IS PU!LISHRD B.'BnY Wl!:DNBSDAY 
A~ N(). 30 DEVONSmRE STBEET, BOSTON, 
BY J. V. HIMES. 
1. V. Himes, S. Blis&, & A. Hale, Editors. 
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directed to " J. V. HlMES, Boston, !\lass." (po8t pnid). Substrlbers' 
oames, with theil' Post·office · addrei!S, 
a~oultl be distinctly given, 
wllea money is forwarded. 
" Be Contorted." 
LINI:S ON THE DEATH OF A. CfiJJ,D (L. ltt, L£W1S.) 
" Oh woo hath Wfle like mine!'' 
A stricken mother cried, 
As her beloved child 
W a.s takeu from ber side. 
"My darling, only child ! 
How can I yield her up~ 
Mv l<'&tber! must I drink 
·The (]regs of Sorrow's cup~, 
She wept, and "Iesus wept. l' They hid 
Tlle .child among the deal{; 
"Tlay will be done,, heart brokenly, 
Tile grieving mother said. 
For keenest anguish wrung. her "ul, 
The joy of life was gone ; · 
She strove to say, "Thy will be done!" 
Dut how bereaved and lone! 
" Thou wert my precious, treasure-child, . 
Thou wert the world to me; 
Oh had I seraph wings, how soon 
I'd fly and be with thee ! 
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" Thou wert the sunlight of my life-· 
Now thou art prssed away'; 
My sky is shrouded o'er with clouds, 
To night is turned ~y day!" 
Oh weep not," Rachel," I would tell 
Of a bright and promised land, 
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Where with thy white-robed little one t 
Soon thou wilt joyfulatand. 
ri ftiftflc 
Be comforted ! 'tis not afar-. 
,Tis on the Eden shore, 
When quickly Time's sad jo rneyings 
Are passed, to be no more,. 
Be comfol:ted! Minerva, dear, 
Has sure been called away, 
, · Because it was the Mast~r's wjll, 
And better than to say. 
And in the Shepherd-Savior's arms, 
The blessed lamb is borne ; 
He loves it best-doth all things well; 
Weep not, Oh do not mollrn! 
·Be comforted ! the lovely ~hild 
Will be thine own again, 
When in the heavenly kiugdom 
With Jesus thou shalt r~igo. 
' Thou ~;honld'st be happy, mourner, . 
Nor thus like Rachel grieve ; 
For God hath said, thy little ona 
Thou shalt again receive .. 
Fair sister angels bore her henee, 
And in the llileot dust 
She peaeeM sleeps : be comforted, 
She'll rise when rise tbe itHit. 
H'ow glorious, the~, will be thy ch.ild, 1 
Beauteous, immortal, f<~.ir, . 
Robed in the righteou.s garments 
That infant chernb!t wea.t. 
How sweet her song, whr:n by thy side 
She sings (bright angel form!) · 
Of Him whose steps the whirlwinds hide, 
Whos way is in the storm! 
Ah! thou wilt be rewarded then, 
}'or all thy care and love i 
Thy child brought back from death's embrace, 
To " victory !" sing alJove. 
And too thy song will higher swell, 
Th:,• harp have sweeter tone ; 
Since thou wert once a mourner, 
Grief-stricken and alone. 
North Granby (Ct.), Nov. 1845. 
E. C. C. 
Fragments Concerning Popery. 
PAPAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS PROTESTANTS. 
It is pow unnecessary to examine into the spiritual 
attitude as8111ned by the Papacy towards the professors 
<>f other religions. That question has been answered 
by her infaHible councils and standard formularies. 
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uously opposin~ Protel!tant Missions, by sendiug out 
their fit iesrs wherever such a miesilm ..hu been ~strtb-, 
·'lished among the heathen; in cnrrborntion Of thiA it I 
ha!t been recently stated by an Englit~h Journul, '' Th:tt 
the Society of the Propaganda 11t Rome receive,] last ; 
year the sum of upwards of $500,000, which was em-· 
ployed in fiJllowing the missionaries of the Englieh 
Chnrch whcre,·er they went, for tbe purpose of coun-
teracting the effect of their loborfl, by instillin!! ifltQ 
the minds of the heathen the errors of tbe &rJUUI 
Cutholic faith."-Prespit•riatt. 
It is stated that the society of the Prop11ganda re-
veived last year the sum of £t13000, which employPd 
in following the missionaries of the English Church 
wherever t'hey went, for the purpose of eounterocting 
the effect of their labors by instilling into the minds 
of the heathen the errors of the Roman Catholic faith. 
In Persia, the Catholics are continually interfering 
with Protestant missions and schools. Dr. Grant says 
that the Pope has sent into Persia three times as many 
miseiooaries as the Board. 
h is equally unnecessary to inquire into the practice 
PAPACY AND PROPAGANDA. 
of Popery towards the professors of the Protestant 
The Propaganda 8ocieity held its meeting at Rome 
faith for two centuries after the Reformation, as that In 1842 whlln addreses were delivered in no less than 
question bas been answered with equal clearness by 48 different languages by its intimates. 
history. 
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The Colltge ofthe Proaganda.-This College islo-
SoRJe ~f those benevolent spirits who have taken eated at Rome, and is designed for the education of 
Popery Ullder their protection, and for the. sake ofLheir Roman Catllolic missionaries. The natives from all 
own. credit, are natu~ally an.xious 10 efface the burn in~ quarters of th., globe are brought here, and thorougely 
rem1msc~nees of Sml_thfield, m.ay go ~0 far as to admit indoctrinated in all the principles the Papal ~hurc;h, 
a.connex1on between ~he tloctrmes of the _Church .of and are thence sent back to their several countries, by 
Roltle ~nd a morally diseased state of society; whtle which means the whole body are hound tt'gether hy 
they w11l re~l, as a groundless ealu~ny' .. the charge indissoluble ties. The College contained in May, 
t~~t ahe ~eraahes ~he sa~e fixed and 1~mltt~ble hos-1842, ninety pupils. Of these, as we learn from o. 
tth~y to Protestan~u•m ~htch charnctensed the b~ody foreign Quarterly," 5 were Chinese, 19 Chaldeam;, 6 
pohcy of. t~e MarJil~ reign. It woul~ be ha~d to say, Armenians, 4 Georgians, 5 Syriaas, 5 Maronites, 6 
whether 1~ ls.most d1~cu.lt to deal. w1lh th.~ 1gnoraoce ~gyptians, 9 Greek•, 5 Albnniaor, 3 Bulgarians, 1111-
or the obli(jmty of Liben~m. Thmgs whiCh are eapa-vrian, 3 Wallachiaos, 4 Germans, 6 Dutcbmen, 4 Eng~ 
ble of the clearest proof m themselves, must never· lishmen, 5 Scotts, 5 lrishmen, and 6 Americans. 
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thele~s be ?n.derstood before we can hope to render tea· a pupil has been six months at the establishment, 
them ~ntelhg1hle to others. But _as the moder~ llt.tempt he is expected to bind himself by an oath tQ devote 
~o whatewash Popery ~roc.eed$, m a gr.eat ffi&J~nty of himself to the foreign missions. The usual period of 
msts.oees, upon the reJeCtion of all evldenqe 10 sup-study iv·ten yeal'8, but this 1s frequently shortened.-
pot Q~ the ~ncbangabW, naturE! of t~ U)ltem we can-When the pupil hu tiuisbed his studies, he entere in-
no.t :au~ a~ entrance to-such 1?
1Ads~for the el.e'!lents to priest's orders, and ia furnished with tbe l~lll\8 of 
of convtct10n. 
~he_ mod(lrn h~ral, 
gene.rally sgn~-returning to his native country, whea·e it i8 inte-pde.d 
rant of tbe CQhsututwn of ~0P"ry, 
.he •s. resokred, he should devote himself to the duties of his vocation 
for~ twofold reason,,to a.v01d everr epportumty of be-
88 a missioriary."'~Chri.t. Watchman. 
commg acquanted w1th Its character and tendency. 
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He h.·u~ not religion enough to render an acquaintance 
There are thirteen eoll.~ges m th~ Un.•ted States-nn-
with itlf spi·ritual chAracter an ~jeet of iQterest, alld der th~ char~e of Cathohce; ten of wh1ch ha~e, been 
he cannot consistently sanction1.by bis perso11al assent, es.ta.bhsh~d smce the commencm_ent of Jackro? s ad-
the establishment of ¢barges wlti~h would imp~ach ~m~str~twn. 
'fher~ are now bemg educat~d m tliese 
the cretJd or sti11matise the practice 'of his polilical mst1tut1ons about· th1tteen hundred studentt. 
allieB. 
With p:rsons of this aescription (aud they 
Feast of. Languages at Rome,:__ The '~Constilulion­
eonstitute bf fan too numerous a -elllB8 in society), it is nel" publishes a letter from Rome, which states that, 
all but im(>Ost~ible even to discuss the abject. Wbet-e at the feael of languages celebrated at the coHegc of 
the obligations of principle have ceased to induence Propaganda, the feetival commenced by a prologue in 
the conscience, no weight of evi~~nee wil~ b• 4JUffi-Latin, deJivered by ~n Jllyri~ ~ young man J'rom 
cient to convince the understandmg. 
New-York then recJtcd a poem m Hebrew. 
rwo 
There is, however, a large ci&WI of Protestants Chaldeans a 4ialoaue in the idiom of the R11bbits. 
placed in wh11t may be termed a neutral pl)sition, in ~bd-~Unh-Assemani, a native of Lebanon, declainled 
reference to this question. They are not disposed to 10 ~ynnn ver~; ADd ~ young. man from B:thlehem 
favour the p•·etensioMof Popery, and stitlless inclined delivered a. d1acourse m Samaritan. A Pers1an spoke 
to eubject the Government of the empire to the infiu-in .chaldean. :rwo Ttnks, ~ue fr~m Alep~o, Goother 
enee of Plllpeddem~ogues; but, owing to a general from Co~tau11~ople, decla1med 
·~ Turktsh poet-ry. 
ig~a(lran® of the rea.! chara 
r abd ambiti 
1Wpir~ .. Two y~ung lndtane of. P~gu spoke 10 Bur~an. S~me 
tio.ns of. th~ Churcla of Rome, and thQ ~ w · 
na read 
~Un ele5_y, a discourse m aneteQt 
she is employing to further her objects, they a~e un-
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~~cf ~~~\lefje& JD that }aQguage,~ema:rk-
der the influence of tbat conventional sc~pt\ei8t'i1, flble for the hardn!h o.r the e~uod. .An AOlene~tn of 
which obtains with rtlgard to tnost of the thftrges New. 8cotlald, ~n Jdyl1~ Celt1c. Afterwards folio~ 
whieh are now beainnihgtobllfetio1Miy-tsrge4arainst lllyr1an, Bulganan, Pohsb, Gennan, Dutch, Entrhah 
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and Frcmqq. .A Mgro from God1ciand epok~ iu Am· 
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mariep, .
 inh.abitant of California suog a song ·in 1 
P.&PA;L' Of'~o.st'r'IO.NS towARDs PROT£sur. 
