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WHOLE NO. 1069: 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1861. 
VOLUME XXII. O. 46. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
Is published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up 
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.-50 sits. per square per week; 
$1, for three weeks ; $3, for three months ; $5 for six 
months ; or $9 per year. 
Time is money ; Labor,wealth ; Knowledge,power ; 
Temperance health. 
"Time is money :" let us prize it 
In a world of anxious care, 
Watch and pray. and fight our way, 
Excelsior—where heroes are. 
Labor is of wealth the parent, 
Harbinger of peace of mind ; 
Happiness entwines around it, 
Peace.without it none can find. 
Knowledge is a powerful agent, 
By the Almighty lent to man ; 
See thou rightly use thy talent, 
Ere he sifts thee with his fan. 
Temperance is thy truest praise, 
And will yield both peace and wealth, 
Safest road to length of days, 
Happiness and cheerful health. 
From July 16th to August 8th: I preached 
only on Sundays and could read and write 'very 
little on account of an affection of the eyes. It 
is remarkable with what force portions of Scrip-
ture will be brought to mind under certain cir-
cumstances which at other times make compar-
atively little impression. Thus in my affliction 
—one eye being entirely blind and the other 
weak—I have often thought of the earnestness 
with which the blind must have addressed our 
Saviour when he was upon earth, especially have 
I been interested in the case of the one referred 
to in the following lines : 
s, Blind Bartinmus at the gates 
Of Jericho in darkness waits ; 
Be hears the crowd—he hears a breath 
Say, It is Christ of Nazareth,' 
And calls, in tones of agony, 
I.W,v, ExEvoy tee. 
The thronging multitudes increase. 
Blind Bartimmus, hold thy peace ! 
But still above the noisy crowd 
The beggar's cry is shrill and loud, 
Until they say, "He calleth thee' 
GaperEa, ctripai. ghoyEi o-I. 
Then saith the Christ, as silent stands 
The crowd, What wilt thou at my hands ?' 
And he replies, Oh, give me light ; 
Rabbi, restore the blind man's sight.' 
And Jesus answers, 1c7ray2, 
H 7ric-,rLs coy ciatincs as. 
Ye that have eyes and cannot see, 
in darkness and in misery, 
Recall those mighty voices three— 
For the Herald. 
Travels about Home. No. 10. 
J. PEARSON, jr. 
J. V. HOMES, 
LEIlEvEL OSLER, 
THE FOUR VALUABLES. 
Committee 
on 
Publication. 
W. BEARE. 
Having arranged with Dr. Hutchinson to sup-
ply for me two Sabbaths on my circuit, I left 
home for Waterloo, C. E. Friday August 9th. 
and was absent to the 24th spending most of the 
time in Shefford Co.where I gave eight discourses 
administered the Lord's supper, and attended 
to other pastoral duties. Elders M. Grant of Bos-
ton, Mass. and J. Porter of Danville, C. E. had 
preceded me with a fortnight's campaign in that 
section, making prominent the doctrine of man's 
unconsciousness in death and the extinction of 
the being of the wick ed,and as the result I thought 
some were more disposed to speak of the state of 
the dead than of the spiritual condition of the 
living, and of the destiny of the wicked rather 
than the evidences of the kingdom near. I said 
comparatively little on these mooted questions in 
my pulpit ministrations, enough however to let 
the public know where I stood, but in the families 
where I visited, if they opened the way, I had no 
hesitancy in speaking my mind fully and plainly, 
and did so. While I was here I was led to con-
sider our course as a denomination : I thought 
of the general conference held in Providence, R. 
I. in November 1856 which Elder Grant and 
others holding the same views with him attended, 
and where the question of a possibility of united, 
harmonious action among those having a diversi-
ty of opinion on these subjects was discussed,and 
we adopted unanimously the following pre-amble 
and resolution,— 
" Whereas, unity in labor, and as far as may 
be, unity of faith are necessary to the successful 
prosecution of the work of God ; and as there is 
a diversity of sentiment among us as a people, 
producing ,to some extent dissimilar interests ; 
and as we believe,that a candid and Christian in-
terchange of views would remove in a great mea-
sure the conflicting interests, if not harmonize 
the discordant views : therefore, �
• 
Resolved, That as co-laborers in the promulga-
tion of the doctrines intimately connected with 
the near coming of Christ, they hereafter avoid 
preaching on the subject relating to the state of 
the dead,and final destiny of the wicked,in a man-
ner calculated to give offence to those hold oppos-
ing sentiments : and that they, as far as is prac-
ticable, express themselves in the, language of 
Scripture." 
I thought also of the Canada East and North-
ern Vt. conference held at Fitch Bay, C. E. in 
July 1860 where the following resolution was 
passed,— 
"Whereas, There is a difference of opinion 
among us as a people in relation to the state of 
the dead and end of the wicked ;—and whereas, 
persons have pressed their particular views so 
as to produce division and distraction in church-
es ; and as a difference of opinion on the point 
exists among the members of this conference, 
therefore 
Resolved, That we recommend that this sub-
ject he treated so as not to make it a test of 
Christian fellowship ; nor necessarily to produce 
alienation of feeling and division of effort among 
brethren, but that we endeavor to follow after 
those things that make for peace, even things 
whereby we may edify each other—pledging our-
selves to be governed by the rule of our Divine 
Ivrov S1ET0-01, 
 
®Once;, aygtoai. Trays, 
H IIIsTIE EOT ZEICKE SE." 
Master, "All things whatsoever ye would that time is fulfilled." But what time was fulfilled ? 
men should do to you, do ye even so to them." We answer, the time predicted by the prophet. 
As I thought of the past it appeared to me (See Dan. 9, 25) Saith the angel, "Know there-
that if these resolutions meant anything they were fore, and understand, that from the going forth 
not intended to authorize one class of teachers tolof the commandment to restore and to build Je-
travel from Maine to Minnesota,and from Canadalrusalem, unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be 
to California—everywhere making their peculiar 
views prominent while others,equally honest and 
sincere, holding opposite views were to hold their 
peace or else be charged with "fighting" and 
"opposition to truth." I. concluded that the spirit 
and principles of these recommendatory resolu-
tions had not been acted upon by all, and as the 
result we behold division, discord and distraction. 
Different conferences and meetings are held, and 
different publication organizations are formed. 
While the Herald since it went into the hands 
of the A. M. Association has been mainly neu-
tral on these questions, it is well known that the 
Crisis has given prominence to them in every is-
sue ; and the greater number of the books and 
tracts it advertises for sale are materialist works 
rather than strictly adventual publications. 
It seems as though the time for compromise 
with materialists is past and that silence on these 
questions has ceased to be a virtue. For my own 
part I have no fellowship for a view which in-
volves a denial of the personality of the Holy 
Ghost—the pre-existence and divinity of our 
Saviour—the resurrection of the wicked, and 
scarcely makes man one remove above the most 
loathsome reptile that crawls at his feet. And 
I am bold to say that materialism as it exists 
among us legitimately leads to such results. 
J. M. 0. 
P. S. I hope, Bro. Bliss, if you publish the 
above that none of your readers will be so sensi-
tive as to order their paper stopt on account of 
it. I have consulted no one in writing, and wish 
to be considered alone responsible for this article. 
If they blame any one let them blame me; and 
I know that I have not put down aught in mal- 
ice and �
but in the fear of God and with 
reference to eternity. �
0. 
Dear reader there are signs in the east, "Ye 
can discern the face of the sky ; but can ye not 
discern the signs of the times ?" (Matt. 16, 3.) 
These words savor of reproof. They were spoken 
by our Saviour to the teachers of Israel, the 
wise and popular of that time,who paid tithes of 
mint, anise and cummin, and kept the tradition 
of the elders ; but ktill he reproves them, and 
why ? because they "discern not the signs of the 
times." The sick were healed, the dumb spake, 
the lame walked, and the dead were raised to 
life, in their presence, and yet they ask a sign. 
The red evening sky was a sign to them of fair 
weather ; but these great wonders performed by 
him who spake as never man spake, were no 
signs. Oh, when will carnal man know his own 
heart ? Thus the Saviour answers them. "0, ye 
hypocrites ! ye can discern the face of the sky, 
but can ye not discern the signs of the times ?" 
But doubtless the most important sign was 
the exact fulfillment of the time predicted for the 
Saviour's appearance as the Messiah, as it is 
written, (Mark 14:15.) " Now after that John 
was put in prison,Jesus came into Galilee,preach-
ing the gospel of the kingdom of God, saying,the 
Signs of the Present Time. 
seven weeks and three score and two weeks." 
The said commandment went forth 457 years B. 
C. (See Ezra 7. 11, 26.) Now, according to the 
year-day theory, (which is generally accepted, 
and which is substantiated by this fulfillment,) 
our seven weeks and three score and two weeks 
are equal to 483 years, counting one day for a 
year, and 483 years from 457 B. C. would bring 
us to A. D 26 to the preaching of John and to 
the appearance of Jesus as the Messiah. Thus 
the blessed Jesus preached his first sermon on 
the fulfillment of the time, and thus was it exact-
ly accomplished. But who knew it ? Not the 
masses of the Jewish church. They discarded 
the signs, they knew not their time, they reject-
ed their Lord, and were rejected themselves. 
And now, dear reader, let us learn wisdom from 
their mistakes. As there was a first Advent of 
the Savior there is also to be a second. And as 
there were signs of his first Advent, there are 
also to be signs of his 
and glory. But 0, how severely the Saviour de-
nounces that wicked city,Jerusalem, because she 
knew not the day, nor the things that belonged 
to her peace. He said (Luke 19, 41, 44), that 
her enemies should entrench her, should lay her 
even with the ground and should not leave in her 
one stone upon another, and should destroy her 
children within her. And why ? His answer is 
"Because thou knewest not the time of thy vis-
itation." And, although the definite time may 
not be known, yet we learn from this, the indis-
pensable duty of watching. But reader, do you 
examine the prophets ? They spake of things 
past, present, and future. Let us try (Daniel 7: 
25.) "And he shall speak great words against the 
Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High, and think to change times and laws, 
&c." Writers of prophecy generally agree that 
reference is here had to the Papacy, and indeed 
that is the only power which has made such dar-
ing presumption against the Most High. He best 
answers the description in the prophecy, by the 
great pretensions to the divine power, by the 
wearing out of the saints, and by attempt to 
change the times and laws of the Most High, he 
has been like unto no other power on earth. But 
let us read the next verse ; "But the judgment 
shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion 
to consume and to destroy it unto the end." And 
even now, we see the scattered power, the crum-
bling throne, and the waning influence of the 
papacy. These things loudly proclaim the near-
ness of the approaching end, when the body of 
the beast shall be given to the burning flame 
(Dan. 7, 11), and the glorious fulfillment of the 
following 27th verse shall take place. "And the 
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the 
kirr,dorn under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. and all 
dominions shall serve and obey him." 
The decline of the temporal power at this 
time proclaims the end emphatically near; yet, 
that people may believe when they read,we have 
line upon line, and precept upon precept ; but 
second coming in power 
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ple, even the holiest of all, as "fundamental doe- tion, and before all things : "In the beginning Father which bath sent me draw him." Look 
let us hear the premonition of our blessed Lord, trines" may be called. Hence it becomes us to was the Word, and the word was with God, and at the following picture of fallen man as drawn 
After speaking of the famines, pestilences, earth-approach with fear and trembling, and to ask for the Word was God. The same was in the be- by inspiration, "There is none righteous, no, not 
quakes, war sand persecutions, he says, (Luke, the Holy Spirit, without whom nothing is wise ginning with God. All things were made by one there is none that understandeth, there is 
21, 25) : "And upon the earth distress of nations 
with perplexity" ; these words plainly indicate or strong or good. �
him ; and without him was not anything made none that seeketh after God. They are all gone 
In mentioning what we regard as "fundamen- that was made" John 1:1-3. The Saviour out of the way, they are together become unpros 
an unusual distress and perplexity among the na- tal doctrineV we do not of course undertake to said to the Father, "Thou lovedst me before the fitable : there is none that doeth good, no, not 
tions, and,clear reader, we do not wish to predict, 
but rather to look at the present picture now pre- 
the so-called civilized nations. You say how far individuals may vary from these, foundation of the world." "And now, 0 Fath- one. Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with 
sented 
and be the children of God, and be saved. We er, glorify thou me with thine own self with the their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison 
by 
must leave that for the great day to determine. glory which I had with thee before the world was," of asps is under their lips : whose mouth is full 
have no doubt, asked in your own mind, what all 
these turmoils mean. For what a picture of an- 
That there is one God infinitely good and glo- ,john 17: 5, 24. The prophet speaking of the of cursing and bitterness : their feet are swift to 
archy, of rebellion and of massacres the world rious,ever ready to bless all,and especially those one who was to be born in Bethlehem, says, shed blood : destruction and misery are in their 
who call upon him, is of course fundamental and "whose goings forth have been from of old, from ways : and the way of peace have they not 
now presents, unequaled within the own beloved 
annals cover- vital, "for he that cometh to God must believe everlasting," margin "from the days of eternity," known : there is no fear of God before their 
ed by the pages of history. Our 
that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that being the literal rendering of the Hebrew, Mi- eyes" Rom. 3. 10-18. 
land is not alone in its trouble ; the most 
tant countries in Europe, Asia and South Amer- 
cab 5:2. 
irnpor- diligently seek him" Heb. 11. 6. �
I fear that this dark subject is not dwelt up. 
ica, are now sharing in the rebellions, massacres, 
I must embrace the Trinity among the funda- �
Besides this, divine titles, divine attributes, on as it ought to be. The wound is healed slight- 
mental doctrines of Christianity. By the Trini- divine works, and divine worship are, according ly, and therefore a great many profess to put on 
nal, "The world is one vast camp, and the mili- 
and civil wars of the time. Says a Boston Jour- ty is meant that there are three persons in the to the Scriptures, ascribed to Christ, If so,those Christ, who have never been truly convinced of 
tart' power predominates." Indeed has not God Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy who really take the Bible as the rule of faith, sin, and who have never prayed from a broken 
Ghost,—or as it is expressed in the Litany of can have no hesitation in saying with Thomas, heart, "God be merciful to me a sinner." They 
a controversy with the nations ? And from what 
follows in this prophecy may we not expect soon the Protestant Episcopal church,—"0 holy, "My Lord, and my God,"—or with the Father know little of the spirituality and extent of the 
to see the blessed Lord coming in a cloud with blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons and in addressing the Son, "Thy throne, 0, God, is divine law, and of the exceeding sinfulness of 
one God : have mercy upon us miserable sin- for ever and ever ; a sceptre of righteousness is sin,—they know little of that tender conscience 
power and great glory, for he says, (Luke, 21, 
28.) "And when these things begin to come to ners." Though the word Trinity is not found in the scepter of thy kingdom." �
which is 
the Scriptures, it is convenient as expressive of �
When, therefore, our Lord said, "My Father �
"Quick as the apple of an eye 
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for 
" 
a Scriptural doctrine. In the very opening of is greater than I," he could not have meant that 
The slightest touch of sin to feel. 
your redemption draweth nigh." 
