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established under so many difficulties. 
The Lord direct and bless his future labors, 
and if his future is as successful as the past 
many stars will deck his diadem on the 
great coronation day. In the departure of 
our missionaries we felt a sense of loneliness, 
yet the labors left us to perform, gives us 
little time for sadness, and indeed we can-
not sorrow amid such precious surroundings. 
We have for the present both schools united, 
and our house is crowded with 125 scholars. 
We find them easy to manage, and I know 
not of one rebellious child. I don't presume 
on the future of this Mission, or feel sure of 
our long continuance in it, for contingencies 
are constantly liable to arise to disconcert 
our plans, "A man's heart deviseth his way. 
but the Lord directed' his steps." Still 
while I imagine difficulties to the prosecu-
tion of the work, I find none as yet, and my 
prayer is, God preserve the dear Mission in 
Edgefield. 
G. H. CHILD. 
[For Terms, &e., see Fourth Page.] 
gommunirationo. 
Original. 
CROSS OF CHRIST. 
BY D. T. TAYLOR. 
[Original.] 
MISSION JOURNAL. 
thy death. Thy work was finished, and we 
only sorrow that after years of anguish and 
labor, thou wast not permitted to see the 
crown of laurels that an affectionate people 
would have soon pressed upon thy brow. 
Rest, dear friend of the oppressed, until the 
glorious morn of deliverance, when the 
bond and the f'ree stall rejoice together. 
Nearly every house is draped in mourning, 
and a secret order from the exasperated 
soldiers draped all the remainder. Flags are 
at half mast, minute guns are firing, and 
woe be to the man who mars the solemnity 
of the day. The first disloyal sentiment ex-
pressed exposes them to the bullets of the 
guards, or to a home in the Penitentiary. 
One man lays dead" on time spot where he 
shouted for Jeff Davis. Several others have 
been shot, and the terrified secesh sink back 
appalled. The prison is full of both high 
and low marched thither for disloyal expres-
sions. Still theirs is a deep-seated satisfac-
tion, and their defeat is softened by the sac-
rifice of a man so dearly loved by their con-
querors. 
Sunday, 16.—Bro. 
causes deep sorrow. 
spirit. Not the inmost recesses of the heart 
are too deep for its penetration, nor all arti-
fices of the deceitful heart too subtle for its 
penetration or dictation. Other laws forbid 
the unclean act, this condemns the wanton 
eye and irregular desire. Other laws punish 
the injudicious deed, this passes sentence on 
the unguarded sallies of passion, and the 
most secret motions of resentment. The 
Psalmist says, "Thy commandments are ex-
ceeding broad." It reaches to every imper-
fection of our natures, and commands us to 
be holy as God is holy. This is established 
by Jesus ins his memorable sermons on the 
Mount. As a man have you duly weighed 
the perfection and spirituality of the divine 
law ? It is a transcript of the unspotted 
purity and rectitude of the divine stature, and 
requires unreserved obedience to all God's 
commands, without feeling it to be a grievious 
yoke or rigorous treatment. It calls not 
only for external duty, but also for the most 
upright imaginations and devout affections, 
yeti, insists upon the exercise of every vir-
tue, and that in the highest degree. Love to 
God without the least lukewarmness, and 
love to our neighbor without any unkindness, 
and desire that knows no stain, and a humil- 
ity of mind that knows no elatement ; in a 
word, it requires us all to be perfect, as our 
Father in heaven is perfect. 
To be continued. 
the Bible and in argument, would risk it 
for either by quoting the text for any such 
purpose. For evidently it is a random 
thought which induces the quotation for the 
purpose specified. They do not ask before 
using it, "At what epoc is the scene laid ?" 
If they did ask the question they would not 
make the venture. No one will affirm that 
the universe is free from sin and sinners at 
the close of the millennium. And no species 
of logic which a sane man would venture to 
put forth, could make this scene pre-millen-
nial. It is laid prior to the opening of the 
seven seals of the little book. Time occasion 
of the universal rejoicing is, that one is 
found worthy to ts.ke the book and open its 
seals. The opening is a subsequent event ; 
and as the seals are opened one after another 
there is manifest both' sin and sorrow. We 
have several times in public debate had this 
passage urged as proof of a clean universe. 
A careful reading will show that it refers to 
a class of creatures other than saints or an-
gels. For first, the saints of Adam's race 
are represented as rejoicing and giving 
thanks. "Thou art worthy to take the book, 
and to open the seals thereof ; for thou wast 
slain; and hast redeemed us to God by thy 
blood," &c. Next all the angels join the 
song of exultation at the auspicious event. 
Third, all creatures, all that God had created, 
are introduced as in an ecstacy of delight. 
These are personified as David personifies 
them in Psa. 145: 10. "All thy works praise 
thee, 0 Lord, and thy saints shall bless thee." 
Also Psa. 148, is another instance of intro-
ducing all nature, animate and inanimate, to 
praise the name of the Lord. If Universal-
ists never introduce a stronger argument 
than that to prove a cleats universe, our 
readers need not have much fear of being 
converted to. it. 
ED. 
Original. 
THE SECREET OF PREVAILING 
PRAYER. 
BY M. D. W. 
peal mark the introduction of the New Era, 
as at Sinai. The music of the heavenly 
throng greets the ear while angel voices 
announce the glad news of a Saviour's birth. 
God now reveals his love and good-will to 
suffering humanity through the life and 
teachings of his beloved Son. He shows 
the path of life—the way of holiness. He 
invites them to the arms of the all-loving 
Father. He receiveth sinners and eateth 
with them. He wins the prodigal back to 
his forsaken home. He heals the sick. He 
sympathizes with the suffering, weeps with 
the bereaved, succors the destitute. Con-
sider his gentle, loving, merciful character, 
and then remember He is the one who says 
"Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He 
is the one who says "I will pray the Father 
for you." He is the one who 'has assured us, 
"Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father its 
my name, I will do it for you." He is the 
one who says "Ask, and receive, that your 
joy may be full." He is the one on whom 
we are invited to cast of all our care, for he 
careth for us. He was a perfect representa-
tion of the Father's mind. All the love, all 
the pity, all the tenderness exhibited by 
him, first had their embodiment in the 
Father. He came not to reconcile God to 
the world, but the world unto God. He 
came to convince us of a Father's love for 
his sinful children. God so loved the world, 
as to give his only begotten Son for its re-
demption. If lie gave heaven's richest boon, 
how much more will he with him freely give 
us all timings. He gave time greatest, will he 
withhold the less ? 
By the love of the Father—the character 
of Christ—the promises of Christ—the in-
tercession of Christ—the ability of Christ, 
we have every encouragement to pray in 
faith, nothing doubting. Let us not only 
know, but believe the love that the Father 
haul to us, and believing, commit ourselves 
unreservedly to him for protection from evil, 
asking confidingly for every needed grace—
walking with him in sweet fellowship. He 
would have exhibited to the world the fair 
robes with which lie clothes us—the precious 
ornaments with which he adorns us—the 
luxuries with which he feasts us—the 
abundant joys he bestows upon us, that 
others may be won to Iris heart and home. 
May the Lord stir us up to pray more 
dilligently—more fervently—more believ-
ingly—more effectually, that we may be 
made more joyful in his house of prayer, 
that the cold, formal, stereotyped prayer may 
be exchanged for simple, earnest heartfelt, 
trusting supplication, mingled with praise, 
which honors God, and brings strength, and 
power, and purity, and love, yea, every 
grace 
heavenly its abundant fullness to our 
souls. 
"If 
have we 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
Hide my sins and shelter sue ; 
Claim of merit have I none, 
I am vile and all undone ; 
I to thee for succor fly,—
Give me refuge or I die. 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
All my hopes are hung on thee. 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
Let me to thy shadow flee ; 
Here they mocked the Crucified,— 
Here the royal sufferer died : 
Here was shed the atoning blood, 
Till it crimsoned all the sod ; 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
Can the guilty trust in thee ? 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree; 
Type of love's deep mystery. 
'Twas my sins proyoked this love, 
I this matchless passion moved; 
For my soul this love was stored ; 
On my head the blessing poured. 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
Now I solve love's mystery. 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
This my boast shall ever be 
That thy blood for me was shed, 
That for me He groaned and bled, 
Now I catch that gracious eye, 
Now I know I shall not die. 
Cross of Christ, 0 sacred tree, 
All my guilt is lost in thee. 
Rouse's Point, N. Y., May, 1865. 
Original. 
MAN'S DOMINION. 
[0 riginall. 
DEATH AND ITS STING. 
I take a different view from some, and 
perhaps any others, of Heb. 2 : 5-9. In the 
5th verse the Apostle says, "For unto time 
angels halls he not put in subjection the 
world (age) to come whereof .we speak." 
That is, the new heavens and the new earth 
is not to be the abode of angels. In the 6th 
verse, (quoting from the 8th Psalm), "What 
is titan (mankind) or the son of man, (the 
children of men) that thou visitest him ?" 
it does appear to me that the apostle, or the 
psalmist, would not speak of the Son of man, 
(or Jesus Christ,) as though God was in any 
degree unmindful of him. Therefore, "What 
is man, or the Son of man," I think means 
the human family, "Who were made a little 
lower than the angels, was crowned with 
glory and honor, and was set over the works 
of thy (God's) hands." 8th verse, "Thou 
(God) hest put all timings in subjection under 
his (man's) feet ; for in that he put all in 
subjection under him, he left nothing that ins 
not put under him," (referring doubtless to 
the dominion given to Adam, Gen. 1 : 28,) 
"but now we see not yet all things put under 
him." That is since the fall, man has had 
only a partial dominion over the creatures of 
this lower world, "not yet" implying that in 
the restitution mankind will have a perfect 
or entire dominion over all things, as at the 
creation of the world. 
In taking this view I think we have a 
strong argument in favor of the saints' in-
heriting the earth, or the "kingdom prepared 
for them from the foundation of the world. 
In the 9th verse; "But we see Jesus, who 
was made a little lower than the angels, for 
the suffering of death," &c. 
I believe the majority of ministers of the 
present day fail to understand and preach 
the whole gospel. I believe Christ not only 
suffered and died to redeem man from sin, 
suffering, death and the grave, but to pur-
chase, redeem and restate time inheritance 
and dominion that was first given to Adam, 
but was forfeited and lost by the fall. 
In Eph. 1 : 13, 14, we read, "After that 
ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy 
Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our 
inheritance until the redemption (restitution) 
of the purchased possession." 
Some quote Rev. 5 : 13 to prove uni-
versal salvation. Please give your opinion 
of the verse. "And every creature which is 
in heaven; and on the earths, and under the 
earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that 
are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and 
honor, and glory, and power, be unto him 
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the 
Lamb, forever and ever." A LEARNER. 
Sunday, April 9th.—A stormy day. Ow-
ing to the dampness and heavy rain, the 
house was not opened, but in the afternoon 
we gathered in the immediate neighbors, 
and held a good meeting at our house. Met 
two brethren in the morning to adjust a dif-
ficulty. It was amicably settled—each shak-
ing hands. 
Monday. 10th.—Introduced slates into our 
school. The children made very good use of 
them. One remarkable case occured. A 
girl of 19 receis ed a copy of the numerals ; 
though she had never undertaken the thing 
before, what was my surprise to 'see her 
figures nearly as good as the copy. I then 
gave her the capitals. These she imitated 
quite as wonderfully. She is quite remarka- 
ble in all her studies. A few weeks since she 
did not know her letters, and as we never 
hold a scholar back she has skipped from 
class to class, and now she is reading quite 
well. Another girl of 9 years surprised me 
with her ability to learn. I was so well 
pleased with her talent, I put her up from 
the A B C class into quite an advanced 
class of reading. She is now the brightest 
in the class and will soon leave it for another. 
This is owing in part to her mother's teach-
ing her at home ; it cannot be from study in 
school, for she studies so little, and is so full 
of fun that I have named her "Flutter-budg- 
et." She has her hair braided all over her 
head, is always smiling, and has a nice little 
dimple in her cheek. 
Wednesday, 12th.—We are rejoicing in 
the recovery of Mrs. Child from a severe 
prostration. You can hardly imagine the 
kindness and sympathy of her classes during 
her sickness. 
Friday. 14th.—Received in Nashville a 
barrel of clothing from the dear friends in 
North Attleborough ; the first offering of 
this kind to the Mission. We were intense-
ly interested as we opened the rich treasures 
of that barrel. Soon the widow's heart re-
joiced, and the ragged orphans blessed us as 
they changed their "duds" for pants or 
dresses. This people are struggling for life 
and for liberty. They would dress well if 
they could, and if they do not it is a sure 
evidence that they are needy. The articles 
most needed are women's and children's 
summer ("thing. Usually the men can get 
decent clothes, but the widow must first 
feed her children, and then clothe them if 
she can. 
We would here say that contributions of 
clothing from churches or families, will very 
much help the mission, and will be judi-
ciously bestowed. The wants of the families 
are considered, and charity is bestowed ac-
cording to the necessity of the case. Mrs. 
Child attends personally to the bestowment 
of dresses and garments. All goods must 
be pre-paid to reach us, otherwise they will 
stop in Louisville for lack of a pass. The 
agent of the Christian Commission has kind-
ly granted to us permission to have all boxes 
and barrels directed to their care providing 
the expressage is pre-paid. Goods sent to 
care of C. C. come directly through without 
requiring a pass, and also are delivered at 
their rooms, making it convenient for us. 
Another reason for requiring pre-payment is 
that all goods sent to care of the Commis-
sion come free, and our goods not being for 
the use of the soldiers, to forward would be 
a violation of special agreement, but if the 
express is paid at the start, we have all the 
advantages of the Commission. Persons 
living at the North can hardly imagine the 
pressure of freight through Adam's Express, 
and the necessity of taking the utmost pre-
caution in sending. Goods should be sent 
in strong barrels, with the heads secured by 
a bit of hoop tacked in to prevent the heads 
bursting out. Mark both ends of the barrel 
plainly, thus : Leslie and Child, care of U. S. 