JiTs~ro!ols. the barbarit.ui' dialect of hisnatt<m,accompaoying him-
Our r'eadel'S ho.ve been ·rrequent1y apprise-d t'6nt the eelf with castagnottes. Joachim KurQ, frQm the prov-
Romtn 'Cathdlic Chnreh has 'been tor-sometime .str~n-· iDCe of HQ-nan, spoke the language of his country, 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
composed entirely of monasyllables,; a sel!ond speak-gious opinisns-and history tells us 10f a mother old Simeon said of him,. "Behold this thild is 
in~ Chines~ of canto~. ln ~ne, t~o ot~.er C!Hnese uf in Israel, who gave an account of their employ-set for the fall and risi11g again of many in brael, 
Scian presented· _them~}ves m thet~ 'oo.t~e~ I cost urn~, ment, yjz. "prayer, reading the Bib e., and singiug an~ for. a sYfn,, which shall be spoken agai st." 
an~ read verses m t~e Idiom .of therr provmce, te~mi-Episcopal songs though they felt much cast down· The same observation holds good to this our day. 
natmg those academte exercises by a most harmotnous 
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Chinese-soog. The greater part of the auditors uo for the town officers were on the Jook out for 
t as ecome t e fas wn, espec1a y among some,. 
derstood but one wonl "alleluia,'t whieb oeeu~ueu fre-their good " De~_yon" whom they were li'ourly to spe1l.i agairi~t Christ, his qesign, and, his office, 
• quently. 
expecting." Look at Denmark where the same and to bear t\lose down who profess to believe in 
Cutkolic Churches in India.-The .Benaal Catholic denomination is this moment sufferin under simi-him, by the poor artilery of human wit, :sharp-
Herald savs~-The Havrah churcll was founded ami Jar trials. 
ened by human enmity. Some have been so bold 
hurlt by its present possessor, the Rev. Fre .. Pau1 da 
Your mug of water and your crust of bread as to try the truth of his divine mission by the 
Gradolit aposto-lic missionnry. .Mr. A. de Souzs laid you have been allowed to eat, when, and wher~ test of redicule; as though any thing which an 
the !W~t stone September, 1831, and it was consecra-you saw fit. 
Through the length and breadth .of adventurous sophistry can dress in a ludicrous 
ted April 241 1834, and dedicated to the Blessed Vir-
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gin. lt eost 70,000 rupees, 5000 of which were raised the lan.d and the sea, you have " showered your garb, and which a thoughtless t rong may aug 
by publi~ subcriptiou. Its length is 127, iii breadth tracts," and loud .and lonu exclaimed, "Behold, at, must therefore be rediculous or untr~e. It 
6&, a.nu its height 47 feet. 
the bridegroom cometh ! go ye out to meet him." seems, rather, a fallacious mode of getting rid of· 
Madt~e de Doe .. , $cnnnpore.-This church is a neat In temples made by hands, and in the tented plain, some arguments, which they have not truth enoug~ 
building; on the Strand. Its patrons were the BareLto and under the green spreading forest, and under or wisdom enough to answer. A fool's cap, foreJ· 
familyt its cost 14,000 rupees, of which the Danish the sun's noon-day blaze, and under the silent bly placed upon a wise man's head by a knave, 
govt~rnor, the Hon. Col. Bie, gave 609. It was conse-starry night,-the listening birds and echoing however it might excite the mirth of the crowd, 
~rated: in 1783, and dedieated to Madre de Deos. A mouutains, all, all bear testimony to this genera-would be no actual disgrace, nor impeachment of. 
co~ortlle hospice has sloce been erected fC!r the res-tion, that the Adventists,, like Sin~ eon and Anna his understanding. So, with respect to the things 
idence of the prief't~ and a public gr11.ut le11.ving to it 
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was adtled n.few years ago by 1\lrs. Baretti. 
of old, are watching and waiting for the consola-of God; the rnalice of man, whether cm•ere 
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Cardjoa\ Pacca expreses great consolatiun a.t the tion of Israel. 
You still are permitted to hold a laugh, or open in its violence, is rather an argu-
brightening prospects of CaLboJics in Englan·d. Ro-the pure word of God in your hands, and· as a ment of their truth, than of their falsity. To the 
manism und~:r French co)ori!, is at work at Madajras-breast-plate, with it, to ward qff the shafts of the natural man they were to seem foolishness itself; 
car expelling, the Protesmnt religion. Whenever B.o-opposers fire,-you gird its proll)ises about your and is it any wonder then that they should meet 
manisrn has the power, jt·shows its old persecuting and loins and are seen pursuing! Be encouraged then with his banter 1 
~t is an honor to thP. gospel, 
oppressive spirit, ln thi~,.couotry it wears a milder to say to the unbelieving Jew, He whom ye are wheu it is despised by a Julian, a Shaftesbary, a 
aspect,t.hus seeking to accomplish by craft, what it can-looking for, is that same ·Jesus you despised and Lucian, or a Voltaire: their scoffs are fulfilment 
not do by power. lt is st.ill a tiger, although in a ~age. crucified, saying, "His blood be on ns and on our of Scripture, and before they existed were fore-
In the U.S. th~re is now an arch pishop. of Baltj. children,"•who will shortly come abcraiu in glory, told. 
Themselves, without mea11ing it, give f:ad, 
more, twenty .. one Bishops, sixteen Sees and 801 
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Priests and Clergymen. The number of churches is and will say to yO'u, "Depart "-though ye are yet convincing proofs of its divine authority.-
606; Missionitry Stations, 530; Ecclesto.stical Semin-called by n'ame, "I never knew you." 
Continue Ignorant of true wisdom, incapable of attaining . 
anes, 21 ; Female Seminaries! 46; CollegeS" and Lite~ to say to the unbelieving world the hour of God's it, and miserable with their own; all the amuse-
rary institutions, 21 ; Female Convents, 33; beside judgment is at hand,-mercy now invites both p~ent they found upon sacred objects was a" sport-
195 other lnslitutions, such as schools for the Sisters Jew and gentile,-haste, fly, fly! to the rock of ing themseJvee with their own deceiving," having 
of Chairty. day schools and Asylums, with about ~;>alvation in the wel}ry land. 
~ belief in t\le nothing but their own deceivings, the wretcl1ed 
15,00° pupils. 
world's destruction, is the only hope for their con-effusions of a serisual soul, to sport withaL Christ, 
version. 
From the most innocent babe, to the therefore, fulfilling his own prophecies, is to this 
:Rev. J. V,. Himes-Dear S,ir:-I~ the.frequ~nt most aged devout disciple, there is enough of sin, hpur a sign of reproach, and ·his gospel reJQains 
remarks that meet my ey~s in •print, and some-temptation, sickness, sorrow, and death, to tell for" the fall, and rising again <?f many in Israel." 
times salute my ears in the private circle, I have the true history ~f this present earth as a " v.ail Yet, to his people, however their lives may be ac-
been led rri<>re'minutely to enquire after'your do-of te~rs." 
~be very elements armea witn fin1Y:,. counted madness, and their end ~ithout honor, 
ings, aud sayings, than otherw.ise. · More than to destroy .man's ~opes and joys, and life its.elf, tliis very despised lesus Is the sign of salvation 
thirty ye~rs ago I became a professing christian, ·while man, man is the most deadly foe to man, of and victory, over sin, the world, and death; and 
and still in fellowship with the. cliurch of my first all created things. When all tears shall be wiped over him also "who hath the power of death, 
love. with< whom I hope to remaiQ, -'rhile time with from aU eyes, and the inhabitants shall n& more which is the devil." The wisdom of God will 
me continues. But like very many others in a.U say} ('I am sick/' when the good of all nations one day be justified in hi~ children; when the 
our Evangelical .churches, we look with prayerful and sects shall dwell together without ·discord, despisers of .his et@llnal truths shall wond~r and 
interest upon the effurts 'of Wm.-MiHet and your-and. not a jarring note be· heard to ma,r, the gen-rerish. Those who can boldly Jaqgh 4	 tlie con-
self: with very many' others in hanrtdnious 'cori-eral harmony, when .all the children of God sfiaH duct of his providenee and the revelatiou of his 
nection with you,'" as good men, and true." .1~.nd be of one heart and one mind, it ~ust be unqer grace now, will ere long weep and howl for the 
alt~ough I am not inclu~~d ,~n you~ r<mk!'!~ I am a new heaven; and on a riew earth! Then indeed terror that shaH come upon the, earth, and call 
sadly grieved at the false, ~tbusive, and slapderous \Ve muy behold the Tabern'acle of God is with upon mountains and ;ocks to hide 'them from the 
assersions, so often rE:peated · both by profess01:s .men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall presence of the Lamb, lmmahuel, and to ward off 
and non-professors-,· calculated to misrepresent be his p~ople, and God himself shall be with tht>m, his wrathful indignation. 
your faith, and prostrate your efforts. . Be not and be tqeir God ! An1d there shall be no more 
discouraged, you are paying the same that very curse, but th~ throne of God and the Lamb shall 
ma!ll' have paid pef,ore, when. urged to preach of be in it; .and his ss.rva_nts shall serve him. 
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"r1ghteous,temperance,and aJudgfD.~i:h to c<;>me." 
You w11l excuse th1s long letter,-! only m-
Look at Luther and his ass9ciates. As the Mora; tended· to have written a tine by way of an en-
vians, not only in th~ days ,and perso~ of Count closure for the extracts, which I now forward, 
Tinsi.ndoff, but in most o$ ·.their, missions. 
At thinking their adaptions or adaptation to your 
the Methodists in their fir*'t rise, anp sweeping situation might rend'er therri elcome. , ' 
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progress. At the Quakers, when they were not 
With true Christian regard for all those who 
suffered ~ draw the breath of life in Boston.-love OUl Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 1 ~m f,he 
While its a~•~ was bearing on its braces the sighs unknown,,respectfully yours, &c., 
S. B. L. 
and groans, flrqning the anguishing sweat of a 
Nem York, Jan. 7, '46. 
).i'RoM Hoa..E SoLITARI..E) OR SoLITARY HouRs. 
The Jesuii1.-A Frankfort paper aays there are at 
this moment in Italy 150 houses of the Order of the 
Jesuits, containing nearly 4,000 persons, of 'whom 1800, 
are 11riests. In France the·re are fifty-six, eontaining 
872 Jesuits, of whom 362 are priests. In Germ$ny 
there are eighty-eight, of whom fourteen are situate 
in Bavaria,twenty-"One in Austria,three in Wurlemberg, 
seven in .Baden, two in the two Hesses, two in Nassau, 
five in the province of Renis.h Prussia, three in West-
phalia, six in Sih~-sia, three ip Saxony, one in Anhalt 
Kothen, and five in Hanover and the Free Cities.-
In the Grand Duchy of Posen tl1ere are seven; in East 
and West Prussia,.five; in Pomernnin,t wo; in Brandcn-
burgh, two; in the province of Saxony, one. 'fhe 
total number of the J esuit!J living in these is 1,000 of 
of whom 400 are eighty-seven houses, containing !!36 
Jesuits, of whom 228 are priests; and in Portugal 
eight containing 16"' J!esu.itl! of whom seventy-five are 
priests. 
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most able, talent~~ c\eyout Baptis't .Minister, by 
name of Holmes, exf¥ating under the lash at t}le 
Boston Whipping Po&t~ tht> dar,k ~in of believing 
that baptiso, meant to diJH and that the Holy 
Spirit's influence, constraining hlm to wam his 
feJiow men to "flee from the wra~~ to come," 
was th~ Holy Anoint!ng for the EpiscoP,aey; and 
that this notable expmtlon might tell us .t~J.llY the 
renowned and brotherly source from which it. 
sprang, the Rev. Mr. Wilson a Presbyterian ·min-
ister of goo? report felt it his duty and privilege 
to er.own th1s melancholy ceremony, by ·stepping 
pu~!1cly ~p t~ th.e Whipping P_ost, and iridignant-
~f. slapmg , h!s go~d suft'enng brother Baptist 
This name Imm!l~Uel "God with us," was giv-
en to Christ as a ''sign; " and there is so much 
grace in it, such an inconc.eivable fund of good-
ness and love1 that it remains a sign to this day. 