And it seems that the great Apostle of the divine revelation it is plainly indicated. "In the Father was superior as to nature, but as to �
Hence there is a great amount of superficial 
the beginning God created the heaven and the situation :—he must have refered to that humble piety. 
Gentiles, the beloved Paul, saw our day when earth . . . and the Spirit of God moved upon the state to which himself had cone in order that he �
Beloved brethren are we not in this respect 
he says, (1st Tim. 4, 1.) "Now the spirit speak- face of the waters . . . Let us make man in our might be our Mediator ; for he became not only I, defective in our teaching ? Do not many of those 
eth expressly that in the latter time some shall image,after our likeness" Gen. 1, 1. 2, 26. The less than the Father, but "was made lower than who profess to look for the Lord need to be in- 
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing Redeemer says through Isaiah, "Come ye near the angels," margin, "a little while inferior to strutted in the plague of their own\ hearts ? A 
spirits and doctrines of devils [demons]" This unto me, hear ye this, I have not spoken in se- the angels" for the suffering of death, that he by venerable minister of our faith suggested this 
departure from the faith, which was to come in 
the last time according to the never-erring spirit, cret from the beginning ; from the time that it the grace of God should taste death for every thought to me a few years ago. And though 
is now very apparent. No personal coming of was there am I : and now the Lord God, and man. Heb. 2:9. The apostle tells the whole we may not be more guilty than others, yet we 
his Spirit bath sent me," Isa. 48.16, or as some story on this subject when he affirms that Christ may profit by the suggestion. 
the Lord, no resurrection of the dead, no day of render the passage, ("Spirit" as well as "me" "being in the form of God, thought it not robbe- �
Another fundamental doctrine, yea "vital to 
of devils [demons], received and taught 
judgment, no punishment of the wicked, are doe- 
trines 
 
or being in the objective case) "now the Lord God ry to be equal with God ; but made himself of salvation, essential to understand, to believe, 
by those who give heed to seducing spirits 
bath sent me and his Spirit"—a prophecy which no reputation, and took upon him the form of a and propagate" is the atonement. Weread that 
spiritual mediums. �
was fulfilled when the Son of God became incar- servant, and was made in the likeness of men ; "the Word was made flesh,"—that "God was 
Again saith John, (Rev. 16, 13,) "I saw nate, and the advent of the Holy Ghost took and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled manifest in the flesh," that Christ "became obe-
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the place on the day of Pentecost. After our Sa- himself and became obedient unto death, even client unto death, even the death of the cross," 
, 
viour's baptism, the Father is heard speaking the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath and that "he tasted death for every man." In 
mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the 
beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, from heaven, the Son is seen coming out of the highly exalted him, and given him a name which what capacity did he thus lay down his life ? 
water, and the Spirit is seen descending like a is above every name ; that at the name of Jesus Some say that it was merely as an example of 
fir they are the spirits of devils [demons] work- dove, and lighting upon him Matt. 3. 16, 17. every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and patience ; or as a martyr to seal the truth with 
ing miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the The apostles were commanded to baptize "in things in earth, and things under the earth ; and his blood. But the Bible shows that he died as 
earth,and of the whole workl,to gather them to the the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the that every tongue should confess that Jesus an atonement for sin. Some of its language is, 
battle of that great day of God Almighty. "Be- 
Holy Ghost," Matt. 28:19. Paul concludes one Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father," "He was wounded- for our transgressions, he was 
hold I come as a thief," said the Lord. These of his epistles by saying, "The grace of our Lord Phil. 2 .6-11. �
bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of 
spirits are represented as going forth under the Jesus Christ,and the love of God,and the commun- �
I must also mention the personality'of the our peace was upon him : and with his stripes 
s'xth vial of wrath,a period to which the world has ion of the Holy Ghost,be with you all. Amen." 2 Holy Ghost. This too is included in the doe- we are healed. All we like sheep have gone 
evidently come according to many learned writers 
prophecy ; and, indeed the world seems filled Car. 13, 14. John says, " there are three that trine of the Trinity. By the personality of the astray ; we have turned every one to his own 
on 
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, Spirit is meant that he is not a mere influence, way ; and the Lord bath laid on him the iniqui-
with spiritual manifestations, and doctrines of and the Holy Ghost : and these three are one," but a person, as much so as the Father or the ty of us all." Isa. 53:5, 6. "Christ our passov-
demons ; Europe, Asia, Africa and America are 1 John 5. 7. �
These, though prominent proof Son. Personalities, personal attributes, and per- er is sacrificed for us" 1 Cor. 5:7. "Christ died 
alike infested with them, and all these anti-chris- 
texts, come very far short of exhausting the in- sonal works are ascribed to the Holy Spirit. The for our sins according to the Scriptures" 1 Cor. 
tian doctrines loudly proclaim the coming of the spired testimony on the subject ; but they must disciples are to "baptize in the name of the Path- 15:3. "Now once in the end of the world bath 
true Christ. 
suffice. Thus while God is truly one in essence, er, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." We he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of 
Hence considering the decline of Anti-Christ he is distinguished by a threefold personality. can hardly think that our Lord would give direr- himself." "Christ was once offered to bear the 
the waning of Mahomedanism, the prevalence of 
the doctrines of demons [Spiritualism], and the And though we mortals cannot comprehend the tions to baptize in the name of two persons, and sins of many ; and unto them that look for him 
very remarkable perplexity and commotions mode of the divine existence, yet we can receive an influence ; and it would be strange if it was shall he appear the second time without sin un-
a fact relative to that existence, when that fact needful that Christ should go away that his influ- to salvation",Heb. 9:26, 28. "Christ bath once 
among the nations, we can but hope soon to see 
the King in his beauty. �
becomes a matter of revelation. �
ence might come. �
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he 
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"They that love his appearing are to receive �
Brethren, we may still sing, �
"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and might bring us to God, being Olt to death in the 
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a crown of righteousness," (2d Tim. 4, 8.) Read- �
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow, �
to the Holy Ghost ; as it was in the beginning,is flesh, but quickened by the spirit" 1 Pet. 3:18. 
Praise him all creatures here below ; �
now, and ever shall be : world without end. "This is my blood of the new testament, which is 
�
er do you love his appearing ? Is the prospect �
Praise him above ye heavenly host, �
shed for many for the remission of sins," Mat. 
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sweet to you ? "They that look for him are to �
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." �
Amen." 
Another fundamental doctrine is the fallen 26:28. "We have redemption through his blood, 
inherit salvation," (Heb. 9, 28.) Reader, are 
We regard the pre-existence of Christ, and his 
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you looking for him ? "Behold he cometh with �
state of man. By the fall of man is meant that the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of 
true divinity, as fundamental in the Christian 
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clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they al- �
God made man upright, but in violating his graces" Eph. 1:7. "The blood of Jesus 
scheme. These doctrines are of course, included the divine prohibition he fell,—became sinful and Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin" 1 John 
so which pierced him, and all the kindreds of the in the doctrine of the Trinity, but it is needful miserable. �
1:7. "Thou wart slain,and hast redeemed us to 
earth shall wail because of him ! even so come to mention them separately. Some who protess �
"And ever since his fallen race, �God by thy blood out of every kindred, and 
Lord Jesus, and rescue thy weary bride." �
and call themselves Christians think that our �
From age to age are void of grace," �
tongue, and people, and nation ; and hast made 
But ah, dear reader, the judge is at the door ! Saviour had no existence till he was conceived unless grace has been received through Christ. us unto our God kings and priests : and we shall 
Prove thine own self, search thine heart. Art by the Holy Ghost, and born of the virgin. 0th- The Holy Ghost, who searcheth all things, says reign on the earth" Rev. 5:9, 10. In short 
thou ready to settle accounts with thy judge ? ers do not deny his pre-existence, but they do that "the heart is deceitful above all things and 
Hast thou given thine heart to Christ ? Art thou �
the atonement pervades the entire system of rev- 
not believe it. It is not an article of faith with desperately wicked, "—that those who are now elation, so that to remove it would be to destroy 
reconciled to God ? Are thy sins forgiven ? them. They say they doubt it,—that there is a Christians were "dead in trespasses and sins,".-- the system. It would be like removing the sun 
Think not these questions are for thy friend, thy mystery over the matter, and that it seems to that they "were by nature the children of wrath, from the solar system,—it would be like depriv-
brother, or thy neighbor, but for thyself. Canst them that he must have begun his existence with even as others,"—that ungodly man was "with- ing the air we breathe of its oxygen ; no poor sin- 
thou abide the day of his coming ? �
the Christian Era. �
out strength" when Christ interposed,—that he ner could live. Paul viewed the atonement in 
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[Published by Messiah's Church, worshipping �
this light when he said, "God forbid that I should 
But we have not so learned Christ. John the was lost, wounded, sick, sore, sinking in the dark glory,save in the cross of our Lord J esus Christ." 
in the Baptist Chapel, Eleventh st., between Baptist says, "He that cometh after me is rear- dismal waters of sin and woe, utterly unable to 
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And the poet echoed the voice of Holy Writ 
ed before me," John 1:15. Now the birth of rescue himself. Hence the force of our Saviour's when he said, 
John was six months prior to that of Christ, words, "The Son of man is come to seek, and to �
"Could my tears forever flow, 
therefore if Christ "was before" John, he must save that which was lost." "They that are whole �
Could my zeal no languor know, 
have had an existence independent of his humani- have no need of the physician, but they that are �
These for sin could not atone, 
BY R. HUTCHINSON. 
Thou must save and thou alone, 
The question which now comes under consid- ty. Not only was he before John, but before Ab- sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sin- �
In my hand no price I bring, 
eration is of peculiar importance. It presents raham. "Before Abraham was I am" John 8, ners to repentance." "Without me ye can do �
Simply to the cross I cling." 
not only the temple of truth, but the inner tem- 56, He existed in the beginning at the crea- nothing." "No man can come to me, except the �
(Concluded on p. 365.) 
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" And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom 
under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of 
the Most High; whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all do-
minions shall serve and obey him," Dan. 7:27. 
The vision of the captive prophet being symbolic of a succes-
sion of human governments,-each of which in turn was to 
exercise supremacy over the surrounding nations, and the de-
struction of the last of these having been foreshown,-the scenic 
representation closes with the advent of One like the Son of man, 
and the bestowal on Him of the dominion. In the new govern-
ment, thus inaugurated, we find these characteristics : 
1st. It is universal,-over the entire earth : "all people, na-
tions and languages, should serve him," v. 14. It comprises 
" the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom 
under the whole heaven," v. 27. The dominion, thus given to 
the Son, is not, therefore, over a limited section of the earth,nor 
in some distant region of space ; but it is on the earth, and em-
braces its entire surface. 
2d. It is to be eternal : Unlike the changing, transitory king-
doms, the rise and fall of which had been previously symbolized, 
" His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass 
away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed," v. 
44 :-" Whose kingdom is an everlasting dominion," v. 27.-
And, 
3d. It is a holy kingdom : It is " given to the people of the 
saints of the Most High," v. 27 : " The saints of the Most High 
shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even 
for ever and ever," v. 18. 
