the same in substance as the be mainly relied on to supply Nutriment for the 
white of an egg. Th's is called Albumen. The human system, and the fat of meat, butter, the 
remaining portion of the meat has a fibrous ap- sugar of' fruits, and the starch of grain and vege- 
pearance, and is therefore called Fibrine. These tables, for the breathing material, it is necessa 
two organic products are the principal constitu. ry that the two be used in due proportions, to 
ents of the flesh ; and both contain the same four supply all the wants of the body. Children in-
elements, already referred to, in similar propor- judiciously fed on sago, arrow root, and other 
tical. 
starch materials, may grow plump and fat ; but 
tions, so that the two substances are nearly iden- their frames will be weak and rickety, for the 
These two principles enter into the formation want of a more nutritive element to develops 
of blood ; which, when freshly drawn soon coagu- 
lates. The Fibrine, in connection with the color- 
ing matter is contained in the clotted part ; and their muscle and bones. 
and the curd for the plastic, makeee these two 
In milk, the sugar and butter for respiratory 
THE' ADVEN HERALD 
43 
of your labor. It refers to what you owe your' be its meaning. And when, after such acknowl-
minister. If you neglect to take to him what edgement, I have heard or read of their repeat- 
Jehovah holds you responsible for, you cannot ing the quotation for the same purpose, time 
hope to be blessed of him. It should be borne after time, before those who they knew would 
in mind that ministers are commanded to give not understand its meaning, I confess it has re- 
their whole time to the work of the ministry. quired a mighty stretch of my mantle of charity. 
 
f "To be instant in season ; out of season." They The simple and obvious meaning of the pas- 
are to preach from the pulpit, and from house sage is, That however well disposed princes or 
to house. They are to visit the sick, look after others are to help you, or however firm and good 
the strayed ones, bury the dead, and care for all their designs may be, they are stricken down by 
the interests connected with their charge. How death, and in that very day all those good pur- 
then can they look out for the wants of their poses come to nought. No materialist who can 
families? Certainly they cannot without taking use a Ileb. Lexicon, or will take the pains to en-
time from their legitimate calling. It is the duty quire of any one who can, will ever deny this 
of the church, therefore, while the minister de- to be the meaning. 
 
votes all his time and energies for their good to Why, then, should the unlearned be continu- 
see that his mind shall not be perplexed, and his ally perplexed by such a perverted quotation of 
usefulness crippled, with anxious thoughts con- the text? A cause requiring such support must 
cerning his own and family's temporal comfort. be wanting in something. 
 
A man can't prepare a good sermon if' his mind 
ANOTHER PERPLEXITY. 
 
is perplexed. It is frequently urged that Paul " The Dead know not anything." 
 
labored with his hands to gain a livelihood, and An advocate of the unconscious doctrine once 
that all ministers should imitate his example. 
But it is forgotten that the apostle claimed the 
right to a support "in common with others, both 
by reason, the nature of the case, the examples 
in the law,and the command of the Lord Jesus," 
and that he merely declined to exercise his right 
for what he considered good and sufficient reasons, 
1 Cor. 9: 12, 15. And so there may be men 
now who prefer to labor with their hands for 
their support, and preach the gospel as they 
have opportunity, rather than submit to the 
charge of being actuated by mercenary motives, 
or disturb the peace of covetous professors by 
endeavors to arouse them to their duty in refer-
ence to these things. But to allow one of God's 
ambassadors, whom he commands to attend whole 
y to the great work of the ministry, to spend a 
large share of his time and strength to provide 
for his family, when the people among whom he 
labors are amply able to support him,is a teribl y 
wicked and God dishonoring act. A minister 
who has to labor einnot visit his flock nor sin. 
ners, cannot study as he ought, and cannot do 
the good he otherwise might. If a minister preach-
es to a people that can support him and will not, 
he is as great a sinner as they are themselves. 
If a people cannot fully support a man,they have 
no right to claim all of his time, but should al-
low him to spend part of his time in other places. 
There is a crying evil existing among us on these 
points. With but few laborers, and a great work 
to be done, and a short time to labor, in addit-
tion to the command, "Meditate upon these things 
give thyself wholly to them," many give a great 
share of their time and abilities to minor things 
and the churchd suffer them to do it. These 
things ought not to be. 
To be continued. 
Perplexing Questions. 
"Of all occasions," says Cicero "none is more 
noble, none more stable, than that which is formed 
by good men, when they are united by the bond of 
riendship and congeniality of disposition." 
Lift is fleeting ; its joys are deceitful and tran-
itory. 
There are in European Turkey and Western Asia 
under the missionaries of the American board, 20 
churches, numbering466 members, 58 of them add-
ed the last year. 
proximate elements admirably proportioned to 
constitute it a suitable food for the young. 
In bread, made of whole wheat or rye, the 
two elements also, are well proportioned—the 
plastic being represented by the gluten of the 
flour, and the nutritive by its starch. Bread has 
been justly denominated, "the staff of life ;" and 
it is, perhaps, of all food, the best adapted to its 
support. Grain,of various kinds,constitutes three 
fourths of the food of the world. In the Scrip-
tures, bread and water are spoken of as "the 
stay and the staff,—the whole stay of bread, 
and the whole stay of water," Supply a nation 
with these, and though their "souls may loathe 
this light food," they need never suffer for hun-
ger. For bread also contains traces of mineral, 
or inorganic compounds,for the structure of bone. 
As the gluten of flour is nearly identical, in 
its chemical constituents,with the fibrine of flesh, 
and starch with the fat of meat, stall fed beef 
and mutton, will serve a similar purpose to that 
of bread. The same proximate elements are also 
well proportioned in eggs ; and men might keep 
lent forever, and live on bread,milk, and cheese, 
without suffering in their persons for want of 
food. 
There are articles of food that are greatly de-
ficient, some in one, and some in the other of 
these proximate elements. Peas,and Beans,among 
vegetables, are deficient in the breathing mate-
rial ; and rice, in the nutritive. This last is 
wanting in the fat flesh of swine ; whilst veal, 
and lean meats generally, lack the former. In 
the use of such food, where the elements are not 
well proportioned, the articles themselves must 
be used in connection. And ehus the common in-
stinct of man has led him as his appetite has 
craved,and without knowing wherein they differ-
ed in their respective elements, to so select his 
articles of diet,that those in which the one proxi-
mate element is deficient,should be compensated Do ye not know that they which minister abot 
by those in which it abounds. With lean meats, 
therefore, we always use rice, macaroni, or vege- 
tables; with beans, pork, &c. ED. 
(To be continued.) 
"The emoluments of the priests were as fol-
lows :- 
1. Those which they might eat only at the 
sanctuary ; viz.,the flesh of the sin offering (Lev. 
6: 25, 26), and of the trespass offering (7: I, 6,) 
the peace offerings of the congregation at Pen-
tecost, (23: 19, 20) ; the remainder of the °mar be obeyed as much as any other law of Christ 
or sheaf of the first fruits of the barley harvest To withhold a support from a minister of Chris 
(vs. 10,) and the loaves offered at wheat har- is as great a sin as to cheat the school teacher 
vest (vs. 17) ; the spew bread (24: 9) ; the re- I doctor, or any body else out of their just due 
Yea, it is infinitely greater. To neglect to care 
for Christ's ministers is robbery,—and robbery 
of no ordinary magnitude. It is robbing Jehovah. 
"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. 
But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee ? In 
tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a nurse : 
for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 
Bring ye all the tithes (those long withheld, and 
those now due,) into the storehouse that there 
may be meat in mine house, and prove me now 
herewith saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not 
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you 
out a blessing,that there shall not be room enough 
to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer 
for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the 
fruits of your ground : neither shall your vine 
cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith 
the Lord of' hosts. And all nations shall call you 
blessed : for ye shall be a delightsome land,saith 
the Lord of hosts." Mal. 3: 8-12. 
If churches would be blessed, therefore, they 
must repent of robbery. How can God hear your 
prayers while you continue to rob him of his 
Ex. 34: 26 ; the restitution in cases of injury or just dues? Remember, this quotation from Mal-
achi relates especially to the service of God's 
altar. When brethren quote v. 10, in their con-
ference meetings, they should understand its 
significance. To "bring in your tithes" does no 
refer to your exhortations, prayers, and hymns, 
but to the fruits of your lands, and the proceeds 
The Christian Ministry ; 
AND THE GOSPEL METHOD OF ITS INCREASE AND 
SUPPORT. 
 
BY C. CUNNINGHAM. 
mainder of the leper's log of' oil (14: 10 &c.), 
and the remnants of the mean offerings (6: 16) 
Those which might be eaten only in the 
camp in the first instance, and afterwards in 
Jerusalem, viz., the breast and right shoulder of 
the peace offerings (Lev. 7: 31, 34) ; the heave 
offering of' the sacrifice of thanksgiving (vs. 12 
—14) ; the heave offering of the Nazarite's ram, 
(Num. 6: 17, 20) ; the firstling of every clean 
beast (18: 15) ; and whatever was first ripe in 
the land (v. 13). 
Those due to them only from inhabitants 
of the land ; viz., "All the best of the oil, and all 
the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first 
fruits of them which they shall offer unto the 
Lord,' (Num. 18: 12) ; a cake of the first dough 
made of any kind of grain 15: 20 ; and the first 
fleece, Deut. 18: 4. 
4, Those due to them everywhere within and 
without the land ; viz., the shoulder, two cheeks 
and maw, of an ox or sheep, offered in sacrifice 
Deut. 18 : 3 ; the redemption of man and unclean 
beasts, Num. 18: 15 ; of the firstling of `an ass, 
fraud when it could not be made to the injured 
party or his kinsman, Num. 5: 8; all devoted 
things. 
5. The skins of the burnt offerings, Lev. 7: 
8, which i'hilo calls a very rich perquisite. 
Many of these dues were paid in money."---Kit- 
(Continued from our last. 
to's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, Vol. 11.pp. 
556, 7. 