Many will not believe it, because they think it 
Sad Jlccident.-We understand that on the 30th ult. 
too much to be true; and as unbelief is never. Mr. Elihu P~ckham, of t:lie town of Paw lings, wbo 
inactive, what they cannot conceive, they imagine wr.nt to the woods that morhing 'to draw wood, was 
tht~y have a r.ght to contradict and o·ppose. 
This found i~ the _afternoon out in the road he had taken, 
was f.he cue when the name was. first t:~vealed. d~ad, w1th his n.ec.k broken.. Ue had a. team of very 
Many chose to rejoice in Rezin and the son of hlgh fed and skJttJsh _hors~s,.and there ls 
m the face. L Cotton Mather.] 
Ill ConneGti-
cutt those days witnessed imprisonment for reli-
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that they ran away w1th h1m, and he 
Remahah, (~lll-: 8th,) rather than m the SJ.gll _of and killP.d.-Poughlctepsie Jov.rMI; 
revelation whicq {iod afforded them of an AI· 
migb,ty Sa~ior_, 
I~ l}pptinued_ to be. the cas~ ,when 
Pittsburg, Jan. 6.-The Monongahela broke up 
the Savior was maq.~ ~1!-p.ifest in the flesh. 
Good yesterday some two or three miles above the dnm, and 
AND MORNING WATCH. 
th; ice rs c::o~iR<J d6WR in larO'e ({Uantities. The Ohio· ventists, but the deadly infection with which they 
has sw-eUen veryerapidly siRce"'Sun_day mor~ing. There thems~}ves are tainted. It is to this cause-before 
is G feet water in the channel th1s mormng, hy the God we solemnly allirm it-that all the abominations 
metal mark, and risisg.-PerJn3.JlCJania.. . 
which have ever been known among the Adventists, 
U1tdH &1tun~ rf' Deatk.-There an: three_ persons may be directly traced. 
ill this state under sentence of death, v~~:.: Tillet, for 
the murder of 1 ohn Covert, at Whitehall. Time 0~ 
A better class of the tru1y devoted among us have 
execution not known. W m. Harper, for tile murder ot fallen into the same mistake that a better class of the 
Kempt, senteoced to be bung February, 1846. Mrs. spiritualists have fallen into, in reference to the mis-
Van Vulkenburg for the murder of her husband last sionary, and other enterprises; they have considered 
March, at Fulto~, Montgomery Co. Time of execu-the fact, that" God has 'blessed them," in the position 
tion, Jan. 24, 1846.~bat\!l ,.1tlas. 
of duty they have taken, as an evidence that all the 
Ne'OPr go batk.-N ever go back-never. 
W~at ~ou views and motives which prompted them to duty were 
attempt, do with all you.r stre~gth. 
DetermmatiOn according to the will of G•d, instead of regulating 
is ommpotent: If the prospect ts somewha.; da~kened, 
put the fire of resolution to yoar soul anu kmdle a their views and motives strictly by the teachings of 
ftame that nothing but the strong ann of deatb can the word of God. That it is our duty to spread the 
extingusb.-Port. Tri6. 
truth, as it is in Jesus, to the utmost of oar ability, 
to every creature, is as clear as it is that we must be 
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-~ hlnt.C~. "looking for the 2lorious appearing of the great God 
and our Savior;" and that God will bless us in our 
duty, in each particular, is equally clear. But when 
we assume that this blessing is proof, in one case, 
that" Jhe world is to be converted;" or,. in the other 
case, that the appearing of our Lord is to take place 
~' THE LORD IS A.T HAND." 
BOSTON, JAN. 21, 1Sl5. 
Preface to Bro. Hale's Lectures. 
exactly according to any definite view of his arrange-
( Concluded.) 
menta which we have received, if that view is more 
In this manner it is, that the professed people of definite than his word authorizes ; when we do this, I 
God, in our age, " turn their eyes away from the truth, repeat, we step right into the snare of the devil, and 
and are turned unto fables ; '~ in this manner they fulfil allow him to take this fruit of a. compliance with the 
the prophe'cies by rejecting them ; and in this manner word of God to set us above the wotd of God. How-
God is giving us the last assurances of our approach ever agreeable it may be to us, to believe the world is 
to the fina.l catastrophe. And it is not difficult to dis-to be converted, or that the advent is to take place at 
cover the snare of the devil in which so many of the any particular tim&; though we· may be abundantly 
people of God are taken.-The history of man abounds blessed at the same time, if in the way of duty, this 
with illustrations and proofs of the fact, that it is the belief must have some other ground for its truth to 
work of the adversary to lead men to reject or pervert make it true ; it is true or not true, only as it agrees 
the truth: if he cannot make an atheist of a man, and or disagrees with what God has spokeu. What we 
get him to deny the existence of the Deity, he will, if feel proves nothing else in the case only that we feel; 
he can, make a fatali11t of him ; so that, while he does it is no evidence of the truth or untruth of what we 
not deny the Divine existence, he holds a false view believe, the evidence must come from the word of 
of the relation of God to man which is equally fatal: God. 
-God is the operator, man is the mechanical subject 
As to the missionary, and other enterprises of the 
of the divine agency. Here the purpose of the enemy age, which ·reauthorized directly by the command of 
is as well served by the perversion as by the denial of God, or indirectly by the principles of the Gospel, we 
the truth. 
The field of obst>rvation, which illustrates insist that the Advent doctrine, instead of being at va-
the same thing, is as extensive as the circle of reli-riance with them, gives the only Scriptural, or truly 
gious error. 
And in the present case, the fruits of philosophic explanation of their character or purpose. 
the remarkable diffusion of the Gospel, which the last It points to them as a. part of the true "earnest" of 
century has witnesse4, is made the ground of the ar-our inheritance; as the fruit of "the Spirit," which 
guments which corrupt or overturn the Gospel. 
has been poured out so profusely u~on a~l flesh, in 
When the people of God were the subjects of vio-these last days, not to create t~e m11lenmum~ but to 
lent persecution, they scarcely thought of a millen-furnish us with an elem_entar~ 1d~a of _what 1s to. be 
nium but bv the resurrection. 
Now that these days the character of that nullenn.tum, m _whteh the Kmg 
of tribulation have l)een shortened, so that the Gospel of kings, and Lord of lord~, 1s to re1gn on the earth, 
· ht be preached to all nations for a witness, pre para-and the righteous of all nattons and all ages shall be 
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~unformed .to his. image-thetr Vl e o tes .as tone 
fort" of this mortal state is to constit.ute the millen-hke unto h1s glorious body-who shall constitute the 
nium. 
And, to say a word of ourselves here, because great family of' the redeemed-a complete and never-
we hold 011 to the hope of the fathers, and reject this endir.g brotherhood, to whom th~r~. shall be one Lord, 
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notion of t.he millennium, we are denounced and his name one. If the capabthttes of man, touched 
mouern 
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as,, fanatics-as enemies to ~he mit~sionary cause-and quickened as they have been by the Spmt o 
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opposed to human improvement,'' &c. As to the real accomplish so much in ev~ry dep~rtment of h~~a.n en-
fanaticism among ns, it belongs to our enemies who terprise, under the orgamc, s~ctal, and pohttoal ob· 
affect to hate us for it. Just enough of their spiritual-structions which embarrass tum at every s~ep, how 
i~m, which had become so loathsome as to be insufl'er-much may we expect, when t~ese o~structtons are 
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others who had charity 8Ufficient to end.ute ~t.) · But of the Lord from heaven: 
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as the taint was too deep to be eradicated, Of a,ffected 
'\Ve are not "the enem1es of human Improvement. 
to recover them to a state of decency, the lep-We reJ"oice in everything that affects man for good,-
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enemies, of the "spiritual" class, make a visit to the poor race ; but when we see and he~r our brethren 
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P find their way among ~hose who have been "Sf!parated them using one part of the plan of heaven as a means 
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see nothing, and can report nothing, among t~e Ad-part of the same plan, we see th:tt ·~the father o 1es 
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is contriving for tham a plausible perversion of that 
which they \'ould shudder to deny. 
Thai holy child of the devil, Bigotry, may rail, and 
scoff, and preach, and anathematize what it calls 
"Millerism;" as fanaticism; heresy, ignorance, as in-
human harbarism, and do it with as m~acb seal a 
Boniface de~tounced Vigilias for asserting " tee globu-
lar 6gure of the earth, and the existence of agtipGdes ;" 
but we shall claim for the Advent cause, what every Bi-
ble Christian wilf award to it, that it is as hely, and 
scriptural, a.nd efficient_ a missionary cause, as the world 
bas witnessed since the days of the ApQstles. 
We 
shall defend this claim on the same ground where we 
have always contended, hilt where our adversaries 
have seldom ventured, or eondesceaded, to meet 1!181 
viz., that the doctrine, in all its essential featares, is 
perfectly according to the word of God, aod, ia what 
is not deemed essential, ·as near to the truth as the 
best use of alt the means within our reacb can make it. 
We contend that it is no more fanatica\ to ex.peot 
the fulfilment of one class of ~he promises of God,-
just as he has given them to us, than to expect tha.t of 
another class of his Jlromises; tln.t siuce. God has 
given the promise to warrant it, we act in accordance 
with the hi(]'hest practical philosophy, in committing 
the derang:ments of our earth and its inhabitants inte 
the hands of t.heir Maker, to effect an entire restora-
tion ; that to do so is marked with as good common 
sense as it is to take our clocks, or ploughs, or·steam 
engines to their makers, to have their derangements 
adjusted. We contend that it is no humanity to pro-
claim that the world is ·to be converted, when God has 
declared it is to be destroyed ; for if God ·has made 
that declaration, we may think or feel as we will about 
it, it will surely take place. Indeed, if it were a ques-
tion to be decided by our feelings of humanity, whe-
ther all those now on earth, who deserve to perish, 
shoald perish at a stroke, and a redeemed race, safe 
fro;n the liability to perish, should take their place, or 
that the world should go on, even as the most sangu-
ine of our "spiritual" opposers may have thought, to 
the realization of their notion of a millennium, whose 
humanity would not raise its voice and say, Let them 
that are meet for it perish to-day, rather than the my-
riads of the guiltless, who arc now fit for " the king-
dom of God," should become polluted, and blighted, 
and damned, as they must be by having the world con-
tinue, even as they expect it to do! 
To me it is a far more revolting thought, that any 
precious babe, whose sad or smiling face my eyes ever 
gr~eted, should be corrupted and debased by the influ-
ences which everywhere prevail in society-that, to 
me, is more horrid than that every sinner on the face 
of eartb should be damned. However, it is not a ques-
tion for the feelings of men to decide. 
What Goi:l has 
spoken will take place. 
Besides. we do not know that it is any more inhu-
man to look for this evl:'nt in one generation than ano-
ther. And therefore those who complain of inhumanity 
in ue, must take the ground that such a day will never 
come, as Infidels and Universalists do, or occupy a 
position that is the very climax of absurdity. 