For a kingdom thus to exist on the earth forever, its epoch 
must be subsequent to all the physical changes predicted of our 
planet. To have only holy human intelligences for its subjects, 
its period must be subsequent to the resurrection of the just.-
And as this earth is destined to undergo a deluge of fire, accord-
ing to 2 Pet. 3, in which the elements will melt with fervent 
heat, the eternal occupancy of it by a kingdom of saints will 
require that burning to be considered as nut the final end of our 
planet, but as introductory to the eternal establishment upon it 
of the divine government. Our earth, therefore, is not to be 
annihilated, is not to disappear in the final conflagration like a 
taper burned to its socket ; but is to re-emerge, phcenix-like, 
from its ashes, and re-appear in robes of beauty, such as it has 
not worn since sin marred its comeliness and trailed its glory in 
the dust. 
This re-adjustment of our terrestrial sphere is the subject of 
frequent inspired predictions ; and is variously denominated 
" the regeneration," " the restitution," '6 the world to come," 
" the redemption of the purchased possession," the " new heav-
ens and new earth," &c. 
That our world is a fallen one, that it is in a lapsed condition 
in respect to its original creation and purpose, is as clearly ap-
parent from our every observation, as it is distinctly affirmed by 
inspiration :- 
Amid scenes of surpassing beauty-of lofty mountains, hill-
sides crowned with verdure, grass-covered plains, luxurious for-
ests, fertile vales, broad rivers, majestic cataracts, laughing 
brooks, purling rills, waving harvests, grazing flocks, birds beau-
tiful in plumage and song, glorious sunsets, an atmosphere of 
healthful swaetness, and a firmament thickly studded with the 
lamps of heaven-we behold the direst confusion and disorder. 
We see arid wastes which man cannot inhabit, rocky and barren 
cliffs which his foot can never scale, inhospitable regions sealed 
up in perpetual ice and snow, impenetrable marshes given over 
to desolation, belching volcanoes overwhelming fields and cities, 
deadly miasma, noxious beasts and insects, unwholesome vegeta-
tion, burning heat and piercing cold, the heavens oft overspread 
with blackness emitting lurid lightnings and deafening thunders 
and sweeping the earth with terrific tempests, and decay and 
death seizing on and consuming all that is fair and lovely. This 
world, therefore, is a world in ruins,-its present beauty and 
loveliness being only traces of its original condition surviving 
the fall ; to show us what our earth once was, and what it 
would have continued to be, had not sin entered with its attend-
ant curse. 
This also harmonizes with the testimony of Inspiration. The 
earth was created faultless ; for when its creation was complete, 
" God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was 
very good," Gen. 1:31. And then " the morning stars sang 
together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy,' Job 38:7. 
But when man swerved from his allegiance to his Maker, God said 
to him, " Cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt 
thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; thorns also and thistles 
shall it brine.
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the field ; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou 
return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken ; for dust 
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," Gen. 3:17-19. 
Thus we see that this earth was created a perfect orb, and 
that it was blighted with the curse. But was this blight always 
to continue, or to be our earth's final condition ? Is there no hope 
of a restitution 7-of a removal of the curse, with its attend-
ant thorns, thistles and death ? 
Nature gives some slight encouragement, of a recovery from 
the fall, in the re-arrangements and re-adjustments that are 
continually progressing on a smaller scale. The sun sets, and 
rises again. The moon wanes and fades away, and then the 
new moon appears and increases to its full. The lights of heav-
en are veiled in dark clouds ; and then these disappear, and the 
sun and stars again shine forth in all their glory. The raging 
tempest gives place to the bow of hope spanning the heavens. 
The seeds of plants, falling into the earth, spring up again in 
varied forms of vegetable life. Unsightly worms encase them-
selves in tombs and seem to die ; but they re-appear winged in-
sects sporting in plumage of varied beauty. And though the 
leaves fall from the trees, the flowers disappear from the earth, 
the songs isf birds be hushed in the silence of winter, and snow 
and ice seal up the face of nature, it is only for a time; for 
soon, " Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the 
flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is 
come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land, the fig-
tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender 
grape give a good smell," Cant. 2:11-13. 
These minor changes and transformations, if not premonitory, 
show at least the possibility that the winter of our globe may, 
also, in due time pass away, to be followed by eternal spring, 
covering its entire surface with perpetual verdure, and removing 
from it all the disabilities of the fall. We are not, however, 
left to rely merely on inferences drawn from•the changes of na-
ture, nor to rest our faith on what is only possible, or even pro-
bable. Inspiration often alludes to a glorious future in respect 
to our earth ; and its predictions are of such a nature, and are 
expressed in such unequivocal phraseology, that there seems no 
necessity for questioning their import, or for doubting that its 
curse will be ultimately removed. 
Instead, therefore, of desert wastes and arid plains, it is re-
vealed that " The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad 
for them ; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. 
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and sing-
ing : the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency 
of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord.and 
the excellency of our God," Isa. 35:1, 2. " In the wilderness 
shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the 
parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs 
of water : in the habitations of dragons, where each lay, shall 
be grass with reeds and rushes," lb. vs. 6, 7. "I will plant in 
the wilderness," saith the Lord, " the cedar, the shittah tree, 
and the myrtle, and the oil tree ; I will set in the desert the fir 
tree, and the pine, and the box tree together : that they may 
see, and know, and understand together, that the hand of the 
Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel bath created 
it," Isa. 41:19, 20. " For ye shall go out with joy, and be led 
forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth 
before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap 
their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, 
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it 
shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall 
not be cut off," Isa. 55:12, 13. " Thine eyes shall see the King 
in his beauty : they shall behold the land that is very far off," 
Isa. 33:17. " Arid the inhabitant shall not say, I ant sick : the 
people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity," Ib. 
v. 34. " And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the 
covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all 
nations. He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord 
God will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke of 
his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the 
Lord hath spoken it," Isa. 25:7, 8. One Seraph " cried unto 
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the 
whole earth is full of his glory," Isa. 6:3. " They shall not 
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth shall 
be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the 
sea," Isa. 11:9. " Thy dead men shall live, together with my 
dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing ye that dwell in 
the dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth 
shall cast out the dead," Isa. 26:19. " The ransomed of the 
Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting 
joy upon their heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness, and 
sorrow and sighing shall flee away," Isa. 35:10. " The glory 
of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and 
the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I 
will make the place of my feet glorious," lsa. 60:13. " Vio- 
lence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction 
within thy borders. . . Thy people also shall be all righteous, 
they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, 
the work of my hands, that I may be glorified," lb. vs. 18-21. 
" For, behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth : and the 
former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be 
ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create : for, behold, 
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I 
will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : and the voice 
of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of cry- 
ing. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an 
old man that hath not filled his days," Isa. 65:17-20. " For as 
the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall 
remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your 
name remain," Isa. 66:22. " They shall teach no more every 
man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the 
Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto 
the greatest of them, saith the Lord ; for I will forgive their 
iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more," Jer. 31:34. 
" As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory 
of the Lord," Num. 14:21. 
Such are some of the many predictions,-the text and context 
of which show this earth to be their subject,-in which exemp- 
tion from sickness, recovery from the tomb, the restoration of 
the earth, and the, unending duration of a new order of things 
are clearly foretold ; and they evidently synchronize with the 
time when " the kingdom under the whole heaven," shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High for ever. 
Those declarations of the Old, run parallel with the teachings 
of our Lord and his apostles, in the :New Testament. "Blessed 
are the meek," said the Savior, " for they shall inherit the 
earth," Matt. 5:5. The common interpretation of this passage 
-making its fulfilment during our present condition of toil and 
suffering,-would not be allowed for a moment in respect to the 
.parallel promises, to the poor in spirit, to those who mourn, to 
those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, to the merciful, 
to the pure in heart, and the peacemakers. The promises to 
these are admitted to point to the glorious future ; and why not 
also that to the meek ? - which must as much include all the 
meek as do the other promises all the subjects of their several beati- 
tudes. This blessing on the meek can belong no more to those 
living under the gospel than it did to those who were stoned, 
sawn asunder, tempted, and slain with the sword, who wander- 
ed about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, 
tormented, and making their homes in deserts and in the dens 
and caves of the mountains. Did such then inherit the earth ? 
or did those inherit it who have since died at the stake, pined 
away in dungeons, served as food for wild beasts, or left their 
bones on the mountains or in the vallies of Piedmont? The 
common interpretation makes this promised inheritance to have 
been fulfilled to, and enjoyed by, such worthies in their direst 
extremity of sorrows and privations. The promise, however, 
was not The meek do, but, " they shall inherit." It was man-
ifestly a promise of future good, to cheer up and encourage 
those who endure present sufferings. And it may be said in re-
spect to this, as of all other future blessings : " These all, hav-
ing obtained a good report through faith, received not the prom-
ise : God having provided some better thing for us, that they 
without us should not be made perfect," Heb. 11:39, 40. 
Could there be any question as to the epoch of the fulfilment 
of this promise to the meek, it would seem that it should be all 
removed by the fact that these words of our Lord are the repe- 
tition of the same declaration by the Psalmist, who connects it 
with the cutting off of the wicked. " For," he says," evil do- 
ers shall be cut off : but those that wait upon the Lord,they shall 
inherit the earth. For yet a little whilo, and the wicked shall 
not be : yea thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall 
not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth and delight them- 
selves in the abundance of peace," Psa. 37:9-11. " The Lord 
knoweth the days of the upright : and their inheritance shall 
be for ever. . . But the wicked shall perish," vs. 18-20. " For 
such as he blessed of Him shall inherit the earth ; and they that 
be cursed of him shall be cut off," v. 22. " Wait on the Lord, 
and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : 
when the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it," v. 34. It is 
thus positively affirmed by inspiration that the inheritance of 
the earth by the righteous, is to be at the cutting off of the 
wicked, and then the inheritance is eternal, as David says ; for, 
" The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein for 
ever," v. 29. 
In the same discourse of our Lord he taught his disciples to 
pray : " Thy kingdom come : thy will be done on earth as it is 
done in heaven," lb. 6:10-thus showing that perfect conform- 
ity to God's will on earth, will mark the establishment of his 
kingdom. But such conformity supposes the banishment of sin 
and sinners from our globe ; and this also is in accordance with 
our Saviour's own doctrine : "In the end of this world, the Son 
of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of 
his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 
and shall cast them into a furnace of fire : there shall be wail-
ing and gnashing of teeth : then shall the righteous shine forth 
as the sun in the kingdom of their Father," Matt. 13:40-43. 
As the kingdom,in which the righteous will shine as the sun, 
is that out of which the angels will gather all things offensive, 
it can be none other than our fallen planet ; which was prepared 
for man to rule over at its creation, which became corrupted 
with sin and defiled by sinners, and which will then have been 
restored to its original perfection and beauty. This is in har-
mony with what " the King shall say unto them on his right 
hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
pared for you from the foundation of the world," Matt. 25:34, 
-of which our Savior also said, "They which shall be account 
ed worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the 
dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage, neither can they 
die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the 
children of God, being the children of the resurrection," Luke 
20:35, 36. And this inheritance of the saints must he what our 
Lord called " the regeneration ;" when he said, " Verily I say 
unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration 
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye 
also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel," Matt. 19:28. 
Peter evidently has in view those glorious predictions here 
copied from the Old Testament, with others of a like nature, 
when he speaks of " the restitution" and " times of refresh-
ing :" " Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins 
may he blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come' 
from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send Jesus Christ 
which before was preached unto you : whom the heaven must 
receive until the times of restitution, of all things which God 
hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the 
world began," Acts 3:19-21. Peter elsewhere speaks of Christ's 
having " begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrec-
tion of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorrup-
tible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in hea-
ven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith 
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time," 1 Pet. 1:3-
5. And when he affirms that " The day of the Lord will come 
as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away 
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, 
the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned 
up," (2 Pet. 3:10 ;) he adds : " Nevertheless we, according to 
his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness," lb. v. 13 - showing that the earth is 
not to be burned up, in the sense of annihilation, but " the 
works that are therein ;" when " the earth also," with " the 
elements,shall melt with fervent heat," and being purified by fire, 
will re-emerge from its molten mass a new and beautiful world, 
adapted to the eternal residence of its ransomed and resurrected 
sons and daughters. 
Paul's teachings do not conflict with Peter's ; when he speaks 
of our being " sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise," he calls 
it only " the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption 
of the purchased possession," (Eph. 1:14) ; which must refer 
to the redemption of this earth. And he represents our world 
and all its occupants as being in a waiting position for a new 
and better order of creation : " For the earnest expectation of 
the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but 
by reason of him who bath subjected the same in hope, because 
the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of 
corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For 
we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in 
pain together until now. And nut only they, but ourselves also, 
which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 
within ourselves waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemp-
tion of our body," Rom. 8:19-23. 
Such a deliverance of the creature from the bondage of corrup-
tion, would restore the animal races to the condition of peace and 
harmlessness in which they were created ; so that again, as pre-
dicted by Isaiah, " The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,and 
the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the 
young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead 
them : and the cow and the bear shall feed ; their young ones 
shall lie down together ; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; 
and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the 
weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They 
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain ; for the 
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters 
cover the sea," Lea. 11:6-9. 
Paul again takes up the same subject, and denominates the 
restored creation " the world to come." He says that " Unto 
the angels bath He not put in subjection the world to come, 
whereof we speak ; but one in a certain place [David in the 8th 
Psalm] testified saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of 
him ? or the son of man that thou visitest him ? Thou modest 
him a little lower than the angels ; thou crownedst him with 
glory and honor, and didst set him over the work of thy hands: 
thou bast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in 
that he put all in subjection under him, be left nothing that is 
not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under 
him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the 
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; 
that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man," 
Heb. 2:5-9. 