They also had large donations besides. Sc 
Num. 31: 25---54. 2 Sam. 8: 11, 12. 1 Chrot 
26: 27, 28. These passages refer to spoils tak 
en in war, a certain, and large proportion 
which was dedicated to the Lord. The pries• 
had, therefore, very large incomes amounting, 
is estimated, to one-fifth of the income of a Jew 
All this was regarded as given to the Lot 
their King. And the more liberal they were 
the more love and reverence they evinced fc 
him. The authority and law of God oblige 
them to support those who ministered at his alto 
God intended to have those who were set apa. 
to labor especially for him spported, and the 
well. He would not have his ministers abando 
the farm, the workshop, and all worldly busines• 
to work exclusively in another part of his vim 
yard, and then go hungry. As they were to at 
tend entirely to holy things, Jehovah command 
ed those who were allowed to till the land an 
engage in business, to see that the wants of hi 
priests were fully supplied. And he has ordains 
that gospel ministers should be sustained in the; 
work. "Who goeth a warfare any time at h 
own charges ? who planteth a vineyard, and ea, 
eth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth 
flock, and tasteth not of the milk of the flock 
Say I these things as a man ? or saith not tl, 
law the same also ? For it is written in the la' 
of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of th 
ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God tal, 
care for oxen? or saith he it altogelther for ou 
sakes? For our sakes no doubt, th 
is written : that he that plower 
should plow in hope ; and that he th, 
thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hop( 
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is 
a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things 
holy things live of the things of the temple ?at, 
they which wait at the altar are partakers with 
the altar ? Even so bath the Lord ordained the 
they which preach the gospel should live of th 
gospel." 1 Cor. 9: 7---14. "The laborer is woi 
thy of his hire," says the blessed Saviour. Luk 
10: 7. 
"Let him that is taught in the word commuu 
cafe unto him that teacheth in all good things. 
Gal. 6: 6. "Let the Elders that rule well b 
counted worthy of double honor, especially the. 
 
who labor in the word and doctrine. For th 
scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle the o 
that treadeth out the corn. And, the laborer i 
worthy of his reward," 1. Tim. 5: 17, 18. 
This is a command of the church, and is t 
No. 5. 
" His breath goeth forth he returneth to his 
earth ; in that very day his thoughts perish. Ps. 
146:4. 
This is one of the most common passages quo-
ted by the advocates of the unconscious death 
sleep, in all their discussions, public and private. 
It is one which in the way it is presented, very 
sorely puzzles many sincere enquirers after 
truth, and therefore needs solution ; for it is for 
such I write. 
The doctrine usually deduced from the text, is 
that the spirit becomes extinct in the day of 
death. 
The fallacy consists in confounding the word 
thoughts with spirit. If they were synonymous, 
if it read He returneth to his earth, in 
that very day his spirit perishes," the doctrine 
of unconciousness in death would be more pro-
bable. 
But are the words synonymous ? is the ques-
tion to be answered. THEY ARE NOT. The word 
rendered thoughts, in this text, is defined by the 
Hebrew Lexicons, and critics, to be " purposes 
or designs." This is the only instance of the 
occurrence of this Hebrew word in the Bible. 
I have never discussed with a materialist, who 
pretends to any knowlege of the meaning of He-
ibrew words, who does not acknowledge this t9 
said to a gentleman with whom he was convers-
ing, "The Bible declares that The dead know 
not anything; and when you will produce as pos-
itive evidence on the other side, that they do 
know something, I will give up." his friend 
replied, •' The rich man died and was buried ; 
and in Hades he lifted up his eyes being in tor-
ment." 
What could he, as an honest man, say 
or do, but to give up ? He had over and over 
again explained the rich man and Lazarus ; but 
the trouble was, it would not stay explained. 
Every time he came to it, it was there still. 
And finally he concluded that it was best to 
let it stay there,just as Christ and the Evangel-
ist had left it. A multitude of others have tried 
their hand at it; and it works just the same with 
them ; it is there still. 
Having failed to explain the rich man and 
Lazarus in the light of " The dead know not 
anything," we will see if we can explain "The 
dead know not anything," in the light of " The 
rich man and Lazarus." i """ d • a 1. 
" The living know that they shell die, but the 
dead know not anything, neither have they any 
more a reward, for the memory of them is for-
gotten. Also their love and their hatred, and 
their envy, is now perished; neither have they 
any more a portion forever in anything that is 
done under the sun." Eccl. 9,5,6. 
The last clause of the quotation makes it as 
clear as a sunbeam, that the writer refers to 
their relation to the things of this state alone, 
and has no reference whatever to the future. It 
is the disconnecting of the oft repeated clause 
from its relation to the whole passage which 
produces the perplexity. Read this whole pas-
sage as it stands, in the light of Luke 16 ; 2, 
and all is plain,without one word of explanation. 
and the great doctrine of the conscious existence 
of the soul, in the unseen world callen Hades, as 
held by the Pharisees whose part Christ and 
Paul took on this subject, stands out clearly be-
fore us, and all perplexity vanishes from the 
mind. If it comes to be a question of either 
knowledge or veracity, as between Solomon and 
Christ, one declaring that the dead known not 
anything and the other asserting that they do, I 
for one am decided which side I shall espouse, 
But espousing his side,and looking at that stand 
point, he has made no issue of the kind, nor said 
any thing to clash with the words of Jesus. They 
both agree that the dead are dote with all that 
pertains to earth ; that the rich man had left be-
hind his good, and Lazarus his evil things ; they 
have no more a portion in anything that is done 
under the sun ; their interests and concerns are 
in the invisible world, the one comforted and the 
other tormented. 
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Our correspondent wishes us to be a little more 
particular in respect to a matter of which he 
makes mention. 
The inconsistency referred to,which we endeavor-
ed to make plain but in which we did not suceed, 
was not that the fact of the resurrection of the wick-
ed to damnation was inconsistent with truth ; for 
this we hold as tenet of revelation ; but it was,first, 
that the belief in their future resurrection and sub-
sequent destruciion, was incompatible with the 
tenet of no future existence out of Christ. 
For if there is no future existence out of Christ, all 
who have a future existence would necessarily be in 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
sumptuously every day." But when his soul had 
been required of him, all his wealth was left behind. 
His zoe 'roved "even as a vapor that appeareth for 
a little time, and then vanisheth away," James 4: 
14. And when he sought for only one drop of water 
to cool his parched tongue he was thus referred to 
his vanished enjoyments : "Son, remember that thou 
in thy zoe receivedst thy good things, ' Luke 16: 
19-25. His was a fleeting, and not an eternal zoe. 
When we read that godliness has "promise of the 
zoe that now is and of that which is to come," 
1 Tim. 4: 8, it cannot be simply pres-
ent existence, but it is that which is need 
ful to present enjoyment that 'is promised here, 
while hereafter there will be given the riches of the 
eternal glory. In the present state the wicked exist, 
but they are "ailenated from the zoe of God." Eph. 
4: 18. And they who regain that zoe, can do so on 
ly through faith in the Lord Jesus. There is no eter-
nal zoe, nor resurrection to zoe, out of Christ. 
Another RespOnse. 
Bro. BLiss :—Having read the proposition of Bro. 
Parker, I cheerfully respond to it. Having gather-
ed up my old papers, I have disposed of them and 
send you the avails, one dollar. Accept the gift, 
though small, from one who prizes the IIerald high-
ly and wishes its continuance till the Master comes. 
Your sister, looking for redemption soon. 
MRS. M. WALDORF. 
Waterford, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Jan. 31, 1863. 
The War. 
The report of the rebels in respect to their having 
raised the blockade at Charleston, appears to have 
been exagerated—only two vessels out of our eight 
or ten havilig been disabled or obliged to leave. 
The attack of 5000 of the enemy on Fort Donald- 
son, Feb. 4th, is reported via. Nashville, Feb. 7th., 
to have been successfully repulsed—one hundred re-
bels being captured, and 145 of them buried by our 
forces, besides some 500 wounded. Our loss was 
two killed and forty one wounded and missing. 
The rebels have been repulsed from an unsuccess-
ful attack on our forces at Island No. 10. 
The rebels are claiming a naval victory over Uni-
ted States ships in the Gulf of Mexico ; but we have 
nothing reliable in respect to it. 
The large expedition from Newbern to one of the 
Southern ports must be in active operation by this 
time ; but we get no intelligence. 
The Richmond Examiner of the 28th ult., says 
that on the previous morning, while one thousand 
exchanged Union prisoners were passing along a foot 
bridge which spans the basin in Eight street, the 
bridge gave way and all upon it were immersed in 
the water. Two of the Confederate guards and twen-
ty-eight of the Union prisoners are supposed to have 
been drowned. 
Western papers say that the Vicksburg canal will 
be dug deep enough to allow our gunboats to go 
through at the average hight of the river, and that 
a sufficient force is detailed to accomplish this pur- 
pose. 
Havana advices, which are to the 31st ultimo, 
bring no confirmation of the report that the priva-
teer Florida, or Oreto, had been sunk by our gun-
boats. 
AD VENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 10, p863. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 7 10 
The Present Sheet. 
The sudden sickness of one of our compositors,and 
our inability immediately to fill her place, has com-
pelled vs to choose between deferring the issue of 
the Herald beyond its usual date,or issuing half our 
usual size. This will explain the size of our present 
issue, we trust, to the satisfaction of our readers. 
This derangement in our working force also com-
pels us to defer a large amount of matter designed 
for our present number, and to dispense with our 
usual variety. 
Christ, and of course be saved eternally ; and if any 
are resurrected in their sins, and therefore not in 
Christ, it will show a future existence that was not 
in Christ—its duration being a seperate question. 
The second point was, that if the penalty of sin is 
extinction of being,that then all who pass out of ex-
istence have suffered that penalty, have paid that 
full debt, and are consequently entitled to exemp-
tion from farther suffering ; but that if instead of 
extinction of being, pain was the penalty, as the 
penalty is to be eternal there could be no subse-
quent cessation of being—the several things being 
incomputable each with the other. And therefore 
if no life out of Christ mean no future existence out 
of him, the resurrection of the wicked must be aban-
doned. And if pain and not extinction of being is 
the penalty for sin, its eternity must be admitted. 
So that those holding to the final extinction of the 
beng of the wicked, must either relinquish the idea 
that pain is the penalty, or that the wicked will be 
raised ; or else hold views inconpatable with each 
other and consequently unharmoneous. 
The interrogations predicted of the rich man, 
with what follows,we do not recognize as in accord-
ance with any picture we have drawn ; and as we 
do not see that those points are involved in any is-
sue we made in respect to retribution,it is not need-
ful here either to defend or refute the view pre-
sented. We will simply add that whatever may or 
may not be inconsistent for God to do, must be de-
termined solely by revelation, and not by any view 
we may otherwise entertain and we think the 
Creator needs no defense against anything He may 
have condescended to reveal in respect to the pun-
ishment he will inflict on lost rebels. The wicked 
will be as though they had not been, in just the 
sense conveyed by that passage, harmonized in the 
light of other scriptures. There are three words ren-
dered hell in the scriptures ; but hades should nev-
er have been thus rendered. A resurrection from 
Tartarus in Hades and subsequent consignment to 
Gehenna does not necessarily involve any cessation 
of punishment, though there may be a variation in 
kind ; for the punishment of a Criminal actually be-
gins with the commencement of his public disgrace, 
nor is there any cessation of it in his being brought 
from prison to court, to be then re-incarcerated ; 
and all this is compatable with continued conscious 
existence,.ei-t eici 215i.1 lOdBi or 
Any claimed inconsistency of any given view with 
the Word, our brother will notice, must depend on 
the interpretation given to any particular passage 
in the word ; the discussion of which would involve 
matters not necessaily comprised in the direct an-
swer to his enquiries. 