And 
indeed many have seen this: they have been so intent 
upon the destruetion of " Millerism," a.nd at the same 
time so evidently aware of the absurdity of pretend-
ing to occupy any received scriptural position, that the 
champions of orthodoxy have been cordially tendered 
"the right-hand of fellowship, by the sturdy abettors 
of Universalism. 
[t may be said, it is said, that for all these evil re-
sults "Millerism is responsible." It may b:\Ve been 
the occasion of developing the poison that was lnrk-
in<r unseen before. 
But is it not a well known fact, 
th~t our opposers have gladly laid hold of eYetything 
that could be associated with it of an odious eharac-
ter, and magnified lt, and rejoiced over it M if they 
h:1d found great spoil1 
Instead of admitting, that 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
what we expect to come at this time is to come; and 
"lnvestigato~" will &how that the Bible does teach 
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that it was possible it might come; eveo now and that the comin·1 of the Lord, and, also, that he will not comer 
1~ like to that above. rr 
it was the safe and better way to be prepared, have they will presen$ a di'ffi:~mlty we will promptly meet., 
Thos_e who have.had the privilege of C'frri8tian as.. 
they nQt, many of those from who~ we had a r~ht to or confess the justness of t'heir interrogatories.' 
sociation f~ many years, a.»d participated in the sur-
expect better things, actually denied the wbnle bearing 
It will als~ be seen t.hat our nei£llhor:t deny that' ferings and triall!! of the ehnrclr,. feel deeply the need 
of the prophecies upon the great event to ":hich they Christ ever existed. If we had room, we iJJ()uld like of these aids in the Christian pilgrf.mage. 
The fof.. 
have uniformly been applied by the church,_· or ap-to present the abnndan\ evidence there is {aside from lowing e:x.tra.et developes U!e feeling of O.ne of thra 
pr~:>a~hed so near to a deniaf a1 to relieve tl'tose who the Scriptures) of that fact. 
We. say nothing of ~he crass:-
looked to them for advics from.all a_v_preheosion-all ,testimony of the Evangelists, for that would ·be mo evi-' 
As· ir respects ·m,~eU, I J&n the Aovent. d.,etrine 
interest in the matter 1 Have we not been silenced, dence to the "Investigator." Nor will we ejte the still-it has a haM· of IJIC, that I think will neTer be 
or expelted from the communion of~· the churches" testimony of Josephus, for that has also been denied. uucJivched. I wish to know and oo IllY duty r I waRt 
as heretics-1 And whv should all this be done, even But Tacitufl~ a bater .of the Chl'istiai)S, wlro:, i:t 12 al-a ~ome SfKllewae!e, t~at 1 may have the felfowsllip sf 
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admitting that ~e' had fallen into so great an error Qn lowed, flo!!rished in tlfe firs~· q_entury, refe(ring fo the b11ilding-top, "lith my hear.t and a:tfectio~ on 'hings 
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To use a very .expres~ive Anglicism~ we do nQt see Christians, says. "They had their denomi.nati:en from I have some thoughts of goirig back to the' Churcll, 
that it was necessary thus to " take the bull by the Christ us, wbo in \he ~~.ign of Tjberius ~-a&, put fo where I_ have had-a htime for more than forty years}' 
horns;" to repudiate so large a part of the troth, be-death as a criminal by the procurator, Pontitrlf Pilate . ., 
W~ truly •ympathize '!ith eur br~t.hren in his iso-
cause we may have magnified a part of it ~nduly, or -Annals, B. 15, cb:t,p. 44. 
Th~ is an impartiaf tes-lated C'Onditron. 
We cannot advise him as to his du~y 
even held an erro'r. 
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2d. Celsus, who in this case. · But two things wiU follow if he retnrM 
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·given to the· world~ 'the die is cast f~r the g~eat rpass who oppQ~ed Christianity, whose writings have been be gagged on tne subject of the Advent. 
Secondly, 
of us. If we ark still ~oo early in the time, we shall preserved, qnotee from the evangelists, and speaks of the opposer~ and seoff'ers in that body will use th4l fact 
hold to the events of pro~hecy as· we now do.-the sayings and doings of Chri&t lVithout even qGes-of his return to· iBj1ne chose who are ·~waiting fm 
~nd the cause which has lived through hat the Ad-tiQning that he had had an e~istence. If hi.s existence the cansolation of Israel.,, This is no time for our 
vlmf ~~use has encou~tered from its injudicious or hy-..,.as. a q~1estion in t1lat early a.ge, Celsul:! woul~ dpubt-beloved brot~er to miite with any body of men wh~ 
~ocritical friends, ana its avowed enemies, ba~ ~othing ~ss have alluded to it. 
seek' to ove~throw ou; faith. 
now to fear. Though we have haa many painful 
3d._ .P<,!rphyry, .of the third century, wrote ,fifteen ' This subject .snggests the necessity to our Advent 
ties to our brethren to sever, in complying v·ith its r_e-books against the Chr-istians, and in the fragments of breth'ren in ~very place, where there are three or 
quirement ; as matters now are, in any result, we them which have come down to us, the existence 0 more, of uniting ()0 gns,Pel principles, and of walking' 
prefer our position. ' 
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Christ in the reign of· Tiberilts is notques~jqned. 
in go~pel order;· _yV~ hope it will he done_in every 
C(harle~tOW'(t·, January, 1846, 
4th. Jl!.fian the apostate,, (!.f the fourth centorv, a pJac,e, tbat_t~~ SC~l~ere~ remnan~ may be gather1ed i,n 
An Honorable Christian~ 
The " Advent Herald " publishes the whr1le of our 
fate explanatory remarks in regard to hs doctrines, &c., 
and'adds the following, which we copy mainly for the 
purpose of showing its good spirit. 
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We truly thank oUl', Christian friend ·for his kind 
wishes, for we b~Htwe they are sincerely given, and 
we appreciate sincerity wherever we see it. We are 
still firm i'n the belief, however, that the Se'cond Ad-
vent is a fatal delusion, restin'g wholly on mere per-
suasi'On; nay, mote-that thP.re has never yet been a 
'First Advent; and further still, tha~ no such perspn ale( 
th~ Jesus of the Gospels ever existed. 
Our friend 
will see that we are pretty far gone in Infidelity, 
though we are perfectly willing, upon conviction of its 
error, to throw it all to the winds, and do anything or 
be anythinp-that we conscientiously believe to be right 
and true. vVe have no doubt that tile faith of our friend. 
is Scriptural. 
But what then 1 Does that mal<e it 
tmb 1 The Quakl'lrs, the Swedenborgian", the Metho-
dists-, the Baptil:lts, the Calvinists, the •Shalwrs., and 
e\u00b7en the 
Mormoni~es, are as confident as he that. 
"their faith rests on the Word of God." Now w.e 
want to as'k onr friend two or three serious questions: 
-Can the operations of a perfect Being be so entirely 
at variance 1 Can the same fountain send forth, at 
tltc same time, swe~t water and bitter 1 An<l is not 
the fact to which we here n•fer, in itself the best of 
all reasons why he should pause, and ·regard his own 
conclusions, however strong, with some distru~t 1 \Ve 
add but one word ~ore-reflect !--Investigator. 
It will be seen that our neighbor admits. om faith is 
Scriptural ; and ask, as other denominations claim 
their fa.ilh is Scriptural, "Can the operations of a per-
fect Being be so entirely at variance 1" We answer 
in the first place, that the questiuns in dispute among 
the several evangelical denominations are unimpor-
tant~ compared with other qnestions in which they are 
united, In the second plac~, their division on those 
unimportant poinls rests entirely on consnuctions 
which are put on th~ word uf God, and not on the lite-
ral reading of that word. 
In t.he third place, the 
"Investigator" does not even claim that their opposi-
tion to the doctrine of the Advent, as we hold it, is 
Scriptural~ and therefore there is no v.ariance on the 
subject. 
These same denominations do not deny that 
the. letter of the Scriptures is on our side ; but they 
say the word is to be understood figur~ii~ely, spirit-
QaHJnilnd metaphorically. We therefore can see no 
bjtter water flowing from the same fouptain wi~h the. 
sweet; and have no reason thereby to pause. If the 
persecutor of th.e Christians, nowhere denies that ·Je• th~ ''bonds of peace, and the unity of faith of the 
sus had liv~d; but he says, ",Jesus having persuaded hle~sed hope. That hope is now at the very door, and 
a few among you, and those thb worst of men,. has now soon will be realized by all the faithful in Christ J e-
been ce)ehrated about 300 years; having done nothing sus. Let liS h1ild fast tho beginning &f our confidence 
in his life-time worthy of retnemhrace, unless anv one steadfast unto tl\e end, even if we have' t(l suffer. All 
thinks it a 'mighty matter to heal lame !\i)d blind peo-will be repaid jn the coiJsumnH~.tion. 
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the January No .. of this periodical, wh·ich is designed 
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executed, 
and contains a beautiful engreving' of the Ark, and the 
animals entering, two and two, pefore the· flood. 
"THE YouNG PEOPLE's MAGAZINE."---:-Thls is a 
periodica1, by the publishers of the above, wl\ich is 
issued monthly. We have received the January No.; 
which is well executed. 
"The Union of the Holy Spirit and the Chnr'ch in 
the, Conyersion of the, V\;orld. 
,.By Thomas W. 
Jenkyn, D. D." 
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We have received a copy of the ab~ve, published 
by Gould, Kendal~ & Lincoln. It is a handsome oc-
tavo vplume of 300 pages, apd, is, writt~n in a good 
spirit; hut we see no force in the argument to set 
aside the e.xpress declarations of the word respecting 
the continuance of the present state of things, till the 
coming of t.he Son of man. 
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.The grejttest blessing, pext to heaven, i~ a good 
home with the saints. 
· l.rJ' C~uRcH -MAcHINERY.-The machine'ry of the 
church fin converting the world was beautiful and per-
fect; but without the' impulsive power o~ the Holy 
Spirit, it would all stand still. The wires of the mag-
netic. tel,egraph has been laid down aud corHlucted 
fwm orte end of ~he world to the other. but uutil the 
electricity come down from heaven to the· wire, there 
could not be witnessed the grand result anticipatcd.-
N. Y. E·vangelist. 
It may be that the eleetrieit.Y' referred to will not 
come down fr~m heaven. It is· very certain that it 
has not )•et come; and' it is no Jess certain that God 
has distinctly asserted that it will not. We hope, 
however, that God n:ay use it for the conver~ion of 
souls, until the tiine shall have come for the creation 
of a new heavens and a new earth. 
IJ:r "The Juvenile Defence of the Trnth :· a Re-
view of· the Cardinal Points in Elder Borland's Ser-
mon on Nebucbadne~zar's Dream;. by John M. Or-
rack, fifteen years of age." 
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have received, \Vhich is what its title purports. Truly 
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David, with his sling, has entirely demolished Goliah wicb, N. Y., Sept. 24), I remained in that eection ets, 1.nd apostles have spoken, to give no heed no Jew-
of Gath. 
Had we seen this before, we should have about five weeks, during which the Advent church ish fables, nor receive for doctrines the commandments 
in the village became g-reatly revived, and their faith of men, which turn from the truth. They have no 
conside~ed any labor on our part, by way of r~vi~w, in the speedy comihg or the Lord fully confirmed.-sympathy' for the views generally inculcated in the 
as entirely unnecessary. We Chn hardly help feeling 'Several sinners were converted, some backsliders re-''Day Star," though some continue to take that paper 
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sorry for Mr. Borland; for he must undoubtedly feel claimed, and quite a number received the doctrine of ~the readiest means to obtain inf"o!mation respecting 
much mortified at being discomfited by a mere strip-the Advent truly in the love of it. 