It was in thus tasting death for man that our Lord purchased 
the possession he will shortly redeem for its future occupants-
whom his blood also redeems ; and this " world to come" will 
be put in subjection again to man,-Christ, in his glorified hu-
manity being the head of our race. And though " the heavens 
and earth which are now," " are kept in store, reserved unto 
fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men" 
(2 Pet. 3:7,) and so perish in an ocean of molten lava,-even as 
" the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perish-
ed," (v. 6)-it will re-emerge from its deluge of fire, as that 
from its deluge of water, a " new heavens and a new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness." For, " Thou, Lord, in the 
beginning hest laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens 
are the work of thy hands : they shall perish ; but Thou re-
mainest ; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment ; and as 
a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed," 
Heb. 1:10-12. There is not to be, however, as some poets sing, 
" A wreck of matter, and a crush of worlds." 
They will only have laid aside their sin-soiled garments, to re-
appear in robes of angelic purity,-an appropriate residence for; 
earth's redeemed inhabitants. " For, thus saith the Lord that; 
created the heavens,-God himself that formed the earth an& 
made it : He bath established it : He created it not in vain, He. 
formed it to be inhabited," Isa. 45:18. " The heaven, even the 
heavens, are the Lord's ; but the earth bath he given to the 
children of men," Pea. 115:16. 
Such being our earth's predicted future, John, in Apocalyptic 
vision, saw a symbolization of its future occupants : " And they 
sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,and 
to open the seals thereof'; for Thou watt slain, and bast redeem-
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and people, and nation ; and bast made us unto our God kings 
and priests : and we shall reign on the earth," Rev. 5:3, 10.—
" And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices 
in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the 
kingdom of our -Lord and his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever 
and ever"—that being " the time of the dead, that they should 
be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy ser-
vants the prophets; and to the saints, and them that fear thy 
name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which des-
troy the earth," Rev. 11:15, 18. 
John also had a vision of the final consummation, and testi-
fies : " I saw a now heaven, and a new earth : for the first hea-
ven and the first earth had passed away ; and there was no more 
sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming 
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for 
her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, say-
ing, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will 
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself. 
shall be with them, and be their. God. And God shall wipe 
away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be do more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pains 
for the former things are passed away. And lie that sat upon 
the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And Ile said 
unto me, Write : for these words are true and faithful. And 
He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the be-
ginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the 
fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall 
inherit all things ; and I will be his God, and he shall be my 
eon," Rev. 21:1-7. "And there shall be no more.curse, but the 
throne of God, and of the Lamb, shall be in it ; and his ser-
vants shall serve Him : and they shall see His face, and his 
name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night 
there ; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun ; for 
the Lord God giveth them light : and they shall reign for ever 
and ever," Rev. 22:3-5. 
Thus, the curse being removed from the earth, it having been 
cleansed from sin by purgatorial fires, and the righteous being 
raised from the dead, incorruptible—those then living also put-
ting on immortality—this earth will have become the kingdom of 
the saints. For, "The kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness 
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the 
people of toe saints of the Most High ; whose' kingdom is an 
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey 
Him." 
If such be the undoubted testimony of Inspiration, in respect 
to the future destiny of the earth ; if the prophecies indeed 
clearly foretell its recovery from all the disabilities and defile-
ments of the fall, its re-investment in robs of innocence and 
beauty, and designate it as the inheritance of the glorified re-
deemed ; is it not important that those, who look for redemp-
tion through Christ Jesus, be rightly instructed, and that their 
hopes be in accordance with God's promises? 
There are often manifested distaste and indifference towards 
this doctrine ; but, if it be scriptural, may it be innocently un-
dervalued? It is the duty of every Christian to carefully study 
God's word in respect to all that has been written by holy men 
of old as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Tu do this, is 
not attempting to penetrate the mystery of " secret things " 
which " belong to the Lord our God :" it is endeavoring to ap-
prehend the import of " things revealed," — of the teachings 
which God has condescended to communicate to our fathers, and 
to us their children. To be otherwise than solicitous to have 
clear and consistent views of all God's revealed purposes, would 
be to disregard His condescension, and to question His wisdom 
in placing on record things for our learning. And whatever 
may have been revealed, as the final destiny of the redeemed, 
that, surely, we ought to love and cherish. 
A material world is, in the minds of many, indissolubly allied 
to sin and corruption ; and therefore the thought of this earth, 
as their final home, is to them distasteful. But our Saviour, by 
his resurrection, has shown us how the material may be elevated 
above the sinful and corruptible ; and this earth, freed from the 
disabilities of the fall, would be as much a heaven, as any other 
of the worlds of God's creating—the countless mansions in our 
Father's house. 
As whatever is revealed as the saint's future abode, will be 
their only inheritance ; as those who look for salvation through 
Christ Jesus will inherit that, or be among the lost ; it is nut 
unreasonable to suppose that faith in that specific promise, and 
clear views respecting it, should give harmony to one's religious 
opinions, enable him the better to apptehend God's great plan 
of redemption, make his efforts more in unison with God's pur-
poses, and thus cause him to grow in grace, and to be better fit-
ted for the ultimate possession of that inheritance. And, on the 
other hand, to cherish disparaging views of the locality or con-
dition which, after all, may be the inheritance God has prom-
ised, may prove in the end to have been an unexpected hinder-
ance to one's growth in grace and preparation for the kingdom. 
For God evidently requires that our desires and affections should 
be in the direction of His purposes. Esau lost the inheritance 
to which he was entitled because he " despised his birthright," 
Gen. 25:34. Ile thought it of so little value, that, when faint 
and hungry, he recklessly bartered it fur a mess of pottage, and 
so cast it off for ever. Some of the children of Jacob, also, 
" despised the pleasant land ; believed not his word," respect-
ing it (Psa. 106:24) ; and, as a consequence, left their bones in 
the wilderness. It is perilous to undervalue any good which 
God has promised ; and if He has indeed revealed the restora-
tion of this earth, and its inheritance by the redeemed, we may, 
by despising it, be denied its possession. The loss of Canaan, 
by those Israelites who disbelieved, is recorded fur the admoni-
tion of all who come after, and Paul dwells upon it with mark-
ed emphasis : " To whom sware He that they should not enter 
into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that 
ih 'y could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore 
fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any 
of you should seem to come short of it." For there remaineth 
" a rest to the people of God." " Let us labor therefore to 
enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of 
unbelief," IIeb. cli. 3 and 4. 
The rest, here referred to, is, in the margin, " the keeping of 
a sabbath ;" and it is that undoubtedly which was typified by 
the Jewish sabbatical observances of days, weeks, years, and 
jubilees. During every seventh year, Israel was forbidden ei-
ther to sow or reap ; because it was a sabbath to the Lord, and 
a year of rest to the land. In every fiftieth year, liberty was 
proclaimed throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants there-
of ; then every bondman became free ; and to every one who 
had forfeited or sold his inheritance, it was then restored. Dur-
ing those years, man and beast lived on the spontaneous produc-
tions of the earth. And, thus typifying; a future rest that re-
maineth to God's people, the faith of ancient Israel must have 
had respect to the recovery of this earth from the curse,—a re-
version of all its present disabilities. 
It would be difficult to conceive that anything less than this 
restitution should have been anticipated as the result of the 
bruising of Satan's head by the woman's promised Seed. For, 
the defeat of the author of all our woe, surely, implies the full 
recovery of God's children from it. 
That such was the faith of ancient Israel, that the fathers of 
the early Christian church cherished no other, and that it has 
cheered and animated godly men in all ages since, is fully estab. 
lished by abundant testimony. 
Bishop RUSSELL, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the 
Scottish Episcopal Church, affirms that it was a tradition of the 
house of Elias, who lived. about B. C. 200, and the opinion of 
other ancient Jews, that in the 7th millennium "God will renew 
the world," Discourse on the Mill. 
The same opinion is expressed by later Jews: 
BEN-ISRAEL MENASSE, a Portuguese Rabbi' who died in 1660, 
said : 
As for my opinion, I think that after six thousand years 
the world shall be destroyed, upon one certain day, or in an 
hour ; that the arches of heaven shall make a stand, as immov-
able ; and all things, by the resurrection shall be renovated, and 
return to a better condition." And, he adds, " This, out of 
doubt, is the opinion of the most learned Aben Ezra " ; who 
looked for it in the new earth of Isa. 65th. 
DAVID Kumla, on Isa. 55:5, is quoted by Mr. Mede as say-
ing`: 
The observance of the sabbath is essential to the faith ; for 
such only as observe the sabbath confess that the earth will be 
renewed. Because Ile who created it out of nothing will renew 
it." 
RABBI JEREMIAS said : 
" The holy blessed God shall renew the world and build Jer-
usalem, and cause it to descend from heaven." 
RABBI BERAKTAII, said in the name of R. Samuel : 
" Although all things were created perfect, yet when the first 
man sinned tney were corrupted, and will not again return to 
their congruous state till PIIERES (i. e. the Messiah) comes... . 
There are six things which shall be restored to their primitive 
state, viz., the splendor of man, his life, the height of his stat-
ure, the fruits of the earth, the fruits of the trees, and the lu-
minaries (the sun, moon and stars)." Bereshith, Rabba, Ful. 
II. Col. 3. 
R. MOSES MAIMONIDES, wrote in Dent. § 45 : 
" Man shall be restored in that time, namely, in the days of 
the first Messiah, to that state in which lie was before the first 
man sinned." 
R. BECAI gave as his opinion : 
" In that time (i. e. of the Messiah) the whole work of crea-
tion shall be changed for the better, and shall return into its 
perfect and pure state, as it was in the time of the first man 
before he sinned." In Shilear Orba, Fol. 9, Col. 4, p. 360. 
RABBI GAMALIEL, the preceptor of St. Paul is reported to have 
been asked by the Sadducees whence he could prove that God 
would raise the dead, and to have silenced them by the quotation 
of Deut. 11:21, "Which land the Lord moreover sware he would 
give to your fathers." The Rabbi argued, as Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob had it not, and as God cannot lie, therefore they 
must be raised to inherit it. 
No one will understand these quotations from Jewish writers, 
or from Christian, are given as proof of the doctrine. They are 
adduced merely to show how ancient it is, and how extensively 
it has prevailed; and it is for those, who question its truth, to 
account for the wonderful agreement there is between the ancient 
opinions and the Scriptural testimony, it the doctrine be not 
true. 
Thus we read in the ancient epistle of Barnabas : " In six 
thousand years, the Lord will bring all things to an end . . . . 
when iniquity shall be no more, all things being renewed by the 
Lord," Sec. 14, 15. 
Rev. J.E. GRABE, D. D., in reference to the antiquity of this 
doctrine, observes : 
" As to the fact, it is certain that all the orthodoX Christians 
of the first ages, expected new heavens and a new earth, accord-
ing to the sayings of the apostles and the prophets, at the second 
coming of the Messiah, to restore them to that state of felicity 
in which they had floUrished before Adam's fall ; which was also 
the opinion of the early Jewish writers, as appears from the 
sayings of the Rabbies." Quoted from Believer's Guide, by 
Lieut. G. H. Wood, London, 1831, p. 87. 
Lieut. Wood adds : �
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" To these words of Grabe we may add the observation of the 
venerable head of Magda!en (Rowth's Reliqum Sacrw) : ' As to 
the source of this opinion concerning the renovation of the earth, 
which formerly spread far and wide, and even now continues 
among many theologians, Grabe has shown that it was held for- 
merly by the early Jews (Bull. Jud. Eccl. Cath.) Moreover 
Mosheim has shown (Stec. iii. § 38) that the Chiliasts (as the 
millenarians were anciently called) existed among Christians 
before the time of Papias." 
PAPIAs, thus referred to, Bishop of Hierapolis, is supposed to 
have been a disciple of John. According to Jerome, (De Scrip. 
Eccles.) he wrote in the Preface of his hook, called " The Ex-
planation of the Words of our Lord," that 
" He did not follow various opinions, but had the apostles for 
his authors. And that he considered what Andrew, what Peter 
said ; what Philip, what Thomas, and other disciples of the 
Lord ; as also what Austion, and John the senior, disciples of 
the Lord, what they spoke. And that he did not profit so much 
by reading hooks, as by the living voice of those persons which 
resounded from them to that day." 