We do not accept the phrase,no life out of Christ, 
as a Scriptural one ; but we do that of no eternal 
life out of him, in the Scriptural meaning of those 
words. For eternal life, zoen aionion, is promised 
to none but the justified. 
The difference of view here turns on the meaning 
of the Greek term zoe,—the only one in the N. Test. 
rendered "life" in connection with an eternal dura-
tion. If that term zoe mean existence, then, "no 
zoe out of Christ," would mean no existence out of 
him ; which would affirm that all who exist are now 
in Christ,and consequently that all would be saved. 
But as wicked men do exist, there is existence out-
side of faith in the Lord Jesus ; and therefore mere 
existence cannot be the scriptural significance of 
that denominative as applied to the eternity of the 
redeemed. 
The use of that term as expressive of a resurrec- 
tion existence is also incompatible with the resur-
rection of the wicked. For as "to the resurrection 
of zoe" is promised only to the "good," see John 
5: 39, it cannot be applicable to any others ; and,in 
that scriptural significance of the term, there can be 
no resurrection'zoe:out of Christ. But as the evil as 
well as the just are to be resurrected, a mere exis-
tonce subsequent to the resurrection cannot be its 
scriptural meaning. What then is its significance? 
Zoe was a word used by the Greeks as expressive 
of their wealth, riches, possessions, the means of en-
joyment, or of whatever tended to make existence 
delightful. The Jews held that a man's zoe consist-
ed in the abundance of the things he possessed, and 
that made them covetous of worldly possessions. Our 
Saviour corrected this mistaken idea when he re-
buked their desire for gain, sayiug, "Take heed and 
beware of covetousness : for a man's zoe consiateth 
not in the abundance of the things which he posess-
eth," Luke 12: 15. And then he illustrated by a 
parable how the things which a man thus provides 
for himself pass away to others, when his soul is re-
quired of him,—thus showing the folly of any one 
who "layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich 
towards God." 
The Jews fancied that a man's zoe consisted in 
having an abundance to eat, to drink, and to wear, 
in living luxuriously,and in having a good time gen-
erally. And "there was a certain rich man, which 
was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared 
From Bro. G. R. Garvin. 
BRO. BLISS :—I removed from Millsville, Grant 
Co., Wis. on the 24th of July, and went to Paynes-
vide, Stearns Co., Minnesota. I had been there but 
a week, when the Indian troubles commenced. we 
stayed three weeks more and finally had to leave. 
In the mean time the Indians killed about fifty per-
sons within from 12 to 20 miles of us; and since we 
left, they have burned the place. We came down 
the river to Anoka and had to stop on account of 
our children being sick ; and we have concluded to 
stop through the winter. 
1 love the Herald, and cannot well do without it. 
I hear no doctrine that corresponds with the Bible, 
and feeds my soul so fully, as the Advent doctrine; 
and I get none of that except in the Bible and Her-
ald. 
I have found a few in Minnesota who hold "the 
doctrine" to some degree ; but they are as sheep 
without a shepherd to feed them. A man said to 
me, that the Advent doctrine was the most errone-
ous doctrine in the world. I thought it not so, and 
mentioned some popular doctrines, now preached, as 
being quite erroneous. I then quoted several passa-
ges to substantiate the doctrine of ,Christ's person-
al advent and asked him what they meant. Ile said 
the ministers disagreed so much about the Bible, 
that he could not tell. I found that he did not read 
the Bible much for himself, and could not maintain 
this point. A preacher in Wisconsin heard that a 
few Adventists were at one of his preaching places, 
and came up to battle us. He took for his text, Ec-
clesiastes 12 : 7, "Then shall the dust return to the 
earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto 
God who gave it." He directed his whole discourse 
against the Adventists calling them Adventers. He 
said they all believed that the soul slept in the 
grave until the resurrection and in the annihila-
tion of the wicket, with some other things ; and 
then quoted Chandler as the "great champion of 
Adventism" to prove his statements. Now please 
tell me who this Chandler is? and whether all the 
Adventists follow him ? 
In conversing with him he denied knowing there 
were any such people at that place ; and said they 
were a deluded set, and it was his duty to battle 
them where ever he found tnem. 
Your Bro. in the Lord. G. R. Garvin. 
Anoka, Anoka Co., Min., Dec. 25, 1862. 
We think reference must be made to Moses Chan-
der,wlio has labored in time west holding those views. 
There are however, those who look for the Lord's 
coming who do not so hold. ED. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
III Shipman. The name was some how misplaced in 
stopping the other paper thatwen t in the same package,. 
J. Pearce $7. Have credit ed M Shawan and R Davy 
$2 25, each from 1127 to No. 1179; and Mrs E Flat 
$2 50. from No 1118 to 1179, which just covers the 
amount sent—leaving your papers at Highland Creek 
and Branford, paid to No. 1127. 
Mrs Mary Smith. Will credit you to 1179. 
D Rupp. Mr. P.'s paper is paid to 1153. Yon do, net 
give Mr. Soule's address, but suppose it to be H. L. at 
Shippensberg. We had no David Shaeffer at Shiremans-
town, and have entered that name as a new sub. there,and 
credited to end of the year. Do we mis-spell the mimes 
of S. E. and T. It. B—your spelling nut being like sins ? 
Thank you for the prospect of new subs. 
S. Prior, $3 75. Will have to wait till we can get 
them bound. They are printed. 
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Amos Kenney 1153; A J Blackman 1140; Mrs A Col-
lins 1141; Elder J C Sterling 1127; E E Hutchins from 
11135 to 1161; Mrs P Hoyt 1153; Geo Brigham 1153; B 
H Bird 1153, each $1. 
George Smith 1160; L P Potter 1205; Rufus PM 
1181; Mrs Ann M Sherman 1179; II Newton 1195; BP 
Oakes 1186; James Flanders 1153; Gorge Bell 1121; 
Thos R Burgner 1127; Thou Harris 1073; Daniel RuP1, 
1179; L. Beck 1179; Mrs B Eberly 1189; Saninel Ebel' 
sail 1133; John Donson 1153; David Sheaffer, if ne!' 
sub. at S.? 1179; Philip Smith 1108; Ansel Jenne 116.6; 
John Brewster 1179; Mrs Sarah S Wilson 1179; senor 
1179, each $2. 
Thou 0' Brooks 1-i 53 ; Wesley Doughty 1161, each $3 
Martin Waldorf 1217; Geo W Miller 1101, each $5- 
Mr, M M Maxwell 1153 $7; R Theophilus 1157,81.2J, 
thank you; R Graves 1179 52.30—also thanks; Mrs A 
C Abell 1171, $1,50; T Holderness 1116 $1 58; It Sturte
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vant, 1205 $2,42. 
NOTICE. 
If God permit, I will preach in Albany, S. ',V-
th 
the second d Sabbath, or 15th of this month. 
Freehold,Y., evenings of the 20th and 21st, 
and
Sabbath the 22. 
G. W. Buirsomf• 
Wellfleet, Feb. 1863. 
ENGLAND AND THE POPE. It appears that Lord 
Russel had authorized Mr. Odo Russel to assure the 
Pope that in case he desires to leave Rome and Italy, 
an English squadron would be at his service to con-
duct him anywhere ; and farther,to offer him a pal-
ace at Malta to live in while he was making up his 
mind. Cardinal Antonelli replied that "the Pope 
did not dream the least in the world of quitting 
Rome. 
An interesting revival is in progress among vari-
ous denominations in the different parts of time town 
of Waterbury Vt. Many have found peace. A gen-
eral seriousness prevails all over the town. May the 
work spread. 
The conversion of Church property is proceeding 
with great rapidity in Spain. The Archbishop, of 
Toledo has made a transfer of the property of his 
diocese and the Minister of Finance has given orders 
for the sale of it, in the eighteen provinces which 
are under the jurisdiction of the archbishopric. 
At this moment the little Bavaria harbors no less 
than six crowned heads—a rather considerable num-
ber for a population of little more than four millions. 
They are—the reigning King Maximilian II.. time 
ex-monarch Lugwig, King Otho I. of Greece, Queen 
Maria of Bavaria, Queen Amelia of Greece, and the 
consort of Francis II. of Naples. 
Honor is much talked about, but very little is 
seen of it. 
"Retribution.,' 
BRO Brass :—I do not perceive the force you in-
tend, in your remarks in a recent No. of the Her-
ald, in which you say, to believe that there is "no 
life out of Christ," and yet hold to the "resurrec-
tion of the wicked," brings "the advocates of final 
extinction of being," into a "dilemma,—either horn 
of which is fatal to" us. 
And you also say, "to be consistent," we "must 
give up either the one or the other of those posi-
tions." 
Please be a little more particular, and tell us why 
it is inconsistent to believe the wicked will be res-
urrected from "the graves," unto "damnation," or 
condemnation or judgment ; and then be "cast into 
the lake of fire," and there die a "second death," 
—or suffer "extinction of being." 
Are not the wicked to "be as though they had 
not been ?" 
If the "rich man" is now "tormented" in "hell," 
(hades) has he yet suffered but one death? Can, he 
die again, or "be hurt of the second death ;" until 
"death and hell," (hades) shall have "delivered up 
the dead which were in them ?" and then he be 
"cast into the lake of fire,"—(or gehenna fire) and 
there "be hurt of the second death ;" or be destroy-
ed, "both soul and body" ? And, if the "rich man'' 
is now in conscious misery in hades, are there not 
two hells, mentioned in the New Testament? The 
first hell, this side,or prior to the general judgment ; 
and the second hell, subsequent to the jugdment? 
And if so, will not the "rich man," and other sin-
ners, have a little respite from "torment," while 
they are passing through the final ordeal of jugd-
ment,—and in passing from one hell to the other ! 
And when the wicked shall have been judged,and 
shall have reached the second hell ;(!) which is the 
more "consistent" for us to believe,—that the Al-
mighty's "anger" "shall cease" "in their destruc-
tion ;"—or to suppose he will hold his anger for 
ever ! And thus keep. the sinner alive !—that will 
not let him die !—neither let him repent !--nor take 
him out of this second hell! But then he must be,a1-
ways sinning—cursing and balspheniing God his 
Maker !—The sinner eternally sinning, and God 
eternally punishing, him !—Thus the sinner would 
always be in advance of his Maker in his transgres-
sions !—and consequently, God would be eternally 
punishing, but never be able to complete the pun-
ishment ! 