Christian Commission, Nashville, Tenn. 
Saturday, 15th.—Consternation and gloom 
is depicted on every face, with few excep-
tions. In the midst of excessive joy and 
exultation, we are suddenly thrown into an 
agony of sorrow. The hand of the assassin 
has laid our President in the dust. Noble 
man ! glorious was thy life, and lamented is 
Leslie's return home 
'rhe burden of the 
morning meeting was with referrence to his 
leaving. At the close they subscribed 
$58,00 to pay the expense of his return here, 
after visiting his family. Bro. L. feels 
warmly attached to this people, and if the 
way opens will probably return: He has 
done much for them, having visited and ad-
ministered to the sick without charge, be-
sides preaching and teaching. He has 
thrown them under obligations, and they 
fully appreciate his worth. In the afternoon 
Bro. L. preached a practical discourse as a 
farewell. He received marked attention. 
Feeling a desire to work for my master, I 
visited the camp on the other side of this 
village. Finding no meeting appointed in 
the Commission Chapel, I visited the en-
closure called the "Corill Prison." Here I 
found 70 or 80 men confined in a square of 
100 feet each way, boarded up on all sides 
some 20 feet high, open to the canopy of 
heaven. Small tents were allowed the pris-
oners, who bunked together in squads of six 
or eight. These men are mainly deserters 
or hard, reckless soldiers, with some guerrillas. 
I made use of the President's death, to show 
God's Divine providence in the great work 
for which he was raised up. As I proceeded 
and spoke of the glorious emancipation of 
the oppressed of this nation, a howl was 
heard, and discordant noises from a tent 
near by. A sergeant promptly stepped to 
the tent, and bid them hush, which they 
quickly obeyed. As I spoke freely on the 
subject so dear to my heart, I could see the 
workings of angry feelings on some faces, 
Yet on most countenances I found sympathy. 
A guard paced his beat within the enclosure, 
others with loaded arms watched the result. 
At the close I circulated tracts among them, 
and mailed a letter for one of the unfor- 
tunate. 
Monday, 17th.—Called on Gen. Miller 
and Gov. Brownlow, to see whether we can 
retain our school house. We learned that 
Gen. Miller had revoked all orders inter-
fering with private parties and property, 
owing to the anticipated close of the war, 
and that we held the house only by suffer- 
ance. This was discouraging, as parties 
were threatening to buy it for the purpose 
of stopping our school. It however sent us 
to our closets. 
Thursday, 20th.—Female prayer-meeting. 
At the close, six mourners came forward for 
prayer. One submitted to God, and another 
who had been halting for a long time, was 
set free, and with streaming eyes moved 
around the room praising God, and declaring 
to each, what had been done for her soul. 
This started one or two nervous persons who 
were made more than happy. It is quite 
distressing at times to see the exhibitions of 
nervous excitement. At such times the 
steady sisters surround the subjects, and 
hold them from going to excess, and when it 
is extreme, they counsel moderation. At an 
evening meeting one sister who was as 
strong as a man, exhorted and soon began 
to bend forward and throw her arms around, 
I saved the lamp, by removing it with the 
table. Presently a strong sister arose, took 
her by the waist and after a short struggle, 
placed her into a chair, which ended her ex-
hortation. I wonder they cannot see time 
cause of such exercises, yet it is not strange 
when we consider that for a generation they 
have beets taught to look on such, as the 
highest I oint of spiritual life. This is a pe • 
culiar people, and I want soon to write more 
about them. 
Friday, 21st.—A man left word to-day 
that he had bought our school house. We 
are feeling sadly, yet we have confidence in 
God. 
Saturday, 22d.—Visited Nashville, saw 
the owner of our house, and found that it 
was not sold, though he had received offers 
for it. He proposed to sell or let it to us. 
We engaged it for the year at a moderate 
rent. 
Monday,' 24th.—Bro. Leslie and sister 
Mary Whitney left us this morning, amid 
many kind expressions of sympathy. As 
they journey homeward many earnest prayers 
will arise for their safety. Bro. Leslie left 
with a strong attachment to this blessed 
work, and hopes still to labor fisr the Mission 
NOTE.—In response to Learner's request 
we would say that no Universalist who re-
gards his reputation for accuracy in reading 
BLUNDERS OF GEOLOGISTS. 
(Continued.) 
Let us bear in mind how very small a por-
tions of the earth's surface has ever been ex-
amined by anybody, and how little of the 
examined portion has been surveyed by 
competent observers. For instance of a 
country so accessible as British North Amer-
ica, one hundred and twelve thousand square 
miles are entirely geologically unexplored. 
But this is a trifling omission, compared 
with the vast expanse covered by the ocean, 
constituting two-thirds of the whole surface 
of the globe. The geological processes go-
ing on beneath its depths must ever remain 
unknown -to the present race of men. It 
might be supposed, however, that so far as 
regards the liquid strata, so accessible, and 
so constantly traversed by men whose inter-
ests, and whose lives are interested in a prop-
er knowledge of ocean movements, we should 
have full and reliable information. But so 
far from this being the case, the physical ge-
ography of the sea was a science unknown 
at the beginning of this century ; and now, 
after our Government has, with great liber-
ality and expense, scattered the "Wind and 
Current Charts," and "Sailing Directions" 
of Lieutenant Maury all over the world, and 
scholars and sailors have accepted them as 
the basis of navigation and speculations, the 
National Academy of Sciences, composed of 
some of our best-informed and most practical 
scientific men, has resolved, after a lengthened 
examination of them, that "they embrace 
much that is unsound in philosophy, and little 
that is practically useful." It thus appears 
that our supposed science of two-thirds of 
the surface of the globe is erroneous. 
Of the surface of the land, the largest por-
tions is impenetrably barred against the geol-
ogist by swamps, forests, wildernesses, sav-
ages, and eternal snows. 
Of the accessible fraction remaining, not 
one ten-thousandth part has ever been per-
sonally examined; yet we have seen geolog-
ical maps of the whole of this continent, and 
even of the world ! Let it not be said that 
these were mere school-book illustrations. If 
they had been merely such, the error is in-
calculable of teaching children to receive 
such fantasies for matters of fact. But no 
less an authority than M. Marcou has pub-
lished a map, which is received as the basis 
of speculation by a large proportion of the 
French and German geologists, in which he 
gives delineations of this continent purely 
fanciful. "At the last meeting of the Amer-
ican Association, Mr. W. P. Blake called 
attentions to the very gross inaccuracies exist-
ing in a map recently published by M. Mar-
cou, of France, of the geology of the region 
between the Mississippi and the Pacific. 
Mr. Blake enumerated several of the prom-
inent errors ; among them, the representation 
of the rocks of San Francisco as granite and 
metamorphic, they being tertiary ; and mak-
ing Fremont's Peak into a volcano, when, 
its his official report, it is clearly and fully 
stated to be granite. Proofs were brought 
forward to show that the formation called 
Jurassic by M. Marcou, was not so, but was 
cretaceous. M. Marcou had made four great 
divisions of the strata, corresponding with 
those abroad ; but this was entirely arbitrary, 
and a generalization beyond all those facts 
which had been obtained. Mr. Blake pro-
tested against the reception of the western 
portions of the map as a fair exhibitions of 
the knowledge which had been already pub-
lished ; and stated that his criticisms were 
not upon local details of the map, but upon 
erroneous representations extending for hun-
dreds of miles. Moreover, M. Marcou had 
not availed himself of the printed documents 
and reports upon American geology in his 
possession ; but his representations were, in 
many cases, directly opposite to those made 
by the explorers of regions where he had 
never been. The view taken by Mr. Blake 
was sustained by all the geologists present." 
There is no other description of fancy 
ubims, which turned every way, to keep the 
way of the Tree of Life. And why this ? 
"Lest man take also of the Tree of Life, and 
eat and live forever," is the answer. This 
we consider a merciful act in the Divine be- 
ing, to prevent man in his fallen condition 
from living forever in that cursed state, with 
the poison of sin affecting him, and transmit- 
ting the same to all generations forever. 
But God would not suffer this lest his prom-
ised redemption through the seed of the 
woman be frustrated, and all men remain in 
that cursed state forever. 
But the purpose of God relative to man 
seems to be to deprive him of obtaining 
eternal life by partaking of the Tree of Life. 
Had that been'allowed, the sting of sin could 
not have produced the results that we now 
see ; IAA we think by what is revealed, that 
the Lord would have disobedience produce 
its legitimate results on man as a demonstra- 
tion of God's veracity, and the truthfulness of 
his word in declaring "In the day thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," and this 
to prepare the way for eternal life to be 
gained in another way from that of partaking 
of the Tree of Life. 
Taking this view of the subject, the death 
of this body, in its results to the believer, 
seems to be an arrangement of the Divine 
being, under existing circumstances, for 
death to prove a blessing to believers. As 
if he had said, "Let death do its utmost, and its 
sting dissolve the man, and bring back its 
materiality to dusts from whence it came," 
or in other words, "Let it tear down the 
man, for as a vessel he is marred, that I may 
build him up again, and make of him a ves-
sel of honor 'sleet for the Master's use." 
'raking this view of death, we see much of 
God's mercy in it, and a wisdom that eclipses 
all this world's. We may also see the ter-
rible effects of sin, and how God regards his 
law, and his purpose to overcome sits in its 
effects on the believer. Then why should 
the believer mourn that death, with its sting, 
takes one here and another there ? Especial-
ly if they are believers they have partaken 
of the Tree of Life, to live forever. They 
sleep in Jesus, to be raised anew ins the 
resurrection morn, Christ having become a 
Tree of Life to them. 
It is often remarked that death is a debt 
of nature which all must pay. But is not 
this a mistake ? for this reasons : Man as 
originally made,, had not the sting of death 
in him ; was made in the image of his God, 
and placed on probation to perpetuate that 
image, he felt then nothing of the death 
sting, neither could he, as long as he re-
mained in that state ; but disobeying, he fell, 
and lost the image of his Maker, and became 
a corruptible being, therefore the appoint-
ment of God once to die, after that the judg-
ment. • 
But the first promise made contemplated 
a restitution from all that death with its 
sting could do on certain conditions, condi-
tions afterwards revealed. So that as to 
death being a debt of nature, how could it 
be ? for as man was at first made, it was not 
natural to die. But it is brought about by 
the sting of death, as the result of transgres-
sion ; that life and immortality, if gained at 
all, it must be by a new and living way, one 
in which God's law shall remain inviolate, 
and still asserting its claims on man, and 
producing the happiest results, giving a 
knowledge of sin continually and its conse-
quences, and slaying mans by it, that he may 
be made alive in Christ Jesus. In this we 
see the wisdom of God as far above human 
wisdom as the heavens are higher than the 
earth, and did we aprreciate it as we ought, 
who could refrain from calling upon his soul 
and all that is within hint, to praise the Lord 
for his wisdom in making such use of the re-
sults of sin and sting of death as in the end 
will find the believer still under the law of 
God restored to the perfect image of God, 
with no disposition to disobey, and then as 
natural to obey as he now is to follow the 
corruptions of human nature, and as far 
above temptations as he is now exposed to 
them. 
But our text says that the strength of sin 
is the law. How shall we understand this ? 
How can the law make sins strong ? Be-
cause where there is no law there is no 
transgression. Thence the law forbidding 
all sits gives it strength. In Roni. 7 : 5, it 
is written, "When we were in the flesh time 
motions of sin which were by the law did 
work in our members to bring forth fruit 
unto death." This could not be, if there was 
no law forbidding sin. Therefore its strength 
is sufficient to bear the fruit of death. 
But perhaps we had better contemplate 
the law, for we apprehend that there is too 
superficial a view taken of the law, by many. 
The law must be a perfect one, because its 
author is perfect. Otherwise man would 
contend that it came not from God. A pure 
fountain cannot send forth impure waters ac-
cording to the law of cause and effect, which 
God himself recognizes as a true law. We 
say then, that the law of God is prohibitory 
of evil, and extends both to the outward and 
inward man ; it takes cognizance of every 
action, it judges every word. All the opera-
tions and dispositions of the inner mans come 
under its jurisdiction, and is a discerner of 
the thoughts and dawning intentions, and ar-
raigns them both at its awful bar ; it pierces 
even to the dividing asunder of the soul and 
"The sting of death is sin, and the strength 
of sin is the law." 1 Cor. 15 : 56. 
We look around us and we see men full 
of life and vigor, the countenances of whom 
show a perfect state of health, and capable of 
almost any endurance, and their physical 
powers such as to defy anything to enfeeble 
them ; but a little while passes away, and it 
becomes evident that some mysterious 
agency is at work, relaxing their vigor, crip-
pling their energy, and weakening their 
physical powers, till at last they are brought 
down, with no power. to rnoye a pulse or 
lisp a sound. And why all this ? What is 
the original cause ? We might well inquire if 
destitute of revelation—in that case our 
speculations might be various—but where is 
the wisdom that could demonstrate the cause, 
and tell to man what revelations has sup-
plied ? We might look to the wisest and 
greatest of men, but they would fail to tell 
us the cause of man's decay, and we might 
push our inquiries as far as we pleased, they 
would he unsatisfactory, and we should be 
obliged to give up in despair. But here 
revelation steps in, and gives the cause, and 
the effect, and we see it and feel it every day 
we live, and yet how little the impressions 
made upon our minds, and men generally. 