To the same effect Eusebius (Reel. iii.), gives the words of 
Papias 
" Nor will you be sorry, that, together with our interprets. 
tions, I commit to writing those things which I have formerly 
learnt from the elders, and committed to memory. For I never, 
as many do, have followed those who abound in words, but ra- 
ther thoSe who taught the truth ; nor those who taught certain 
new and unaccustomed precepts, but those who remembered the 
commands of our Lord, handed down in parables, and proceed- 
big from Truth itself. But if at any time I met with one who 
hid been conversant with the elders, from him I diligently in- 
quired what were the sayings of the elders . . . for I thought 
that I could not derive so great profit from the reading of books 
as from the conversation of men yet surviving." " The elders 
who had seen St. John, the disciple of our Lord, taught con-
cerning those times (the restitution) and said : 
" The days shall come when the vine shall bring forth abun-
dantly . . and corn in like manner . . . and all other fruits and 
seeds and herbs after their kinds ; and all animals, using those 
kinds of food which spring from the earth, shall become harmo- 
nious one to another, being perfectly obedient to man. But 
these things are credible only to those who have faith. That 
then Judas, the betrayer, not believing, and asking how such 
fertility should be brought about by the Lord ; our Lord said, 
They shall see who come to those times.' And of these very 
times Isaiah, prophesying, saith, and the wolf shall dwell with 
the lamb.' " 
POLYCARP, Bishop of Smyrna, burned at the stake, who, 
when urged to blaspheme Christ, answered : " Fourscore and 
six years have I served him, and he never did me any harm, —
how then can I blaspheme my King, and my Saviour?" is sup- 
posed by Usher and others to have been a disciple of John, and 
"the angel of the church of Smyrna," to whom one of John's 
epistles to the seven churches was addressed, in A. D. 96, Rev. 
2:8.* lie is thus spoken of by Irenwus, in an epistle to Flori-
nuS : 
"When I was very young, I saw you in the Lower Asia with 
Polycarp. I can remember circumstances of that time better 
than those which have happened more recently ; for the things 
which we learn in childhood grow up with the soul, and unite 
themselves -to it ; insomuch that 1 can tell the place in which 
the blessed Polycarp sat and taught, and his going out and com-
ing in, the manner of his life, the form of his person, and the 
discourses he made to the people ; and how he related his con-
versation with John, and others who had seen the Lord ; and 
how he related their sayings, and the things which he heard of 
them concerning the Lord, both concerning his miracles and 
doctrines, as he had received them from the Lord of Life : all of 
which Polycarp related agreeably to the Scriptures," &c. From 
Brooks' Elements. 
With this testimony, respecting Polycarp's teachings, by one 
who clearly taught the regeneration of the earth, there can be 
no question as to the meaniug of Polycarp in such passages as 
the following : 
" If we please [the Lord] in this present world, we shall also 
be made partakers of that which is to collie, according as he bath 
promised us, that he will raise us from tie dead ; and that if we 
walk worthy of him. we also shall reign together with him." 
" Who of you are ignorant of the judgment of God? Do we 
not know that the saints shall judge the world, as Paul teach-
es?" " The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, &c., 
grant unto you a lot and portion among the saints, and us with 
you, and to all who are under the heavens, who shall believe in 
our Lord Jesus Christ, and in his Father who raised him from 
the dead."—See Brooks' Elements. 
JUSTIN MARTYR, born at Neapolis in Palestine, about A. D. 
89, and converted to Christianity about A, D. 163, taught thus: 
" I, and all that are orthodox Christians, are acquainted with: 
the resurrection of the body and the thousand years in Jeru-
salem, that shall be re-edified, adorned, and enlarged, as 
the prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah, and others declare. For Isaiah 
saith of this thousand years, 65:17, Behold Ilcreate new heav-
ens and a new earth,' "&c. " Moreover, a certain man among 
us, whose name is John, being one of the twelve apostles of 
Christ, in that revelation which was shown to him prophesied, 
that those who believe in our Christ shall fulfil a thousand years 
at Jerusalem ; and after that the general, and, in a word, the 
everlasting resurrection, and last judgment of all together. 
Whereof also our Lord spfte when he said that therein they shall 
neither marry, nor be given in marriage, but shall be equal with 
the angels, being made the sons of the resurrection of God."—
Dialogue with Trypho.—See Brooks' Elements, Literalist, v. 3, 
p. 39. 
'BENXI'S, bishop of Lyons, born about A. D. 120, and mar-
tyred aoout A.D. 202, when arguing that the blessing promised 
to Jacob, from his father Isaac, was not made good in this life, 
said : 
" Without doubt those words had a further aim and prospect 
upon the times of the kingdom ; when the just, rising Irons the 
dead, shall reign, and when nature, renewtd and set at liberty, 
shall yield plenty and abundance of all thing, being blest with 
the dew of heaven and a fertility of the earth : according as has 
been related by those ecclesiastics or clergy who saw St. John, 
the disciple of Christ, and heard of him what our Lord had 
taught concerning those times."—See Burnet's Theory of the 
Earth, v. 2, p. 185. 
It is affirmed of Irenaeus, by both Jerome and Eusebius, that 
he delivered as an article in the symbol or creed of the churches 
in his time, that " Christ should eorne to restore all things." 
" For it is fitting that the just, rising at the appearing of God, 
should in the renewed state receive the promise of inheritance 
which God covenanted to the fathers, and should reign in it; and 
that then should come the final judgment. For in the same con-
dition, in which they have labored and been afflicted, and been 
tried by suffering, in all sorts of ways it is but just that in it 
they should receive the fruits of suffering, so that whero, for the 
love of God, they suffered death, there they should be brought 
to life again ; and where they endured bondage, there also they 
should reign. For God is rich in all things, and all things are 
of him ; and therefore I say it is becoming, that the creature 
being restored to its original beauty, should withoutany imped--
iment or drawback be subject to the righteous. . . God repeat-
edly promised the inheritance of the land to Abraham and his 
seed ; and as neither Abraham nor his seed—that is those who 
are justified by faith—have enjoyed any inheritance in it, they 
will undoubtedly receive it at the resurrection of the just. For 
true and unchangeable is God : wherefore also he said, Blessed, 
are the meek ; for they shall inherit the earth.'''—See Brooks' 
Elements, p. 40. 
We are indebted to Tremens, for preserving what is known of 
the writings of Papias and Polycarp ; whose works are lost. 
TERTULLIAN, born in Carthage, about A. D. 150, wrote his 
famous apology about A.D. 180-200. In his Book iii. against 
Manion the heretic, c.24, as translated by Hanmer in his "View 
of Antiquity," he says : 
" We confess that a kingdom is promised to us on earth, be-
fore the heavenly one, but in another state, viz. after the recur-
reetien, for a thousand years, in a city of divine workmanship, 
the New Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, &c. This, we 
say, is provided of God fur the saints, at their resurrection, to 
be refreshed with all spiritual good things in recompense of those 
things which in this world we have either despised or lost; For 
it is a righteous thing, and worthy of God, that his servants 
should exult and rejoice where they have been afflicted for his 
name's sake."—See Elements, p. 42. 
Tertullian mentions it as a custom of his time for Christians 
to pray " ut pastern in prima resurrectione"—that they might 
have part in the first resurrection. lb. 
" Of the early history of this eminent father we bare no trust-
worthy account. The time of his birth is not known, and we can only 
determine ,it by approximation. At the time of his martyrdom, to 
Which various dates are assigned, he had been a Christian eighty-,,,ix 
years. Now if we adopt for the present Tillemont's date of his martyr-
dom, A. D. 106, and suppose Poly carp to have been of Christian parents, 
or at least educated froth childhood in the Christian faith, and so inter-
pret the eighty-six years, as several eminent critics do, of the term of 
his natural life, his birth will fall in A. D. SO ; but if with other 
critics we suppose him to have been converted at a riper age, and com-
pute the eighty-six years from the time of his conversion, his birth, 
Must be placed at a considerably earlier period."—Litt. of Greek and 
Roman. Biography and Mythology, vol. 3, p. 450. 
We incline to the "considerably earlier period." For the testimony 
of Irenmus respecting Polycarp's narration of his conversations with 
the apostle John, would indicate his having reached manhood before-
John's decease. , If we suppose, him to have been born about A. D. 70, 
to have been converted at the age of 10, and martyred at the age of 90 
about A. D. 166, he might have been Bishop of Smyrna in A. D. 05. 
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THE ADVEN F HERALD. 
be willing," said he to the person who made the re-
mark, "to take care of all this property just for a 
maintenance ?" "No," said the other ; "I should 
think myself entitled to abetter commission than 
that." "Well'' said Mr. Astor, "that's all 1 get out 
of it." 
That's all that any man can get out of the largest 
heaps of worldly accumulations ; except as he 
"shakes the superflux" to holy and charitable ob-
jects, and so turns the mere unused surplus of his 
wealth into its most solid and enduring part. trea-
suring it up in "bags which wax not old," and con-
verting it into "a treasure in the heavens, which 
faileth not."-Tract Journal. 
The Saviour Ever Present. 
"Lord save us : we perish," Matt. 8 : 25. 
The Albany Journal gives an extract from a let-
ter written by Corporal P. Young, of Company D., 
fifteenth Massachusetts regiment, to a brother of his 
in that city, in which he narrates his escape at 
Ball's Bluff. lie writes : 
"The dread alternative of surrendering and be-
coming a prisoner of Jeff. Davis, or swim the Poto-
mac, or make my grave in its dark and murky bot-
tom presented itself, and I chose to swim, with all 
my uniform on, after thinking the matter all over, 
fully in a cleft of a rock, where I hid myself about 
sundown, when the friendly darkness covered my 
escape and put an end to the awful conflict. 
"While 1 was in the water I gave myself to my 
Saviour in prayer, using the same prayer which had 
availed on another occasion: 'Lord, save or I per-
ish !' I did not feel cold or uncomfortable, or unhap-
py ; the heavy current taking me away down the 
stream a long distance ; but at length I reached the is-
land,and went to the building where the wounded had 
been carried during the day, where I found so many 
so much worse than myself, that I did not speak to 
anybody, the floors being all covered with dead and 
wounded. 
"I found I was getting cold and immediately went 
out for exercise, and met a man who was waiting 
on the wounded, carrying them blankets, overcoats, 
&c. �
He asked me if I did not want something to 
put on. I replied yes, thankfully, and he took off 
his own eoat, as I supposed, but to my perfect sur-
prise and astonishment he had given me my own 
overcoat, taken from an out-house in which hundreds 
had been thrown before the battle, and carried off 
during the day without any regard to who the own-
er was. I made my way home to camp, and did not 
feel exhausted after all the superhuman labors and 
trials and sufferings ofthat bloody day." 
A Question for Every One. 
Reader, whoever thou art, or wherever, through-
out the wide world, these lines shall meet thine eye, 
ane thing is certain, that thou art either among the 
saved or the lost-among the tares or of the wheat. 
To which do you belong ? If the last trump Were 
to-night to sound-if "the harvest," which is "the 
end of the world," were indeed to arrive now-if 
the great Husbandman said to the angel-reapers, 
"Gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to 
burn them, but gather my wheat into my barn"-
would you be among the wheat or among the tares? 
Think of this question, reader. Ponder it.-N. Y. 
Observer. 
The War. 
There is so much published in respect to the war 
that has to be contradicted in the next paper, that 
we prefer to limit the intelligence we give, to mat-
ters well authenticated. 
The most important event since our last issue is 
the removal of Gen. Fremont from the head of the 
western army, and the appointment of Gen. Hun-
ter to succeed him. We fear that injustice has been 
done the former ; but there will doubtless be a full 
investigation, which will show who is blameable. 
The naval expedition appears to have landed at Port 
Royal in South Carolina ; but nothing very well 
authenticated has been heard from it. A movement 
of the confederate troops to the south has been made 
to meet the emergency. 
A dispatch from Cairo, Ill. on the 7th Inst. gives 
the folldwirig : 
"An expedition left here last night, under Gen-
erals Grant and IkIcClernand, and landed at Bel-
mont, Mo., three miles above Columbus,at 8 o'clock 
this morning. The Federal troops, numbering 3500, 
engaged the rebels, 7000 strong, at 11 o'clock. The 
battle lasted until sundown. The rebels were driv-
en from their entrenchments across the river with 
great loss ; their camp was burnt, and their stores 
with all their baggage, cannon, horses and mules 
captured, and one hundred prisoners taken. The 
Federal troops then retired, the rebels having re-
ceived reinforcements from Columbus. Botts Gen-
erals had their horses shot under them. Col. Dough-
erty of Illinois was wounded and taken prisoner. 
The rebel loss is unknown. The Federal loss is be-
lieved to be from 300 to 500." 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 16, 1861. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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Exposition of Daniels Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VII. 
"Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me 
Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my 
countenance changed in me : but I kept the matter 
in my heart," v. 28. 
"Hitherto," i. e. at this point, was ended the vi-
sion and its explanation. The symbolic scenery 
conducting the prophet down through a series of 
tour successive earthly governments, a division of 
the last of which made war upon the saints,-had 
terminated in the establishment of God's everlast-
ihg kingdom ; and, the inspired interpretation hav-
ing covered the same ground, the revelation was end-
ed. 
Left now to his own meditations, the prophet 
could not be unsolicitious respecting what he had 
seen and heard. Those great beasts, that self-suffi-
cient terrible little horn, had given rise to such 
anxious forebodings, that his countenance showed 
the inward workings of his mind ; but he commu-
nicated to no one the cause of his troubled look,-
keeping the subject to himself, except as he made 
this record of it for the instruction of coming 
ages. 
"Doth not wisdom cry ? and understanding 
put forth her voice?" 
Ans. "She standeth in the tgp 'of high places, by 
the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the 
gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at 
the doors : Unto you, 0 men, I call ; and my voice 
is to the sons of men. 0 ye simple, understand wis-
dom : and ye fools,be ye of an understanding heart." 
"Where shall wisdom be found ? and where 
is the place of understanding? 