I left Bro. H. some of its correilpondents, to whom, notwithstanding 
Heath there, who ·had arrived a few days before my their errors, we have an attachment that can never die. 
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departure. 
On my way to Hartford I stopped at Coo-
The "Gospel Standard " has been sent here., ae 
perstown, and remained in that. vicinity f(Yr two weeks, elsewhere, unsolicited, but has shaken tl'le faith of no 
during which time many souls, both sinners and bRck-one; it is, I believe, taken from the office but by one 
sliders, were brought heartily into the faith, and the or two. " Hitherto the Lord hath helped ns. 
brethren, though few in number, greatly encouraged. 
We see by the Jut "Day Star" that one of ils most 
The conversions were as olear as any that I have ever prominent writers has broken gtound against the per-
witnessed. 
By special request, I gave -two lectures at sonal, or at Jeut the bodily and visible advent of the 
the Christian. qhapel, when a good impression was Lord ; and from intimations in previous numbers, 
manifestly made on many minds. Bro. Ingmire, a Con-
we fear that our dear Bro. C. has fallen into the 
gregational clergyman in that vicinity, hils been of same snare. lf we mistake not, this doctrine involves, 
much service to me; he is favorable to the doctrine, or will lead to, the abandonment of every essential 
and is a constant reader ofthe Herald. H6 introduced positidn of the Adventists, not held in cornmon with 
me to ah English gentleman and hir. wife, who.ful-other Christians, and places its advocatee upon grounds 
ly ernbraced the Adven~ faith. aft~r listening atten-ev-en•more unscriptural and untenable than that occu-
lively to all my lectures. 
On my way to Hartford, I pied by our old spiri~ualizing opposers, in battle array 
ll? Men who give a partial representation of the 
truth, if they stop short of absolute falsehood, are 
guilty of great disingenuousnesa, which is neady as 
bad. 
Partial truth is often more injurious than posi-
tive falsehood ; and he is only an indifferent casuist 
who, in arraigning, as he conceives those who are in 
error, cooceals what will tell in their favor. 
Bao. J. Pt:~RSON1 has returned from hia visi~ at the 
West, which we learn has been productive of good.-
Bro. M. M. M	mford, of Rochester thus writes :-
"The cause here is in a good condition, and we trust visited the churches in Suffield, Windsor, Enfield, and against wyom these very brethren have heretofore 
is and will be still onward. The Lord sent us Bro. W;ueh. ouse-point,and found them generally in a healthy stood in the front ranks. 
B:1t tllis subject ill painful; 
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been revived under his wholesome exhortations, and state, particularly the c~urch at Suffield1 to which ad-and we tun\ from it. " t is a good thing to h~JVe the 
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sta.te, though it had been accused of being in a luke-chief business tu attain to ·thi11, and be careful not to 
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wa~;m state. I exceeding•y regret that there are any '>e " carried about with divel'se and strange doctlines." 
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ing hia family tG: Rochester, in accotdaace with the. who will, at thi& late hour, presume to sbut the door 
We hold our meetings regularly, having no other 
eaniest eolieltatioms of the friends there. 
of the ki11gdom .a.gainst us. 
But, mr br~thren, let us teacher but the "two witnesses. "-Rev. 11. 
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Afte_r spending a week at Hartfora, I visited the to an~ brother who derives his instructions from that 
-~ Dear Bro. Himes :-I hav«! lteen here. aa you bow, churches in Berlin, Meriden, Wallingfotd, and Chesh-only pure fountain of religious knowleDge. 
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mo~ttbs. When I came, things ire, and found them, as a general thing, stJladfast in t~ the Lord ! we have a Priest like Melchisedec, who 
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were rj!.t.her in a distracted state; .the: unhappy divi-the Iilith. 1 stopped at Ketch Mills op my way \o this abideth continually ; a Prophet somewhat like Moses, 
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sion d1at had grown out of &hose peen liar views, which place, where a favorable impres~ioo was made • .I vis-but ~~;superior \o him. as the ". buil~er of t~e house is 
have distracted the Advent cau~ of late, had severed ited t.be brethren at Square Pond, and found them en-. supenor to the house;" a Kmg hke Da-v1d, ooly he 
the ties that bound true hearts together, and that heav-joying the happy fruits of the camp·meeting1 which is the King of kings and Lord of lords, "whose do~ 
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enly Ynion which bei()'J'e prevailed, was in a great had removed much prejudice from the commuuity. 
I minion is an everlasting dominion,._ which shall not 
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measure4estroyed. 
He who goeth about like a roar-spent the Sabbath, 14th inst. with the church atWil~ pas!! away, and 'his kingdom that which shall not be 
iog lion, set>king whom to devour, availed himself of Hngton, and had a precious $eason. This is truly a destroyed." Onr Heavenly Father still continues to 
this opportunity to shoot his fiery darts, and make the devoted and happy people. 
I passed a day ot two acknowledge us, and '1 our consolation aboondeth by 
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destroyed, then his hellish designs would be accom-faith, having no fellowship with the extravagances of: hope, eveu the ~lorious appearing," &c., confidently 
t . plished; and in this, as in innumerable iu,stances be-the present time. 
I spent the following Sabbath, and expecling wit.h Bro. Hale, that 1846, or at least 1847 
• 1 fore, he proved too successful. 
But praise be to the a few preceding days with th~ Abington church, com-will Jell the tale of our deliverance, and the world's 
: J name of the Lord, the opposite of this picture is now po51!d of brethren from Woodstock, Pomfret, Hamp-undoing; and" having this hope," we are endeavor-
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beinu presented-" the clouds atlengtharebreaking," ton, Brooklyn, &c. 
Though there is coosiderab]e ing to "purify ourselves as he (our Lord) is pure."-
and ~e believe that soon we shall come forth into the diversity tlf opinion in this place, we had truly.a. d.ay For a. while we suffered inconvenience and loss from 
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of rejQiciug. 
I have a)s() spAut happy seasons WI~h inability to partake ~f the Lord's supper, there being 
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appointed for the purpose of having the brethren and uate, R.I., and at Soutll Kingston ;. I expected to ually, after prayerful study of the word,-our only di-
sisters come together and state their grievances (if spend a. few days with the Aboriginees in thi$ place, rectory, we deemed ourselves competent, under the 
l there were any), aud have roatters amicauly adjusted, but ascertaining that the two tribes had onited to hold circumstahces, to elect one of our own body t() admin-
1 so that we might all harmoniously join together in a protracted meeting, I came with them to this place. ister that ordinance to us, and now it is duly attended 
j striving for .the faith and hope of the Gospel. 
And I Bro. P. Handell, and others at Caroline Mills, are tu. This le~ds us to enquire whether some one of our 
assure you it far e;x:eeeded my expectations. J nstead united with ufl; we have reason to expec' that much Eastern IJrethren, who handle the word of God-the· 
of bringing railing accusations against each other, it good will be accomplished before our meeting closes. gospel of 1l1e Kingdom, could not be induced to visit 
wa manifest that each felt anxious lo remove all obsta-
I intend returning to Hartford in a few days, and af-the Advent congregations of lhe West, including the 
cles out of the way, by making confessions for them-ter visiting the churches in that region, spend a few little flock in this place 1 We should endeavor to pay 
selve~. 
Ther~ was ~n evident disposition t? lay aside we~ks, .if t.he' Lord. will, ~n Mass~c.h.ns~tts. 
I~ the oor portion of the exp~nce. 
N~y, we thin~ if you 
all mm(lr consideratrons, and swallow up HI love a.ll spnng, If time contmue, J Intend visltlog the friends should send us a promment mim-ster, one without a 
past differences, so that the cause of God mi~ht tn-in the St<,lte of New York. 
famil v or with a small one, like minded with tJUrselves, 
umph gloriously. 
During my recent tour in that State, not a single zealous fo.r God and his truth, and who, pilgrim.Jike, 
The~e is a general waking up among us on the ques-Sabbath passed, for more than six months, when I did could be content with small things, such as we have 
tion of the Lord's coming. 
Our meetinas are now not address a congregation on the subject of the Lord's O
t.elves, we could support him, would be willing to 
better attended than they have been since r have been coming. 
I also preached evenings during the week, SQnd some funds to help hiru on the way, and receive 
here; the unconverted form a lar~e portion of our and must have travelled on foot ll)Ore than seven bun-him with open arms .and hearts. 
Once more, could 
congregation, and give candid attentiOn; the Spirit of dred miles, besides hundreds of miles by public con-not Bro. \Vethee, of Ohio, who is not so very far off, 
God is evidently working on their hearts. Last.Lord's veyance; and though much exposed to the inclemency pay us a visit1 he is cordially invited to do so. There 
day eveuing, at our prayer meeting, a lad¥ who bad of the '"eather, I have not suffered an hou~'s pain d.u-is yet a wide field throughotit this far West, which 
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All this I say to the prarse of God. might be advantauiously cultivated. 
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They bowed before. the Lor~. and before the close she dently pray that I may .be four~d giving meat in due his 
avels into· this 1·egion, and improve the opportuni-
professed to obtain peaee Wlth God. 
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ty to muiLiply ~ia "joy and crown of rejoicinrr in the 
The prospects are bright~ning, the people of ~od 
Yours, looking with joyful expectation for the com-day of the Lo..-d Jesus 1" 
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SAML. CHAPMAN. 
We were highly delighted with the dialogue between 
their brethren scattered abroad, and give the last 
Charlestown (R. I), Jan .. 1, 1846. 
Justiu Martyr and Trypho, published in the closing 
echoes ()f the everlasting Gospel to our perishing fel-
numbers or the" Watch,11 and had our appetites there-
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low-creature&. 
Never, since God illomina&ed me on 
LETTER FROl
 BRo. M. HELl'lt. 
by greatly whetted for Justin's leLtf'r to Diognatus, 
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the thrilling question of the coming of the Lord, have 
Dear Bro. Himes:-The little church of Adventists, which Bro. Whiting promised to give us; a promise 
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camp, bearing the reproach of Christ, than at the pres-Stevens and Chittenden two years ago, afterwards tion of the ''Watch.': If consistent wi~h your judg-
ent time; a~d as I go, to sound an alarm in G?d~s watered and sustained by Bro. J~ B. Cooke, continues ment1 we would be glad if you should publish that let-
holy mountam, that the day of the Lorll cometh, 1t IS to exist and thrive, though considerably pnined by va-ter entire, and also one or both of Justin's apologies 
nigh 11t hand, and ha~t?th greatly. 
· rious ocourrences. 
Some of the mernbcrs have re-for the Christians. We are very sorry Bro. Whiting's 
Yours, waitmg for that glad hour, 
moved to other places, some have returned, )ike the pen has ceased to let dow11 it~ inlr. 
We had thought 
LE&JUIL OsLJtR. 
sow that was washed, to their w~llowihg in the mire, to be often profited by his contributions to .the "Her-
Portland (.Me.}, Jan. 1, 1846. 
while one beloved brother has been d{awn from the ald." 
truth to the ultra doctrine of the shut door, and its le-
Yours hoping to see you shortly in the Kingdom, 
LETTER FROIII Bao. S. CHAPMAN. 
gitimate 'accompaniments. 