Our text announces the fact that the sting of 
death is sin. This divine interpretation 
points its back to the time of the first trans-
sion of God's law, when our first parents 
partook of the forbidden fruit. Its this act the 
law of God was broken, and its penalty in-
curred, and where is that wisdom among 
men that could devise a way whereby the 
law, in its purity and integrity, could be sus-
tained, and the breakers of that law escape 
the penalty and be justified in the sight of 
God who made the law ? Here, then, it is 
where the wisdom of man fails, and the wis-
dom of God supplies the deficiency, and for 
this we are indebted to revelation, which 
should call forth the everlasting gratitude of 
our hearts. If we go back to the beginning 
we find our federal head did break God's 
law, hence his fall, and the poison of sin in-
troduced, and the whole man contaminated, 
and he became a corrupt fountain, from 
whom has spread the whole human family, 
inheriting the same poison—enemies to God, 
and dead in trespasses and sins, and under 
the curse of God's law, and that God's pur-
pose of redemption might be accomplished 
On man who had fallen, he drove him from 
Eden, and placed a flaming sword, and cher- 
our heart condemn us not, then 
confidence toward God, and what-
soever we ask we receive of Him, because 
we do those things that are pleasing in His 
sight." 1 John 3 : 22. Freedoni from the 
condemnation of sits, prepares the heart to 
draw nigh with confidence unto God, not 
that we thereby merit the grace of God—
not that on account of our holiness we are 
worthy of the divine favor, but because 
through the abounding grace which is in Christ 
Jesus, the children of adoptions are heirs to 
all the blessings and privileges of the • new 
covenant, To those who are in Chs'ist, the 
promises are given, and freedom from con-
demnation, is evidence of union with Him. 
It is a proof of obedience to the divine pre-
cepts. The promise .of Jesus, "If ye abide 
in me, and my words abide ins you, -ye shall 
ask what you will, and it shall be. done unto 
you," belongs to such. Hence they can 
have confidence to come to God; and ask 
for those timings which they need, knowing 
that if they ask anything according to His 
will, he heareth them, and if 'he hear them, 
they-know they have the things which they 
desire of him. 
Guilty Adam hid from the presence of 
the Lord God, whose voi':e he heard in the 
garden. Sin made him a coward. David 
says, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the 
Lord will not hear me." He does not say, 
If I commit iniquity, but if I regard it ; if I 
love and cherish sin in the heart, though it 
may have no outward expression, the Lord 
will riot hear me pray. He therefore prays, 
"Cleanse thou me from secret faults." "The 
Lord looked' upon the heart." 
- There are many encouragements to praryme 
If under the less effulgent light of the old 
dispensation, with far less help to faith than 
are now offered, with a more limited knowl-
edge of the power and love of God than is 
now made known, the saints were enabled 
so often to .prevail its prayer, how much 
more ought Christians now to exult in time 
assurances of answers. from heaven. Time 
Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of 
world, had not been slain ; the _High-priest 
who ever lived' to make intercession for 
those who come unto God by Him, and is 
able to save `them to the uttermost, had not 
then ascended.on high ; the vast treasury of 
grace adapted to every emergency and . suf-
ficient for every want, was not then opened ; 
the exceeding great and precious promises 
by which we are made partakers of that 
divine nature, were not then 'given ; the 
Comforter had not then come ; the Holy 
Ghost had not then been poured forth in its 
fulness for time consolation, guide,-instructor, 
illuminator, reprover, sanctifier, intercessor, 
witness, and pledge of future life and .glory 
to the Church. All these rich gifts pertain 
to the New Covenant. Then God had not 
manifested himself fully as the God of love. 
He revealed himself in flame—in the light-
ning's flash—the thunder's roar—time earth-
quake's shock—the distroying hail—the 
blasting mildew—the dreadful plague. He 
sent forth prophets, not laden with messages 
of mercy so much as messages of woe. They 
came with denunciations for sin, and pre-
dictions of coming wrath. But to us God 
bath spoken by his Son. He comes not as 
a messenger of woe, but as an angel of mer-
cy. No lightning's flash—no thunder's 
HERALD. 
THE 
Al) VENT 
78 
down of the Gentiles, and that all the tribes 
of the earth have mourned and seen the Son 
of man coming in a cloud with power and 
great glory, Jesus remains still "the Son of 
man," in whom dwells "all the fullness of the 
Godhead bodily," and as such will come 
again. 
What kind of a salvation is it which does 
not reverse the fruits of sin? Will the In-
dependent please explain it? If the salva-
tion of Christ does reverse the curse, which 
is death, the body will be raised again, im-
mortal and incorruptible. 
ing as brethren in Christ Jesus all who bear 
his image on their hearts, and devote their 
lives to his service." The fherth was in 
these memorable words : 
"Indulge me with one simple request. It 
is, that the Publishing Cornmitte would ever 
bear in mind the high responsibility of their 
office; and always feel that, as the etereal 
destinies of souls may hang on their deliber-
ations and doings, no tract should ever be is-
sued from the depository of this Society, 
which does not contain, should it find its way 
where the Bible was never seen nor the gos-
pel ever heard, enough of divine truth to 
guide the ignorapt and the inquiring sinner 
into the path of eternal' life."—Am. Mess. 
-.M. 4. 
INQUIRY. 
t1t 
 arcut trald. 
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1865. 
JOSIAH LITCH, EDITOR. 
THE DISCUSSION AGAIN. 
the memory that they had once been taught 
to pray, but now have learned to scoff: Ex-
ample is an arrow of conviction ; they, too, "re-
member their God and are troubled." John 
Angell James, of Birmingham, says in one 
of his lectures, "If I have a right to consider 
myself a Christian, if I have attained to any 
usefulness in the Church ot Christ, I owe it, 
in the way of means and instrumentality, to 
the sight of a companion, who slept in the 
same room with me, bending his knees in 
prayer on retiring to rest. That scene 
aroused my slumbering conscience, and sent 
an arrow to my heart; for, though I had 
been religiously educated, I had neglected 
prayer and cast off the fear of God. My 
conversion to God followed, and my prepara-
tion for the ministry. Nearly half a century 
has rolled away since then, but that little 
chamber and that praying youth are still 
present to my imagination, and will never 
be forgotten, even amid the splendors of 
heaven, and through the ages of eternity." 
 — — 
"PRAY ONE FOR ANOTHER." 
0. R. 
Bro. Litch you please give your 
views of 1 Cor. 15: 24? "Then cometh 
the end, when he shall have delivered up the 
kingdom to God, even the Father; when he 
slip have put down all rule, and all author-
ity, and power." How are we to reconcile 
the idea of Christ giving up the kingdom to 
God the Father, when there are so many 
promises that the kingdom shall be given to 
Christ. 
Fairfield, Vt., May 8, 1865. 
its quotation of Scripture texts for its 
proof. 1 Peter iii: 18—"Being put to death 
in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit." It 
omits te quote the context, which shows to a 
demonstration that it was Christ's spirit pre-
incarnate, or between His crucifixion and 
resurrection that Peter speaks of here. "By 
which" says Peter, "he went and preached 
unto the spirits in prison, when the long-suffer-
ing of God waited in the days of Noeh." The 
Episcopal church, however, forgetting the 
time specified by Peter, apply it to the inter-
im between Christ's crucifixion and material 
resurrection. We think Peter was right and 
the Episcopal church wrong on this point, 
and the Advent Herald no less. 
Respecting the other passages quoted, from 
Romans viii, "also quicken your mortal body," 
see the concluding sentence of our first reply 
to the Herald, first page Western Indepen-
dent, number 8, April 1st, where we have 
shown that this refers to the holy life of the 
Christian here in the flesh, having no refer-
ence either to the resurrection or the future 
world.— Western Independent. 
THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE AM. 
TRACT SOCIETY. 
We give in another column another reply 
from the Western Independent, to our articles 
on the resurrection. We notice a few points 
which have not before. been introduced in 
this discussion. 
In quoting our remark that "the future' 
existence of tire soul in a future state was 
net dependent on Christ's resurrection; but 
the future existence of man as such, com-
posed of body, soul and spirit, as God made 
him, did depend on the resurrection of 
Christ's body ;" Bro. 0. says, "This assumes 
the whole question, viz.: that God made 
man to exist in the future state as body soul 
and spirit." This is a perversion of our lan-
guage. No one can justly deduce from the 
words we used any other idea than that God 
made man in the beginning to consist of body 
soul and spirit. The point is this: man, 
composed of body soul and spirit, was made 
to live forever as such; for dissolution of this 
physical frame is the fruit of' sin, • and re-
demption from the curse clearly implies its 
recovery. The soul exists either in or out 
of the body of' its own nature. But recovery 
from the death induced by sin is predicated 
by the apostle on the resurrection of Christ's 
body. Death, the death of the body is a 
penalty of violated law. The deliverance 
from that penalty necessarily implies the 
bodily resurrection. 
A Psukikon body is a body dependent 
on the presence and indwelling of time soul as 
the animating element. The Pneumatikon 
body, is dependent for its renewed life on the 
spirit of Jesus Christ, of' which every world. This government was under the con- 
liever is begotten. The human body is not stitution an unit. The constitution was su-
preme. A part of the states rebelled. The . 
normal authority of the President was in-
efficient to put down the rebellion. Congress 
entrusted to the President extraordinary and 
NOTE.-The promise made to Christ, 
Luke 1 : 31, 32, is so explicit that "Of his 
kingdom there shall be no end," we must 
seek a solution of' the passage quoted above 
in some other way than by supposing that he 
will ever cease to reign. 
When Christ came on earth and proffered 
himself to the Jews as their King, he was 
rejected and crucified. After he arose from 
the dead he made the announcement to his 
disciples that all power in heaven and earth 
was given into his hands. Not only was the 
Jewish nation, but the whole world, in re-
bellion against his authority, and he was in-
vested with supreme power, arid all the re-
sources of the universe were put into his 
hands by the Father, to use, control and di-
rect in putting down this great rebellion. 
His first work was to issue a proclamation 
of amnesty to all rebels on certain conditions, 
and ordained means to make it known to 
every creature in all the world. This procla-
mation is to be in force to the end of the age. 
Then he proposes to adopt a new order of 
things, and that is a process of judgment. 
And all who have resisted and rejected the 
amnesty must be arrested, tried and punished; 
and all who remained loyal, or who accepted 
the amnesty, shall be put in peaceable pos-
session of the restored kingdom. 
Our own affairs afford, perhaps, the most 
perfect and striking illustration of anything 
which has transpired in the history of the 
now.quickened by the Spirit of Christ. Hear 
Paul. - "If Christ be in you, the BODY- IS 
DEAD because of sin; but the Spirit is life 
because of righteousness. But if the Spirit 
of him that raised up Christ from the dead' supreme power for the purpose of accom-
plishing,the work. They authorized him to 
suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus, and gave 
men and money to any extent required to 
dwell (present tense) in you, he that raised 
up Christ from the dead shall also quicken 
(future tense) your mortal body by his Spirit 
which dwelleth in you." No langnage could accomplish the end in view. 
\ 
dwell in us; and of a future quickening of; specified conditions, pardoning and restoring 
this mortal body by that indwelling Spirit to the right of property and citizenship those 
just as it quickened- Christ's body. We do who would submit, at the same time inti-
not see how the Independent,- in the face oi mating that the time would come when this 
death of the body even though Christ does 1.arrinesty to all who would accept it on the 
Paul's declaration that the body is:dead, al- 'amnesty would be revoked. The power of 
I 
be more clearly expressive of the present The President issued his proclamation of 
though the Spirit of Christ is in us, can declare jrttwhuieoibdelliegi Imarsbemeelibde.tls biesginilos.w Ibtrokisena,sanydetth jeuwdgom
rkenotf 
mingled with mercy. But who can doubt 
but what 
 Iltiittt
ill:Ivnevls se o
it.'osifm
ratlhlel:yee 
resistance 
su
ips 
when outlawry 
pending the writ of Habeas Corpus still cou- 
rt:on:a:I:ace: 
i nist to 
States. 
The 
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against
oii s t i taul -1 
The eXtrabrdinary power, the right of sits-
pending 
that it is now quickened. 
We quote again from the Independent: 
"Does the Herald forget that in every in-
stance where he thus speaks of the Son of 
Man's coming, he also affirms that they 
should not have gone over the cities of Israel 
or that generation should not pass away until 
all those events transpire ?" We answer, the 
Herald has net forgotten, because it never times, and will till resistance to the normal con-
knew it. Where will the Independent find dition of the govermnent in all the states is put 
down, and peace reigns throughout the land. 
Then the President will report to Congress the 
conclusion of hostilities', and resign to them 
the extraordinary power with which he was 
invested for this work, that the constitution, 
in the hands of the civil authority, may be 
supreme again. But will the President be 
less a president, or cease to rule? Clearly 
not. Nor will Christ be less a king, when 
at length he shall proclaim the object of his 
investiture with extraordinary power accom-
plished, and God's authority and +eaceful 
rule again established. 
isJ UNITARIAN CONVENTION. 
ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 
From Boston came the following :— 
"I desire, through this meeting, to present 
a thank-offering to God, because He has 
heard in a wonderful manner and answered 
prayer. I send my thank-offering to this. 
meeting, because it was here that the bless-
ing of God was requested for a friend for 
whom God has in a remarkable manner an-
swered prayer. Here should God's name be 
glorified and his faithfulness made known." 
Another case was mentioned. It was the 
case of a young lieutenant at Fortress Mon-
roe. The officer was the nephew of a man 
in this city, who loved him very much, who 
was a Hebrew, and who, when informed that 
his nephew at the fortress bad had an arm 
amputated and was sinking very fast, sent a 
friend to this meeting to ask fbr prayer in 
his behalf. The surgeons had given him 
up, saying they never knew any oae with 
his symptoms to survive. They telegraphed 
the uncle that, if he ever expected to see his 
nephew alive, he must come immediately. 
He left, not expecting to find the young 
officer alive; but when he arrived, he found 
him fast recovering, and, on inquiry, he 
found that he began to improve from the 
very hour that he was made the subject ot 
prayer. The speaker said that he had men-
tioned the case because he had been cogniz-
ant of all the circumstances, and he thought 
it ought to be known how God heard and 
answered prayer. 
FROM THE SEA. 
A colored man from the sea, who had 
been observed often in the meeting of late/ 
said he lady went on a voyage to San 
Francisco in a ship 'where none were reli-
gious but himself. He told of his efforts to 
establish a prayer-meeting in the forecastle 
of the ship, which was attended with - great 
encouragement. The captain afterwards 
gave him the cabin to bold his, meetings. 