How would this agree with the "word" which 
declares, they shall be punished (action finished) 
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the 
Lord ? 
I really wish to be "consistent," and if I am not, 
I hope to be enlightened, so as to give up my incon-
sistency. Let us have the truth—this alone will 
stand at last. 
T. M. PREBLR. 
Concord, N. H., Jan. 29, '63. 
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HASTEN. 
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Hasten Lord thy second coming ; 
For thy saints are lonely here, 
Doomed to sickness, pain, and sorrow, 
And affliction's hitter tear. 
Hasten Lord ; thy church is waiting 
Her long absent Lord to come ; 
Waiting tor a happy union 
In the happy heavenly home. 
Hasten Lord : thy Bride bath sorrow, 
And she mourns a stranger here, 
Waiting for a happy morrow, 
When her Saviour will appear. 
Hasten thy return, dear Saviour ; 
Hasten thy return we pray ; 
For the earth is sad without thee, 
And is desolate to day. 
Hasten Lord, why should we languish, 
Mid earth's sadness any more? 
Let our hearts rejoice to greet thee ; 
Let us sing on Canaan's shore. 
Draw aside the dismal curtain ; 
Let us see thy luvely face ; 
Take thy lonely bride unto thee 
Let her smile in thy embrace. Emml. 
A True Nobleman. 
In the Swedish war of the XVIIth century, 
a burgher of Flensbsrg was about to refresh him-
self with a draught of beer from a small wooden 
bottle, when a wounded Swede, fixing his long-
ing eyes upon the beverage, ,exclaimed, "I am 
thirsty ; give me to drink." Now the burgher was 
a kind man, and replying, "Thy need is greater 
than mine," he knelt down by the man to give 
him the liquor. Then the treacherous Swede 
fired a pistol at him,wounding him in the should. 
er. Thereupon the burgher started up indignant. 
19, as he well might do, and cried out, "Rascal ! 
I would have befriended you, and you would 
shoot me in return. You shall now only have 
half the bottle instead of all of it." When the 
news came, to the King of Denmark,he exclaim-
ed, "A. man who can do this thing deserves to 
be a noble," and he created him one, and gave 
him for his arms a wooden beer-bottle pierced 
through with an arrow, which was borne until 
quite lately by his latest descendant. 
AND THE GOSPEL METHOD OF ITS INCREASE AND 
SUPPORT. 
BY C. CUNNINGHAM. 
Concluded. 
Again, what a minister receives is not to be 
considered merely as a gift, any more than 'the 
pay of a butcher, grocer, shoemaker, or tailor. 
He has a right to it, and God commands that it 
should be paid. And still there is nothing in the 
form of a debt on which men's consciences are 
so benumbed as here. Men feel obliged to pay 
the merchant, but not the minister. And yet the 
minister works as hard and does as much good 
as any other class of laborers, yea more. He 
works night and day, and the fruits of his labor 
are to be seen through all eternity. And yet 
many have had to suffer, and their family go on 
short allowance, because churches have dared 
to cheat them out of their lawful dues. The mu-
sic teacher and the dancing master are paid lib-
erally and cheerfully, and yet the value of their 
service and that of the Christian minister will 
bear no comparison. Many have had to turn 
aside from the ministry to other calling in order 
to support their dependents, and the church is a 
loser thereby I'll assure you, and verily guilty 
too ; and they will find it out in the great reck-
oning day just before us, if not before. Many,as 
we have said, have to spend a part of their time 
in secular employment which ought not to be al-
lowed. A physician could accomplish but little 
if he did not attend wholly to his work. Neither 
can a minister. There is a terrible responsibility 
somewhere concerning these things. I tell you it 
does'nt pay a man for his hard labor, to shout 
while he preaches and clapp your hands, and 
tell him to trust in God and come again. Talk 
does not feed and clothe his family. Such a 
course is unjust, dishonors God, and jeopardizes 
the soul's salvation. There is no mistake about 
it. The gospel on this point needs to be known 
and hence must be preached. To have the Chris-
tian Ministry perpetuated and its blessings en-
joyed,churches must be careful to do their duty in 
reference to its support. And does not the church 
receive from the labor of a faithful minister 
blessings of a greater value than any thing she 
is required to give in return ? She supplies his 
temporal wants, he imparts to her, under the 
blessings of God, the gospel with all its hopes 
and consolations. He snakes you acquainted with 
God, with the plan of redemption ; and the hope 
of the kingdom to come. He leads you to the 
Rock of Ages, and opens to your view all the 
glories of an endless state. And to do it he gives 
himself to toil and trials unceasingly. And will 
it be quentioned whether these rich blessings are 
of as much value to perishing men as the small 
pittance the minister needs to keep himself and 
family from temporal want ? I trust that breth-
ren will think on these things. 
Those who profess to be looking for the speedy 
revelation of the Lord from heaven, at whose 
coming the heavens shall take fire and be dis-
solved, the earth melt with fervent heat, and all 
the works of men's pride, ambition, or selfish: 
ness be consumed, and all the gold and silver of 
earth be reckoned as nothing, I say that men of 
this faith should need no urging to the duty 
which God imposes upon his people to support 
those whom he calls to proclaim his truth, and 
do the work assigned those who minister at his 
altir ; or any other Christian duty. They should 
evince their regard for Christ and love for his 
truth, and especially for the great light they en-
joy concerning his coming and kingdom at hand, 
by willingly, cheerfulty, and promptly attending 
to their obligations in this respect. Men who 
are willing to sacrifice reputation and every 
earthly interest, face the opposition, meet the 
prejudice, and endure the trials, and sometimes 
persecution, attendant upon the proclamation of 
an unwelcome and unpopular truth, and which 
comes from a professed church, as well as an un-
believing, and God-hating, and Christ-denying 
world ; should not be allowed to have their 
minds increasingly burdened with anxiety as to 
their temporal wants, and those dependent! upon 
them. 
Do brethren appreciate the position of those 
who have to meet and feel the cold shoulder of 
the popular church and ministry, and the follow-
ers of an unkind world, who do not love to be 
told that the day is about to dawn which will 
reveal the secret of all hearts, and decide the 
destiny of earth and its inhabitants? For a man 
to stand alone in a city or village, or elsewhere, 
to defend and proclaim a despised and hated 
truth is an item of no small moment. And will 
brethren, who profess to believe and love the 
precious truths connected with our Saviour's 
advent, and rejoice in them; and who delight to 
hear them unfolded. If your minds have been 
enlightened, and your hearts cheered with the 
revelations of coming glory, if the gloominess of 
the grave when loved ones have been laid away 
has been dispelled by the glorious tidings of a 
literal and bodily. resurrection to a condition of 
incorruptibility and unfading beauty, with the 
certainty of personal recognition of friends in 
the world to conic, and if you have been shown 
by the clearest, strongest evidence from prophecy 
and the signs of the times, and all your fondest 
anticipations will very speedily be more than 
realized, can you have a heart to withhold what 
is due your Lord and Redeemer, and what he 
justly demands at your hands, and thus jeopar-
dize your eternal well-being ? We may profess 
to rejoice at the prospect of speedy coming de- 
liverance, and shout aloud, but if our negligence 
or covetousness cause us to rob Jehovah by not 
supporting his ministers as he has command us 
to do, our glorying will be in vain, we shall be 
weighed in the balances and found wanting. 
What ! will God take a robber to dwell with him 
and one too that has robbed his Maker ? "Be 
not deceiving God is not mocked : for whatsoever 
a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal. 6: 
7. I fear very many of those who claim to be 
looking for their Lord will say to him in the day 
of his coming, "Lord, Lord,have we not prophe-
sied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast 
out devils? and in thy name done many wonder-
ful works?" only hear in reply the terrible 
statement, "I never knew yon ; depart from me 
ye that work iniquity." Brethren have long 
slumbered upon this tremendous evil of rob-
bing God, and it is time they were started from 
their dreams ; for the "night is far spent,the day 
is at hand : let us therefore cast off the work of 
darkness, and let us put on the armor of light." 
It is time for us to feel that we are only stew- 
ards for God : that we are not our own :" that 
all we have and are belongs to God. If the clerk 
of a store, or the cashier of a bank would be 
guilty of robbery if they took money from the 
drawer,or safe to enrich themselves, then are we 
guilty if we embezzlt the goods which our Lord 
has entrusted to our care. To speak of what we 
have as "My fruits, my goods, my barns," is to 
imitate the "rich fool" and will subject us to 
the displeasure of the coning Judge. When it 
was expected that the Lord would come on a 
certain day no one said that "ought of the things 
he possessed was his owu ;" then means were at 
hand to publish the "glad tidings" to a world 
hastening to the judgment, and ministers were 
able to travel extensively and carry the solemn 
message to a perishing race. And if we would 
be ready for a seat at God's right hand we must 
possess the same spirits and feeling now. May 
the Lord enable us to reconsecrate ourselves and 
all we have to him, that we may at last hear the 
plaudit, "Well done ; enter thou into the joy of 
thy Lord. 
Reflections. 
The most solemn and important work in 
which a man can engage is that of the Gospel 
Ministry. To stand in "Christ's stead" to make 
known to dying men the terms of pardon and sal-
vation is the most honorable and responsible sit-
uation a man can occupy. It is the highest of-
fice on earth. "And who is sufficient to fill it. 
Those who enjoy the benefits of this minis-
try are placed under a terrible responsibility. It 
is a solemn thing to hear the gospel preached 
See Matt. 11: 20-24. 2 Cor. 2: 15: 16. 
Our position is changed every time we listen 
to it. May the Lord help us so to hear and re-
ceive it, that we may finally be owned among his 
chosen and saved people. 
Letter from Newbern. 
Pollock Street, Newbern, 1V C I 
Jan. 29, 1863. 
DEAR FATHER was detailed to day with 
two others to help unload the Frye, and worked 
all the forenoon, I got out about one hundred 
and fifty boxes, and found mine among them. 
Our regiment had about 325 packages aboard. 
Some had whole barrels full of nuts, apples, &e. 
Last night our pickets brought in ten prison-
ers, rebel pickets, whom they caught about 
eight miles out,engaged in a game of cards. 
I intended to have enclosed you some flowers 
from our garden, but the boys got them all be-
fore I had a chance at them. 
Some young lady in the house opposite dis-
courses sweet music on the piano, much to the 
edification of the boys. It sounds more like civ-
ilization than anything I have heard. 
Two of my acquaintances came down as clerks 
on the schooner "Frye " I saw them this morn-
ing, and had quite a talk about home matters. 