About fifteen still remain 
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have been admonished by the Word and Spirit, 
Landajf, (N.H.), Dec, 23, 1845. 
crowded, our friends met with nothing but cool looks, 
which agree, that'there is great danger of such 
and the iron hinges of the new doors moved not. 
as are even }OQking for their Lord's coming, lest 
State of the World. 
They then enquired of the sexton where they wow.ld 
they should become involved in a spirit of levity 
"The wicked shall not understand." Dan. 12: be able. to find a.sea_t, and were informed by the em-· 
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cause we hav~ espoused. To be a_lway~ cheerful God. The inh_abitants o~ the old ~orld w~re am-and left the church. What make the case more par~ 
and never vam, and to be grave Without sadness, ple proof of th1s declaratiOn. The preachmg and ticular uttociotis -is the fact'that for @even day$ before· 
are very essential to the Christian character; and example of pious Noah to tha~ ungodly generation hand ·an advertisement o.ppeared in the Brooklyn pa-
may, perhaps, be accounted as sure evidences of they heeded not, but mocked and sooffed. 
And pers, ann~n~i.ng tha~ Dr. Cox was to lecture to young 
the higher attainments of true religion. 
L~vity as It was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also m~~' and mv1t~ng theu· ~ttendance. 
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in one who professes the religion of Jesus Christ in tbe davs of the son of man. 
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of whom, w_e ave ~o eVI ence t at. e ~ver so morr~h? and the CJbes of the pla1~, 1~ hke man-splendid churches that adorn our streets! God forbid 
much as souled, whi)e our example, IS ent&relf at ner gmog themselves over to formcataon and go-that ~mrs should be the voice or ours the columus to 
variance with that seriousneSs of character which ing after strange flesh are set forth for an exam-utter a sneer against true rel;gwn, or eten 1upuslition, 
is expected of those who profess to be Mtuated ple, suffering the vengeanc~ of eternal fire. When where it is&incere and harml-ess. We honor and rev-
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by the fear of ~<'d. We w~ll know, i_f ~we un-the angels came to righteous ·Lot and sounded e~ence the divine words of 9hrist-the teacher ?f 
derstand any thmg of experamental rehgaon, that fhe. alarm the ungodly host surrounded the house kmdness, forbearance, a~d umversal love. But ~hts 
it is impossible for us to indulge in a light and with all ~he malice of demons :-the cry wal!! 
pr~gmattc.al, arrogant, bigoted, a~d most con~em~tJble 
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At C_hnst's first ad~ent. the religion, plenti(ul and powerful as it is of htte, we 
a.sensab!e l~s of spmtual enJo~ment. An 1mme-w1cked Jews ~ejecte? ham as the Me~Siah,. and have nothing for but words of scorn and indignation. 
diate pnvatwn of co~fidence ts sure to follow as would not beheve him to be the SaviOr ot the 
" What man of sense supposes that real ChristiaD 
a consequence. 
While we allow ourselvfs to he world. Notwithstanding he was doing his mighty feeling is involved in the erection of the splendid tern-
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vain and jocose, we ean have no heart to go to the Works in healing the sick, curing the lame, and pies lately built or. now ~eing bui-lt in this_city? J:Io~ 
throne of grace, neither can we with prQpriety, casting out devils am·ong them; yet they said he much of ~ucb feelmg, ett~er,.caused the me of_ SHDI-
reprove the vain mirth and sinful glee of those casteth out devils throtigh Beelzebub the prince Jar magnlfice~t t~mple~ 10 the western. sectiOn ?f 
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wit w o-:n we are. necessan y ~ssoc1~te , I 
we of the d~vds. The prophecy ~f the d.estruct10u -and where churches' are built on speculation, and 
ar? _consCience-s~mtten for . havmg y1e.lded to a of the c1ty and temple was plam and sample, and hired out to those who will pay the higgest rent! Re-
spmt and pract1c~ so enhr~ly opposite ~C) the soon to be accomplished, yet they knew not the ligion of thi• sort is all corrupt and miserably hollow 
character of our hagh professiOn, and so duectly time of their visitation. 
The wicked will not -i\ llas nothing of gennine piefy about it. and rnuat 
contrary to the spirit and d~ign of the Gospel.-underst-and the time and nature of the, coming be ~eat ~nd drink to the exulting_ 
de~il him~elf, who 
How often we are disqualifi~d forth~ .a~propri~te kingdom-they see no signs of His coming.-delights m t_h~e who tr~ly worstup h1m, wh1le appar-
performance of these dut1e!\ by Jommg With Peter tell$ us," there shall come in the last days entlypwohr&lupplng God ·f 1 
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They a~ once .mfer from sue~ conduct th~t the fathers fell asleep, all thmgs contmue as they ful example o.od precepts of our Saviour, while nomi-
we are not smcere m our pl'ofessu>ns. 
And 1f were from the beginning of creation:" for they nally the guide of our churches, are supplanted hy lust, 
we attempt to reprove their follies under th~se "willingly are ignorant." St. Paul teJis us, "evil c.ovetousness, prid~, ruean al'!piratio~s, envy, love 
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the exclamation "Physician, heal thvself." Our ceiv~ng and being deceived." 
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b~ called f~r, and our a~VIce of the most su1table c~ll for rocks and mountams t~ fall on ~hem and ness, and the next day 'accept a cAll,' because they 
kmd l yet, 1f we do not hve before them as thou~h h-ide them "from the face of h1m that s1tteth on can get an e.lrtra five hundred dollors per annum. 
we believed what: we say oorselves, our labor wall the throne, and from the wrath of -the Lamb."-The well dressed faithful, glittering In broadcloth and 
be lost. We shall fail of giving them a practical "For behold the Lord cometh out of his place s1lk, tu~n '!P i~eir ~oses at 1he true minister of Christ, 
evidence of the correctness of our theory and to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their aod he Is for~1bly eJected th~refrom, ~ec~use he dare.d 
place it out of our power to be of any spiritual iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, to speak agamst the oppressions of h•s time, and his 
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same abuses upon those who are now doing the same 
crepency between our faath and practactlce. If 
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work which he was enga"ed in." 
we are faulty in this matter, it is high time that 
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we are apprized of the incalculable injury we ate 
Spiritual Pride. 
Powder.-The !!la~eholdera admit that there is press-
doing to t~e blessed cause in which we profess to 
We are often pa..ined at the wholesale and iodiscrimi-ing ~anger from our slaves, fire, lust, and murder. 
be engaged. and to our own souls by this )oo!le 
Ye"', Rlav'ery is a" powder-honse,'' sav· they, which a 
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fearful account we must give, if, through our 
masters? Then by al the instinc~s of self-preserva1ion, 
want of seriousness and faithfulness to duty, oth-York paper, contains much truth:-
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hotheaded reformera who have lately sprung up in New this '' pgwder" in your houses which may blow up the 
o t e necessary prep~ratton to meet t e commg England, to denounce the religion of church-goers as 600,000 free whites of our unhappy. country~ Jn the 
Jesus. It will be bad enough to loose our mvn being all no better than "sounding brass and tinkling name of our wives, om· children, onr daughters and 
souls, but to think of being in the way of others, cymbal;" but while we cannot fully assent to ~to sweep-sons, our friends and relations, our homes and our coon-
and the indirect means of multitudes of our fel .. mg aJT assertion, we are yet well convincecl tha\ a try-we demand that this" nuisance" be reo10ved, u 
low creatures plunging into the bottomless pit 1 great part of what now passes curren.t for genuine utterly intolernbl.e, and dangerous to our pence and 
0 how dreadful the thought I How it ·must aug-piely and zeal for the Lord's service, is nothiug else safety.-True w1merican. 
ment our misery, when we know that others are but spiritual pride nnd love of wordly ahow, which 
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It is, then, only in the sense of making it certain 
1!1 the tnue to set a double guard agamst the sm-1rrace on Christianity than all oth~l' causes pu~ ~ogetn~ and sure, that th~_scve~~ty weel{s an~ to. be upder· 
ful intrusions of levity. "YV e have but a few brief :r. Men, professing to be Christians, unite themselves stood to s~~l the Y.ISiqn. "By,the exc.tct fulfilment of 
days for the much we have to do. It becomes us into a religious sociely an~ build a splendid _cburch-that portion which was c11t off from the great com 
then, as reasonable beings, to increase our watch-a house of God, th_ey call 1t-and after huy1_ng pews prebensive view, k> be marked by events of the 
fulness and dilligence, by trying with all our might at an_ enormous P~•ce, and deckmg them off 10 a style most deeply interesting and memorable character to 
to live in the future so as to do away any bad ef-of prmcely magmficenc~, go t~ere ~n _Sundays; shut the church and the world, the demonstration was to 
. 
themsefves up anstocrat1cally m theu httle boxe11, arrd 
re~ts of our former exampl~,-hve every d.ay. as luxuriate upon the costly CU8hions with an air of pom-be given of the faithfulness of God in 'the fulfil-
If 1t were our last. And wh1le so9ls are penshmg posily better befitting a Lheatre than a temple of wor-rnent of the remaining portion/ at the time ap-
around us, let us endeavor to persuade them to ~hip. The writer ()f the following article, which we pointed. The 70 ·.veeks were ' cut off'' from the 
repent,, for the end of all things is at band, ex-find i~ a N.ew Yor~ paper, tells some "home truths" whole period of the vision, the 2300 day:;, for this 
horting them to be sober and watch unto prayer, on tl~1s s!lbJect, whtc.h, how~ver unpalatable, are de-special purpose; and while th:t-ir fulfilment was ~o 
that they may be savt-d n·om the wrath that awaits serv~ng of gr~ve cons•qeratJon :-
. 
be the assurance of the faithfulness of God, thelf 
the finally impenitent. And as he who has ealled 
"Church. Folks' of tM Modern Ti11u.' 
fulfilment as weeks of yea·rs shows that the period 
us is holy, so let us be holy in all manner of con-
Two respectable young mechanics of our acquaiRt-from which they were to be cut off is .also to be 
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understood to express in days the number of years good and competent men, as the world all admit: 
And here it should be ihown, that our "mis-
to be fillet! up by the events of the vision; which, 1 believe Christ will come at the end of these times; take," about which so much is said, originated in a 
indeed, the vision itself sufficiently proves, inas-I believe they begin with the events named; but in false criticism upon this testimony of St. Luke. 
much as the supremacy of the shortest dynasty the dates given we can place no confidence-they Some of the commentators, and chronologis:s, in 
comprehended in the vision-that of Alexander-may be correct and they may not; we should have order to establish the chronology of the gospel his-
occupied more than 2300 literal days. 
nothing to do with them." Who could have res-tory by ~he doubtful catalogues of thtl GreEk Olym· 
Was that portion, the ro w<.>el{s, so fulfilled 1 and pected his consistency, or believed in his sincerity piads and Roman consulship~, make this testimony 
have we the means of pointing out the time of its ful-if he had pursued sueh a rou rse 1 Who would not of Luke refer to the tmociate reign of Tiberi us 
filment, so that we may also point out the time tor the have felt that be had defamed the memory of the with Augustus, which commenced a few years be-
fulfilmentofthat portion oft he vision which remains, worthy men who fixed these dates 1 Vl e were fore the death of the latter. 