He asked prayer for the ships where there 
was no prayer. 
From all quarters comes cheering news -of 
revivals of religion, and the meeting 
-glows 
with the fervor of prayer for great spiritual 
blessings to be poured out on all the -land. 
THE MOTHER'S LETTER. 
A chaplain said he had just come from 
the army, where the Lord is doing a great 
work. While there, a. young man came to 
him, who was from this city, with an open 
letter in his hand, which he wished to read 
to me. He read a few lines, and then burst 
into tears. Then he read again a, few lines, 
and both chaplain and soldier were weeping 
together. When they had finished the let-
ter, the soldier inquired What was to be done 
about it. The letter was the earnest en-
treaty of a mother to her Son, that he would 
come immediately to Christ. "What is to 
be done about it ?" said the chaplain. "I 
will tell you what is to be done, about it 
We must kneel right down here, and you 
must give yourself up to Jesus on the spot. 
Will you do it ?" "Yes," answered the sol-
dier. 
"We kneeled down, and both engaged in 
prayer. I gave myself tip to Jesus anew, 
and the soldier followed in one of the most 
hearty prayers of consecration to Jesus I 
ever heard. 
"I soon had a letter from the mother here 
in New York, begging me to pay special at-
tention to her son, and beg him to submit 
himself to Jesus; and I bad the Satisfaction 
of writing to that mother that her son was 
beyond all question a new creature in Christ 
Jesus. Oh, mothers! mothers! you know . 
not your power for good over the hearts of 
your children when you will take hold ,On 
the covenant faithfulness of God, in strong 
assurance that 'He is faithful who promised.' 
That young man has continued to prove 
himself a good soldier of 'Jesus Christ." 
The chaplain said he had just come from 
preaching services in. the army, where, at 
the close of a sermon, many would come 
forward for prayer. • He had found, in the 
hospitals around Washington, . great tender-
ness among the soldiers. You can hardly 
talk to any and not find them very glad to. 
sneak on the subject of religion. 
A NEWLY-AWAKENED INTEREST.' 
A speaker said that he had :come from a 
church in Brooklyn, in which, of late, there 
had beeii. over one. hundred hopeful conver-
sions. Some were s children in the. Sabbaths 
school, some were very promising young 
men, some .were from the ranks of later life, 
and the .work goes on with great power. He 
requested prayer for its continuance. 
Another said that in the South Congrega- 
,tional church in .Brooklyn is a precious re-
vival of religion, and fifty were received on 
the last Sabbath on confession of faith in 
Christ. Pray for a continuance of the re-
vival influence. 
Another came from Ohio, asking 'prayer 
for a church where a revival already pre-
vails, that it may spread wide and far. 
A letter comes from Stillwater, Minnesota, 
and says: "One week ago I. wrote to you 
asking prayer for a revival in my field of 
labor. I write now to say that the blessed 
work has commenced. I have been holding 
meetings this week, and eighteen or twenty 
have manifested- concern for their souls.' A 
number of these are hoping that their sins 
are forgiven. Do pray for us, that we may 
have a glorious outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit." 
REPLY TO THE ADVENT HERALD. 
wall-paper so ephemeral as geological maps. 
When you have pasted up your two-shilling 
green roses or your two-dollar buff sky with 
gold leaf stars, you may enjoy the contem-
plation of these bright imaginations with 
some composure for a year, or even perhaps 
two or three, ere the supremeopowers pro-
nounce them "dirty as the dunghill, and not 
fit to be seen." But your geological. frescoes 
must be visited with sponge or brush every 
month, as each successive number of Silli-
man's Journal demands some new alteration 
of the stripes. Possibly, too, the alteration 
may be one which will come home to your 
own farm or fireside, like the following 
perpetration, with coal at twelve dollars a 
ton :—"At the last meeting of the American 
Association, Professor- Hall was convinced 
that about three-fourths of the Missouri and 
_Illinois coal-fields marked out by Owen would 
have to be wiped fthe map, and its place 
supplied with Silurian strata—with its penta-
menas, oblongus, and other characteristic 
fossils. 
He had seen Lower Silurian and 
Upper Silurian fossils over large areas of 
Owen's coal-fields." 
If professional geologists of high official 
standing will make these fancy sketches, and 
palm them off upon the American Associa-
tion, and the French Acadamy of Sciences, 
as representatives of facts, in a country so 
well known as the United States, and then 
coolly sponge them out as the fancy changes, 
what kind of treatment can we expect for 
the unfortunate strata of Africa or India, 
where no Monroe doctrine, nor American 
Association, terrifies geological filibusters? 
They have mistreated poor Africa geological-
ly, even worse than politically. 
"The hypsometrical observations of Dr. 
Vogel and Dr. Overney, as well as the acute 
observations, of Dr. Barth, relating to alti-
tudes, are well worthy of consideration, as 
they completely upset our previous notions of 
African geography. It is Well known that 
all our best authorities represent the Great 
Desert of Sahara, and nearly the whole of 
Nerthert Africa, as one vast plain, if not a 
dead level, at least one of very little elevation; 
whereas immediately to the south of Lake 
Tsad, the existence of mountain ranges, Al-
pine groups, highlands, and mighty table 
lands of many thousand feet elevation, was 
asserted and taught as well-established facts. 
Now from the observations made by the 
members of the expedition to Central Africa, 
this is found to be quite the reverse, and both 
features may be truly said to have changed 
places—an extensive table land, from one 
thousand to two. thousand feet high, occupy-
ing the Sahara; whereas, on the other hand, 
the'extensive basin of Lake Tsad and the 
river Shary forms a great interior depression, 
which attains its minimum elevation in 
the lake with eight hundred and fifty feet. 
On every side the basin of Lake Tsad is 
fringed with more. or less elevated tracts, 
which separate it from other hydrographical 
systems, as for instance those of the Nile 
and the Kewara. These new facts of the 
relative elevation of Inner Africa also ex-
plain to us many features connected with 
the physical conformation, the climate, bot-
any, and zoology of the regions they refer 
to." These explanations are the more nee-
cessary, as this very supposed table land 
figures considerably as the boundery, if not 
the home, of one of Agassiz's fauna, one of 
the centres of creation of animals and races 
of men; of which he figures eight in "Types 
of Mankind," and has discovered, we believe, 
a few more since the publication of that work. 
"But even here," says he, "we may distin-
guish the fauna of Senegal from that of 
Guinea, and that of the African table-land. 
In the first, we notice particularly the chim-
panzee; in the second the gorilla. There 
is no anthropoid monkey in the third." The 
supposed elevation excludes the monkeys, we 
suppose. Is it not too bad for travellers to 
spoil a beautiful theory, by converting fine 
healthful highlands into a vast swamp, and 
lose us a race of good, serviceble negroes to 
boot? It is true, we gain an open passage 
for beasts and men from one end of that 
continent to the other, .and thus lose the 
necessity for a special creation in each of the 
three imaginary provinces. 
The misrepresentation of the impassable 
Sahara is equally remarkable :—"Neither 
is this portion of the • Sahara by any means, a 
sea of sand; in fact,. only a small portion of 
it answers to this description." The whole 
southern region of the Libyan desert appears, 
from such reports, to be covered with high 
mountains and mountain ranges; in fact, 
near its southern border, two remarkable 
mountain clusters have been discovered—
the Borghu and the Uadschunga—which are 
so elevated that the natives dress in furs." 
In regard to the westernmost, and larger por-
tion of the Sahara, we have similar reports 
from the natives, of mountain chains and 
lofty highlands—the abode of the Tuareg 
tribes, who amid these high mountain for-
tresses, are compelled to go clad in woolen and 
furs." In regard to plants and animals, we. 
 
find that the neccessary condition of their ex-
istence—namely, rain—is by no means so 
rare a phenomenon as our earlier accounts 
had led us to conclude; for though the Sa-
hara may, perhaps, justly continue to be re-
garded as in the main a rainless belt, yet we 
find many exceptions in sudden and very co-
pious showers ; and it is altogether likely that 
there are many tracts, like tire oasis of Air, 
which have their regular rainy seasons; for 
we find, even in the northern Hamadah, scat-
tered thickets and a few small birds." &c. 
The fur and wool of the Tuaregs," it is 
probable, also grew on animals in the Sahara, 
as elsewhere. So much for this "impassable 
barrier." Space forbids us to do more than 
ask the attention of geologists to the bear-
ings of these discoveries on the theory of the 
recent elevation of Africa above the sea lev-
el. 
doctrines 
Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, a minister of the 
Theodore Parker school of Unitarians, in a 
sermon nreaehed on Palm Sunday, dwells 
largely on the result of' this great Convention. 
He regards the meeting as a great failure so 
far as any immediate results are concerned. 
What is called the liberal portion of the body 
are -evidently pon-plussed, and an impassable 
gulf is placed between them and the conserv-
atives, such as Dr. Bellows, and Rev. Mr. 
Putnam, and others who wish to maintain a 
Christian mune and faith.. 
We have hope that the result of the Con-
vention will be to compell the conservatives-Li 
to take more evangelical ground,- and lift up n' 
a standard against this spirit of rationalism.' 
A committee was appointed to draft a con-
stitution, The .preamble addressed the n-rem-
hers of the Convention as "disciples of the 
Lord Jesus Christ." This was like a fire-
brand in a room full of combustibles. An 
assembly of professed Christians could not be 
allowed to bear the name of disciples of 
Christ. One was willing to call Jesus Mr. 
Jesus Christ; and another wanted no one to 
come between him and God. 
Dr. Bellows took strong ground against 
the "spirit of' the age," denounced the modern-
doctrines of progress, contended for a religion 
instituted and organized, and declared that 
he would rather have Orthodoxy under any 
of its forms of statement, than the 
professed by the so-called liberals. 
To be continued. 
-4 
THE STING OF DEATH. 
We invite attention to the discourse of our 
highly esteemed brother, Deacon J. L. Clapp. 
It presents the purity, extent and claims of 
the divine law in a light which should inter-
est and impress us all. Too little is thought 
and said of God's law, and we need to have 
its spirituality and claims often brought be 
any such affirmation as he ailedges in this 
passage? Matt. 26: 14. "Hereafter ye shall 
see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand 
of power, and coming in the c!ouds of heaven." 
FIas the Independent forgotten that the Bible 
points out two distinct royal advents of the 
Messiah? The first one, Zech. 9: 9, 'coming 
to ZION amidst the rejoicing of her children, 
on an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass ; and 
the other, Dan. 7: 13, 14, when he is de-
scribed as coming in the clouds of heaven ? 
To the first of' these events be referred when 
he said, Matt. 10: 23, "Ye shall not have 
gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of 
man be conic." The event was accomplished 
in a few years. The other has not taken 
place. No human being has ever testified to 
hating seen it. He told his disciples that 
before it should take place Jerusalem would 
be compassed with armies, her people would 
fall by the sword and be carried away cap-
tive into all nations, "and Jerusalem be 
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times 
of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Will the In-
dependent presume to say that the times of 
the Gentiles are fulfilled, or that Jerusalem 
is not still trodden down by the Gentiles? 
Luke 21st chapter. 
After the times of the Gentiles are full, 
not before, "there shall be signs in the, sun, 
and in the moon, and in the stars ; the sea 
and waves roaring. Men's hearts failing 
them, for fear, and for looking after those 
things that are corning on the earth. For 
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; 
and they shall see the Son of man,coming in 
a cloud. And when these things begin to 
come to pass, then look up, and lift up your 
heads, for your redemption draweth nigh. 
Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees, when 
they now shoot forth and put forth leaves, 
ye see and know of your own selves that 
summer is now nigh at hand. SO likewise 
ye, when ye see these things come to pass, 
know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh 
at band." 
Does not "these things," embrace the close 
of the times of the Gentiles? Are they yet 
ended? Clearly not; for Rome exists, and 
Jerusalem is in Gentile hands. Then the 
subsequent events have not come to pass. 
But from the beginning to the end of this 
series of closing signs there will not be one 
generation. "This generation, (of, not to, 
whom I- speak,) shall not pass away until all 
be fulfilled." 
Until the Independent can produce the 
evidence that Jerusalem is not "Trodden 
The recent departure of. this venerated 
Christian, Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder, 
at the ripe age of almost eighty-five years, 
suggests illustrations of divine Providence 
and grace of no common interest. The 
period of his youth was the darkest in our 
country's religious history, near the close of 
the last century; and he was surrounded by 
a dead formality which at length sank into 
open denial of "the Lord that bought us ;" 
his early manhood was also passed amidst 
the gay fascinations of the city of Paris ;• and 
yet at the age of forty-five, on the formation' 
of the national. Tract Society at New York 
in 1825, all eyes were directed to him as a 
highly evangelical layman,- of world-wide 
sympathies and relations, eminently fitted to 
preside over its counsels. 
He was born near his late residence in 
Bolton, Mass., May 20, 1780. His prayer- 
lid maternal grandmother Vryling was a Hu- 
guenot of Holland, rich in the orthodox faith; 
and while a merchant's clerk he was one of 
a class of young men who on Saturday 
evening came under the careful evangelical 
instructions of the late Rev. Dr. Morse of 
Charlestown. 
Entering into business in Boston, he was 
sent out, at' the age of twenty-three, to pur- 
chase goods in Paris, where for twenty years 
he became the successful agent and partner 
of large mercantile houses in Boston and 
New York;, visiting this country from time 
to time as business required, and thus making 
sixteen voyages across the Atlantic. Though 
few men have lived who had more faschrat- 
ing personal attractions, 'a greater flow and 
geniality of spirit, or keener susceptibility to 
the more refined pleasures and enjoyments of 
life, yet he was guided, as by an unseen 
hand, in a course of temperance and sobriety 
in the midst of profusion; and among his 
dearest friends and associates were many of 
the most distinguished Christians of the age. 