I also saw Mr. H. in the steet to day, but being 
unacquainted I did not speak with him. I saw T. 
T, this morning, who is well ; as are all the boys 
front Roxbury. H. H., who was wounded in the 
shoulder at Kinston, leaves for home this P. M. 
on a furlough of thirty days. 
It is a splendid day, as warm and comforta-
ble as in June. Being within a short distance of 
the Post Office, we know when the mails arrive, 
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46 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
1 
Original. 
On the Chemistry of Food. 
(Continued from our last.) 
A laboring man, that is, one who uses either 
his brain or his muscles, needs about five parts 
of respiratory food to one of plastic; which is 
about the proportion in stall fed meat, and in 
bread. More respiratory food is needed in cold, 
than in warm weather ; for the body needs then 
a greater supply of animal warmth. More fat 
on the body, is equivalent to additional cloth-
ing on the back or blankets on the bed. And 
when warmly clothed, a less supply of breathing 
food is needed. The appetite is keener for it in 
a cold than in a warm climate; and hence the 
inhabitants of polar regions feast on whale oil, 
blubber, fat seal, &c with a relish that is inex-
plicable to the dwellers of our more temperate 
clime. 
The doctrine of the vegetarian,that animal food 
should never be eaten,is a mistaken notion,based 
on ignorance ofthe similarity of the proximate ele-
ments that constitute both animal and vegetable 
diet. The great error is not in eating flesh,but in 
eating too much of the plastic element ; — whether 
animal or vegetable. Those who subsist on ani-
mal food are more liable to over eat ; but men 
may live too highly, if milk, cheese and eggs be 
added to a vegetable diet. 
We have heard some wonderful stories told 
in respect to the quantity of food of various 
kinds, disposed of by those who fancy themselves 
patagons of temperance in abstaining from ani-
mal food. The monstrous eater of eggs, cheese, 
and vegetables, is no less a glutton than he who 
stuffs himself on animal diet ; and the one as 
well as the other should alike heed the injunc-
tion of the wise man : "Put a knife to thy throat 
if thou be a man given to appetite." 
Tea, coffee, and cocoa contain nutritive prop-
erties, and are therefore craved more in the 
absence, than with the presence of plastic food. 
It is the general opinion of chemists, that these 
drinks are beneficial, rather than injurious. 
Food is sometimes selected medicinally,as the 
system needs. Thus lean beef tea is prescribed 
to invalids who would recruit their wasted 
frames ; and cod liver oil, or any oil, is an admi-
rable specific for pulmonics who value its fattening 
properties. 
The use of acids has been found to interfere 
with the uniting of broken bones ; whilst their 
healing has been facilitated by a free use of 
lime water. And this has been given by German 
peasants as a drink to their children, for the de- 
velopment of their frames,with beneficial results. 
The use of salt was doubtless known to the 
ancients ; for the man of Uz asks : "Can that 
which is usavory be eaten without salt ? or is 
there any taste in the white of an egg ?" It 
doubtless contributes soda for the blood and bile ; 
and therefore is advantageously employed. 
We have considered the nature of food, and 
its adaptation to the necessities of our system; but 
we have not considered the manner in which it 
becomes assimilated to the flesh of man. 
A secretion of the stomach,called the "gastric 
juice," acts as a solvent on what is eaten,and re-
duces it to a semi-fluid, white matter, demonin-
ated "chyme." This is intermediate between the 
original food and arterial blood. The reduction 
of food to this state, is termed digestion ; which 
requires from two'to six hours for its accomplish-
ment, according to the digestibility of what is 
eaten, and which is often interrupted by very 
HENRY. slight causes. 
When the food is completely chymified, it 
passes from the stomach and immediately en-
counters another extraordinary secretion called 
"bile." This mingles with, and separates from it 
a milk white fined, denominated "chyle ;" which 
is rapidly absorbed by vessels and ducts, adapt-
ed to that purpose, and transmitted to the veins 
where it mingles with the previous blood. The 
portion of chyme not changed to chyle, is the 
part of the food not adapted to nourish the sys-
tem. And not containing the elements of blood, 
it is thrown off as excreinetitious. 
As the blood is thus freighted with nearly 
111.011* 
For the Florald, 
The Nativity of Christ. 
The morning dawns with joyful ray, 
Arise ye saints and hail the day, 
From radient east the angels come : 
Proclaim the birth of God's dear son, 
Let heaven's wide arches joyous ring, 
And new born gladdened millions sing ; 
Let joy inspire each holy soul ; 
The tidings shout from pole to pole; 
Hail the bright the glorious morn, 
When God's eternal Son was born. 
One and all your voices raise ; 
Shout your Saviour's brighest praise ; 
While the sun rolls round the earth, 
Hail the day which gave him birth. 
All hail the great mysterious plan : 
The eternal Godhead dwell in man. 
Those wondrous natures now unite, 
And grace and glory shines most bright 
In the majestic son of God, 
Who built the earth and spread the flood. 
Eternal honor, glory, fame, 
Were consecrated to his name. 
He loved his God, he loved our race, 
And by his blood proclaimed his grace. 
One and all, &c., 
While erst a child of growing years, 
Amidst the doctors he appears ; 
The heaven's bright ensign he unfurled ; 
His grace and wisdom awed the world ; 
His parents wondered at his word, 
And devils bowed and owned their Lord; 
The poor he blessed, he raised the dead, 
The blind he cured, the lame restored, 
While angels smiled and men adored. 
One and all, &c. 
Though now his praises filled the earth, 
And angels sung a Saviour's birth, 
Yet Scribes and Pharisees, engaged, 
A direful war against him waged ; 
And Jews before a Pilate cried, 
0 let him now be crucified. 
They nailed him to the cursed tree ; 
They hung the Man who died for me ; 
Who paid my ransom by his blood :—
Thus died the eternal son of God. 
Heaven and earth your voices raise. 
Shout the matchless Saviour's praise, 
Hail the Saviour all the earth, 
Flail the day which gave him birth. 
O hail the bright the morning ray 
When angels rolled the stone away, 
When Joseph's tomb all open stood 
And angels saw the rising God. 
The saints who long had slept in earth 
Now burst the iron chains of death ; 
His friends to Olivet repair; 
Behold the Lord and Saviour there ! 
They stand around with wondering eyes, 
Ahd see him mounting to the skies. 
Heaven and earth, &c. 
Behold the Judge at God's right hand ! 
Angelic hosts all wondering stand, 
To see Him mount His direful car, 
To *tide the dreadfel storm of war 
Against His foes who dared his rod ! 
See all his garments stained with blood ! 
But, saints, he cries, ascend My throne ; 
Your peace eternal like my owne ; 
From orb to orb your praises roll, 
While my dread thunder shakes the poles. 
Heaven and earth, &c. 
Wm.. K. STAMP. 
From the Lon. Quar. Jour. of Prophesy. 
The New Jerusalem. 
Continued. 
Still, although the Bible is a sure guide, (the 
more so when we understand it literally,) yet 
we may err in the right interpretation of it. 
For there is much which cannot be revealed in 
time, there are mysteries which eternity alone 
can unravel, and such is that mystery which u-
nites in one indissoluble bond, not only here but 
hereafter, our material and our spiritual nature, 
and which therefore imposes even upon those who 
are ransomed by Christ's blood, and cleansed 
from this earthly soil, all the essential conditions 
of humanity. 
If these things be so, we would ask, Are all 
these descriptions of the prophets and apostles 
to be considered as merely figurative? Do they 
intend only to convey to us by means of the 
most splendid imagery some idea of the spiritu- 
al joys of heaven ? Is there nothing literal, 
nothing (to man at least) real or tangible in the 
heavenly Jerusalem, in Mount Zion, in the river 
and tree of life ? Are we justified by the Scrip-
tures, by the actual conditions of our existence, 
in believing that hereafter there shall be no ma-
terial realization of the inspired predictions of 
Holy Writ ? 
If we believe in the resurrection from the 
dead, that is, that we shall be endued here-
aftes with a material though a glorified form, 
and preserve our individuality, not as angels 
but as men, we must conclude that all the 
conditions inseparable from such a state of ex-
istence will be fulfilled. The bodies of saints 
must therefore require some local and material 
habitation fitted for those who with their spir-
itual essence will also retain the great leading 
characteristics of humanity. 
What saith the Scriptures? "If the dead 
rise not, then is Christ not raised, and if 
Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. But 
now is Christ risen from the dead, and become 
the first-fruits of them that slept. For as in 
Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made 
alive." Our Saviour also testifies to the fact 
of the resurrection when He says, "I am the 
God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob." 
God is not the God of the dead, but of the 
living. Therefore the patriarchs still exist as 
men, preserving their individuality, their per-
sonal identity, all that which will endure when 
this "mortal has put on immortality." 
We therefore believe in the resurrection of 
the dead. We believe that the saints in heaven 
will retain that which constitutes their personal 
identity, whether of mind or form ; that their 
body, though divested of all that is gross and 
carnal, will be material, and even still possess 
the peculiar expression by which each individ-
ual has been here and may be hereafter 
recognized. We believe that they will be raised 
again, not as angels but as men, with their in-
tellectual powers, with feelings, affections, sym-
pathies, and capabilities of enjoyment all more 
highly developed, but all purified, befitting those 
who shall be meet partakers of the kingdom 
of heaven. 
And therefore the kingdom of heaven must be 
an abode prepared for such beings, for those 
endued not only with a spiritual but also a hu-
man nature, whom Christ, Himself perfect God 
and perfect man, has redeemed and called from 
darkness to light, whom He will lead beside foun-
tains of' waters, and with whom He will drink 
anew of the fruit of the vine. These things are 
hard to understand ; but we believe that as it 
was of old so it will be again. The words of 
the Bible, the predictions of the prophets, will be 
fulfilled literally, even in the most minute par-
ticulars. 
If the Bible did not teach us the great truth 
of the ,resurrection of the body, we might in-
deed consider all those revelations of a future 
state as figurative, and intended only to convey 
through the medium of material and sensible 
images some faint conception of the spiritual 
joys of heaven. And we would incline more to 
this belief, because, owing to the corruptions of 
 
a carnal nature, men are almost led naturally to 
adopt the ideas of the heathen philosophers, 
and receive our letters half a day sooner than 
we used to. 
I suppose that by this time, the guns are play-
ing away at Wilmington. I hear that the gun- 
boats preceeded the transports and began the 
attack, but do not know how true that is. Prob-
bably you will get the news before we do. 
A Mr. Peirce used to live in the house we oc-
cupy. His door plate is still on the door. In our 
garden, which is on both sides of the house, are 
fig trees, rose bushes, and lots of vines and trees 
of which I have not learned the names. Straw. 
berries are ripe here in Juee, Figs do not ripen 
till August. 
