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BOSTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1862. VOLUME XXIII. NO. 14. 
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For every idle word that men shall speak, they 
shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. 
—Matt. 12, 36. 
Words are things of little cost, 
Quickly spoken, quickly lost ; 
We forget them, but they stand 
Witnesses at God's right hand, 
And their testimony'bear 
For us, or against us, there. 
0 how often ours have been 
Idle words, and words of sin ; 
Words of anger, scorn, or pride, 
Or deceit, our faults to hide ; 
Envious tales, of strife unkind. 
Leaving bitter thoughts behind. 
Grant us, Lord, from day to day, 
Strength to watch, and grace to pray ; 
May our lips from sin kept free, 
Love to speak and sing of thee ; 
Till in heaven we learn to raise 
Hymns of everlasting praise. 
lightened earth more excellently than now,scorch-1 
ed it not. And it is interesting to notice that,in 
these prophecies which tell of the world's great 
crisis just before the coming of the Son of man, 
these evils, ascribed to the sun, are drawn to a 
point, and concentrated in calamities of darkness, 
and of scorching proceeding from the sun. We 
read, "The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, 
and the moon became as blood, and the stars fell 
unto the earth," (Rev. vi. 12.) Again we read 
that "the fourth angel poured out his vial upon 
the sun, and power was given unto him to scorch 
men with fire," (xvi. 9.) We read also that the 
day of the Lord is "a day of darkness and gloomi-
ness, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the 
morning spread upon the mountains," (Joel. ii. 
2.) These passages indicate the evil condition 
into which which even these bright lights of 
heaven have been brought by man's sin,—an evil 
condition which seems to have been gradually 
increasing with the ages, and arrives at its crisis 
just at the arrival of the great Restorer. For 
we have striking passages predictive of the al-
teration which is then to take place in these 
heavenly bodies. A time is predicted when 
neither "the heat nor the sun shall smite," (Isa. 
xlix. 10 ;) of a time when "the light of' the moon 
shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of 
the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven 
days," (Isa. xxx. 26 ; ) which latter passage man-
ifestly imports a wonderful change in these orbs 
of the sky. This is said to consist in an increase 
of radiance ; but were this all, there would be no 
blessing in such a change ; but this renovation 
will doubtless embrace in it a restitution of its 
first mildness and healthful influence to the light 
so that with whatever intensity it_A-elkindly 
down, that intensity will bye taken from 
and healing ; and "Unto you shall the 
this res usness arise with healing in his 
'
q ' (Mal. iv. 2 ;) and it well to notice in 
n- 
dent from the chapter of Isa' 
where the great slau 
is described, 
name of 
his 
ever since. They, doubtless, are part of the 
"groaning creation." Their sorrows and injuries 
are not over looked by Him who made them. 
Their history, from that day to this, has been 
one of evil, and suffering, and death. Man has 
proved their tyrant, not their master; he has not 
ruled over them, he has oppressed and wronged 
them. Be has taken pleasure in destroying them ; 
and one of his choicest "sports," as he calls it, 
has been the pursuit and slaughter of the help-
less and unoffending creatures of the field and 
air. This miserable, oppressed, groaning life, 
they have lived under the tyranny of man, and 
the rude elements, against which they are so 
feeble protected. And then, in addition to this, 
they have risen the one against the other, tear-
ing and devouring each other, as if all man's or 
Satan's horrid passions had been transfused into 
their natures. 
But prophecy presents us with a fairer picture, 
as yet to be realized ; a picture which takes for 
granted that the previous history of these crea-
tures must have been wholly theieverse of the 
description given. Thus, in Isa. xi : "The wolf 
also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard 
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and 
the young lion, and the fatling together ; and a 
little child shall lead them. And the cow and 
the bear shall feed ; their young ones shall lie 
down together ; and the lion shall eat straw like 
the ox. And the sucking child shall play on 
the hole of the asp, and the child shall 
6 
's den. They shall 
put his hand
amb shall 
on the f 
ecock 
not hurt nor des 
.11 all my holy mountain." 
Again chapter, we read : "The wolf 
'straw like the bulioua , 
L''' dust shall 
eed together, and the lion 
a eat 
be the serpent's meat ;" that is, the serpent, woo 
was cursed above all cattle, shall still retain his 
curse in these days, when the other animals are 
delivered from it. What are the two passages 
is t 
the same division of the prophetic line, and the 
same intersection of it by the advent. But as 
this is a large subject, fitter for a volume than 
an article, I pass it just now, merely throwing 
out the above suggestion, to complete the deline-
ation of what I have called the creation-line. 