Ans. "Man knoweth not the price thereof ; neith-
er is it found in the land of the living. The depth 
saith it is not in me : and the sea saith it is not in me : 
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the 
precious onyx, or, the sapphire. The gold and the 
crystal cannot equal it : and the exchange of it shall 
not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be 
made of coral, or of pearls : for the price of wisdom 
is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not 
equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold." 
Job 23 : 12-19. 
"Whence then cometh wisdom ? and where is 
the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from 
the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls 
of the air." 
Ans. "Destruction and death say, We have heard 
the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth 
the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth 
under the whole heaven ; To make the weight for 
the winds ; and he weigheth the waters by measure. 
When he made a decree for the rain and a way for 
the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it,and 
desire it ; he prepared it, yea and searched it out 
And unto man he said, Behold,the fear of the Lord, 
that is wisdom ; and to depart from evil is undei-
standing." Job 28 : 20-28. 
"Who hath known the mind of the Lord? or 
who bath been his counsellor? or who bath first 
given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him 
again?" 
.4ns. "Of Him, and through Him, and to Him, 
are all things : to whom be glory for ever," Rom. 
11 : 34-36. 
"Canst thou by searching find. out God ? canst 
thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ?" 
Ans. "It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou 
do? deeper than hell ; what canst thou know? the 
measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broad-
er than the sea," Job 11 : 7=9. 
"Art Thou not" He,0 Lord, who "bath dried 
the sea, the waters of the greal deep ; that bath 
made the ransomed to pass over ?", 
Ans. "Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall 
return, and come with singing unto Zion : and ever-
lasting joy shall be upon their heads : and they shall 
obtain gladness and joy ; and sorrow and mourning 
shall flee away," Isa. 51 : 10 11. 
Nothing over, and Nothing Lacking . 
"The children of Israel did so,and gathered, some 
more,and some less. And when they did mete it with 
an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, 
and he that gathered little had no lack," Ex. 16: 17, 
18. 
A solicitor for aid to a benevolent object remarks 
as follows : 
I once had occasion to present a certain charity 
to a prosperous mechanic. Ile seemed not much in-
clined to help it ; but after listening to my represen-
tations he at length suddenly gave way, and made a 
handsome subscription. In due time he paid it cheer-
fully, and sail, "Do you know what carried the 
point with me that day when you made the applica-
tion?" "No," I replied. "Well, I'll tell you. I 
was not much moved by anything you said, till you 
catne to mention that fact about the Israelites : 'He 
that gathered much had nothing over ; and he that 
gathered little had no lack.' Thinks I, that's just 
my own history. Once I was a poor, hard-working 
young man. Now I've got property. But as for 
real comfort and use, I get no more out of it now 
then I did then. Now, when I gather much, I've 
nothing over, and then,wheri I gathered little, I had 
no lack. That came so pat to my case that I gave 
up at once." 
I had, without knowing it, "touched him in the 
right spot." And that point will touch many a man 
in the right spot. What thoughtful man who has 
passed through various conditions, has had his ups 
and downs, as the saying is, does not know that 
abundance can Yield a man no more than simple 
competency ; that compensating weights are some-
how put in both sides of the scales which pretty 
nearly equalize our different conditions. Why, the 
heathen knew it long ago. Hesiod and Horace have 
expressed it with a simple force and beauty not to 
be surpassed. And the widest and wisest observer 
of human life has told us, that "when goods in-
crease they are increased that eat them ; and what 
good is there to the owners thereof, saving the be-
holding of them with their eyes ?" 
John Jacob Astor was once complimented on the 
enormous wealth he had accumulated. "Would you 
MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS IN FRANCE-The grave legal 
question as to the validity of the marriage of priests 
is about to be submitted to the Civil Tribunal of 
Periguex. A priest, who has been debarred from 
the exercise of ecclesiastical functions, resolved to 
marry a young woman of Deuville, near that city ; 
but the mayor of the village refused to perform the 
necessary formalities, and accordingly the priest 
has brought an action to try the question. 
MINISTERS' RIGHT TO VOTE.-Rev. Mr. Field,who 
lived in Vermont several years ago, went to deposit 
his vote. The officer who received it being a friend 
and parishioner, but of opposite politics remarked : 
"I am sorry Mr. Field, to see you here." 
"Why ?" asked Mr. Field. 
"Because," said the officer, "Christ and his king• 
don was not of this world." 
"Has no one a right to vote," said -Mr. Field, 
" unless he belongs to the kingdom of Satan ?" 
ONE CENT.-I was once told of a poor, aged, in-
firm christian, who used to give one cent to differ-
ent religious objects, making the sum of five cents a 
year for her christian charities. "When 1 first sug-
gested it to her," said the pastor, "she could see no 
way of getting the sum ; but I told her to trust God 
for it. It came, and never shall I forget the look 
of gratitude and joy which shone in her face, as she 
handed it to me ; and now there is not a member in 
my church that prays so fur these objects as she 
does." If giving follows prayer, it is quite certain 
prayer will follow the gift ; and who can tell what 
a blessing it can bring with it ? 
WHIPPING CHILDREN.-The following story is 
told of the Rev. Dr. Morse : At an Association din-
ner, a debate arose as to the benefit of flogging, in 
bringing up children. The doctor took the affirma-
tive, and his chief opponent was a young minister, 
whose reputation for veracity was not very high. 
He maintained that parents often do harm to their 
children from unjust punishment, from not knowing 
the facts in the case. "Why," said he, "the only 
time my father whipped me, was for telling the 
truth." "Well," retorted the doctor, "it cured 
you of it, didn't it ?" 
No Herald Next Week. 
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work ; we shall issue on that week the tract, as di-
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with which to meet our weekly bills. All of these 
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In accordance with the vote of the Standing Com-
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on the restitution. It will be sent free of postage 
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will be such as brethren will like to circulate in 
their respective places of residence, and with a view 
to the increased circulation of the Herald. 
"Occupy tiil I come." 
"Some Scriptnral texts on the second coming of 
the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ in glo-
ry at the commencement of the millennium." 
The above are titles of two tracts the first by Rev. 
J. C. Ryle, rector of Christ's church, Oxford, and 
the other by Rev. Mr. Fry, which have been repub-
lished and are fur sale by W. Z. Harburt of Phila-
delphia. The last one may be found substantially in 
Bickersteth's Guide to the study of Prophecy ; and 
the former we propose copying into the Herald. 
They are both of value. 
Fundamental Doctrines. 
(Continued from p. 362.) 
Allow me here to dwell for a moment on a 
nice point in the atoning death of our adorable 
Redeemer. I had recently a conversation with 
a preacher, who held that there was nothing of 
Christ between his death and resurrection but 
the lifeless form in Joseph's tomb, and argued 
that if this was not the case,we have nothing but 
a human atonement. This is a plausible way of 
stating the matter ; but there is another view to 
be taken without robbing the atonement of its di-
vinity. As Christians we have a sin-offering and 
an altar, and Christ is both. We read that 
Bible Questions and Answers. 
"Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 
See, this is new ?" 
Ans. "It bath been already of old time, which 
was before us. There is no remembrance of former 
things ; neither shall there be any remembrance of 
things that shall come after." Ecel. 1 : 10, 11. 
"Shall the ax boast itseif against him that 
heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself 
against him that shaketh it ?" 
Ans. "As if the rod should shake itself against 
them that lift it up ! or, as if the staff should lift 
'up itself, as if it were no wood '" Isa. 10. 15. 
"Can the rush grow up without mire? can 
the flag grow without water ?" 
Ans. "Whilst it is yet in his greenness and not 
cut down,it withereth before any other herb : So are 
the paths of all that forget God ; and the hypocrite's 
hope shall perish," Job 8 : 11-13. 
"Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of 
thistles ? 
Ans. "Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ; 
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good 
tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a cor-
rut tree bring forth good. fruit," Matt. 7 : 16-18. 
"Who bath woe? who bath sorrow? who 
bath contentions? who bath babbling? who bath 
wounds without cause? who bath redness of eyes?" 
Ans. "They that tarry long at the wine ; they 
that go to seek mixed wine," Prov. 23 : 29, 30. 
"Whom shall he teach knowledge ? and whom 
shall he make.to understand doctrine?" 
Ans. "Then/ that are weaned from the milk, 
and drawn from the breasts. 'For precept must be 
upon precept, precept upon preoept ; line upon line, 
line upon line.; hero a little, and there a little," Isa. 
28 : 9, 10. 
"Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? 
doth he opera and break the clods of his ground?" 
Ans. "When he bath made plain the face 
thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and 
scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat 
and the appointed barley in their place? For his 
God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach 
him," Isa. 28 : 24-26. 
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spired volume which is "profitable for doctrine,"iversation. I have often thought and felt that a con- 
acquaintance with 
with these cardinal doctrines of the 
gospel. These were the constant themes of 
Whitefield. They are so with Spurgeon. Hen-
are sanctified through the offering of the body of ry Ward Beecher though eminent and useful, 
Jesus Christ °Ilea for all." Heb. 10:5, 10. If is deficient in the evangelical element. 
Let me also say as private Christians, it is of 
the first importance we should understand these 
vital doctrines. We may fail of knowing what 
is meant by "the two-horned beast" of Revela-
tion, and some other symbols, without sustaining 
essential loss ; but we should not fail of under-
standing the doctrines of the gospel. Of course 
I deem it right to study prophecy, and a sin to 
neglect it ; but every thing should be exalted 
according to its relative value. He who devotes 
all his attention to prophecy, and none to these 
things, may have plenty of sail, but will be defi-
cient in ballast. 
Among the fundamental doctrines we must in-
clude a future state. I must embrace under 
this head, the conscious condition of the spirit af-
ter the death of the body ; and while I have no 
inclination to urge a belief in this as needful to 
salvation, for there are some who differ from me 
whom I sincerely love as Christians, yet I am 
disposed to enjoin faith in this view as essential 
to full Christian comfort. I include especially, 
in the doctrines of a future state, the Second Ad-
vent of Christ,—the resurrection of the dead, 
both the just and the unjust,—the judgment of 
the great day,—the dissolving of the heavens 
and earth by fire,and their being created anew,—
and the solemn verities expressed by the great 
Teacher, "These shall go away into everlasting 
punishment : but the righteous into life eternal." 
Here I feel inclined to venture a word of ad-
vice bearing on a difference of view relative to 
some of the doctrines of a future state. Let us 
humbly and devoutly study the Holy Scriptures, 
and ask for wisdom and grace suitably to com-
municate our views, not forgetting to pray for 
those who differ from us ; then most assuredly 
truth will be elicited,and we shall approach near-
er in sentiment and in heart. 
I have thus given a brief sketch of fundamen-
tal doctrines as held by most Protestants. And 
why do we cling to these doctrines ? Is it be-
cause they are popular, as has been intimated ? 
Popular ! With whom are they popular ? I am 
aware that they have ever been popular with the 
great body of humble, active, evangelical Chris-
tians. These doctrines, under God, kindled a 
fire of love, zeal, and holy constancy, which pa-
gan and papal Rome could not extinguish. Pop-
ular ! The doctrines have never been popular 
with the enemies of Christianity. They have 
ever aimed their darts at these cardinal senti-
ments, knowing that if they could be destroyed, 
the brains and heart of Christianity would be 
gone, and that, therefore, it would no longer 
stand in their way, being reduced almost to their 
own level. Popular ! The way to be popular in 
this degenerate age, is to ignore former views, 
and to claim to have inaugurated the golden age 
of truth. Yes, Sir, the way fora man to be pop- 
ular is to make people think that the sun rises 
in his forehead, and sets in the heels of his shoes, 
that wisdom was born with him, and will in 
all probability die with him,—in short that he is 
a special man, the eighth wonder of the world. 
But such a popularity is neither true nor lasting. 
It is what an eminent divine calls "a bastard 
popularity ;"---it is also evanescent and leaves 
an ill savour,-- 
"The meteor gleams and 'tastes away, 
And leaves a bane behind." 
Popular ! Supposing they are popular, what 
motive can we have in clinging to them on that 
account ? Many of us have no salaries to save ; 
and the most favoured of us have only small 
ones. Besides we have long since lost our good 
name,—"we are made as the filth of the world, 
and the offscouring of all things unto this day." 
Our earthly hopes passed away long ago, no 
more to return. We are some of us sinking 
to the tomb from the effects of toil, care, and 
sorrow, in an unpopular cause. Our hopes all 
centre in the kingdom of God—the sorrowless 
land,---the tearless clime, for which we have suf-
fered, and for which, we long, and pray, and 
wait. Popular ! We do not cling to these doc-
trines because they are popular, but because we 
i believe them to be in accordance with the in- 
when the Son of God "came into the world, he 
saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not,but 
a body hest thou prepared me,"—also that "we 
the body of Christ was thu- the offering, was not 
the altar that which took the body, and which 
was mysteriously associated with it when offered ? 
If so was not the altar the divine nature of our 
Lord ? It would seem so. And what is it which 
gives character and efficacy to the offering ? Is 
it not the altar ? Yes, "the altar sanctifieth the 
gift," Matt. 13:19. Thus the shed blood of the 
offering becomes the blood of the altar. On this 
principle, we understand, the blood which flow-
ed from the veins and arteries of Christ partook 
of divine character and efficacy, and is regarded 
as the blood of God. "Take heed therefore un-
to yourself, and to all the flock, over which the 
Holy Ghost bath made you overseers, to feed 
the church of God, which he hath purchased with 
his own blood," Acts 20:28. But as the altar 
remained intact after the sin-offering was slain, 
so we can claim a divine atonement without in-
volving the idea that He who was from everlast-
ing, and without whom nothing was made,ceased 
to be for three days and three nights. 