In 1813, having business in Londen, he 
passed one evening a small open church, and 
entering' it, found himself- in a missionary 
meeting with Rev. Rowland Hill, Bogue, 
Burder, and their compeers who had started 
the benevolent movements of this century, a 
scene which deeply affected his heart. As 
he occupied a retired seat, the collection- 
plate did not reach him, but he found means 
to drop into it a ten-pound note, which led 
these friends to seek his acquaintance and 
introduce.hitn to Christians . of' London, and 
among them the officers of the -British Bible 
and Tract Societies. Being asked if tracts 
could be circulated in Paris, he at once di- 
rected ten pounds' worth to be sent to his 
address in that city. The enormous box 'ar- 
rived at the custom-house, and being seized 
as contraband, he was summoned by the po-
lice .to account for the 'crime, when he averred 
that there was nothing in them political or 
revolutionary, and presented a copy to each 
one present for his perusal. . He thus found 
himself somewhat suddenly enlisted in the 
tract, Bible, .and missionary work, and be-
came a correspondent and personal friend of 
British Christians. 
Returning to the United. States in 181-4, 
and forming a happy connection in marriage,• 
he purchased his commodious mansion and 
grounds of six hundred acres in Bolton as a 
permanent abode. But • Providence had 
other designs for him. He was again called 
to Paris on, business; and from 18.17 resided 
there with his family for six years,perhaps 
the most eventful period of his life. The 
choicest evangelical influences here flowed in 
upon him. His hospitable house and-sump- 
tuous board became the home .of eminent 
Christians of Great Britain and other lands, 
bringing him spiritual blessings a thousand- 
' I fold in return. He was the medium of in- 
tercourse between British and American 
Christians and those' of the continent, espe-
cially Switzerland, where he himself -made a 
delightful visit to Drs. Malan Merle • D'Au-
bign6,,and their associates. 
Thus, by the providence and grace of God, 
was Mr. Wilder fitted for -the presidential 
chair he was to .occupy. Hating returned 
in 1823 to his mansion in Belton, a retired 
and wealthy merchant, he was asked to ac-
cept the presidency of the American Tract 
Society.; but declined, as nnworthy of the, 
station, enclosing' $500 toward erecting the 
Society's house. He at last accepted the ap-
pointment, presided at the Society's organiz-
ation, and laid the corner-stone of its com-
modious edifice. 
His address, on taking the chair, comprised 
only • four brief paragraphs, but they were 
highly appropriate, and rich in their evan-
gelical bearing. The first congratulates those 
assembled on the object before them, "the 
establishment of a national Tract Society, for 
"the - eternal interests of thousands and tens of 
thousands of our immortal fellow-beings." 
The second referred to the encouragements 
derived from the blessings he had witnessed 
on such exertions in the old world. The 
third expressed his joy in "the Concentrated 
efforts of Christians of various denominations 
of the sweetest 'consolations of his life 
—the privilege of forgetting that Christians 
can be called by different names, and of hail- 
Christians are thus distinctly called on to 
pray for each other. Paul urges his breth-
ren to pray for him and his fellow laborers. 
But are we to pray for the unconverted? 
So the apostle taught, 1 Tim. 2 I. "I ex-
hort, therefore, that first of all, supplications, 
prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be 
made for all men." We cannot go amiss, then, 
in earnest prayer for all our fellow-creatures. 
And the great object of prayer is shown by 
the context to be their salvation and orderly 
life. "For this is good and acceptable in the 
sight of God our Saviour, who will have all 
men to be saved, and Come to the knowledge 
of the truth." 
The experience of the Church has proved 
the efficacy of this work: God has heard and 
answered those prayers in unnumbered in-
stances. We were led to these reflectiens 
by reading some of the reports of the daily 
prayer-meeting in New York, as published 
in the N. E Observe?. 
If such are the bles-
sed fruits of united, faithful prayer, what an 
encouragement to Christians to present their 
friends as the subjects'of prayer, when God's 
People are met together. We wish there 
was far more attention paid to this in all our 
prayer-meetings. We should far oftener 
fiear the cheerful sound, "Hear what the 
Lord has done for me." Scarcely has one of 
the Fulton Street daily prayer-meetings 
passed without more or less reports of An-
swers to prayer. "Prove him herewith." ED. 
One of the meetings was just closing, 
when a young man arose, and begged a few 
minutes in which to speak. He said: 
"Seven years ago to-day, at this . very 
hour, and almost at this very minute, 
in this very room, I gave my heart to Jesus. 
I took Him for my Saviour, my all in all. 
Seven years ago! What a happy seven 
years! How much I owe to this place Of 
prayer! How my heart swells with grati-
tude for what it has proved to me! I could 
-not let the opportunity pass of bearing my 
testimony for Jesus. I know the time is al-
most gone; but I could do no less than I 
have done." 
He then added a word of exhortation to 
those who might be in the meeting without 
God and without hope, expressing earnest 
desire that they might, at that very hour, as 
he had done seven years ago, submit them-
selves to Jesus, and enter upon the Christain 
life. Then he closed With a feW brief words 
of prayer. 
There is no such thing as doing justice by 
any report to the bumble and tender man-
ner in which he spoke. 
ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 
A gentleman said: "A few weeks ago, I 
asked you to pray for the conversion of a 
friend. He is not converted, but be is deep-
ly impressed. But another is converted. 
It was my brother-in-law, with whom I re-
sided. We had prayed much over him, but 
we had not said a word to him on the sub-
ject of religion. We had an agreement 
that we would unite our hearts together in 
special prayer for his salvation. There is 
no revival in the place—no unusual atten-
tion to the great interests of the soul. It surely 
was the Spirit. One night my sister came 
to my room in the dead hours of the night, 
and asked me if I would arise and pray with 
her husband, for he was in great distress of 
mind. I arose, and, on going into his room, 
found him in great agony. I endeavored to 
point him to Christ, and then kneeled down. 
He said, 'Oh—pray—pray—pray ,for me, 
for I am a great sinner.' We prayed for 
him far into the night. After I left his 
room, I heard him arise and cast himself 
upon the floor, and cry for mercy with great 
earnestness. The poor man found mercy. 
I am here to ask you to join with me in 
thanksgiving to God that He hears and an-
swers prayer." 
A VOICE FROM BRAZIL. 
A sailor arose, and said he was a con- 
verted Roman Catholic from Brazil. He 
said that when he was coeverted he joined 
a Methodist church, and added, "I have 
Jesus in my heart, and Jesus is the power to 
keep me from falling. I have no life but in 
Jesus; and if I live in Him, I cannot die. 
I am nothing in myself; but Jesus is my all 
in all; and if I make Him all, the life which 
I live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. 
I am to be kept by the power of God 
through faith to salvation.. I did. not start 
in the race to come short, but I started to 
win the prize. I do not run to be lost, but to 
be saved in Jesus Christ. How can you say 
that one who puts his trust in Christ can be 
lost? What is the meaning 'of his last 
prayer? What, when He says to his Father, 
'All mine are thine, and thine are mine'? 
What, when He says, 'I will that they also 
whom Thou :bast given Me be with Me 
where I.am' ? And where will He be? I 
know in wham I have believed, and that He 
will keep that which I have .committed to 
Him against that day. I leave the Roman 
Catholic Church, which assures all those 
who are members of it of final salvation, to 
'put my trust in Jesus; and do you suppose 
I am any the less assured now? No, my 
brethren, I am already saved. I am in 
Christ's hand, and no power shall pluck me 
out of it." 
en of heavens cannot contain Him. All the-
ophanies are but manisfestations of God to 
man, adapting Deity to man's capacity. to 
perceive. 
Did the _Herald ever ask itself why Jesus 
was not visible to any but His disciples after 
His resurrection, and to these only on speci- 
fied occasions? and all these occasions class-
ed by the apostle Paul in 1 Cor. xv, with the 
appearance to him on the way to Damascus, 
showing' that each and every one of these was 
alike miraculous, and unquestionably similar 
to the appearance of the "Captain of the 
Lord's hosts" that appeared to Joshua when 
about entering Canaan, which Captain was 
none other than Christ hifiiself before His 
incarnation,, as all commentators, wrap believe 
admit. 
We admit that Christ's true resurrection 
body was never changed after His resurrec-
tion, but Christ our Saviour was not in the 
grave but in "Paradise," from the time of 
His spiritual (real) resurrection, and on. The 
bodily resurrection on the third day but de- 
clared His power, and proved to man His di-
vinity, as all other miracles had beep design-
ed to do. It was according to the Scrip-
tures, for Isaiah (liii) and three evangelists 
had foretold such a resurrection. 
But the world would not have been with-
out a Saviour had • not Christ's body risen. 
Paul in 1 Cor. xv. conditions upon the doc- 
trine of the resurrection the existence of a 
Saviour or no Saviour. "If Christ be not rais- 
ed," says Paul, "our preaching is vain, your 
faith is vain, and ye are yet iu your sins." 
Now this sequence is predicable upon the im- 
plication that if there had been no resurrec-
tion, no living Christ, all faith and hope in 
Christ were utterly vain and illusive.- • 
The whole of the difficulty the Herald la-
bors under is the utterly mistaken view of 
what, the New Testament, in almost every in-
stance 'where the future state comes into 
view,' terms the resurrection. 
Dr; Dwight has abundantly shown that in 
1 Cor. xv, and by Christ replying to the Sad- 
duces in Matt. xxii, and Luke xx, and Mark 
xii, it means the future state, and that only. 
So Dr. Geo. Campbell and most other com- 
mentators, some of whom, however, have 
muddled the subject by their own views of 
a carnal and material resurrection as joined 
with it, not a word . of authority for which 
can be found in these New Testament teach-
ings. - 
The Herald still persists in asserting that 
a Spit itual body may be a material body, not- 
withstanding. Now if the Herald would but 
study Paul's Greek in Cor. xv, he would learn 
that Paul uses the' termsnatural (psukikon) 
body and spiritual (pnematikon) body in the 
strictly opposite sense of material and spiritu-
al, i. e. : he uses the terms here in a philosophi- 
cal orMetaphysiCal sense, fOr he is discussing 
the nature or mode of existence in the two 
states, the. present and future. This his 
suject demanded. The Herald's evasive 
plea, therefore, that it was called a spiritual 
body because quickened by a Spirit, would 
prove that we are now in a spiritual body as 
well, for all men here are quickened by a 
spirit, and all in whom Christ dwell are, 
here on earth, quickened by His Spirit dwell- 
ing in _them. , 
We have thus, in substance, disposed of 
the first and latter portion of the Herald's 
rejoinder, particularly of the first paragraph, 
and the paragraph numbered' three. Hence, 
the reader will see that in conceding the res- 
urrection of Christ's body, we concede noth-
ing to .the _Herald's purpose whatever, fbr 
that fact is in harmony with our theory as 
well as its own. 
The Herald admits that the 'future exist-
ence•of the soul in a separate state, Was not 
dependent on Christ's resurrection, but the 
future existence of man as • such, he says, 
"composed of body, soul and- spirit, as God 
made him, did depend on the resurrection of 
Christ's body." This assumes the whole 
question, viz: that God made man to exist in 
the future state as 'body, soul and spirit. 
The Herald admits that the future exist-
ence of the soul in a separate state, was not 
dependent on. Christ's resurrection, but the 
future existence 'of man as such, he Says 
.'composed of body, soul and spirit, as God 
made him, did depend on the resurrection of 
Christ's body." This assumes the whole 
question, viz: that God made man to exist in 
the future state as body, soul and spirit. 
Peter speaks of putting off this tabernacle, 
arid Paul speaks very definitely of being ab- 
sent from the body and present with the Lord. 
The body is not essential to the man, but 
the spirit itself constitutes the. man, and the 
spiritual (pneunta) body constitutes the res-
urrected man. SO Paul says. 
The Herald says, "Christ never intimated 
any other resurrection than that which should 
take place on the third day." Ans.—Jesus 
Christ informed the Sadducees that in the 
resurrection we are to be as the angels, and 
that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had gained 
the resurrection state. True, He foretold 
His own bodily resurrection on the third dap 
He also foretold the resurrection of Lazarus, 
but this does not prove that the future life is 
not the resurrection state, nor that either the 
body of Lazarus or of Christ are in the spir-
it land. 
The Herald says, "The Spirit of Christ 
never' died, hence, is net the subject of a res- 
urrection." The Herald here stumbles from 
not carefully noting the use of the term res-
urrection, Which simply, in the New Testa- 
ment, as we have seen, declares a re-standing 
in the future state of the persons (not bodies) 
of those who have departed from life or the 
mode of existence here. 
The Herald declares that Christ as the 
Son of Man, at the appointed time will come, 
&c., as he ascended. Does the Herald for- 
-get that in every instance where He thus 
speaks of the Son of Man's coming, he also 
affirms that they should not have gone over 
the cities of Israel; or that generation should 
not pass away until all those events transpire. 
If that were true, how did Christ "go," and 
how did He "come." 
He says, "Christ has not ceased to be 
either the Son of Man or the Son of God." Nay, 
but He has ceased to exist as man on earth, 
and now lives as the spirit man, and as God, 
in the spirit-world. 
Finally, the Herald is very unfortunate in 
We ,were not mistaken in deeming the 
whole fallacy of the argument for a material 
resurrection as resting on the resurrection of 
Christ's body. But the defenders of that 
theory might as well adduce the resurrection 
of the widow's son, raised by Elijah, or the 
one raised by Christ himself, or the resurrec-
tion of Lazarus, for each and all of these were 
but proofs of divine power—an evidence of 
God's presence and work among men; and 
Christ'saresurrection was nothing more. In 
truth, Christ's whole bodily existence among 
men was but the "hiding of His power," for 
that body was but a prepared body, "a body 
bast thou prepared me," says the psalmist; 
and like all God's works, this and all the rest 
are but the revealers of His power, and no 
physical tabernacle is to be -an eternal tene-
ment for Deity to dwell in. Why, the heav- 
INFLUENCE OF EXAMPLE.—A God fear-
ing youth occupies the same room with sev-
eral giddy scoffers—his fellow-clerks or fel-
low-students. Night and morning he bends 
the knee of prayer before them. They scoff 
at first; but be prays on. The daily re-
mimder of that fearless act of devotion awak-
ens presently in the minds of his companions 
79 
nowevresteir,e4m 
THE ADVENT 
IIERALD. 
fore us, in order to appreciate the work of 
Christ in redeeming us from its curse. Es-
pecially we call the attention of our readers 
to that part of the discourse relating to the 
victory of Christ. How glorious and sublime 
his work in its final triumph ! 