But there certainly is 
and which extends to the end, the last end of the bound to receive these as the true dates; to pro-no authority for this in the original, as Hengsten-
indignation ? '!'hat the 70 weel's received an exact fess our faith accordingly to the world; and we berg nnd others have clearly shown; and it wa·s 
fulfilment, we hardly need to say a word to prove. shol'lld thank God that we were enabled to take a so obviously the design of Luke to give the chro-
No fact has been made more evident, so far as we position in harmony with that profession. 
It is the nological clue to the ministry of John, ~md the hap-. 
are able to ascertain the date of the events in Per-best pledge that he will be with us when the event tiam of Christ, that if he had meant the associated 
sian and Roman history, which are connected with does co~e. 
reign of 'r1berius, be must have expret~sed himself 
the beginning and end of this period; no fact of 
There is data, however, of an entirely different in language tbat could not be misunderstood. 
He 
the fulfilment of prophecy has been more generapy character from that on which we have relied, gives "the year of the reign," or government of 
admitted. 
The terms, in which the argument af· though it harmoni~es with it in the main: it is de· the emperor, the name of the governo,r the te-
forded by its fulfilment is spoken of, by our old de-rived from the word and works of God, i. e. from trarchs of the different parts of Palestine, and the 
fenders of the Christian faith, are these: " It is the the connection of the facts of the gospel history with high priests; and the $arne word is used in the 
corner-stone of Christianity;'' "it is the unanswer-facts of astronomy. 
or;ginal to express the character of the officiat re-
able argument;" and in every contest of Chris-
It is well known that the practical astronomer lation of Pontius Pilate to Judea, that is used to 
tianity with Judaism, the former has only had to can calculate the time of an eclipse, whether past express that of 11iberius to the state with which he 
point to that prophecy, to the facts of the gospel his·· or future, with the utmost precision, so tl1at if any was connected; the same that is used to expr ~ 
tory, and the history of the Jews, to put to silence e\u2022ent in the past has been connected with an eclipse, that of Cyrenius to Syria, Luke 2:2; there lis, 
her inveterate and malicious aGversary. 
the circumstances of which will enabie an astrono-therefore, no more reason to suppose an associated 
The fact of an exact chronologir.al fulfilment is mer to c&lculate the time in whic~ it occ~rred, the rdation to the office i~ intendec~ in one cas~ than in 
evitlently pointed out by our Lord himself, and al&o date .o~ that event may be detennmed w1lh equal the ot~er.. W ~therefore ~eceive th~ testimony of 
by the apostles: when "the Messiah :• entered upon prec1s1~n. And th?ug~ we may be dependent upon ~uke m ItS pla~n and o?.vw~s meanmg; and refer 
his public ministry, be cited us to" the time'' of the. testH_nony of h1stonans for the knowledge of an It· to the sole re1gn of 1Iberms. 
As to the Olym-
that event as pointed out in this prophecy by these echpse, 1t must be seen nt once, that on such a fact pic and Consular Tables extant, as they are made 
words1 ''The time is fulfilled., {Mark 1: 15.) As they would .be the least likely t? prevaricate; and ~p o[ s.hreds ?nd patches, tb~ original records or 
he passed along through his life of suffering to a. falsehood m the case ?fan echpse cou_ld. be as ea· mscnptwns bemg lost, no rehance ca~ be placed 
"the hour" when he was to be" cut off" on seve-sily detected almost as If we had been hvmg at the upon the date of an event connected With them, as 
ral occasions when the restless malice ~f his ene-time the event may be said to have occurred. 
It to a definite year, which is abundantly evident from 
mies had plotted his death, the reason give~ why may, for instance, be proved to be an i~possihility the di~cordant tables of different chronologists. 
he does not petmit them" to kill him," as they did hat ~he .supernatural darkness, at th~ time of tha 
The commencement ''of the reign of Tiberi us 
in the end; is this, "the hour is not yet come''-cru.cifixwn, could ~ave been occasiOned by an Cresar" is determined by-an eclipse of the moon to 
"my time is not yet." But when his earthly mis· ecl~pse. So, also, I~ the case of the celebrated have been in August, A. D. 14. 'l.'he circumstances 
~ion was about to end in his violent death, we are ecl1pse of ~bal~s; d1fferent d~tes have been ~up· of the case were these.-At the death of Augustus 
mformed of it in these words: ''Now before the pos~ by histonans, as the time of that ec.hpse, Cresar! the predecessor of Tiberius, a part of the 
feast of the passover, when Jesu~ knt1W that his r~ngmg from B. C. 607, to B. C. 585. But Jt has imperial army, called the Pannonian legions, re-
.hour .was come that he ~hould depart out of this smc~ b~en settled by :Maher, Costard1 and Stukely, fusl:!d tc. ~cknowledge the authority of ~he latter 
worh unto the Fiitber,'· (John 13: t,) he goes tha~ It could have been no other t,han the solar and were m a state of revolt from the time they 
"forth to the garden;" the priestly mob'' cometh echpse of B. C. 603. 
(Dr. Hales Chron. B. I. heard of the death of Augustus: till the eclipse, 
thither, with lantern~, and torches, and weapons;'' PP· 12, 182, 184, 
. 
. 
'fhich was the meanl!! of quelling the sedition. 
no resistance is permitted; he tells them he is the 
~ave .we, then, any facts ?f this kmd-any (See Jarvis' Int. to Hist. of the Church, p. 251.) 
one they seek, and they lead him as the lamb to the eclipses-to enable ~s to determme t!le date of any 
Here, then, the place where the eclipse was seen 
11laughter. 
Paul also, in speaking of his death, of t~e eve~ts on wh1ch the c.alcu.lati?n of the pro· is stated; and the month and day on which Angus-
tells u~ that "in due time (margin, a~tording to pheu,~ penods depend 1 l thmk It WJll be seen that tus died being known, as the mutiny and eclipse fol-
the ~ime) Christ died." Rom. 5;6. 
And Peter in-the date of the fulfilm~nt o~ the 2300 ~ayB and the lowed that event immediately, the time of the year 
forms us that the Spirit of Christ in the prophets sevent~ weeks, of Dame! e1ghth and ~Inth, may be in which it must have happened is readily deter-
signified to them that there was a time to be known dctermmed by such farts. 
It must be seen that we mined. 
The only eclipse marked in the astronomi-
for "the sufferino-s of Christ'' as well as for his only have to fix the date of any one of the events, cal tables as the one here referr£d to took place 
glory. 
1 Pet. t10, 11. 
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\~hich marks the fulfil.men~ of any one of the divi-Sept. 26th, A. ;D. 14. {See. Fer. Astron'. Dr. Hales' 
The fact of an exact fulfilment of the time s1ons of the longer pt·nod, m order to settlethedate Chron. &e. &c. 
given for' the sufferings of Christ, being thus .of the fulfilme~: . of 1
any other divisio,n, and of 
Another and still mor.e remarkable eclipse ena-
established, the only difficulty that has arisen cou~se of .the end 1tse f. 
bles us also to fix the true date of the reign of 'ri-
is founa in fixing with precision the date of the de-
Sixty-~me weeks. of the 70 \~ere to extend" unto berius: it is the "great eclipse" of the sun which 
cree with which the 70 w~eks begin, and of the t~e Mess1ah t~e Pnnc~." !'his mu~t apply to .the took place at the time of the battle of Actinm. 
A 
facts o( history connected with their fulfilment.-time when h1s Messiahshlp ~hould be .pubhcl_y few days before the battle, in whieh Antony and 
The ~xtreme~ of 4iffer.~nce upon the date of the mad~ kno~n and duly aut~enucated. H1s publ~~ Cresar fought for the supremacy of the world, and 
ecree of Artaxe;r~es w1th which the 70 week~ be-
man~festat10n, as the Messmh, took place ~t h1s w bile the armies were marshalled on the plains of 
gin, are B. C. 457-453. The e.x.r.nanf:i ofdj(fm;:-baphsm: for he was not known, as the Mess1ah, to Actjum, the st1n stt i11 an eclipse; (probably the 
ence in the date of the .P~blic aDf!.ouncement of "the the peop~e ge~erally (Luke 3: 15); or even by Jehn most remarkable that ever occurred) so that thne 
fessiah "-the only event clearly designated to t~e B~ptlst, ~IS .natura~ cousm, as men count ~ela-can be no difficulty in asrertaining when it took 
mark the fulfilment of the time, and the only event t10nsh1p, unt1l h1s bapt1s~. John ca~e espe.cially place .. By this eclipse, it is known that the battle 
cleatly c.onnected ith chronological facts in the for t~e p~rpose of prepartn.g th~ Jewish natton to of A~tm~ was fought Sept. 2, B.C .. 31. 
As Cre-
gospel h1story-are from A. D. 25-2 
~ece1ve him; h~ was to pomt h1m out to them; and sar was tnumphant, the battle of Actmm was made 
It is well known that in our ormer ca cul!ltion 1t was by the miraculous desc~nt nn~ appearance of one of the epochs from which his reign was com-
the earliest dates in each case for. wbir.h ther~ w·as the Holy Ghost that the Mess1~hsh1p of Jesus was puted. He reigned within a few days offortyfour 
ny good authQrity were adopted-the dates in-to b~ attested to John, an~ th1s took place at the yea1·s ofter that battle. 
And forty·four full years, 
crted in the margm of the English poTyglot .Bible. bap.tlsm 
These facts are fully -stated by the evan-beginning Sept. 2, B.C. 31, extend to Sept. 2, A.D. 
AndJ!!ese dates we were.. bound before God and gebsts: John 1:19-34; Luke 3:21,22. 
14. 
The death of Augustus Cresar took place 
men to regard as the true dales .unless thair mcor-
The public rnanifrstation of the Messiah at his Aug. 19, A.D. 14. 
(Memoirs of the Court of Au-
rectof!ss were pointed out by some competent hand. baptism marked the termination of the 69th week, gustus, vol. 3, p. 550. 
Lon. 1763. Gillie's Hist. 
or it should be shown by the passing of the and the beginning of the 70th. 
It is the date of of the World, vol. 3, pp. 474, 475.) 
time. 
this event, within a certain bounda:-y, that we are 
By this data: then, the sole reign of'l'iberius must 
Suppose, now, that when Mr. MiJler published able to determine by the facts of astronomy. Luke have begun August 19th, A.D. 14. His fifteenth 
his views of the prophecies he had spoken in this testifies, (3: 1-3, 21-23) that the ministry of John year muFt have extendrd from August A.D. 28, to 
manner: "Here are the times, at the end of which the Baptist began "in the fifteenth year of the reign August 29, and some tjme during that year," the 
Christ is to appear and the judgment to take plat'e i of Tiberius Cresar ;" and that the baptism of Christ, word of God came unto John the son of Zacha-
bere are the events with which. these times begin; by John, took place when he was "about thirty rias in ,he wilderness, and he came into all the 
and here are the dates for these events, given by years of age." 
country about Jordan, p1eaching the baptism of re-
192 . 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
pentance for the remission of sins." 
The hal!~· lJl 
And now, to put the matter in the worst light pos· bring us to the same point in the vear 1846 for 
of Christ must have taken place, there ore; after sible, if Christ had been born at the time of trLis the termination of the 2300 years. 