"Justice," says one graphically, "called on ho-
ly fire to come down and consume the sacrifice. 
Holy fire descended—it swallowed his humani-
ty,but when it touched its Deity it expired ! and 
there was darkness over the whole heavens : but 
glory to God in the highest ; and on earth peace, 
good will to men." 
Another fundamental doctrine, and which 
should be well understood, and taught, is our 
free justification through faith in the blood of 
Jesus. We are said to be "justified freely by 
his grace," because it is all of God's love and not 
merited by us—it is said to be "through the redemp-
tion that is in Christ Jesus"—because the blood of 
Jesus is the procuring cause of our justifica-
tion,—it is said to be "by faith," because we re-
ceive the blessing by faith in Jesus. Thus God 
in the exercise of his infinite clemency accounts 
us, as innocent for the sake of his Son, when we 
trust in his beloved. This doctrine is plainly set 
forth in the Scriptures and especially in the epis-
tles to the Romans and the Galatians,---it doubt-
less occupied great prominencyin apostolic preach-
mg,---it was lost sight of in the great apos-
taey,—was revived at the Reformation,—
it is the distinguishing feature of 
Protestantism,---is a precious deposit in every 
evangelical church, and must be clearly under-
stood, and constantly taught by every good min-
ister of Jesus Christ. Luther designated justifi-
cation by faith, "the grand distinction betwixt 
a standing and a falling church." It was the 
undermining of this precious doctrine which led 
the prophet Paul to utter the solemn admonitory 
expostulation to the Galatians, "I marvel that 
ye are soon removed from him that called you 
into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel, 
which is not another ; but there be some that 
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of 
Christ. But though we, or an angel from heav-
en, preach any other gospel unto you than that 
which we have preached unto you, let him be 
accursed." Such language indicates the impor-
tance of the doctrine, and the duty of preserving 
it entire and uncorrupt. 
It is worthy of remark, that justification by 
faith, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost, are 
inseparably connected ; so that "if any man be in 
Christ, he is a new creature : old things are 
passed away ; behold, all things are become 
new." The person who is forgiven, is created 
anew in Christ Jesus, and he walks in newness 
of life, and as a proof that he has received a new 
nature, the divine commandments to him are not 
grievous, but, 
"Love makes his willing feet 
In swift obedience move" 
as well as "for reproof,for correction, for instruc-
tion in righteousness ;" and because we are to 
"take heed unto the doctrine," as well as to our-
selves. 
Having stated doctrines which are fundamen-
tal in the Christian system, I leave it for others 
to show "what ones are vital to salvation ; essen-
tial to understand, to believe and propagate." 
In concluding this essay, I cannot better ex-
press my feelings than in the language of an 
eminent minister who has finished his course, 
"The greatest heresy is the want of love. Oh 
for a cycle of peace ! Oh, for a breathing spell 
from these unnatural contentions ! I feel as if I 
could join with any who would humbly unite in 
a direct and kind effort to save sinners, and re-
lieve human misery. Cannot a poor believer go 
along in his pilgrimage heavenward without be-
ing always on military duty ? At judgment, I 
heartily believe that some heresies of heart and 
temper will be charged us worse than heavy doc-
trinal errors. I hold that not only the tenets of 
our church are true, but that they are very im-
portant. But I see how easy it is to 'hold the 
truth' in rancor and hate, which is the grand er-
ror of depraved human nature." 
From Bro. G. W. Burnham. 
Brother Eliss :—I arrived how last evening from 
a week's visit to BroCkfield and Wolfboro', N. H. 
Preached in the former place 17 times and 27 in the 
latter. Found it very pleasant to labor with Free-
will Baptists,Christian Baptists and Adventists,who 
were both among and outside of these churches. Some 
in B. were reclaimed and others quickened in their 
Christian zeal. Many unconverted manifested much 
tender feeling. In W. 6. or 7 gave good evidence of 
conversion, and rejoiced in God's pardoning love. 
Many were reclaimed from a miserable backslidden 
state, and the commnuity in that part of the town 
much encouraged in the good work of saving souls. 
Prayer meetings, which had been nearly abandoned 
for gay parties and sinful pleasure, have been rees-
tablished. The muddy pool of political strife,which 
ought never to be stirred by the loyal subjects of the 
glorious and soon coming Son of David, seems to be 
let alone. Both as the result of our meeting, and 
the commendable sympathy for a government put-
ting forth its utmost efforts for existence, is this the 
case. 
I baptized 8 happy believers in Smith's Pond, 
where, 22 years ago, at the age of 19, I led many 
happy converts into the liquid grave. Of these quite 
a number yet live to bear testimony for Jesus,others 
are spending their substance in a state far from God, 
while many have ended their conflict in peaceful 
death and are now joyfully awaiting in spirit the 
glorious reunion in our Father's house to come! 
Yours &c. 
G. W. BURNHAM. 
ference is a good place in which to backslide. But 
at our late meeting all seemed to say,— 
"No room for mirth or trifling here, 
For worldly hope, or worldly fear, 
If life so soon is gone : 
If now the Judge is at the door, 
And all mankind must stand before, 
The inexorable throne." 
May we, while the Master tarries, have wisdom 
and grace to be faithful,—to think and speak and 
act as heirs of the grace of life ; so that should we 
meet again on these mortal shores we may be more 
Christ-like ; and in case we do not thus meet, that 
we may meet in the kingdom of God, for which we 
have toiled, sacrificed, prayed and suffered. 
Your brother in Christ, 
R. HUTCHINSON. 
Odelltown, C. E. Oct. 24th, 1861. 
From Bro. T. Wheeler. 
Brother Bliss :—I wish for a little light upon the 
fourth word (God) in the book of Genesis. 
I am taught that the word in the original is plu-
ral, and am left to infer that it should be Gods in-
cluding God and Christ. I am well aware that the 
original word Elohipa, (Greek) is plural, and also 
the corresponding word, Aleium, (Hebrew) is plural, 
but I am not'aware that the world God in our ver-
sion is an improper rendering of the original : as to 
this, please inform me. Why was it rendered in the 
singular number, if it should have been rendered in 
the plural number ? 
If Aleium and Elohim do mean a plurality of 
Gods, or persons,then what means Deut. 6: 4. where 
it says ;—"Hear, 0 Israel : The Lord our God is 
one Lord?" 
Did not our Saviour quote this very text ? Mark 
12 : 29, thus—"And Jesus answered him, The first 
of all the commandments is, Hear, 0 Israel ; The 
Lord our God is one Lord ;" And did he nut tran-
slate the Hebrew Aleium by the Greek word Theos, 
which is in the singular number ? 
Now, if the word Aleium was designed to express 
a plurality of persons in God, why did Christ or his 
biographer Mark use the word Theos which is in 
the singular number ? Are not Elohim and Aleium 
correct titles of the One God ? 
If they were designed to teach plurality, then I 
cannot see how we can avoid believing in the plural-
ity of Gods. 
I have supposed that God could speak of himself 
in the plural, and yet be only one person. In rela-
tion to Hebrew nouns we have a rule in Wilson's 
Hebrew grammar, thus,—"Words that express do-
minion, dignity, majesty, are commonly put in the 
plural. " 
The Lord says of Moses : "See I have made thee a 
God (Heb. Aleium) to Pharaoh," Ex. 7: 1. Again, 
the children of Heth, in speaking to Abraham say—
"Hear us my Lord ; thou art a mighty prince (Heb. 
Aleium) among us,"—Genesis 23 : 6, 
In the above instances, notwithstanding a plural 
word is applied to those individual persons, yet, 
we do not suppose that they were designed to teach 
that there was a plurality in persons in Moses or 
Abraham, or that there were a plurality of those in-
dividuals. 
In these two instances we have an illustration of 
the rule in Wilson's grammar. 
Now, then,when a plural word is applied to God, 
why do we not reason as we do when the same word 
is applied to Moses or Abraham ? I wish this point 
to be cleared up ; for I do not understand it. 
Editors, in speaking of themselves individually, 
constantly use the words "we" and "us." I should 
like to know its origin. It is said that the custom 
originated with Faust, the founder of the profession. 
The superstitious people of his day supposed him to 
be leagued with the devil, and hence, the "we" in-
cludes the editor and the devil. 
I remain yours searching for the truth, 
TIMOTHY WHEELER. 
Waterbury Center, Aug. 23,1861. 
ANS. "Elohim" is the Hebrew plural of "Elohe." 
The Greek for God is "These." The word you gave 
for the Hebrew, we do not recognize, unless it be a 
different pronunciation of "Elohim." While this 
last is in the plural, it is correctly God—the Bible 
teaching that there is but one God—though existing 
as a tri-unity. The Hebrew has a plurality of ex-
cellence, which the English has not, and therefore 
when translated can be represented only by the sin-
gular. 
"We" probably, was first used by editors where 
papers had more than one manager ; and it has been 
used to avoid the egotistic "L" �
ED. 
Dear brother Bliss :—I think is is my duty to 
communicate to the Advent brethren through the 
Herald a statement of facts and circumstances which 
have come to my knowledge in relation to a man call-
ing his name Wheeler, and professing to be an Evan-
gelist from the state of Maine. Such a man came to 
Let me here say to my junior brethren in the 
ministry, and to those who are entering the sa-
cred calling, that you will find it of paramount 
importance to understand the ruined condition 
of man, the divine atonement, and justification 
by faith, with its concomitant blessings. An 
intimate knowledge of historical prophecy, and 
kindred subjects cannot compensate for a want of 
From Bro. R. Hutchinson. 
Bro. Bliss :—I embrace a moment to pen a few 
lines. When I last wrote you I was sick in John-
son, Vt. Since then my health has been rather fee-
ble, but I have continued to do a little in the Lord's 
vineyard. I have spent a few sabbaths pleasantly 
in Odelltown, Roxham C. E. and Champlain N. Y. 
In some of our meetings the Lord enabled me to 
preach his word with freedom, and I have reason to 
believe that some were profited. When I left Rouses 
Point for the conference I felt the flesh to be very 
weak, but a sense of duty sustained me ; and the 
character of our meeting with the kind manner I 
was entertained had a salutary influence on my body 
and mind. 
The conference was the best I have attended for 
many years. It partook of the spirit of our early 
gatherings,—a humble, melting, loving, uniting 
spirit,—no ono seeking to be greatest, but all appear-
ing to esteem others better than themselves. 
As I entered North Springfield, in company with 
my esteemed Brother Reynolds, I felt sad and per- 
plexed relative to the cause we were wishing to serve 
by our coming together. Others, I suspect, came 
with similar feelings. But the divine blessing, and 
the presence of so many of the tried friends of the 
cause whose hearts were beating in unison, soon dis-
persed our forebodings, and enabled us to sing, 
"We'll never be discouraged any more." 
But the cause will still be in a tried state, elements 
of distraction and division will continue to perplex 
and weaken ; but the Lord reigneth, and he will 
make all things serve his bright designs, even the 
weakness as well as the wrath of man will he make 
to praise him. This fact renders the darkest cloud 
luminous and promising. 
I may mention one respect in which the conference 
was a model one,—I heard no light or trifling con- 
this place on Thursday the 15th Oct. last and called 
on Bro. J. Learned and myself, stopping over night 
with Bro. Learned. His deportment and his answers 
to questions excited our suspicions that he might be 
an impostor. He professed great holiness, and great 
concern for the Advent cause. He asked me if I in-
tended to attend the Advent conference at Spring-
field. I replied the conference is already past ; 
that it was held last week ; and that if he had 
read the Herald, he must have known it. Ile 
said he had not seen the Herald very lately. On 
enquiring, he said he had a wife, but that she was 
so ugly he could not, and had not lived with her 
for nine years. He professed to be intimately ac-
quainted with our lamented brother L. D. Thomp-
son, and spoke frequently of him as being one of his 
most precious friends, and with whom he had labor-
ed much in the Advent cause. He was anxious to 
obtain names of Advent brethren, on whom he 
might call,-having a list of names reaching to 
Canada line, although we gave him none. He said 
he was intending to go through Waterbury and on 
to the north part of the state. 
On the 30th of Oct. last sister Thompson, the 
widow of L. D. Thompson, of Northfield, came here, 
and on asking her if a brother Wheeler had called 
on her a little previous to our visit from him as 
above, she answered in the negative. But after be-
ing told that said Wheeler said he received instruc-
tions as to the proper road to take to lead him to this 
place, she then said that a man bearing just the des-
cription we gave called on her and made such en-
quiries ; but he called his name Cain, or Kane. Sis-
ter Thompson asked him if he ever was acquainted 
with her husband L. D. Thompson. He replied he 
never had any acquaintance with such a brother. 
She then showed him his daguerreotype, and after 
examining it for some time, he seemed to recollect of 
hearing such a brother preach once some where; but 
had no acquaintance with him. 
Sister Thompson told us that a few days after 
said Cain left her house a brother Braily, of Rox-
loury,arae there and asked her if a brother Wheeler 
had made her a visit, calling himself an Evangelist. 