THE POPE'S 
POPE'S REMOVAL FROM ROME. 
and his heart moved him to meet even an 
expectation that he had not himself awak-
ened. 
Charles Sumner had assured the Bishop 
that the scene, when Mrs. Lincoln first 
learned of the death of her husband, was 
affecting in the extreme. She had been 
brought into the room several times during 
the eight, but had been removed again pros-
trated by her agony. When it was an-
nounced that he had breathed his last, she 
threw herself frantically upon his body, 
placed her face upon his lifeless cheek, and 
literally poured out her tears upon him. All 
at once she started up, raising her hands, 
and crying out with the most overwhelming 
pathos—"Live ! live ! live ! do live, for your 
country ! live for me !" and then sank down 
again, entirely overcome. Mr. Lincoln, the 
Bishop continued, was loved as few have 
been, because he allied himself with the in-
terests of humanity. Among the represen-
tatives of the principal courts of Europe, 
and the first men of the nation, in the high-
est social position in the land, with an ex-
traordinary patronage, arising out of the 
war, he was the same simple, unaffected, 
honest, unselfish, patriotic man that be had 
ever been.—Zion's Herald. 
without it, as I have not seen an Advent 
brother or sister since I left my native land, 
England, sixteen years last February, until 
our much esteemed brother Chapman came 
to see me. And 0, how thankful I am to 
my heavenly Father for directing him here, 
for he has strengthened the things that re-
mained and was ready to die. May God 
bless the labors of our dear brother with 
abundant success. He encouraged me in my 
loneliness, and I trust by the help of God I 
shall go on my way rejoicing, in the hope of 
the glory of our soon coming Saviour. Then 
I shall meet the loved ones, and then there 
will be no cruel separations. 0 happy day ! 
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen. I can 
truly say with the poet, 
"I love the sons of grace, 
The heirs of bliss divine." 
"0 when shall we meet in the air, 
And fly to the mountain of God ?" 
My love to all the waiting ones. Go on, 
dear friends, in the strength of the Lord. 
We know by the signs of the times our re-
demption is not far in the distance. Then 
our trials will be ended ; then the wicked 
will cease from troubling us, and our weary 
souls will be at rest. This from your sister 
in the blessed hope of the gospel. 
ELIZABETH COPE. 
way to open for us to be preserved as long 
as he has a work for each one to do. I never 
was in such a depressed state in all my life ; 
as all my means of support are gone. 'Tru-
ly "How vain are - all things here below." 
"Riches take wings and fly away ;" and then 
truly we see our helpless case. Have pity 
on us, oh Lord, for Jesus sake. We have 
done wickedly, arid all this is come on us 
for our wickedness. Look with a pitying 
eye onus, oh my God. I looked for all this 
to come for some time, as we are living "In 
a grand and awful time." I have felt the 
need of brotherly communication, and it has 
been as if I was left alone, having no friend-
ly hand to grasp with joy, to cheer up this 
poor down pressed heart, (but not in despair.) 
The Lord will look after his people, so when 
God calls may I be able to say "Here am I." 
Then it will make no difference whether we 
have suffered much or little in this life, as 
all things will not be remembered, nor come 
in mind of it in God's holy land. My char-
acter was so thoroughly satisfactory of my 
never having done one single thing in favor 
of the rebellion that Col. Yates of the Mich-
igan Engineer and Mechanics, and other gen-
tlemen officers gave me a paper, and I was 
not even required to take an oath, to leave 
the South, which spoke loud for me of my 
loyalty to the government. We are re-
quired to pray for those that rule over us 
that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life, 
but no where do I see the direction to pray 
for a rebellious authority, but they are dis-
turbers of the peace. I have made known 
to you my situation, but I am known at 
your office only as a distant brother, through 
the Herald and my oft communications with 
you before the war commenced. 
Your brother in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
W. S. MOORE. 
N. B. Pray for me that I may be firm 
in the hope set for us in our Lord and Saviour 
at his appearing and Kingdom. w. S. M. 
St. Louis, Mo. April, 28, 1865. 
to boil two figs in a pint of new milk, split 
one of them,, and apply as hot as could be 
borne, changing morning and evening, wash-
ing the eye with the hot milk, and drinking 
during the day, at least three-quarters of 
what was boiled. The excruciating pain 
subsided in about thirty hours, I thin14 ; in a 
few days it discharged above the eye, which 
was much irritated, but soon recovered, and 
healed without apparent serious injury, in 
about six weeks. I gave Corium Macula-
turn, and Arsenicum, 1st trituration, alter-
nately, morning and evening. (Homeopathic.) 
Another case of cancer on the left upper jaw, 
which had been cut and burned repeatedly, 
and the Dr. was about cutting out a portion of 
jawbone, when she applied to me. The first 
application relieved the severe pain, and the 
cure was accomplished in about two months. 
'This was the daughter of Bro. Zenas Whit-
ney. My earnest desire to benefit the afflict-
ed induces me to make this known, in hope 
of at least relieving such terrible suffering 
as cancer produces. Some brethren recom-
mend certain remedies which they possess, 
and use for their own particular benefit ; 
why do they not do as they would be glad to 
be done unto, and give their knowledge for 
the benefit of others, is more than I know. 
If I can benefit others, I rejoice to do so. I 
would be glad if your exchanges and others 
would copy this. My time is probably short, 
and I am a charge to my friends, but I re-
joice in the Lord with all my heart. I feel 
no complaining, but humble thankfulness 
that I am in God's care. Yes, I cast all my 
care on him, for he careth for me. The 
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 
Your brother in the Lord. • 
(253 Bridge St.) J. CROFFUT, M. D. 
Brooklyn, May 4, 1865. 
--••••,•-••••• • 
TO THE FRIENDS OP THE FREED-
MEN'S MISSION. 
"Yes, I must gite you my mite," said the 
rich man. 
"You mean the widow's mite, I suppose," 
replied the other." 
"To be sure I do." 
The gentleman continued, "I will be satis-
fied with half as much as she gave. How 
much are you worth ?" 
"Seventy thousand dollars," he answered. 
"Give me then a check for thirty-five thou-
sand ; 'that will be just half as much as the 
widow gave ; for she gave all she had." 
It was a new idea to the wealthy merchant. 
The World's fair for 1867 will be held at 
Paris, and the building for it will cost from 
$6,000,000 to $8,000,000. The building 
will be made to hold 200,000 people, and 
everything will be on the grandest scale pos-
sible. 
READING AND THINKING.—It iS good to 
read, mark, learn—but it is better to inward-
ly digest. It is good to read, better to think 
—better to think one hour than read ten 
hours without thinking. Thinking is to 
reading (if the book read have anything in 
it) what rain and sunshine are to the seed 
cast into the ground, the influence which 
maketh it bear and bring forth, thirty, forty, 
an hundred fold. To read is to gather into 
the barn or store-house of the mind ; to 
think is to cast seed-corn into the ground to 
make it productive. To read is to collect 
imformation ; to think is to evolve it. • 
LETTERS RECEIVED. 
0. Phelps Brown ; 0. Rockwell ; Alvira 
Morey ; John Barnes ; Charles N. Ford ; 
John Stephenson ; H. Canfield ; W. P. Strat-
ton ; Rev. D. Patton ; Dr. J. Croffut ; John 
Taylor ; C. F. Kendall ; N. T. Worthing-
ton ; M. B. Patterson ; R. A. H. Edmund 
Rowell ; W. B. Orvis ; Wm. Knoffsinger ; C. 
F. Stevens, money received ; Lloyd N. Wat-
kins; Thomas Freeman, received ; Horace 
Guild, received ; A. A. Hoyt ; Thomas Hol-
len; Wm. Baker ; you are paid to June 27th 
1865. Wm. Carpenter ; papers were sent ; 0. 
Rockwell ; M. L. Jackson ; Mary J. Otis, 
Tracts sent by mail. E. Wheeler ; Geo. R. 
Garvin. 
There is a wide spread interest excited 
throughout the Christian world on the sub-
ject of the Pope's removal from Rome. As 
the time approaches for the French army to 
withdraw from that city it is not a matter of 
surprise that the nations should seriously in-
quire, what is to become of the Pope ? That 
lie is unable to bear up, against even his own 
subjects single handed, is evident. Napoleon 
is to forsake him ; Victor Emanuel is not to 
interfere nor suffer any other nation to do so. 
Whither will he go ? 
The question was lately introduced in the 
British Parliament whether England would 
receive him to her hospitality. Lord Palmer-
ston replied, that "Although England had 
the highest respect for the Pope as a man, 
it was absurd to think of giving him a home 
there. France fears his influence too much 
to allow him there. He may have a home 
at Malta, where Paul fbund hospitality one 
winter while on his way from Jerusalem to 
Rome. It is possible that the Pope may 
take the back track, and go by the way of 
the Three Taverns, Appii Forum, Putoli, 
Rhegium, Syracuse to Malta, and from 
thence to the coast of Palestine and thus 
reach Jerusalem. 
That Jerusalem is the only inviting place 
outside of Rome which would give prestige 
to the Pope's pretensions, is to us evident. 
We have for many years looked for such an 
emigration, where "he as God, may sit. in the 
temple of God, showing himself that he is 
God." 
two of the *Trek. 
NEW HAIYISHIRE QUARTERLY CON-
FERENCE. 
Dear Bro. Litch :—I send you a few lines 
in order to let you know how we are get-
ting along here in the mountains. Our fami-
ly is all well at this time, and my own health 
is good, but I am some lame at the present 
time. I came home from my appointments 
at Caledonia on Monday evening, and the 
same day I cut my foot pretty badly, so I 
am in the house for the present time. I do 
not know whether I shall be able to reach 
my appointments next Sabbath but shall if 
I can. The cause languishes, and the love 
of many grows cold, but we feel still more 
and more the importance of being engaged, 
and so much the more as we see the day 
approaching. The people want our preach-
ing in various places, many more than we 
can accommodate ; but we cannot persuade 
them to action ; they come and go to the 
meetings, but remain just where they are. 
I want to hold some extra meetings in dif-
ferent places this summer if I can procure 
some ministerial help, and trust the Lord 
may give the reviving Spirit. Pray for us 
that his grace may sustain us, and that we 
may be able to do his will. Yours in love. 
THOMAS HOLLEN. 
Pinestreet, May 9, 1865. 
CLOSE OF THE REBELLION. 
THE FUTURE OF THE JEWS AND JE-
RUSALEM. 
The following from the Revival, shows 
that there is a great movement on foot in 
reference to to the Jewish people and the 
holy city. 
A correspondent thus writes :—"In Janu-
ary last there was a notice in the Times to 
the effect that the Emperor of the French 
desired a conference of the leaders 
of the Jewish nation to be held in 
Paris, and the Perfect of Paris had issued 
notices accordingly ; and I have very recent-
ly learned that the conference will be in the 
summer, and probably about the month of 
June. The Rothschild family are taking a 
very active part in this movement ; and the 
object of the meeting is, the taking into con-
sideration the immediate preparation of Je-
rusalem. Deeming this to be a very remark-
able sign of the times, I thought you might 
wish to make use of such information for 
the benefit of the Lord's poeple in general. 
H. C." 
(Eorttopondto cr. 
durer's blood." He wrung his 'hapds and 
looked imploringly at the officers, and shud-
dered again. "Gor-r-r, I wouldn't have dat 
on me fur tousand, tousand dollars." The 
progress of the team was slow, with frequent 
danger of shipwreck altogether, but towards 
noon the cortege filed through Port Royal, 
where the citizens came out to ask what was 
the matter and why a man's body, covered 
with sombre blankets, was going by with so 
great an escort. They were told that it was 
a wounded confederate, and so held their 
tongues. The little ferry, again in requisi-
tion, took theta over by squads, and they 
pushed from Port Conway to Belle Plain, 
which they reached in the middle of the af-
ternoon. All the way the blood dribbled 
from the corpse, in a slow, incessant, sanguine 
exudation. The old negro was nigardly 
dismissed with two paper dollars. The dead 
man untied and cast upon the vessel's deck, 
steam gotten up in a little while, and the 
broad Potomac shores saw this skeleton ship 
flit by, as the bloody sun threw gashes and 
blots of unhealthy light along the silver sur-
face. 
All the way associate with the carcase, 
went Harold, shuddering in so grim compan-
ionship, and in the awakened fears of his own 
approaching ordeal, beyond which it loomed 
already, the gossomer fabric of a scaffold. 
He tried to talk for his own exoneration, 
saying he had ridden, as was his wont, beyond 
the East Branch, and returning, found Booth 
wounded, who begged him to be his compan-
ion. Of his crime he knew nothing,. so help 
him God, &c. But nobody listened to him. 
All interest of crime, courage and retribution 
centered in the dead flesh at his feet. At 
Washington, high and low turned to look on 
Booth. Only a few were permitted to see 
his corpse for purposes of recognition. It was 
fairly preserved, though on one side of the 
face distorted, and looking blue like death, 
and wildly bandit-like as if beaten by aveng-
ing winds. 
Yesterday the Secretary of War, without 
instructions of any kind, committed to Col. 
Lafeyette C. Baker, of the Secret Service, 
the stark corpse of J. Wilkes Booth. The 
Secret Service never fulfilled its volition 
more secretively. On the night of the 27th 
of April a small row-boat received the car-
case of the murderer; two men were in it ; 
they carried the body off into the darkness, 
and out of that darkness it will never return. 