The authorities here are making the place se-
cure by means of breastworks, rifle pits, and by 
cutting down the trees along the river to give the 
gunboats play. I suppose they think if Wilming-
ton or some other large place is taken,the rebels 
might fall back on Newbern. But it is so forti-
fied that it could withstand 100.000 men. 
The gunboats of the large expedition sailed 
from Morehead about ten days ago, and the 
transports, that is the part that have gone,about 
three days. Those who saw the transports sail, 
say it was a splendid sight. Twenty-eight 
steamers and twenty-one schooners went out in 
a line, one after the other. Two transports filled 
with troops, and the Spaulding with marine ar-
tillery aboard, remained behind. They will fol-
low in a day or two. Some of the troops have 
not yet embarked. It is estimated that 15,000 
troops accompanied the expedition. It is repor-
ted on good authority that Gen. Butler is going 
with it. He came to Newbern the other night 
by boat through Dismal Swamp canal, and went 
down to Morehead on a special train. General 
Foster came up from Morehead a few days since, 
and it is thought he is not going. . 
One of the batteries, that was with us on our 
expedition and goes with this, carries 2,500 
rounds of cartridges ; the making of which took 
sixteen tons of powder. 
We had with us last night a returned sol-
dier, only fourteen years old, who has been in 
the army five and a half years. He was a drum-
mer boy five years with the regulars and has been 
six months in a nine months regiment, the 139th 
Penn., as substitute for a drafted man. He has 
neither father, mother, or relatives, and expend-
ed the fifty dollars given as substitute, for the 
burial of his aunt. He intends being a military 
man. 
One of our captains, Capt. Wales, has given 
orders that no private shall address him except 
through the sergeants. That makes his men feel 
nice. 
Feb. 1 1863. 
The 44th Mass. went this morning on an ex-
pedition, It is reported that they go to Ply-
mouth, in transports, or rather in a gunboat. It 
is rather sudden, as on Friday V. said he should 
see me to day. They probably only go on a 
small expedition to attract attention, as did the 
45th, and will not encounter any particular dan-
ger, 
This afternoon we are to attend service in 
sonic church. The order of the President in re-
lation to work by the soldiers on the sabbath, 
other than that necessary, was read here some 
months since ; but for some reason or other Sun-
day is made a general cleaning day. There is 
ae inspection of our equipments every Sunday, 
our guns have to be all clean and our bunks put 
in order. This cannot be done on Saturday be-
cause then the men are on guard who are inspect-
ed Sunday ; and this takes all the forenoon. 
Your affectionate son. 
"At the Last." 
"I am taking a fearful leap in the dark," said 
the dying infidel Hobbes. 
"This is heaven begun. I have done with 
darkness forever. Nothing remains but light and 
joy forever," said the dying believer Thomas 
Scott. 
"0, for a moment's peace! cried a dying in-
fidel. 
"Peace, blessed peace ! Come, Lord Jesus !" 
whispered a dying Christian. 
L 
 
assimilated elements, for the supply of nutri-
ment to the body, it flows, in ceaseless currents 
through the veins and arteries of the system. 
The heart, with regular pulsations, propels it to 
the remotest extremeties, laden with the consti-
tuents of new tissues. These plastic elements 
are deposited where needed, are added to the 
growth or vigor of the body, and the effete par-
ticles which can no longer perform their func-
tions, are dissolved by the oxygen of the blood, 
and expelled from the system. As the veins re-
turn the blood to the heart,it is greatly diffused, 
in its passage of the lungs, by their peculiar 
membraneous structure, and is thus exposed to 
the action of the air in breathing which relieves 
it of its carbon as already described. ED. 
Continued. 
BRO. BLISS :—The following, which has been 
in my possession since the year A. D. 1846,was 
presented to me by a pious aunt, Mrs. Althear 
Everts of Auburn N. Y. I do not known the 
author, neither have I ever seen it in print. I 
think it is very good, except two or three lines, 
and if you think it worthy a place in the Herald 
please insert it. It may meet the eye of its au-
thor. 
47 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
Life is fleeting ; its joys are deceitful and tran-
sitory. 
"Of all occasions," says Cicero "none is more 
noble, none more stable, than that which is formed 
by good men, when they are united by the bond of 
riendship and congeniality of disposition." 
For the Herald. 
From Bro. D. I. Robinson. 
D. I. ROBINSON. 
Trenton, N. J. Feb. 6, 1863. 
ship intojport in His own due time, and as shall 
he dictated by His infinite wisdom. Let us all 
be found working for and with God, watch-
ing His providences, and seeking to be guided 
by His wisdom. ED. 
that all matter must be essentially evil, that our 
spiritual nature, while connected with it, is de-
filed, and that it can only attain to its rightful 
development when freed altogether front the 
shackles of humanity ; and, indeed, before our 
Saviour's advent, when the whole world was 
steeped in wickedness, it was hard to believe 
that aught material could consist with a pure 
spiritual nature or high intellectual develop-
ment. And therefore men were driven to the 
conclusion that spirit and matter were diametri-
cally opposed, and that the last must be annihi-
lated before the spiritual powers could be puri-
fied and developed. 
The Scriptures, indeed, did not sarction this 
belief or hold out the promise of a spiritual ex-
istence apart from that of a glorified humanity. 
On the contrary, they prove to us that men do 
still exist, (as Abraham, Elias, Moses,) and will 
exist hereafter, preserving even those character-
istics by which they were distinguished and 
recognized on earth. And why should we dis-
believe that these things are so? Here we must 
walk by faith not by sight. Why seek to dis-
guise or alter the plain words of Scripture? Are 
we wiser than God ? Can we affirm that what 
He has explicitly and clearly declared may not 
be true ? Thus the Jews reasoned. They re-
jected the prophecies, and found their own con-
demnation. Either reject the belief in the possi-
bility of a renewed and glorified humanity, or, if 
it is admitted, let us accept all the conditions 
which necessarily follow from such belief. There-
fore we conclude that beings who, although im-
mortal, are endued with material forms, must 
require a material habitation, such as the New 
Jerusalem is described to be. 
To be continued. 
For the Herald. 
Perplexing Questions. 
No. 6. 
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with 
thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor 
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou 
pest," Eccl. 9 ; 10. 
This is another of those perplexing texts fre-
quently urged in proof of the unconsciousness of 
the dead. The argument turns on the meaning 
of the Hebrew word sheol, here rendered grave; 
its representative in the Greek being Hades. 
The argument runs thus : Sheol is the place of 
the dead. The wise man declares that there is 
no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom 
there; hence it is a state of total unconscious-
ness. 
This, at first sight, seems a conclusive argu-
ment, and those not accustomed to reason close-
ly, will be likely to be taken by it. The answer 
to it is : If the Sheol of the Hebrews is the 
Hades of the Greeks, our Lord Jesus Christ de-
clares that there is knowledge and sensation 
there, "The rich man died, and was buried, 
and in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in tor-
ment," &c. Luke 16 : 23. 
As I said in a former article, if it becomes a 
question of knowledge or veracity, as between 
Solomon and Christ my mind is made up to go 
with "a greater than Solomon." But do they 
contradict each other? If Sheol and Hades 
had but one meaning, or were never used in 
more than one sense, they would most palpably 
contradict each other. But the word is used in 
two distinct senses. 1. As in the text quoted, 
it means the grave, the place of the body after 
death, where there is no knowledge. For "the 
body without the spirit is dead." Solomon, 
therefore, is correct when using the word in 
that sense, in saying there is no knowledge there. 
But_ 
2. As in Psa. 16 : 10, it is used for the place 
of the soul ; so also Acts 2 : 31. Christ, using 
it in that sense, was correct in declarlg that 
there is knowledge in Hades. Then they do 
not contradict each other, and we may believe 
both. • But I challenge all the materialists in 
the world, on their hypothesis, to harmonize the 
two authors without a positive contradiction. 
Is not that theory or doctrine, which perfect-
ly harmonizes the Bible, the true one ? Is not 
that which makes its parts contradict each oth-
er, certainly false ? 
You were right, Mr. Editor, when you said 
this whole controversy "turns on the meaning, 
not the use of words." 
My object is to simplify this subject by show-
ing how words are used. A respected friend 
the other evening, on this subject remarked, "If 
it is not true, then a great many of us are aw-
fully deceived." I replied, "I know you are, 
and that is the reason I am so anxious to set you 
right." 
J. LITCH. 
For the Herald. 
From Bro. Samuel Heath, 
DEAR BROTHER BLISS I write to make a 
return for the Advent Herald, and to express a 
feeling of gratitude for its continuance, and for 
its onward. undeviating course, both in doctrine 
and practical godliness. It has ever been re-
ceived in my family as a true medium of the 
best news which coeld be communicated from the 
prophecy, that Christ our Redeemer is soon com-
ing again, for the complete redemption of his 
people in the new creation. That glorious event 
I understand, is the central and leading topic of 
the Advent Herald ; for this we prize and love 
that paper. And we pray that its editor may 
be sustained in his arduous work, and that every 
patron of this paper, by its rich spiritual com-
munications, may be helped in the work of 
faith, labor of love, and patience of hope, and 
have courage and strength to go on, even unto 
the perfect day, 
The prophecy, as I understand, induces me to 
look with some special interest,to sixty-eight,or 
about that time. 
Yours in haste, 
SAMUEL HEATH. 
Lunenberg, Jan. 28, 1863. 
We see not how any one can fail to look with 
some special interest to about that time. We see 
no objection to holding that view as held by Dr. 
Tyng, Dr. Cumming, Bickersteth and other Eng-
lish writers. In respect to points of time, as in 
all other matters, our desire should be to know the 
truth, and the whole truth, and to receive as such 
nothing that is not truth. We have therefore 
given in the Herald every material argument we 
have found bearing on that point, and have also 
specified anything in connection that we have 
deemed inaccurate. There can never be any 
harm in accepting the full strength of any argu-
ment; but at the same time we must be equally 
ready to see and admit any and all weaknesses in 
it, so as not to regard it as either more or less 
conclusive than is warranted by a thorough 
knowledge of the subject, a candid examination 
of all its bearings, and a just appreciation of its 
full merits. 
The English writers who look with interest to 
about that date, of the character here described, 
have in general so qualified their statements that 
the candid and thoughtful may be profited by 
their expressions of hope, and their love for and 
faith in a coming Savior, without being affected 
injuriously should the expectation prove to have 
anticipated the reality. We should be loving, 
looking, and yet patiently waiting. 