The work of the seventh day, we may say,was 
the institution of the Sabbath ; and it may be as 
well to bring this under the same prophetic line, 
as it comes in here as naturally as anywhere else. 
God rested on the seventh day, and called on 
man to do the same. Man broke in upon God's 
rest, and destroyed his own. From that day to 
this, earth has had no Sabbath. God had kept 
up the memorial of it among the patriarchs, and 
among the Jews, and now in His Church ; but 
strictly speaking, creation has no Sabbath,—no 
rest. All has been tumult, and unrest, and war-
fare. No day of holy rest has yet been enjoyed. 
All that has been done is to keep up a memorial 
of it, and give utterance to a solemn protest 
against its abolition or desecration. But we know 
that God means to give back to earth its long-
forgotten Sabbaths. Often in the prophets is 
Israel pointed forward to the great Sabbath-keep-
ing yet to come ; and the apostle, [Heb. iv. 9,] 
tells us "there remaineth a Sabbath-keeping for 
the people of God." Thus the history of the Sab-
bath divides itself' into the same two sections,—
the one dark, the other bright ; and that the in-
tersection is the same is evident, not only from 
the passage in the Hebrews referred to, which 
identifies the time of Sabbath-keeping with the 
future rest of the saints, when their Lord comes, 
but also from Isa. lxv. 23, where, after the crea-
tion of the new heavens and earth, and conse• 
(pently after the coming of the Lord, it is said : 
"Tt shall come to pass, that from one new moon 
to another, sod from one Sabbath to another, 
shall all flesh come to worship me ;" predicting 
the great universal Sabbath that not only Israel, 
but all nations of the earth are yet to keep in 
the "times of the restitution of all things." 
„Thus, then, we close our argument in regard 
presented to us its -LA.+ 
line, that of creation. 
same evert. Thus we learn God's purpus,.. _ 
gard to things present and to come. Up till the 
Lord's arrival, all is dark ; after that arrival all 
is light. There is no light, no blessedness,no glo-
ry, no holiness, till He come. The latter-day 
 
glory awaits His advent. Millennial blessedness 
cannot commence till He appear to take off crea-
tion's curse, and to make all things new. He 
bore creation's curse when he was here, and in 
token thereof He allowed HimSelf to be crowned 
with thorns, which is the emblem of creation's 
curse ; He paid down the purchase-money for the 
ransom of the inheritance. But He is coming 
again to complete his glorious work, to recover 
out of' the hands of the usurper and spoiler the 
purchased possession, and to reign in righteous- 
ness as the second Adam, creation's Head, with 
the true Eve, His Church. over this redeemed 
creation earth,for the blessedness of creatiomand 
for the glory of God the Father!! 
The Baptism of Fire. 
It has been supposed by some that fire denotes 
judgment or wrath. It has been urged that John 
himsAf explained what is meant by the baptism 
WHAT ARE IDLE WORDS. 
From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophe 
God's Purpose as 
Pry 
(Concluded.) 
We come next to the work of the fourth day ; 
—the setting of the lights in the firmament. Our 
own experience informs us that some deteriora 
tion must have taken place in these orbs of heav 
en. In the tropics they burn so fiercely, that 
nature withers up before them, that man and 
beast seek shelter from their intolerable heat. 
rowards the poles they shine so feebly,that noon-
day is as twilight, and vegetables cannot thrive 
under their diminished radiance. And thus Seri 
ture itself speaks of "the sun smiting by 
the moon by night," (Ps. cxxi. 6; I 
of the "beating on the head 
wished to die," (Jon. iv 
ing the verdure f 
xiii. 6 ;) of tls- 
n rising with a burning lot, 
and witVIng grass 
and flowers, (Jam.i, 11.) 
And m allusion to this injurious influence of the 
sun, the Church says, "The sun bath Voted up. 
on met" burning her beauty into blaclves. Such 
of course, could not be God's origins' intention. 
part of the 
The evils referred to roust have bee of the radi-
curse. Some change the natur icb. it passes, 
ance, or in the medium throw h 
must have taken place. It 
purity and mild effulget 
10;) 
ah that be 
the sun scorch-
ithered away, (Ma+c• 
Jehovah's enemies 
and it is added, "The 
cometh from far, burning with 
his lips full of indignation, and his 
e as a devouring fire ;" the whole passage 
eing full of expressions and figures which in 
other parts of Scripture are applied to the great 
day of the Lord. 