In the darkness, like his great crime, may it 
remain forever, impalpable, invisible, non-
descript, condemned to that worse than dam-
nation—annihilation. The river bottom 
may ooze about it laden with great shot and 
drowning manacles. The earth may have 
opened to give it that silence and forgiveness 
which man will never give its memory. The 
fishes may swim around it, or the daisies 
grow' white above it ; but we shall never 
know. Mysterious, incomprehensible, unat-
tainable, like the dim times through which 
we _live and think upon as if we only dreamed 
them in perturbed fever, the assassin of a 
nation's head rests somewhere in the elements, 
and that is all ; but if the indignant sea or 
the profaned turf shall ever vomit this corpse 
from their recesses, and it receives humane 
or Christian burial from some who do not 
recognize it, let the last words those decay-
ing lips ever uttered be carved above them 
with a dagger, to tell the history of a young 
and once promising life—useless ! useless ! 
LETTER FROM NEW YORK. 
Dear Bro. Litch :—I am unable to do any 
labor, or even to move, without very great 
exertion. The Lord chastises me with rheu-
matism ; my knees are very weak and lame, 
my hands are nearly useless some of the 
time, so that I write very slow, and with dif-
ficulty and pain. Well, I thank God with 
all my heart that I am no worse, and can 
see, and hear, and taste, arid smell, and feel, 
read, and rejoice. Yes, I have many bless-
ings to be thankful for, especially for sight. 
O how sad to have the light of day shut out 
from the natural vision, for days, months, 
itnd years ! How sad I feel for my only sis-
ter, who I learn became blind about the 1st 
of January last. I would rather choose my 
condition than hers, and 0 may Jesus pity 
her. Thank God for sight to read his Word, 
the Herald, and other Advent papers and 
pious reading. I rejoice in hope that Jesus 
is soon coming, and though I view some 
things different from many of my brethren, I 
do not feel like disputing about words to no 
profit. I desire to hold fast the form of 
NEW I sound words, knowing that the Scriptures are 
able to make us wise unto salvation ; then 
why be tenacious, and perhaps a little pug- 
On Monday morning, the 24th ult., we 
had in the New York Conference an affect- nacious too, about certain opinions ? I hope 
mg expression of the opposite pole of feeling my opinions will ever be in conformity with 
the Word. The way of salvation is plain. 
to the unrestrained rejoicings over victories 
Jesus Christ died for my sins, and rose again 
which occured in the New York East Con- for my justification, and his blood "cleanses 
ference. Dr. Foster presented a series of from all sin." 
appropriate resolutions embodying the sen- 
timents
"God is love, and he who dwelleth in love 
of the Conference in view of the dwelleth in God, and God in him." 1 John 
great national bereavement, and Bishop 
Simpson was called upon for an address. In 4 : 16. "This is the love of God, that we 
 
strains of simple and touching eloquence, he keep his commandments." ch. 5 : 3. Jesus 
 
recited such portions of the sad events con- says, -"If ye.; love me, keep my command-
ments." John 15 : "If any one love me, 
fleeted with the President's death as fell 
under his own eye, or were related to him he will keep my Word, and my Father will 
 
love him." v. 23. "Beloved, let us love 
by those that witnessed them. 'The church 
(43d Street) was crowded, and the great au- each other, for love is of God." 1 John 4 : 7. 
"If we love each other, God dwelleth in its, 
dience was profoundly affected ; tears flow- and his love is completed in us." v. 12. Let 
ing freely, and audible sobs were heard us not love in word, neither in tongue, but 
among the listeners. The last official act of in deed, (acting,) and in truth." ch. 3 : 18. 
the President, the Bishop remarked, was a S 
characteristic exhibition of leniency toward Shall any one, then, say or think that opin-
sonic of those who are probably parties to ions, howeverplace ible,concerning inferen-
tial deductions, as to the truth, are necessary 
his assassination. The Mayor of Portland 
Me., telegraphed Mr. Stanton that ex-Secre- for salvation ? Shall brethren disfellowship 
me, because I believe that the soul, or spirit 
tary Thompson, one of the prime movers in 
the conspiracies that have been arranged in of man departs from the body at death, and 
 
Canada, and probably in the one that re- has a conscious existence while the body 
stilted in the murder of the President, and moulders in its grave ; or shall I disfellow-
Beverly Tucker were in that city about to ship my brother who believes that both soul 
sail for Europe, and asked if he should order and body dies, and becomes unconscious ? 
 
their arrest. Mr. Stanton had made out the Neither one or the other mars the plan of 
 
warrant, but thought he would confer with salvation, and instead of striving about words, 
the President in reference to the matter. As Sit is better for me to strive with allemy heart 
they were quietly and secretly leaving the to serve God and my Saviour, in all humility 
DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT IN THE 
YORK (M. E.) CONFERENCE. 
The terms thus far granted to the surren-
dered rebels are the same as those accorded 
to Lee's army. Under the decision of At-
torney General Speed the officers and sol-
diers in the armies thus surrendered stand 
simply in the position of paroled prisoners of 
war, free from molestation by civil authorities 
so long as they continue paroled prisoners of 
war. They may be declared exchanged, or 
by the force of circumstances may cease to 
be prisoners of war—but they are not par-
doned. For their civil offences they can be 
indicted and tried the same as any other 
criminals violating the laws of the country. 
And we have no doubt that some of the lead-
ers will be made to pay the penalty of their 
crime ; and that the rest of the leaders will 
be placZd under serious civil disabilities. The 
rank and fi!e, as it should be, will have mer-
cy shown them. But we doubt not that they 
too will be made to feel that it is mercy that 
allows them to escape. 
The whole history of the great rebellion 
has disappointed the prognostications and 
prophecies uttered in relation to it. It at-
tained to a magnitude, and on the part of the 
rebels exhibited a rancor and bitterness, 
whose reality exceeded all the expectations 
formed of it. And now the whole thing 
breaks down with a vastness and suddenness 
that astonishes the nation and must surprise 
the world. Our fears had pictured the whole 
rebel territory swept and devastated for 
months and even years after the military 
power of the rebellion should be broken. 
But such, it would now seem, is not to be 
the case. The collapse of the rebellion is as 
complete as it is sudden. It was but yester-
day defiant, boastful, organized ; but it lies 
to-day prostrate, subdued, helpless. And it 
is not so in localities merely, but everywhere. 
All its supporters and friends feel this, and 
abandon the contest, without leaving a cor-
poral's guard in the field against the United 
States. 
'The third quarterly session of the N. H. 
State Conference will be held in Sunapee, N. 
H., (South meeting house) commencing 
June 1st at 1 o'clock P. M., and continue 
over the following Lord's day. We hope 
prayer will go up to God, that this meeting 
will prove a great blessing to people in this 
part of the state. A. W. S1BLY, Sec. 
SCHOOL WANTED 
A young lady, a graduate of the Salem 
Normal School, with the best of testimonials 
and some successful experience, would like a 
situation as a teacher. Address B. D. Has-
kell, Box 1000, Haverhill, Mass. 
MESSIANNIAN CONFERENCE OF PA. 
'This Conference will be held at Trenton, 
N. J.. commencing Wednesday, May 31, at 
10 o'clock, A. M. J. LITCH, Pres. 
D. I. ROBINSON, Sec. j 
The order of exercises will be as follows : 
Opening day at 10 A. M. Organization 
for business. 
11 A. M. Annual Introductory Sermon, 
Eld. J. A. Heagy. Substitute, Eld. M. L. 
Jackson. 
2 P. M. Business meeting. 
3 P. M. Public services. 
Evening. Public services. 
During the remainder of the Conference, 
the sessions will be held each day as follows : 
8 A. M. Social devotional services. 
10 A. M. Business meetings. 
2 P. M. Social devotional services. 
3 P. M. Public services. 
Evening. Public services. 
Elder Osler will deliver a discourse on 
the Duties and Dangers of the Ministry. 
It is earnestly hoped and requested that 
as far as possible those who cherish the 
great evangelical truths which distinguish 
us as a people "looking for that blessed hope 
and the glorious appearing of the great God 
and our Saviour Jesus Christ" will lay 
aside their business for a few days and come 
up to this annual gathering. Come full of 
the Holy Ghost and with an earnest conse-
cration to the work of spreading the glori-
ous truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
And those who are not permitted to assem-
ble with us are earnestly desired to remem-
ber us in their prayers that the God of all 
grace and wisdom, direct our deliberations 
and crown our labors with success. 
Ample preparations will be made by the 
friends at Trenton for the accommodation of 
all who attend. 
To Subscribers. 
During the past year we have credited 
payments for the Herald on each subscriber's 
paper, or, where a single paper was sent to 
one office, on the wrapper, following the sub-
scriber's name. But quite a number call for 
the old plan of crediting payments in the 
Herald on the reception of the money. It is 
less work for us to do so, and less expense. and 
accordingly we shall return to that plan, and 
as fast as we can, shall take the numbers from 
the names. Those subscribers who wish to 
know the exact state of their accounts, must 
set it down when acknowledged, or keep the 
paper containing it. 0 
DIRECTIONS FOR ASCERTAINING THE STATE 
OF THE ACCOUNT. 
JEFF. DAVIS CAPTURED. 
FIEA')QIJARTERS 4TH MICHIGAN CAVALRY. 
CUMBERL ANDVILLE, GA., May 11, 1865. 
To captain T. W. Scott, A. G. Division: 
Sir—I have the honor to report that at 
daylight yesterday, at Irwinsville, I surprised 
and captured Jeff Davis and family, together 
with his wife, sisters, and brother, his Post-
master-General, Reagan, his private secreta-
ry, Colonel Harrison, Colonel Johnston. A. 
D. C., on Davis's. staff, Colonel Moris Lub-
beck, Lieutenant Hathaway, also several 
names and a train of five wagons and three 
ambulances, making a most perfect success, 
had not a most painful mistake occured by 
which the Fifth Michigan and the First 
Wisconsin did that which cost us two. killed 
and Lieutenant 'Bontle, wounded through 
the arm, in the Fifth Michigan, and four 
men wounded in the first Wisconsin. This 
occurred just at daylight, after we had cap-
tured the camp, by the advance of the First 
Wisconsin, who were mistaken for the enemy. 
I returned to this point last night, and shall 
move right on the Macon road without wait-
ing orders from you, as directed, feeling that 
the whole object of the expidition is accom-
plished. It will take me at least three days 
to reach Macon, as we are seventy-five miles 
out and our stock much exhausted. I hope 
to reach Ilawkinsville to-night. 
I have the honor, &c., 
(signed) D. B. PRITCHARD, 
Lieut-colonel Fifth Michigan Cavalry. 
Being surprised by the firing, he hastily 
put on his wife's dress and ran for the woods. 
But his boots betrayed him. He flourished 
a bowie-knife, but was soon brought to by the 
exhibition of revolvers, and submitted to be 
taken into custody. He is now on his way 
to Washington. 
THE PRESIDENT'S GUARD consists of 
about 100 Ohio men, ane from each county 
in the state. No one can enter his mansion 
till lie receives a permit from the President. 
A sufficient force are on duty day and night 
to protect him from assassination. 
THE Titiaa, of the conspirators at Wash-
ington commenced on Weduesday last. 
They all have obtained counsel. 
SALE OF U. S. 7-30 LOAN.—The sales 
week bethre last were about $40,000.000. 
Last week about $98,000,000. $30,000,000 
were sold last Saturday. 
BOOTH'S RETURN TO WASHINGTON. 
Bro. Litch :—I come again, with your 
permission, for a few thoughts through your 
colums. I hardly know how to express my 
sensations, when I hear or read the kind of 
instruction generally given to sinners. In-
stead of being told of their lost condition, as 
represented in the Word of God, modern 
teachings are to a great extent addressed to 
man's loyal nature, to set him seeking for 
justification by other ways than the death 
and resurrection of the Son of God. Legal 
man, by the Holy Spirit made to feel his 
own unfitness for Heaven, (for that is where 
all wish to go at last ;) begins to inquire, 
what shall I do to be saved ? The Divine 
answer is, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 
and'thou shalt be saved," but what we usu-
ally hear from the pulpit, and in social meet-
ings is like this : "Give your heart to the 
Lord," "begin to serve the Lord," etc. etc. 
Is this God's teachings ? not at all. Such 
language He addresses only to Christians. 
It is "My son give me thy heart." And 
what constitutes a son ? "Ye are all chil-
dren of Gbd by faith in Jesus Christ." 
Again—if we mark the difference in the 
manifestations of the religious life, in these 
who come as lost sinners, and looking alone 
to Jesus, we can hardly fail to see the su-
periority of God's teachings. The bitten 
Israelites were not to climb the pole on 
which the brazen serpent was raised ; in 
most instances, -at least, this would have 
been irlipossible ; it was "Look and live." 
Just so helpless is the sinner now to do any-
thing to save himself. Oh when will people 
learn 'tis their privelege to 
"Lay ylur deadly doing's down, 
Down, at Jesus' feet, 
Stand in Him, in Him alone, 
Gloriously complete." 
How often we read, or hear, of a number 
in sonic meeting, who "expressed a deter-
mination to become Christians," or "made 
up their minds to serve the Lord ; the man-
ifest result of modern, and not primitive in-
structions. lIence, persons considering them- 
selves Christians can engage in all sorts of 
business, and all sorts of amusements. 
Now and then one, who acknowledge they 
would like to go to the theatre etc., but are 
kept in check by a kind of dare not feeling, 
but the majority pleading there is no harm. 
Are such, the feelings of a child of God ? 
one who having seen his lost condition, has 
also learned experimentally of the great 
salvation by Christ Jesus? I think not. 