An esteemed brother, in writing us privately, 
makes the following reference to the same sub-
ject, which is so near the manner in which in-
terest in each and every specific date may be 
safely exercised, that we cannot forego to copy 
it— a liberty which, as we tio not mention 
his name, he will pardon: 
"We live in strange times—times that really 
seem indicative of the commencement of the 
2300 days, about the time contended for by 
those who terminate them about 1867, 8. But 
let us wait in faith and confidence, knowing that 
God is doing all things well and accomplishing 
his own purposes. To my mind I think I see 
the Fig Tree putting forth its leaves. We live 
in trying times, and if God has given us a pecu-
liar knowledge of his Mind through the Spirit 
above our fellows concerning these matters,let us 
see that we be rot found hiding our talents." 
That is undoubtedly the true position. The 
Father is at the helm, and He will bring the 
For the Herald. 
From Bro. Samuel Prior. 
BRO. BLISS :—I wish to send you my yearly 
pay for the Herald and my annual donation for 
its aid. 
I heartily approve of the Herald, in its gen-
eral course ; and I intend to always stand by it 
while it pursues the course it has thus far ; 
which I hope it ever will. I believe the Lord 
will soon come, and that these troubles are indi-
cations given us of its approach, that we may 
prepare and keep ready, watching and waiting 
for his appearing, I do not believe any one yet 
knows the year or day ; and that a definite year 
to be fixed on and preached as certain would do 
evil instead of good. I am not opposed to the 
giving of any evidence on the time; but the ap-
plication of the periods to prophecy is human, 
fallible, and therefore not certain. Let us be 
candid, and reasonable, not dogmatic. 
We are trying to hold up the light in this 
city ; and we find some encouragement,and hope 
sabbath evening, and at Morrisville in the A. 
M. We attend both, and enjoy the meetings 
much, the prayer meetings also. We are not 
numerous, but united and happy. We do not 
look for much more peace on earth,till the Prince 
of Peace shall come and give us peace. The 
kingdoms of this world are all shaking,and trem-
bling. They will fall, and our Lord and his 
Christ will take the kingdom and give it to his 
saints forever. 0 glorious day ! 0 blessed hope ! 
Well may his disciples lift up their heads and re-
joice that their redemption draweth nigh. 
We love to hear from all our brethren and 
sisters, preachers and members ; may the Lord 
stir them up to write. If I could write as readi-
ly as some, I should do so much oftener. 0 may 
the Saviour give us grace to pray for each other, 
and be faithful to the end for the crown of life. 
How glorious, after labor, reproach,suffering for 
Christ sake, to meet in glory, rest and peace, 
with the warfare over, the race ended, the prize 
Yours truly in the hope of the gospel. 
S. PRIOR. 
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 3, 1863. 
For the Herald. 
From Bro. R. Theophilus. 
BRO. BLISS :—Previous numbers of' the Her-
ald have so far pleased me that I am disposed to 
renew my subscription to the same. 
I am more than ever convinced that "old 
Mother Earth" is to undergo a very great change 
soon. The great "stone without hands" will soon 
"smite the image," and there will be set up a 
kingdom that shall be forever. How few seem to 
realize that we are living in the "last days." 
The hearts of many are waxing cold, and they 
sceptically inquire—"Where is the promise of 
His coming." The news is not pleasing to them. 
They close their eyes to the signs of the times, 
and are willfully ignorant of the things that are 
coming upon the earth. 
We have not heard preaching on the "blessed 
hope" since leaving Illinois, about three years 
ago. The Advent Herald is therefore a welcome 
messenger in our family circle. 
I embraced the Advent faith under the minis-
try of Eld. P. B. Morgan at Ottawa, Ill., where 
his labors were greatly blessed, and there was 
gathered around him a devoted little band. 
ince then, a few miles from Ottawa, Eld. A. S. 
Calkins labored among us, and did great good. 
May God continue to bless them as he has here-
tofore. 
I desire to be remembered in the prayers of 
all God's children, that I may be kept in the 
faith, live a godly life, and be ready at his ap- 
pearing. 
RICHARD THEOPHILUS. 
Alley hany City, Pa. Feb. 2, 1863- 
There are in European Turkey and Western Asia 
under the missionaries of the American board, 20 
churches, numbering466 members, 58 of them add-
ed the last year. 
Honor is much talked about, but very little is 
seen of it. 
BRO. BLISS :—There are two ideas among our 
brethren to which I wish to call attention, for 
correction, 
1. That Christ means his first advent when he 
said to his disciples "Ye shall not have gone over 
the cities of Israel till the Son of man be come, 
Matt. 10: 23. I used to think so, till I examin-
ed the whole discourse ; but that to me cuts it 
off entirely. This was said to the twelve,on send-
ing them out to preach the second year. It is 
evident they were gone but a few months,before 
they returned, and then they staid mostly with 
him, to the end. They were to "beware of men ; 
for they would deliver them up to councils, and 
they will scourge you in the synagogues. Ye for more. Bro. Robinson preaches with us every 
shall be brought before kings and governors for 
 
a testimony against them, and the Gentiles." 
Now nothing of this occurred to them before 
Christ's death. Again v. 21: "The brother should 
deliver the brother to death, and the father the 
child and children the parents, cause them to be 
put to death." Nothing of this took place while 
on this tour, "And ye shall be hated of all men 
for my name's sake." "When they persecute yoir 
in this city, flee ye to another; for, verily, I say 
unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities 
of Israel till the Son of man be come," The Sa-
viour told them after this, that the world could 
not hate them, but it did him ; and we find no 
great hatred of them till after his death and the 
Pentecost. So also what he says in verses 34-6 
is of a like character for aftertimes. "I come 
not to send peace, but a sword—and a man's foes 
shall be they of his own household." This fol-
lowed his ascension. It seems evident to me 
therefore, that he meant by the cities of Israel 
the cities where Israel were scattered, all over 
the earth, and by his coming—his 2d coming 
when the gospel is preached as a witness. 
The 2d idea is that after Christ was rejected 
by the rulers, the apostles never preached "the 
kingdom at hand. Now supposing they did not, 
yet if they preached what was equivalent, it 
would be substantially the same thing. Thus 
Paul, Rom. 13 12, "The night is far spent, the 
day is at hand, let us cast off the works of dark-
ness let us put on the armor of light." Phil. 4: 
5, "Let your moderation be known to all men ; 
the Lord is at hand." 1. Pet. 4: 7, "The end of 
all things is at hand ; be ye sober and watch un-
to prayer." Rev, 1: 3, "Blessed is he that read-
eth, and they that hear the words of this proph-
ecy, and keep those things which are written 
therein ; for the time is at hand." These texts 
contain substantially the same idea, to say noth-
ing of passages of other phraseology, —as through 
the 1 Thess. which gave them such an apprehen-
sion of its nearness, that Paul had to write the 
2d letter to correct their mistake of its irnmedi 
ate nearness. From this it is evident they had 
been informed that the apostacy,and man of sin, 
the son of perdition must first come. Only one 
such is revealed in prophecy, so as to be called 
"thet man of sin." Dan. 7: 8, 20, 11; and Dan. 
8: 9-12, and especially 23, which clearly des-
scribes him. They knew what withheld him,—
the Roman government. They knew he was to 
"be revealed in his time"—Dan. 7: "time, times 
and the dividing of time." They knew the pow-
ers, and order, but not how long ; and thought 
it immediate, which he corrected ; and the idea 
was that Rome was the last great empire and 
Christ's the next to come. And so it,was, is and 
will be. Amen. 
won. 
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Death having come into the office the past week 
as will be seen by the above notice, and removed 
one of our compositors, we are again, as last week, 
compelled to issue only four pages. We shall as 
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shall then resume the usual size of the Herald—we 
hope by the next number. 
A QUARTER or A CENTURY ago, this present 
month, the first sermon preached on the nearness of 
the Second Advent, was delivered in Lowell by Rev. 
Josiah Litch, the oldest preacher of that doctrine in 
in New England. 
The Life of Our Lord upon the Earth : 
CONSIDERED IN ITS HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND 
GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS. BY SAMUEL J. ANDREWS. 
NEW YORK : CHARLES SCRIBNER,124 GRAND STREET, 
1862. 
We are indebted to our friend the author, whose 
acquaintance we formed in a neighboring state near 
a quarter of a century since. for a copy of this val- 
uable and ably written work of over 600 pages. We 
have been able as yet to give it only a partial read- 
ing ; but the portions read,—and we have given more 
especial attention to the "Chronological Essays," 
with some examination of other matters—have im-
pressed us very forcibly in its favor. It does not dis-
cus questions of difference between the different 
classes of Christians ; but examines those of chron-
ology, geography and history, that have a bearing 
on the time and places of our Lord's life and minis-
try ; which are treated in their natural consecutive 
order. It makes no display of partizanship, or de-
nominational bias, and has no end to subserve but 
that of truth. In the discussion of the several points 
of interest, there is manifested a thoroughness of re-
search, a clearness and fullness in the presentation 
of the various conflicting views in respect to the 
several subjects, a candor in the estimate of various 
probabilities, a clearness of discrimination between 
credible and doubtful testimony, a prompt admis-
sion of the inconclusiveness, and an equally prompt 
recognition of the conclusiveness of any given argu-
ment, that must commend the work to every impar-
tial reader. These features are so marked that, so 
far as read, we have found but little, if any thing 
to dissent from in the conclusions of the author; 
nor hardly anything more to desire in his treatment 
of the subjects. 
This work will at once take a place among stand-
ard treatises ; no the ological librarywill be complete 
without it ; and we would advise every student of 
the four Gospels to secure its possession. To those 
engaged in the study of our Lord's life and minis-
try, its service is invaluable ; and we should not 
know where, elsewhere, to look fur so thorough, 
so condensed, and so systematized and candid an 
embodiment, in one volume, of the various matters 
therein discussed. 
It is for sale, we suppose, at the book stores, but 
its price we have not learned. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 17, /863. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
fess Christianity. M. Drouyn do Lhuys believes in 
the transmigration of souls, and theories held by 
French dreamers, which are directly opposite to all 
the Catholic dogmas. The majority who rejected 
Jules Favre's motion for the evacuation of Rome 
are Voltaireans. M. Guizot, who represents the 
temporal power of the Institute, is a Protestant of 
the Evangelical school. M. Cohen, the principal 
redacteur La France, is a Jew, and although he 
says in the columns of that journal that the Papacy 
is the great conservative principle of modern society 
—in short, the salt of the earth—goes every Satur-
day to the synagogue, and is as scrupulous an ob. 
server as he can well be of the law of Moses and the 
ordinances of the rabbis." 