The work of the fifth day was the creation of 
the living creatures of air and sea. Here, how-
ever, let us take in part of the work of the sixth 
day, the creation of the beasts of all thb earth, 
classing the whole animal race belonging to all 
the elements, under one head. 
On these the curse came down at the fail. 
"Cursed above all cattle, and above every beast 
of the field," was the sentence on the serpent, 
implying a universal curse on the whole brute-
creation, lighting heaviest on that creature which 
a ost its pristine \had been the instrument of the temptation. Un-
ich, while it en-Ider that curse the animal race has been abiding 
• 
co 
but pictures of theh 
connexion with this, that in the nu— 
I 
 armony and blessedness of 
referred to, the sevenfold augmentation of sun- Tigitan in millennial days ? And how complete-
light
mwha 
which 
thousand 
 ere" years 
 Here e r e 
is said to be " in the day that the Lord and of that 
IR"' 
• 
bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth through these 
me twofold division of the prophetic line, 
the stroke of their wound." 
e one section dark, the others bright. And 
Here we have the usual division of the proph 
that the difision between the gloom and the glad- 
tic line, the evil and the good ; and tha g evi- ness is effected by the Lord's coming, is mani- 
tersection here also is the Lord's erred to( 30th,) fest from Isa. xi. 4, which is a prediction of the 
destruction of Antichrist ; and evidently the 
very same as that referred to in 2 Thess. ii. S. 
Paul says : "The Lord shall consume him with 
the brightness of his coming ;" and Isaiah says : 
"He shall smite the earth with the rod of his 
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he 
slay the wicked one." Thus it is that the Lord 
comes to end the wrongs, and sufferings, and dis-
cords of the animal creation, and to introduce 
the peace and the harmony of paradise. 
I might now take up the rest of the sixth day's 
work—man ; I might shew that he was meant 
by God to be the world's king; that he has fall-
en from that high estate,and that the whole race 
has become degraded, the crown having fallen 
from his head ; and that is and has been his con-
dition as a race ever since he fell, I might shew, 
farther,that God will not allow him to remain so. 
He means to restore him to his lost dignity, as 
creation's head,and that this will be at the Lord's 
coming ; thus shewing, in reference to our race, 
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of fire by adding the words—"but he will burn "But I must have it." 
by a new loan. To effect this, at a less eost,than 
fifty or sixty per cent., is known to be impossi- 
up the chaff with unquenchable fire." 
"No, sir." 
"Here," he cried emptying his pocket; "here ble; and as it is now pretty clearly seen that 
We suspect that such interpretation is entirely 
are gold, silver and copper." 
these and other similar little "items" must soon 
wrong. The idea of baptism admits of so little 
congruity with the idea of punishment that we His stock was something more than eight guin- be shouldered by the Italian Minister, the pros- 
are constrained to seek another explanation. eas. 
pect of Victor Emmanuel having to pay upwards 
John the Baptist was sent among his country- "Well-a-day,but this is a power of money,sure of six millions and a quarter of dollars for a few 
and sure." 
months' additional rule of the Antonelli regime, 
men to prepare the way for the coming of Christ. 
He performed his mission by awakening expecta- "'Tis yours, and the plant is mine ; and, my is by no means comfortable. The truth is, bank- 
tion of the Messiah. It was his aim to elevate good dame, you shall have one of the first young ruptcy stares His Holiness in the face,even should 
their conception of the greatness and excellence ones I rear, to keep for your husband's sake." his friends succeed in negotiating this loan. A 
of the Promised Deliverer. And when the people "Alack, alack !" 
new issue of paper need not be relied on, as the 
began to muse and wonder whether he, prophet "You shall, I say, without fail." 