He then stated that such a man had been at his place 
several days, and that he suspected he was a bad 
man. Sister T. told him that her husband knew D. 
C. Wheeler well, and had told him to his face he 
thOught he was not clean inside. Sister T. had never 
seen him ; therefore might be imposed upon. 
Wheeler said he visited the grave of brother 
Thompson, and wept over it. Sister Thompson says 
Cain visited her husband's grave, and wept. We 
think there can be no ruistake but that Cain and 
Wheeler are the same man. 
ERSSTUS PARKER, 
JOEL LEARNED, 
ORINDA LEARNED, 
WELTUA R. PARKER. 
TVaitsfield, Vt., Nov. 3, 1861. 
P. S. Perhaps we ought to give some description 
of the subject of this notice. We judge him to be 
about 33 or 34 years of age, about five feet ten or 
eleven inches high,lightish complexion : should think 
be would weigh 160 or 165 lbs. �E. P. 
AD VERTISEIVIENTS. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
By the author of the Time of the End-excepting 
the first three chapters, which were by the pen of 
another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, 75 cts. 
Few men have been more diversely regarded than 
William Miller. While those who knew him, es-
teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental 
power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an 
humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection-
ate friend, and a man of great moral and social 
worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin-
ions of him anything but complimentary to his in-
telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design 
of this volume to show him to the world as he was 
-to present him as he appeared in his daily walk 
and conversation, to trace the manner in which he 
arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his 
closet and places of retirement, to unfold the work-
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world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of 
incidents that are of little moment, and betray a 
disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main 
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history of his religious life, is not chargeable with 
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pointments, and his death, and frees him from many 
of the injurious imputations with which he was as-
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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT " don't know., 
"This was said just as a little child 
"FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. �would speak ; and 1 added : "Call upon 
the name of the Lord Jesus, and ask God 
the Father,to let you know and feel through 
faith, that your sins are forgiven, and that 
your soul is saved.' 
"About a week after, he came to me 
"He shall gather the lambs in his arms, -with a placid countenance, and said, 'Pa-
and carry them in his bosom," said the pa, 1 believe more now.' 
prophet when describing what the Lord �
" • What do you believe now,my dear 7' 
should do for children, and for child-like �
" �
believe with my heart,as I told you 
hearts, when he should leave the throne of last week, that Jesus is the Son of God, 
heaven to come among men. �
who died on the cross for sinners ; and 
The word "little child," in our Lord's that God raised him from the dead ; and 
blessing, includes the idea of a docile sub- he is at the right hand of the Fathe, Lord 
ject—one who believ_s without captions of all. And I 'believe God has forgiven 
reasoning, lives in the family without cans- my sins for Jesus' sake. All fear is taken 
ing care, and cheerfully and submissively away papa ; and I am now waiting for Je- 
obeys parental control. And this is our sus to come from heaven.' Blessed Jesus ! 
Lord's description of a person saved by his out of the mouth of babes and sucklings 
grace and who shall therefore. enter the thou Mast perfected praise ! 
kingiom of heaven. A brother in the Lord • "It was in truth, a touching sight,when 
was with me to-day, whose account of his in the midst of a group of rescued sinners, 
child, called by the grace of God into the this little one stood and confessed his faith 
knowledge and love of Christ, and into in Jesus—the Divine and only Saviour of 
conscious salvation and peace in him, ii- his soul. There stood the infidel and the 
lustrates the simplicity of the gospel, and gray-headed sinner, in the midst of them 
is an encouragement to the presentation of this little one of seven years old ; confess-
the simple truth as it is in Jesus, to even ing alike the grace by which they were, 
very young hearts. �
alike and equally, saved from sin and 
I will let the, father of that little child death ; and the precious blood in which 
tell the truthful tale in his own way : �
their various sins were all, and forever, 
"When my child was about three years washed away. That was indeed a 'hap- 
old, and while speaking to hint of the di- py day.' There was joy and thanksgiv-
vine Saviour, I said to him, 'Johnny, the ing on earth ; and more, there was 'joy in 
Lord Jesus came into the world, to save heaven'—'joy in the presence of the angels 
sinners—little sinners like you, as well as of God'—the joy of the Good Shepherd, 
big sinners. �
who had sought and found a number of 
"He looked up and said, 'What is a sin- lost and neglected sheep ; and who had, 
ner papa 7. �
together with them, gathered with his arm 
" 'You are a sinner, Johnny.' �and into his bosom,a perishinglamb,which 
" 'No, I am not, papa ; I don't know he alone could rescue and preserve. And 
what a sinner is.' �
it was then, and still is, an occasion of 
"I described some of his little faults,but thanksgiving to God that my little one was 
without applying the description, and re- drawn to Jesus in such company—in the 
marked that 'any little boy who does so is midst ot such monuments of mercy, and 
a sinner. These things do not make hirn miracles of grace, and illustrious instances 
a sinner ; but they show that he is a sin- of the virtue of his precious blood to cleanse 
ner ; for if sin was not in hint it would not from all and every sin. Because it would 
come out in this or any other way:' �
ever serve to remind him, that the grace 
"With blushing face and flowing tears that saved him can save the vilest sinner 
my little one came to me, and hiding his upon earth ; the precious blood that wash-
face on my knee, he sobbed as though his ed his sins away can make the foulest sin- 
heart would break. Lafing my hand ner clean, and give sweet peace and rest. 
gently on his head, I asked him with ten- and holy joy in the presence of the Lord." 
derness what was the cause of his grief ; �
Such is the father's testimony to the 
but he only wept more loudly, and clung grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and I 
to me the more. I then asked, 'Have you know that his testimony is true. The 
found out who is a sinner 7' �
"little one'' of whom he speaks is now a 
" 'Yes, papa.' �
man,and resides in the State of New York, 
" 'Who is a sinner 7' �
where he preaches faithfully the grace by 
" �
am .a sinner, papa.' �
which he was brought to Jesus when a 
" 'Then the Gospel is good news to you "little child." 
Johnny ; for it tells you of Jesus, the sin- �
May the hearts of the instructors of the 
ner's friend.' It was my habit to direct young be stirred up by this narrative to 
his mind to Christ Jesus alone„ �the more faithful presentation of the pure 
"When my child.was about seven years 6ospel truth as to the way of salvation, 
old, I was occupied during a few months instead of merely telling stories that are of-
. in a large village in making known the ten without point, or tend to produceimor- 
gospel of the grace of God. Many poor, al conscientiousness only ; instead of poitit-
neglected sinners were there brought to- ing out the only means of obtaining 
Other to hear ; and about forty of them through faith forgiveness of sins and a new 
were led by grace to 'know the joyful heart. 
sound.' Infidels and gray-headed sinners 
were of the number saved ; and in the 
midst of these was my own little one, con-
fessing Jesus Christ, his all in all. 
"A few of the particulars of his conver-
sion may serve to show the smiplicity of 
faith in Christ. 
"One evening--after a meeting at which 
Christ alone was exalted; and God's way 
of saving sinners was plainly declared 
my little boy came to me, led by his moth- 
er, who said, 'Papa, Johnny wishes to say 
something to you.' 
"'Well, my dear, said I, 'what is it you 
wish to say 7' 
"He quietly replied, 'I believe now, pa-
pa.' 
" 'What do you believe 7' I inquired ; 
being careful not to anticipate nor sug-
gest. 
" �
believe with my heart that Jesus is 
the Son of God, and that he died on the 
cross to save sinners ; and God the Fath-
er raised him from the dead ; and lie is 
now at the right hand of God in heaven—
Lord of all.' 
"These were. his precise words ; and he 
added, • 
" �
do believe this papa, with all my 
heart.' 
"Giving thanks to God, I asked my lit-
tle one this question : 'Are your sins for-
given, Johnny ?' 
BOSTON._ NOVEMBER 16. 1861. 
The Lord and the Little Ones. 
Who owns the' Cornfield? 
You ,saw the beautiful corn-field. Its 
tall stalks, like the rank and file of a no-
ble army, had been nodding arid waving 
their plumes in the sunshine all the summer 
through ; and in autumn they were bend-
ing under the weight of the golden grain. 
How many batches of bread were hid 
there 7 How many hungry mouths would 
be fed from it 7 
Every day farmer Jones looked over the, 
stone wall, and talked and thought about 
"my corn," as lie called it. How much of 
it was yours, farmer Jones 7 "I planted 
it," he would say ; "I hoed it ,• I—" but 
where did you get the first little kernel 7 
God made it. In whose earth did you 
bury it 7 God's earth. He is the great 
land owner. Who cracked the kernel and 
brought out the living sprout 1 God. Who 
fed it 7 God. Who watered it ? God. Who 
watched it 7 God. Whose sunshine warm-
ed it 7 God's. Who sprinkled it with night-
ly dews ? God. Who pumped up its jui-
ces, and taught them to manufacture leaves 
in one place and cobs in another, and set 
the corn in the cob, and wove soft silk to 
wrap around the tender fruit, and strong 
swarths to protect it from blighting frosts 
and scorching heats ? God. Who saved 
it from mildew,and rust, and worm 7 God. 
small a part is your due. 
"And I have harvested. and .used it as 
mine," said- Farmer 'Jones. "I never 
thanked God for it, or took it sa from His 
hand. I never used it for His service. I 
never thought of his having anything to 
do with it. I have robbed God of his due." 
Farmer Joiies never thought of himself 
of a robber before. Had his neighbor call-
ed him so,how angry would he have been ! 
He passed as au honest and just,man ; but 
now he asked himself, "Am I not a rob-
ber ?" And, pricked 'by his conscience, 
he fell oil liis.kneeS, confessed his. sin and 
prayed for forgiveness. /I le great land 
owner allowed him to keep what lie had 
given him ; but every day afterwards the 
farmer thanked God for his daily bread ; 
and many a bushel. was wheeled away to 
feed God's poor, or to give God's children, 
or to help to advance God's cause : and 
evermore as he looked over the stone wall, 
he saw God's hand at work in the corn-
field, and his heart said humbly, "Thine, 
not mine, 0 God." 
Little Ones going Home. 
"Suffer little children to come unto me, and for-
bid them not ; for of ouch is the kingdom of heav-
en." 
They are going—only going—
Jesus called them long ago ; 
All the wintry time they're passing 
Softly as the falling snow. 
When the violets in the springtime 
Catch the azure of the sky, 
They are carried out to slumber 
Sweetly where the violets lie. 
They are going—only going— 
When with summer earth is dressed, 
In their cold hands holding roses 
Folded to each silent breast ; 
When the autumn hangs red banners 
Out above the harvest sheaves, 
They are going—ever going— 
Thick and fast, like falling leaves. 
All along the mighty ages, 
All adown the solemn time, 
They have taken up their homeward 
March to that serener clime, 
Where the watching, waiting angels 
Lead them from the shadow dim, 
To the brightness of his presence 
Who has called them unto him. 
They are going—only going= 
Out of pain and into bliss—
Out of sad and sinful weakness 
Into perfect holiness. 
Snowy brows—no care shall shade them 
Bright eyes—tears shall never dim ; 
Rosy lips—no time shall fade them ; 
Jesus called them unto him. 
Little hearts forever stainless— 
Little hands as pure as they—
Little feet by angbls guided 
Never a forbidden way ! 
They are going, ever going ! 
Leaving many a lonely spot ; 
But 'tis Jesus who has called them— 
Suffer, and forbid them not. 
Tax Bov- MORTARA.—The following, from Punch, 
has a sharp point to it : 
"A Jew boy comes home rather grimy and greasy, 
The servant-maid sprinkles him, using no soap ; 
'He's a Christian,' cries Pius, with conscience un-
queasy, 
Cries Punch, 'But if making a Christian's so 
easy, 
0, why doesn't somebody sprinkle the Pope ?" 
The Lord willing, S. Heath of Lunenburg, Mass., will 
preach in South Reading Nov. 17. 
The Northern Illinois Conference of Adventists will 
hold their third quarterly meeting at Deer Park, in the 
Vermillionville meeting-house, commencing Thursday, 
Nov. 28, at 10 1-2 in the morning. Deer Park is in La 
Salle Co, on the direct:road from Ottawa to Tonica, being 
about eight miles east of Tonica and about the same south 
west on the mail route to Tonica. Those coming on the 
Central R.R. will stop at Tonica, and those coming on the 
Rock Island R.R. will stop at Ottawa. Again we invite 
all interested to come, preachers and people; 
For signs there's no mistaking 
Proclaif Messiah near. 
H. G. McCunrooK, Sec'y of Conf. 
The Lord willing; I will preach in Unity, N. H., as 
Br. May appoints, Sunday, Oct. 27th ; in North Spring-
field, Vt , Sunday, Nov. 10th; on Dinsmore Hill, Sunday, 
Nov. 17th. �
C. 0. TOWNE. 
I shall preach in Hartford Sabbath, Nov. 17, and re-
main in that1 vicinity and preach one or two weeks. All 
that wish my labors in the neighborhood for an. evening, 
or so, will address me at Hartford care of E. Williams, 
without delay. �
J. V. 'limns. 
NOTICE. I have now got a supply for the church in 
Boston, so that I can attend to calls abroad. All that 
wish my labors will give me early notice. Address 
J. V. Hums, Boston, Mass. 
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