A French bishop who has lately had an interview 
with the Pope, gives out that his Holiness is firmly 
resolved not to quit Rome under any circumstances 
whatsoever, and reports the following as the sub-
stance of a statement made by the Pope in the 
course of conversation. The Pope has not the least 
doubt that sooner or later France will withdraw her 
troops, and that the Piedmontese will take posses-
sion of his small remaining territory. But this 
"crowning act of spoliation," will in no way change 
the conduct of the Holy Father. "1 may perish," 
he says, "but the papacy will not perish. I may 
suffer martyrdom, but the day will come when my 
successors will enter into full possession of their 
rights. Saint Peter was crucified, and yet I am 
here " 
A Roman Catholic periodical of Paris, the Revue 
des Deux Mondes, thus discourses : "Much may be 
said on Protestant diversities and sects, but one fact 
remains certain : it is that nations where the Bible 
circulates and is read have preserved a strong, deep 
and enduring religious faith ; while in the countries 
where it is not known, one is obliged to deplore a 
moral superficiality and want of principles, for 
which a splendid uniformity of rites cannot compen-
sate. Let the learned theologians discuss on cer-
tain passages, on the authenticity of such and such 
texts ; what are such miseries compared to the 
healthful and pure atmosphere which the Bible 
spreads, wherever it is read, whether in low or ele-
vated classes?" 
From Bro. D. Guild. 
BRO. BLISS :—I feel the loss of the privileges I 
once enjoyed, with those of like precious faith and 
of worshipping with them when residing in Mass. 
Those seasons now are in the past and can only be 
called to remembrance, as seasons of past enjoyment. 
Still I feel to rejoice in that blessed hope of the glo- 
rious appearing of the great God, and of our Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ. God in his mercy, and 
by his grace, and the instrumentality of his promis-
es in His word has been pleased to strengthen and 
cherish that hope ; and from day to day we are 
warned every day in thunder tones by the signs 
around,when we compare them with his word, that 
the end of all things is'at the door. We have pass-
ed down, I think, by all the signs our Saviour gave 
us, to the sign of the Son of man in heaven.—Upon 
the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, men's 
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after 
those things that are coming on the earth. Our 
land and country has not escaped a draught of that 
cup spoken of by the prophet Jeremiah, that all 
nations are commanded to drink. A more horsed 
war was never recorded in hiltory than we are en-
gaged in at the present time ; and who is humbled 
under this mighty hand of God's providence? It 
does appear to me that the people in general are 
growing more hardened under these visitations, and 
ultimately will experience more dire and awful 
scenes. It may end in the contest of brother against 
brother, and the slain of the Lord be from one end 
of the earth to the other end of it. 
In the midst of all these scenes, I feel to rejoice 
that our heavenly Father sits at the helm, and gov-
erns all things after the counsel of his own will. I 
still receive the Herald's weekly welcome visits. 
Yours in hope. 
DAVIS GUILD, 
Edwards, N. Y. Jan. 15 1863. 
the Government should consent to its own dissolu-
tion, or that the disloyal minority, which began the 
rebellion, to dictate the terms of peace ! 
In Memoriam. 
They tell me that the snow is falling 
O'er a mother's form, laid low, 
That the snow-flakes now are wreathing 
O'er a mother's upturned brow ; 
That a mother, loved one's wanting 
To complete the circle now ; 
Since a mcther, now is waiting, 
To be joined by those below. 
Fair and rosy as the morning, 
Oft I used that friend to see. 
As with others gaily roaming 
Chanced her path with mine to be : 
Fair companions still are toiling 
O'er their life's tempestuous sea, 
But she now hath ceased her roving 
And doth wait for them and me. 
Thrice death stood within that dwelling, 
Plucking from the parent stem ; 
Yet again, the portal darkening, 
He hath loosed from earth this gem ; 
Thrice did not assuage the craving 
Cf the silent monster grim, 
Hence he bore them all unheeding 
Prayers, and tears, put forth for them. 
Silent now, and lone their dwelling, 
Husband, parents, sisters, all, 
Now do sit in tears bemoaning, 
The departed's early calf : 
Well we know in all their journeying, 
None can here those places fill ; 
Time may lend his soothing covering, 
But their hearth 'tis vacant, still. 4,).1 
And that mother, oh, that mother ! 
How doth beat her breaking heart 
 
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From her fond embrace, they part; wvsd 
Ope'd afresh is the fount of sorrow 
In that terrible wounded heart, 
As they bear away forever 
One more daughter from their hearth. 
And there's heard an infant's moaning 
For a mother's fond caress ; 
For that healing, and that soothing, 
From a mother's bossoin prest ; 
It may live, to manhood growing, 
Yet her love 'twil ever miss; 
And through life, the thought how sadning, 
 
I, alas ! am motherless. ti ::ca. u ti 
 
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Death will surely reign no more, 
Vanquished, at our Saviour's comings 
The conqueror who bath ope'd the door,., 
Will bring with him, cease thy mourning, 
The redeemed ones of yore, 
Amid the ransomed, thus returning, 
Comes thy, "Not lost but gone before." 
MARY. 
Will Bro. T. E. Morrell give us his Post Office 
address, that we may credit him $2 received Feb 
14. 
BROTHER BLISS :—I have longed that some Advent 
minister, of the right stamp, filled with the Spirit, 
his soul over flowing with the love of God, such 
as D. I. Robinson or a kindred spirit, might come 
this way ; or that, in a western tour, he might come 
to McGregor (opposite to Prairie Du Chien). I had 
intended, were any such to come into that vicinity, 
to be to the expense of their coming here and re-
turn ; but what I propose to do, and all I can do is 
this : if such brother or brethren should come to 
McGregor, and be willing to come here (about 30 
miles), they will be more than welcome to a home 
with me whilst they tarry. By their addressing me in 
turn, I will meet them at McGregor, give them a 
free passage in a lumber wagon, and find them a 
like passage,back to the same place. Address, 
A. J. BLACKMAN. 
Volga City, Clayton Co., Iowa Jan. 25, 1863. 
From Bro. A. Euller. 
DEAR BRO. BLISS :—I think you ought to raise 
the price of the Herald. I cannot see how the Her-
ald can be sustained when everything is so much 
higher. Those who love truth will certainly not ob-
ject to it, while the liberal and able to contribute 
need not slack their hands. 
I remain yours in Christ. ADAM FULLER. 
Cedar Valley, Dec. 28, 1862. 
We prefer to trust for the difference in price of 
paper, to the liberality of the willing hearted, rath-
er than to raise the price, whit would be burden- 
some to many. 
En. 
The Washington Chronicle says it must not be 
forgotten that in all the ravings of the sympathizers 
against the Administration and the war, they pro-
pose no remedy ; and if they hint at one, it is that 
DIED at South Boston, Feb. 12,1863, of Pneu-
monia, Miss ABBY DAY, aged 20 years and 4 
months. She was employed in the office of the Ad-
vent Herald as a compositor, and there learned the 
business of type-setting, having been in the office 
about two and a half years, She was a considerate 
girl, was always interested in the work of the office, 
and could be relied on to do her part in its season, 
She was sick about ten days, and during that time 
worried herself considerably in respect to the inter-
ruption which Ler absence would cause the office. 
She was by profession a Catholic. 
Scraps. 
The Presse, after a long list of assassinations and 
depositions, says ; "The Romans have risen in incur. 
rection one hundred and fifty times against the Pa-
pacy ; the Roman States, taken in a lump, one bun• 
dred and eleven times " 
A Paris letter says :—It is curious to see the hetero-
geneous elements of which the Papal army of liter-
ears is made up. M. Proudhon does not now pro- 
BRO. LITCH has been holding meetings in Water-
bury, Cabot, &c. Vt., and reports a good interest. 
We have not space for a minute detail of incidents 
BRO. BOSWORTH writes from Waterbury under 
date of Feb. 12 : 
"We are holding a series of meetings—the blessing 
is with us,—some have found peace in believing--
others are inquiring. May the Lord continue to 
bless is my earnest prayer." 
WELL DONE. Bro. M. D. Lanning has sent us 
ten new subscribers with pay in advance, from Penn. 
since New Year's. 
One hundred such efforts would make a wholesome 
addition to our list. Who will send a larger num-
ber? Bro. Lanning writes : 
"All who see the Herald are much pleased with 
it. The friends here do not want it to go down, 
neither must it be diminished in size, or raised in 
price. We must make up the deficiency by extend-
ing its circulation." 
From Bro. Horace Foote. 
DEAR BROTHER BLISS wish to express my ap. 
proval of the general course of the Herald. I hope 
you will discuss the Death question at all suitable 
times. Give us all the light possible upon this sub-
ject. I must confess I am unsettled upon that ques-
tion. Respectfully 
HORACE FOOTE. 
One reason that we so seldom refer to that ques. 
tion, is because we so fully discussed it a few years 
since that we should have little that is new to of-
fer in respect to it. We are, however, always ready 
to answer enquiries—provided our opinion and not 
controversy is wanted, and there are not too many 
questions asked in one letter. En. 
From Bro. D. Rupp. 
DEAR BRO. Bliss :—You will hear from our Aid 
Society before long. 1 love the Ilerald,and the bless-
ed doctrines that are advocated therein. May the 
Lord give you grace to conduct the Herald as you 
have done in the past, that you may be able to keep 
before your readers the near approach of our coming 
King, and present the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. 
My prayer is that you may be preserved blameless 
till the day of Jesus Christ. 
The Lord is visiting us at this present time, with 
the outpouring of his Holy Spirit. 
Your brother in love, DANIEL RUPP. 
Shiremanstown, Feb. 3, 1863. 
From Bro. David C. Libby. 
BRO. BLISS : I have taken your paper 21 years 
next June, and should like to take it so long as I 
stay here. Twenty-one years ago I did not expect 
to he here till this time ; but the good Lord 
has led me in a way that I knew not. 0, I feel 
that we are very near the end, and that we should 
have our lamps trimmed and burning continually. 
The word of the Lord is very precious to me in these 
fines of trouble. I can trust in his word, hut not 
in man's. My prayer is that the Lord may blea 
his cause, and his people in these times of tribula-
tion. 
Yours truly, 
DAVID C. LIBBY. 
Derby Line, Vt., Jan. 17, 1863. 
Bro. W. H. Swartz wishes that correspondents 
would address him at No, 6 Horatio street, care of 
J. B. Huse, New York city. 
B7'0* T. Smith writes : 1 have been quite out of 
health for several weeks past, but hope I am a little 
better at this time. In hope of a world where the 
inhabitants will never say they are sick. I am truly 
yours looking forward. THOMAS SMITH. 
Bangor, Me., Jan. 31, 1863. 
From Bro. A. J. Blackman. 
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