Roman dealers are unwilling to receive such 
of the wilderness, was not the One Promised, it A coach was called, in which were safely de- promises to pay in exchange for their commodi. 
remained for him to discriminate between his posited our florist and his seemingly dear pur- ties. Meanwhile the sale of valuable articles 
own service and the office and work of Christ, in chase. His first work was to pull off and utter- goes on, in order to keep off the inevitable day. 
such a way as to show that the latter would be ly destroy every vestige of blossom and blossom- The proceeds of the Campana collection were 
far more closely searching and profoundly spirit- bud ; it was divided into cuttings, which were swept away at once; and manuscripts, missals, 
ual. Therefore he said, "I baptise with water, forced in bare-beds and hot-beds,were re-divided statues, pictures and other objects of taste are 
but He shall baptise with the Holy Ghost and and sub-divided. Every effort was used to mul- sacrificed as rapidly as purchasers can be found. 
with fire." 
tiply the plant. By the commencement of the A few days ago, twelve thousand dollars were 
The statement used by John was simple and next flowering season Mr. Lee was the delighted realized by the sale of a collection of' rare books 
not diverse. Baptism with the Holy Ghost and possessor of three hundred fuchsia plants,all giv- and prints,and thus the treasures of the Vatican 
baptism with fire were concomitant ideas. Bap- ing promise of blossom. The two which opened are scattered over Europe and America, while 
tism of the Spirit would express the regenerative first were removed into his showhouse. the sums which are paid in return for them are 
 
influences that should accompany the ministry "Why, Mr. Lee, my dear Mr. Lee, where did quite unequal to relieve the necessities of the 
 
of Christ ; baptism with fire would express that you get this charming flower ?" exclaimed a lady Roman exchequer. 
 
inward strength, and fervor, and devotedness, customer. 
Indeed, it is hinted that notwithstanding the 
 
which should be imparted with spiritual life. "Hem ! 'Tis a new thing, my lady ; pretty is reluctance of the Pontiff to admit the reality of 
 
Such modes of expression were quite conso- it not ?" 
the crisis which has arrived, he is beginning to 
 
pant to habits of the Jewish mind. Throughout "Pretty ! 'tis lovely ! It's price ?" perceive that his affairs are becoming desperate; 
fie record of' Jewish history, fire had been the "A guinea ; thank your ladyship," he replied, and it is affirmed that he has resolved to face 
symbol of the Divine presence. It was seen in as he received the money. 
his arduous position in a manly spirit, and de- 
the bush upon Horeb, thtt illumined the moun- One of the two plants stood in her ladyship's wand from Louis Napoleon a candid exposition 
tarn and shone on the wilderness, yet consumed boudoir. 
of the line of policy which he has resolved to 
 
not. It was seen in the pillar that guarded the "My dear Charlotte, where did you get this, carry out in the settlement of the Italian ques- 
mighty encampment of Israel, through their long flower ?" said a visitor to her ladyship. lion. We perceive that a correspondent of a 
journey. It was seen in that indescribable bright- "0, 'tis a new thing ; I saw it at Old Lee's. London Journal affirms that Monsignoi Belle- 
ness which rested above the mercy-seat and be-
garde is entrusted with such a commission to 
Pretty, is it not ?'+ 
Louis Napoleon. Professedly, his object in leav- 
"Pretty ! 'tis beautiful ! Its price?" 
neath overshadowing cherubim. 
"A' guinea. There was another left." ing Rome was to visit his father in Germany, 
They, therefore, who were listening to John, 
The visitor's horses smoked off to the suburb ; who is indisposed, but on arriving at Marseilles 
would naturally receive his allusion to a baptism 
of fire as a clear intimation of fresh disclosure of a third flowering plant stood on the spot whence he proceeded directly to Paris. The dread on 
the first had Wen taken. The second guinea was the part of his holiness is that the silent man of 
the power and presence of God. 
the Tuileries may, if he speaks on such a subject 
We are not to look for full explanation to the paid, and the second fuchsia adorned the draw- 
words immediately following in the discourse of ing-room of her second ladyship. The scene was at all, declare that if the Court of Rome is dis-
John, but should rather turn to another scene. 
repeated as new-comers saw, and were attracted satisfied with the conduct of the French troops 
by the beauty of' the plant. New chariots flew at Rome, they shall be withdrawn ; but on the 
Jesus, not yet ascended, is saying to His dis- 
ciples : "Wait for the promise of the Father. to the gates of Old Lee's nursery-ground. Two express intimation that no Austrian or Span-
John baptized with water,but ye shall be baptiz. fuchsias, young,graceful,and bursting into health- ish forces shall be permitted to enter the city in 
ed with the spirit." 
ful flowers, were constantly seen in the same their stead. Did Napoleon take such a step,the 
"Not many days" they waited,and upon them spot in his repository. 