August 19th, A.D. 28, and thus we have the earli· last eclipse, and had been full thirty at the time of 
That the apostles regarded the fulfilrocnt of the 
est boundary' fix.ea for the period in which the last his baptism, he could n~ ave been baptized later prophecies which referred to ti}e first advent, as a 
week of the 70 began. 
than December, A.D. ~0. Wearetherefurebrought, pledge of the fulfilment of those which refer to his 
'fhe other boundary is marked by the connection by this most decisive view af the question, to ape· second advent; and, the fulfilment of the time, ac· 
of the birth of Christ with the death of Herod, riod of abpul tw:o yea ~ Aln~.four Il).Q ths, within 
ording to which he was to suffer, an "11ssurance" 
which is also designated by an eclipse. 
Matthew which Christ must have ~ec~ baptized2 and thc.last 
at the time, according to which he is to appear in 
informs us, (2: l, 1"3-20,) that" Jesus was born in week of the seventy begun; and according to this 
lory, will be as s1rictly fulfilled, we think must 
Bethlehem, of Judea, in the days of Herod the view, the l_g,t~point to whil'h the seventy weeks appe11r very evident from a few citations. 
').'hear· 
king;'' that "the Lord appeared to Joseph in,a could extend is December A.D. 37· and the latest guments from the fulfilment of the fiq:;t advent 
dr~rn, sayingr Arise, and take the young child and point to which the whole per!od coura extend is De-
propheci~s to enjoin or encourage faith in the sec· 
his mother, and flee into the land of Egypt, and be cember, I 847-a point not two years in the future, ond advent prophecies, abound in the New Testa· 
thuu there till I bring thee word: for Herod will The wl'tole period which extends to 
ment. 
A few specimens may be found in the fol· 
seck the young child to destroy him;" tha' ''when 
the end is 
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· · 2300 years. lowing places: Acts 3: 12-26; 1(1:34-43; 13:23-47; 
hearose,hetooktheyoungchild t~-ndhismother Fromthisdeduct69weeks,or · • 
183 
'' 
L.Cor.15:1-11; 2Tim.1:8-l2; Titus2:1!-15; 
by night1 and departed into Egypt, and was the1·e 
, 
3:4-8. 
Some of the portions which refer directly 
until the death of Herod;" that.,: when Hen>dsaw And therl'\ remnin 
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to the time of" the sufferings of Christ," and the 
that he was mocked of the wise own, he was ex· 
As this remaining part of the whole period, be-time of" his appearing in glory" may be considered 
eeeding wroth, and sent I~rth and ~lew all the chil-ginning with the last week of the 70, at the baptism more at leogth: "But those things which God be· 
dren that were in Bethlehem, und nll the coasts of Christ, mus.t have begun between Aug•tst, A.D. fore had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, 
thereof from two years old and under, according to 28, and Decembel', A.D. 30, so it must end between that Christ should uffer he hath so fulJilled.-
the time whiclt he had diligently inquired of the August, A.D. 1845, aod December, 1847. 
"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your 
wise meR;'' that" when Herod was dead, an angel 
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1817 
ins may be blotted out, when the times of refresh· 
of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 
Added to A. D. 
28 
Added to A. D. 
30 
ing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 
saying, Arise, and take the young child and his 
, 
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and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was 
mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they 
Extend to •.. 1845 
Extend to-•• 1841 
preachrd unto you: whom the beaver. must receive, 
are dead which sought the young child's ]jfe. . 
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until the ,times of restitution of all things, which 
Now it is well known that Josephus, who gives 
~ut all the tune t~e buth of C?rr:st preceded the \God hath spol<en by the mouth of all his holy 
the details of the history of Herod's life ond reign, eclhrpseb, an_d all the·tbJ~e thaht Chns~ w~s shofrthof 30
0 prophets1 since the world began." Acts 3:18-21. 
states that some of the transactions in his last sick~ at ts apusm,must rmg t e termmatwn ° t e 7 
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ness were marked by "an eclrpse of the moon.'. we~~ •. anu 0 
. e .w o e per.w S? muc 
ear ter. 
And there are no other eclipses but those of tw 
If 
.~hnst .was baptize<!. any,_trme m A.D.~ the II~====~============ 
years, concerning-which there can be any disput · whole pe~IOd mustten;xun~ JU 
• 
nd tlle moSt THE HERALD AND WATCH. 
as to that referr;d to by Josephus. 
One of thes natural VJe~v we can .take o a t . acts stated br 
took place March 11th, B.C. 4; the others, January the_evangeltsts, make It very proba ~e that the ter~I-
BOSTON, JAN. 21. 
8th, and D~c.ember 28th, B c 1,-the one in Jarl· natiOn falls more t~an n year before the latest po.mtu================== 
uary a"' totdl" eclipse. Between these there W&J! her~ referred to. 
fhe decree. of He~od,_ b~ wh1ch 
ExPLANATION.-Owing to sickness in the office, 
none visihle in J uden, nor was there 8: total eclipse h.e •ntended to .secure ~he S~ vJor as .hts VICtim, ":a.s our receipts are necessarily delayed to another week. 
for mor ethan two years after. 
. 
flamed. acc?rdmg to .h~ trme which ~e had dii1-Manv letters and other matter desi11noo for this No. 
But if the eclipse which marked the death of gently mqmred of the wrse men what. trme the star are also thereby delayed. Errorsm
0
ust be excused. 
Herod took place B. C. 4-, and Christ had been born appeare.d,-and as th.e dec~ee provided for the 
The Pittaburgh Journal says that a young man lying 
at the very time of the eclipse, he must have been slaughte,~ of all the children 10 the coasts 0,~ B_eth· dangerQusly ill of si,Jlall po.x, in that city, called for a 
full thirty ia A.D. 27, Mal'eh llth, more than a lehem, 
from, t1-oo yea:s. old and 11:nder, 
,~mce spiritual comforter:andnot aChristian minister in the 
year before the 15th of Tiberius began; the last Hero~ must have b.ee.n hvmg at the tlme he 
sent place would visit him. 
week of the seventy must have begnn in that year, fort~ the decree, It 1s reasonable to suppose that 
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and ended A.D. 34, and of course thewbole period ChTI~~ wa~,born not le~s t~an one year, Mr more n:T
,.~-·Removal ofthe Office of the Herald~' 
must have end8d in 1844. Time has proved that I han .two, before the Issumg of the decree. _But 
. 
that cannot be the eclipse af which JQsephus speaks. tf Chnst was born or~l.y one ¥ear b~fore the eclrpse, .. ~/ · 
To No. 
But the edips,e which determines the date of the and was less than thllty at his baptism, the end mus 
30 DEVONSJliRE·STREET. 30. 
baule of Actium, enables us also to determine the come more than a year before D~cernber, 184~r 
We hue remov.ed t~is office from 1~ De~onshire­
latest possib\e date for the death of Herod. 
Jose-An_d when ~e rem,~ntb~r tha~ t4e ~chpse ?f Januarvi wtreet to No. 30, up staus, on the opposite s1de of the 
phus tells us that Herod reigned thirty-seven years as It was a: total 
eclipse, IS qmte as hkely to K;~ same street. The entrance is the third door north 
from the time he was made king at Rome; and that ~he one whrch marked the death of Herod, thee~ Jrom Water-r;treet. 
the battle of Actium took place in "the seventh IS cr?wJed S? much the nearer. 
It hardly seems · 
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ye~tr of his reign." Supposing a ltalf of his sev· possible that It can pass bey_ond 1846. 
~ndeed., ~e 
MEETINGs IN NEw YoRK are held Sunday morning 
enth year to have p~ssed at the time of that battle_ have. al!eady pa~sed so far mto the penod, ~tthi? and afternoon_ at Croton J:Iall, at the he a~ of Chatham 
hi h · th 
t th t 
b 
ed 
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the hm1ts of which the end must fall, accordmg to Square, and m the evemng at Columbian Hall, 363 
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ee .... ngs are a so e regu r y t ree 
• a,ter a mo~t . angerous Wtnler. voyage, wlt t e a sin ate hour 0 
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times every Sunday, corner of Christopher and Hud-. 
hazard of his ltfe and loss of h1s baggage, he ar-
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son-streots. The meetings at Brooklyn are held every 
rived early in the spring'' at Rome; and tarried 
With this termination of the 7(} weeks, aod of S~nday at Washington Hall, corner of Adams and 
there oDly "seven days,'' at the time he was made course of the longer period of which thf:!y a1·e a Tillery-streets. 
king,--;t~ere would remain thirty and a. half years 
p~rt,.a~ree~ ~he opinion of one of the most pro!ound 
Icr N oTIOE.-Papers returned witbou~ the Post-
of the thlfty-~even after the battle of ActlUm. That· B1bhcal c.nties of the oge, l:i®g' 
~. W 1thout office address being given, cannot be stopped. For 
took place Sept. 2, B.C. 31. 
Thirty years begin.-any reference to the question in wh"i.Ch we are 1!0 without the P. 0. address, we cannot find the subscri-
ning at that date would extend to S~pt. 2, B~C. l. ~eeply interested, but to vindicate the faithfulness of bers' names on our books. 
. 
The remaining half year wou.ld extend to March God against the objections and cavils of neologists, 
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of the next year, A.D. L . The eclipse that marked in reference to the fulfilment of the 70 weeks, he 
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the death of Herod could not, therefore, be earlier uses thi~J very proper though strong language: 
We have on h~md a good supply of the New Testa-
or bter than B.C. 1. 
As there were two eclip3es "The prophecy itself bears all the marks -Of chro-ment, containing Campbell's translation of the Gospels, 
in that year, one in January, the other in Decem-no logical definiteness. 
T.he commencement and and Macknight's translation of the Epistles, with the 
ber; and as we wish to obtain the latest boundary tern;lination are not fluctuating, but designated by Acts and Revelation in the common version. This is 
for,the period,.in which the date of ilie baptism of strictly limited flvents. 
The whole p~riod of 70 much liked by our brethren who have been sup.plied 
Christ could fall, we will suppose the last eclipse of weeks is not only divided into three parts of 7, 62, with it, and is a convenienl reference for those who 
that year to be the one mentionP.d by Josephus, and 1 week, but also this latter into two halves.-have not access to the original Greek. Price, 37j 
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which marked the death of Herod. 
How could this happen, if no Tegard was paid to 
·;By referring to the above testimony of Matthew, half a hundred yen,rs, more nr le.~s? God kims<!lf 
it will be seen that two important facts are settled. would have ~iven occasion to doubt his word, if a 
1. That Herod was living when Christ was born. prophecy, bearing all the ma1·ks of ckronologiiac-
2. That the hasty tlight into Egypt to elude the df:finiteness, were proved by the fulfilment to be 
malice of Herod, and the retu m to the land of tnde.finite.'1-( Christolo o'}f;..!oi. 2, p. 380, Wash. 
Israel after his death, were while the Savior 1839.) 
He datc~ommencement of tbe 70 
WI\$ a ".young child;'' nnd therefore Herod could weeks 1' in the third month of the civil year," a 
not have lived a great \~bile after the hiMh of part of our November and December, '' ~ 
l.lefure 
Christ. 
Ghrist."-(lb. p. 387, 389, 394.) 
This would 
White/lead's Life of the two Wesleys.-This is a 
valuable book for $1 ; and shows, in the life of JGhn 
and Charles W ealey, t.heir toils, and struggles, and 
perplexitie11 ; and also their faith-so unlike that of 
some called by their na.me at the present time. 
Crotkn'1 Concordance.-We have obtained an edi. 
tion of this work with a smaller 'IJlargin, and ou:r own 
imprinh wJ1ich we can furnish in sheep, like the Harp, 
for $1 50. We have the other edition in boards, at 
$1 25, as usual. 
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