I recently cut from a paper, an account of 
the conversion of Dr. BackOs, • in 1741 ; 
of which 'tis well said "It contrasts with so 
much that is superficial in religion at the 
present day, that 'tis truly refreshing to read 
it." He says, "I. went and sat down by a 
tree, where all my prayers and tears, long-
ing and striving for a better heart, with all 
my doings, were set before me in such a 
light, that I perceived I could never make 
myself better should I live ever so long. 
While I sat there I saw by Divine light, 
the perfect righteousness of Christ, and the 
freeness and richness of his grace, with such 
clearness that my soul was drawn fo:-th to 
-trust in Him for salvation, and I wondered 
that others also did not come to Him who 
had enough for all. The word of God and 
promises of His grace appeared firmer than 
a rock, and I was astonished at my previous 
unbelief. My heavy burden was gone, tor-
menting fears were fled, and my joy was 
unspeakable." 
How clearly we see that such is the work 
of the Spirit, and is just like his workings 
where he is allowed to do so untrammelled. 
H. P. B. 
Dear Brethren and Sisters : 
Six months have passed away since you 
sent us forth into the great field of the South 
as missionaries to the poor Freed Slave. At 
that time neither you nor we could tell what 
the result of our going there would be. With 
almost trembling we went forth—trembling, 
not for our own personal safety or fate, but 
for our success in the work which you so 
cheerfully sent us to perform. With willing 
hearts we went, and a love for the work, but 
with one of old we asked : "Who is sufficient 
for these things?" 
On God alone we leaned, 
and truly He has been our support. 
We cannot tell you in how many ways, 
nor at how many times He has come to our 
relief and defended us. When in danger 
He has guarded us; when in the midst of 
enemies He has protected us. When new 
duties and labors were thrown upon us, He 
helped us to perform them, and gave us fit-
vor in the sight of those who were above us. 
When sick and cast down, He raised us up. 
When without means to go forward in our 
work, He furnished it from the hand of 
strangers. When we lacked shelter He bade 
strangers take us in. When without friends 
He raised them up unto us. He opened a 
door for our labor. lie spread out a wide 
field before us. He has given us sheaves 
for the harvest. 
But these sheaves are not ours alone ; 
they belong also to you. You have fur-
nished the means for gathering them in, and 
to you in the day of Christ will be given 
a portion of the harvest. 
But the work is not all done ; nay it is 
but commenced. The field is but entered, 
and lies as yet nearly all unreaped ; for while 
we have been blessed of God, and have done 
all we could, it is but a beginning that we 
have made—a preparation for the work. 
The Mission, however, is established—the 
work well begun and progressing. Our 
hearts are cheered continually by the suc-
cess that attends our labors. God has 
smilled upon us all in the work ; and you, 
who have given, and we who have labored 
share equally His favor and blessing. The 
blessing also of those lowly Ones to whom 
you sent us, falls alike upon you and us. 
They do not forget you in their earnest 
though broken petitions. They bear to you 
a love as well as to us ; and could you wit-
ness the joy of their heart as they learn that 
the Mission is being sustained, you would 
feel that what you have so freely given for 
their enlightemnent and salvation was truly 
a treasure laid up in the heavens. 
Nor are they behind in giving as they have 
the means. Who among you or us has giv-
en as much as they have in proportion to 
his ability ? They of their penury throw in 
their tnite, but it is only a mite that they 
have. Willing, and more than willing are 
they to sustain us ; but while their hearts 
are large their means are small. They lean, 
therefore, upon you for our support among 
them. They ask you to do what you can for 
them in their down-trodden and oppressed 
condition. They ask for light and the words 
of life. They desire to know what God 
has revealed ; and they are willing to obey 
as well as receive. They turn to you their 
sombre faces for help. From no other source 
do they hope for assistance. All around them 
are against them, and almost every southern 
hand would smite them down if it dared. 
Their rising and advancement is the dread 
of their enemies ; for they know the position 
they will take. 
Shall we not then go forward in this work 
of God ? especially as we know that the day 
in which we must labor has nearly closed ? 
Shall we not also double our dilligence—
giving and laboring in this eleventh hour 
of the world's history with more earnestness 
and zeal than ever before ? Soon the day 
will be ended, the sun be gone down, and 
the night here. Will it find our work done? 
God grant that it may. 
Yours in the Service of Christ, 
I. I. LESLIE 
Newton, Lower Falls, May 15, 1865. 
--•••••••••••-- 
The Washington correspondent of the New 
York World thus describes Booth's return to 
Washington, and burial: 
They sewed him •up in a saddle blanket. 
This was his shroud ; too like a soldier's. A 
venerable old negro living in the vicinity 
had the misfortune to possess a horse. This 
horse was a relic of former generations, and 
showed by his protruding ribs the general 
leanness of the land. He moved in an ec-
centric amble, and when put upon his speed 
was generally run backward. To this old 
negro's horse was harnessed a very shaky 
and absurd wagon, which rattled like ap-
proaching dissolution, and each part of it ran 
without any connection or correspondence 
with any other -part. It had no tail-board, 
and its shafts were sharp as famine; and in-
to this mimicry of a- vehicle the murderer 
was to be sent to the. Potomac, while the 
man he had murdered was moving in state 
across the mourning continent. The old 
negro geared up his Wagon by means of a 
fossil harness, and when it was backed to 
Garrett's porch they laid within it the dis-
colored corpse. The corpse was tied with 
ropes around the legs and made fast to the 
wagon sides. So moved the cavalcade of 
retribution, with death in its midst, along the 
road to Port Royal. 
When the wagon started Booth's wound, 
till now scarcely dribbling, began to run anew. 
It fell through the crack of the wagon and 
fell dripping upon the axle, and spotting the 
road with terrible wafers. It stained the 
planks and soaked the blankets, and the old 
negro, at a stoppage, dabbled his hand in it 
by mistake ; he drew back instantly, with a 
shudder and stifled expletive. "Gor-r-r, 
clat'll Dever conic off in de world ; it's mur- 
and obedience, having my faith fixed in Jesus 
Christ, in whom my love increases with the 
increase of knowledge, not being puffed up 
or exalted thereby. Blessed be God for his 
word of truth, and blessed be my Lord and 
Saviour, who has given me good hope 
through the good news. How cheering the 
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had come ; he saw the way clearly opened 
before him ; they were about to enter upon 
four glorious years of peace and comfort. 
(Peace and comfort indeed ! The peace of 
the blessed and the rest of heaven forever !) 
The President, the Bishop said, was particu-
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Mrs. Lincoln who was quite unwell. It 
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CURE FOR CANCER. 
For the benefit of those who may be af-
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especially in two extraordinary cases. A 
woman aged about 45, I believe, had, for 
months, a severe and maddening pain in the 
whole left side of the head, affecting the eye. 
I attended her, but never thought of cancer, 
until swelling commenced. I then found the 
'pains were truly cancerous. I directed her 
country, the President with a characteristic 
illustration, setting forth his own feelings in 
reference to their escape, if the public good 
did not suffer by it, advised that no restraint 
should be placed upon them. Like his Sa-
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last act was one of mercy towards his 
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this ever memorable day, the President, in 
unwonted spirits, went out to ride with her. 
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care ; that they had enjoyed no season of 
rest—it had been one fearful struggle, but 
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LET THE' AFFLICTED READ, 
his hold. I endeavored to do my best, 1 
but Will and I were terribly exhausted 
and the boat was yet distant. While 
struggling madly for life, a lady with a 
beautiful babe in her arms, grasped my 
brother; cruel as it may seem, he told 
her to let go, but she only clung the 
tighter, crying, 'Save my child 
then tried to force her away, but in a 
tone of calm determination she answered, 
I will not let go unless you save My 
child' At this my brother caught the 
babe with 'Mother, your proyer is .an-
swered.' He afterwards told me what 
prompted that answer. Several years 
before in passing our mother's door, he 
had heard her voice in apparently deep 
distress ; frightened he paused and lis-
tened; in tones of agony these words 
caught his ear, I will not let Thee go 
unless thou save my children.' This 
prayer he never forgot and when the 
same petition was addressed to himself, 
the thought flashed through his mind, 
'As I hope God will answer my mother's 
prayer, I care not refuse to answer this. 
The happy mother received his reply, 
and sank to rise no more until the last 
great day. We continued to struggle 
on, and were within a few yards of the 
boat when I became insensible. On 
recovering 1 found myself' on the cabin 
floor of a steamer with my noble brother 
and preserver bending over me and the 
little baby sweetly sleeping by my side. 
Although Will's strength had sustained 
him until then, his almost superhuman 
exertions threw him into a severe fever, 
but his merciful heavenly Father spared 
his life the second time, but before the 
snow had whitened tte ground,. he and 
I stood side by side in a little Western 
church and gave ourselves as free. will 
offerings to the Saviour. We made all 
the efforts we could to discover the 
friends of the little rescued girl, but be-
ing totally unsuccessful, Will gladly 
adopted her for his own child, and be-
cause like Moses she had been drawn 
from the water, he named her Mosa, 
which he said was the feminine of 
Moses. 'Darling,' said the young lady 
turning tenderly to her niece; 'who was 
that baby l"Me, aunty,' replied Mosie 
in, a subdued tone ; then her little chin 
quivering, she flung her arms around 
her father's neck, and squeezing him 
tightly, said, 'Thank you, papa, for 
saving my life, but oh !' here She burst 
into a flood of tears; wish I N.Arb.8 your 
own Mosie !'-N. Y. Observer. 
Adrevtionunto. 
and loving kindness of God, no less 
than His power and glory.' Then 
turning to the little girl, the lady said, 
`Mosie, would you like to hear a true 
story?' 
guess should! thank you, amity,' 
and with that Miss Mosie perched her- 
self upon her father's lap, who on hear-
ing of a forthcoming story, had seated 
himself beside his sister. 
'The last time 1 was on lake Erie,' 
began Aunt Ella, was about nine years 
ago.' 
'Oh.! I was alive then, wasn't I?' in-
terrupted the little girl. 
'Yes, yes, of course you were,' said 
her father. 
'I was in company with your father,' 
continued Ella. 'Our parents had re-
cently moved from New York to Illinois, 
leaving Will at college and myself at a 
young ladies' seminary in the same city. 
We were on our way to our new home 
in the West. It was just such a moon-
light night as this, and as we sat together 
on deck we talked much of again meet-
ing our parents, and wondered how we 
should like the West. We once or 
twice heard what seemed to be agreat 
bustle of men below, but did not think 
much of it. At last arose the shriek of 
fire! fire! and turning towards the cabin 
we saw bright flames shooting up from 
below. Immediately ensued a confu-
sion too fearful to describe. In a few 
moments crowds of horror-stricken be-
ings filled the decks; but above the din 
arose-oh ! that I could forget them-
the agonizing cries of those who were 
perishing in the flames. Will, who was 
manly and strong beyond his years, 
Was also a capital swimmer. I could 
swim a little, having learned in a bath-
ing house at the 'Battery,' in New York. 
At first, so sudden was the shock, that 
I thought it must be a dream; hut when 
all the terrible reality rushed upon me, 
I caught hold of my brother's arm, and 
in tones hoarse with terror, whispered, 
'0, Will, we are not prepared to die!' 
Here, Mosie, I should tell you that we 
had been brought up most religiously. 
We knew our duty, but life seemed to 
us all happiness, and we deferred and 
dreaded to put on the mantle of. Christ's 
righteousness. We knew the uncertain-
ty of life, but we did not realize it, and 
now that death stared us in the face so 
suddenly, so horribly, we were filled 
with terror. Willie's face was as pale 
as death, but he replied with an effort 
at calmness, 'Yes, I know it, but now 
is no time to do what we should have 
done long ago; still, sister, although we 
have never owned Christ as our Savior, 
we have been taught, I think feel, that 
God is our father; let us pray to Him to 
save us.' We fell on our knees arid 
prayed desperately for this mortal life. 
Oh ! if we would but pray so for spirit-
ual life, heaven would indeed be taken 
by storm. One tiling I remember I 
said: '0 God, if thou wilt save my life, 
I will serve thee evermore,' and I never 
shall forget how Will, who had made 
no such rash vow, added solemnly, 'Sis-
ter, I pray you may keep your promise.' 
The boats belonging to the steamer 
were of course let down and soon crowd-
ed with human beings, but we were not 
near enough to feel any hopes of rescue 
by their means. We were near enough, 
however, to witness a most touching 
scene. A husband and wife were en-
deavoring to get into one of the boats, 
but as there was room but for one of them, - 
the husband urged his wife to enter. 
With a look of earnest entreaty, she 
said, My precious husband, if you truly 
love me, you will embrace this means 
of safety; I am prepared for death, but! 
if you are lost, you are lost eternally. 
Need I add he yielded'? Will, who 
was never tired of telling me to keep my 
presence of mind as the only chance of, 
life, at this moment pointed out some 
boats that were approaching from a 
steamer, whose dark form and bright 
lights had gradually been growing larger 
to the many anxious eyes who watched 
them. My brother then helped me over 
the railing of the deck and told MC not 
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AUNT ELLA'S STORY. 
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Lake 
little 
It was a summer's evening on 
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of a few moments before had not been 
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said, 
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Providence, 11. I.. .... ......... Anthony Pearce 
 
Princess Anne, Md. 
 .John V. Pinto 
Rochester, N. Y 
D. Doody 
Salem, Mass.... .... . ..Charlas H. Berry 
Springwater, N. Y.... .... S. II. With ington 
Shabbonas Grove, De Kalb Co., Ill ..N. W. Spencer 
Stanbridge, C. E. ...... John Gilbreth 
Sheboygan Falls. W is William Trowbridge 
Toronto, C. W. 
Daniel Campbell 
Waterloo, Sliefford, C. E ...R. Hutchinson, M. D 
 
" . ......... J. M. Orrock 
Waterbury, Vt. 
 IL Canfield. 
Worcester, Mass.. .... . Benjamin Emerson 
Yarmouth, Me... . . . ..... I. C. Welcome 
Valley Falls, R. l . . M. B. Patterson 
Agent at Large ........ Rev. I. R. Gates 
Agent at Large 
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