Italian troops would forthwith march into the 
Eternal City, and his Holiness would be shut up 
the Holy Ghost descended like a mighty rushing He neglectea to gladden the faithful sai- 
to the alternative of taking his departure or of 
wind. Then appeared tongues of flame, hover- lor's wife by the prom-sd gift ; but,ere the flow- 
ing in mid-air, and resting on each of them. It er season closed, three huna 
golden guineas consenting to the arrangement which Victor Em- 
was a baptism with the spirit, and it was a bap- chinked in his purse, the pro ue, manuel is prepared to guarantee,to wit—a throne 
tism with fire. Those disciples, speaking as the shrub of the widow of waypaig 
the rews,Ingle on the Vatican with a competent support, enabl- 
Spirit gave them utterance, and spending their aecision, skill, and perseverance of old 
the 
side' °a Head of the Church to rule on his own 
Mr. Lee. 
energies as endued with power from on h;gb, a,- 
Then agaiiial. 
forded us an example of what it is to realize the
aleedotnt et latelyis arrived s 
pro ressed 
same; and for the church, and for her ministry 
 
_ aKtuyron analogous to that a
b ta stshaedo 
Vaticanosdna,,(ae 
that 
siNg haaepaehal 
asked if the feeee4linyg 
promised baptism. Then shall we not seek the The Euphrates Drying up. 
feelings 
Zurich. The prudent am- 
_liness wremr_eerettphrie 
changed, but that the t• 
the Emperor 
 atTIn 
had not 
also, pray and entreat a baptism with the Spirit 
and with fire ? 
- of 
contributes to the wealth, 
otite literal river to the ancient city—viz. that 
The symbolic Euphrates of the p_ 
A °calypso is 
rasonort and affairs of Italy were 
sysueerhe aa 1st tear teed ,tahnadt tt hh ee 
 
Roman question 
nowuniens 
protection of the Papacy. The following ea), 
demanded a speedy solution. 
the Philadelphia Inquirer of January 18, is to 
the point. 
ROMAN FINANCE. 
"In our review of the monetary condition of 
the European powers, we turn from Austria to 
Rome. Involved and ruinous as the affairs of 
the Hapsburghs are, it appears that the finances 
of the Sovereign Pontiff are,if possible,in a more 
complicated and hopeless state. Indeed, the Ro-
man question must shortly be solved, unless the 
age of miracles speedily return, by the French 
Emperor and the King of Italy merely delaying 
until affairs run their inevitable course in the 
city of the Caesars. In consequence of the Pon-
tiff wielding a temporary sceptre.it comes to pass 
that, in the case of other monarchs, as well as 
in that of private individuals, he is obliged to 
provide for the settlement of divers little bills at 
the end of the year, and the operation becomes 
doubly difficult when the exchequer is empty, 
and borrowing has reached the limit when trust-
ing creditors tighten their purse strings 
Just now, the sum of thirty millions of francs 
is required to tide over present difficulties, and 
every effort is being made to raise this amount 
The following account of the introduction of 
the Fuchsia into England, is given by Mr. Shep-
herd, conservator of' the Botanic Gardens,Liver-
pool. 
Old Mr.Lee, a nurseryman and gardener near 
London, well known fifty or sixty years ago,was 
one day showing his variegated treasures to a 
friend, who turned to him and declared : 
"Well, you have not in your collection a pret-
tier flower than I saw this morning at Wapping." 
"No ? And pray what was this phoenix like ?" 
"Why, the plant was elegant, and the flowers 
hung in rows, like tassels front the pendent 
branches, their color the richest crimson ; in the 
centre a fold of deep purple," replied his friend. 
Particular directions being demanded and giv-
en, Mr. Lee posted off to Wapping, where he at 
once perceived that the plant was new in this 
part of the world. He saw and admired. 
Entering the house, he said : 
"My good woman,this is a nice plant; I should 
like to buy it. " 
"Ah, sir, I could not sell it for money • for it 
was brought me from the West Indies by my hus- 
hand, who has now left again, and I must keep 
it for his sake.' 
God's Care. 
"What is mat, 
is the text for much Thou 
Thou art mindful of him," 
minds of some well meaniatngc ,al atheism in the 
 
ale 
not believe that the Infinite Supt.: They can. 
 
of trifies,or looks into details. Have t,tajkes note 
the delicate petals of' a wild wood flower, tliged 
terlaced fibres of its stems, the fairy tracery of 
its leaves, the impalpable fragrance it gives out? 
Have they ever considered that each tiny leaf 
or fibre cost a thought of Deity ? Have they ex-
amined in a microscope a hair from their own 
head, and observed its minute vessels and com-
plicated' mechanism ? The eternal mind plans 
and perfects the most insignificant of his works, 
and often in the smallest we may discern the 
most wonderful display of wisdom and skill. 
"Even the hairs of' your head are all numbered," 
and a sparrow falls-not to the ground without 
His permission. Trust God in all things, oh,thou 
of little faith, for in his very greatness lies the 
security that thy insignificance is not forgotten 
IV. Y. Obs. 
The Kingdom of Messiah. 
Those who maintain that the history of the 
Jews as a nation is ended,and that Christ is nev-
er to sit on the throne of his father David,would 
do well to read and consider carefully the 17th 
chapter of the first book of Chronicles. If Da-
vid had looked into the history of his descend-
ants, had seen that ten of the twelve tribes would 
revolt from his grandson, and never again be un-
der the rule of his family ; had he foreseen that, 
in a few centuries, five-sixths of Israel were to 
be driven out and carried far away into foreign 
countries, and in a few centuries afterwards, the 
remainder—Judah and Benjamin—were to be 
scattered to the four winds of heaven, to become 
a reproach and a by-word among all the nations 
of the earth ; if he had foreseen this, would not 
his utterances be those of grief and lamentation, 
rather than of joy and triumphant praise ? What 
shall we say, then, that the Lord deceived Da-
vid ? That the God of truth said, He would es-
tablish the throne of the seed of David forever ; 
that he would ordain a place for his people Isra-
el, where they should dwell, and be removed no 
more, when he all the while intended in a few 
centuries to put an end at once to the Jewish 
nation and David's throne ? God forbid that 
we should thus dare to tamper with the promis-
es of the Almighty, of Him who cannot lie. No 
in mercy to the weakness of humanity, the near-
er calamities were hid from David's eyes, and he 
was carried beyond the present dispensation to 
that glorious time when his seed, the promis-
ed Messiah,—"shall take unto himself his great 
power and reign ;" when he shall be at once 
"King of Israel," and "King of the whole earth." 
The glorious vision here afforded to the royal 
Psalmist was, from this time forth, the delight-
ful theme of his songs of praise. Every victory, 
every delivery, carried him in spirit beyond the 
passing event to the future glory, when "the 
wicked shall not be," when the "evil-doers shall 
be cut off, and those that wait upon the Lord 
shall inherit the earth," (Ps. 27:9, 10,) and the 
"Lord shall be king over all the earth." (Zech. 
14:9.) In these visions, the restoration of the 
earth to its primeval fruitfulness is always con-
joined with the reign of Messiah over it. When 
he "judges the people. righteously," "then shall 
the earth yield her increase ;" (Ps. 47: 4.6) 
when "he cometh to judge the earth," then "the 
field, and all that is therein," is joyful, and all 
"the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord." 
—Ps. 96:12, 13. 
The seventy-second Psalm is an interesting 
example of David being led from the contempla-
tion of Solomon and his kingdom, to the higher 
theme of Messiah and his universal kingdom of 
peace and blessedness. The two themes are at 
first so blended together, that we only discover 
that something more than Solomon's kingdom is 
mwaernd,sS 
V 
 heavenly kingdom that 
the strain ; but to-
gdom that isrjises 
 
to 
 
the tabernacle of God shall be• 
with men, and he 
high 
heavenly 
Solo- 
will dwell with them, fills the eye and 
; haenadr t the 
 of 
en ure orevei 
the departing Psalmist. "His name shall be 
continued as long as the sun, and men shall be 
blessed in him ; all nations shall call him bless- 
ed. Blessed be the Lord God ; the God of Is- 
rael, who only doeth wondrous things. And 
blessed be his glorious name forever ; and let the 
whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and 
Amen. The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, 
"re ended."--Ps. 72:17-20. 
poste,?nt, 
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ly," ruled over by Christ, "the Lord our righ-
teousness," who shall be "king forever and ev-
er." What wonder, that, with such Scriptures 
in their hands, the early disciples should cry out 
when Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem, 
"Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, 
that cometh in the name of the Lord !"---Mark 
11:11. At Christ's birth it was expressly de-
clared by an inspired prophet that "the Lord 
shall give unto him the throne of his father Da-
vid." Was David's throne in heaven ? Or was it 
in the hearts of men ? Oh,that men would take 
the words of God in their honest simplicity ; 
that, instead of severing the future happiness of 
the glorified church from the future happiness of 
the earth under the reign of Christ, they would 
see the close relationship in which they stand to 
each other ! Why try to contemplate being bless-
ed with Christ, in some indefinite region of space, 
far removed from earth and its concerns,instead 
of embracing the Scriptural declaration that we 
are to be joint-heirs with Christ in the inheritance 
of the "nations and the uttermost parts of the 
earth," (Ps. 2, 8,) over which we are to reign 
with him ? If such glorious expectations were 
a fanciful theory, based on obscure and doubtful 
texts,we might well be reproached with presump-
tion ; but it is the declaration of all Scripture, 
which thus interpreted according to its plain and 
literal meaning, makes a consistent whole ; the 
purport of which is to lead us to look for, and 
hasten unto, the coming of the day of God, [2 
Pet. 3:12,] and to pray with earnest longing, 
"Thy kingdom come ; Thy will be done on earth 
as it is in heaven." Voice of _Israel. 
Grace in Pardon. 
It is a part of the Divine plan of salvation to 
exercise sovereign grace in pardon. God for-
gives not on account of' any desert in the sinner, 
but on account of His own infinite mercy and 
love. He forgives freely and fully, blotting out 
the sins of the past, and imparting grace to ov-
ercome sin for the future. It is not easy for the 
sinner to accept salvation on such terms. He 
longs to have some sense of desert, and to bring 
God under obligation to pardon. But if saved 
at all, it must be only by sovereign grace. Mr. 
Hopkins, in his third volume of "The Puritans," 
gives an illustration from English history of such 
an exercise of mercy. 
In one of the gala-days at the court of Queen 
Elizabeth, of England, soon after the execution 
of Mary Stuart, the general gaiety was arrested 
by the sudden seizure of a courtly stranger, by 
the guard. His singular appearance had creat-
ed suspicion, and being watched,he was found to 
be armed, and bent on mischief. The Queen 
having ordered the guard to bring the prisoner 
before her, asked him, 
"Who are you ?" 
"Marguerite Lebrun," was the reply. 
"Marguerite ! Marguerite !" cried her Majes-
ty, in wonder. 
"Madam ! I wear a beard !" tearing it from 
her face, "and also a man's apparel,but I am a 
woman." 
"Loose your hands !" said Elizabeth to the 
guard. 
"Nay, madam, I mind not a rough hand. 
What is the pinching of an arm to me, who car-
ry a broken heart ?" 
"Who bath broken your heart ?" 
"Elizabeth of England." 
"We do greatly marvel at words so bold and 
strange. Heard you ever my lords, the like of 
the Queen of England ?" 
"Madam, you have reft all that my heart did 
love. How could it help breaking ?" 
"My mistress, my queen, my chief-beloved, 
Mary of Scotland. My husband too. My all. 
Yes, lady ; beggared and broken-hearted. You 
bid me speak. You bade me tell my errand. I 
obey. For years my husband and myself had 
been honored in her service. We were with her 
when—when—Madam, the horror of that scene 
was a dagger to my husband. I tried, I pray-
ed that the wound might stanch ; but—but—
lady, I am a widow. I lost a loving husband at 
Fotheringay. I felt my heart-strings yield ; but 
I vowed over both their coffins that I would live 
to revenge both. I came here to fulfill my vow. 
A few steps more, and I bad succeeded. I have 
struggled hant against my purpose ; but in vain." 
It cost the queen a stern effort to retain her 
composure under such a speech, but she calmly 
asked, "What think you is my duty upon the 
hearing of such a case ?" 
"Do you put the question to me as a queen 
or as a judge ?" 
"As a queen." 
"Then you should grant me a pardon." 
"But what assurance can yon give me that 
you will not abuse my mercy and attempt my 
life again ? Should I pardon, it should be at 
least upon condition to be safe from your murder-
ous revenge in future." 
"Grace fettered by precautions, grace that 
bath conditions, is no grace." 
"By my faith,my lords," said the Queen,"thir-
ty years have I now reigned, and never before 
have I found a person to read me so noble a les-
son. My good lords,shall I not bid her go ?" 
Some of her most trusted courtiers remonstra-
ted against the act, but the queen listened impa-
tiently. Turning to the prisoner, she said, 
"Are you not a Frenchwoman ?" 
"I am." 
"Whither would you go, should I set you 
free ?" 
"To my country and my kindred !" 
"By God's wounds ! I will pardon thee ; and 
I do it without conditions. You shall have safe 
and honorable conveyance to your own coun-
try. My loyal guards, see that she is cared 
for." 
The pardoned woman looked up with wonder, 
and gratitude, and admiration. For the first 
time in the interview she made an obeisance, and 
carried to her grave a reverence for the Queen 
who could freely forgive a great crime. 
In like manner Christian hearts love God be• 
cause he first loved them, and his free forgive-
ness of all their sins excites to wonder, and grat-
itude, and devotion. 
Watchman and Reflector. 
The Battle of Winchester. 
Winchester, Va., March 22. 
On Saturday, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 
the enemy showed themselves a mile and a half 
from Winchester. The enemy consisted of 500 
of Ashby's cavalry and two guns. They drove 
in our pickets and then skirmished with the 
Michigan cavalry and a part of the Maryland 
1st regiment. General Shields brought up his 
forces, fired a round of shell and drove them 
back, taking several prisoners. General Shields 
was wounded in the arm by the fire of the ene- 
my. Jackson had been informed by the inhabi- 
tants that the town was deserted by the Union 
troops, and he advanced to retake it. 
Gen. Shield's force slept on their arms Satur-
day night. Sunday morning, Jackson being re-
inforced,attacked Gen. Shields near Keanstown, 
three miles distant. The enemy's force consist-
ed of 500 of Ashby's cavalry, 5000 infantry,and 
nine pieces of artillery, with a reserve of eigh-
teen pieces of artillery. The fight was kept up 
until noon, when a charge, made by the Ohio in-
fantry, 1st Michigan and 1st Virginia cavalry, 
on the enemy's right, drove them back half a 
mile, when they got their guns again in position 
in a dense wood, flanked by infantry, and drove 
us back. 
A short artillery engagement ensued, when 
Gen. Shields,through Col. Kimball, ordered Col. 
Tyler to turn their left flank, which was execut-
ed by our troops, but with terrible loss, the ene-
my being protected by a stone ledge. The 18th 
Pennsylvania and the 13th Indiana charged their 
centre, and the fight became general, with a ter-
rible massacre on both sides. Col. Murray of 
the 18th Pennslyvania Regiment was killed. 
The enemy retired slowly, bringing their guns 
to bear at every opportunity. Our men rushed 
forward with yells, when a panic ensued among 
the enemy. Our troops followed and drove 
them until dark, capturing three guns, three 
caissons, and muskets, equipments, &c. innumer-
able. 
Our troops bivouacked on the field, and the 
dead and wounded were sent here yesterday 
noon. 
Gen. Williams' 1st brigade, Col. Donnelly of 
the 28th New York commanding, reinforced 
General Shie'd's forces. Gen. Banks, who was 
on the way to Washington on Sunday, returned 
and assumed command. 
Meantime, Gen. Shield's division, commanded 
by Col. Kimball, pursued the enemy beyond 
Newton, shelling them the whole way. 
Jackson's men are perfectly demoralized and 
beyond control. They threw overboard the dead 
and wounded to lighten the wagons. 
It is noticeable that nearly all the the rebel 
wounded were shot in the head and breast, testi-
fying to the superiority of our marksmen. The 
men engaged on our side were chiefly Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana troops. 
It was evidently known to many in the town 
that Jackson was approaching, from the holiday 
attire and buoyancy of spirits among men and 
women here. Gen. Shields' command being 
screened from observation on the east side of the 
town, led Jackson's informants to believe 
that our troops were evacuating the place, 
and that Jackson would enter unobstructed. 
This evidence is from prisoners. • 
Good judges say the enemy's loss is over 200 
killed, 500 wounded, and 300 prisoners, includ-
ing an aid to Gen. Jackson. Our loss in killed 
is 65, and in wounded about 125. 
Winchester, Va., March 25. It is currently 
reported to-night that Gen. Banks has overtaken 
and destroyed 200 of Jackson's wagons. 
The latest news from Strasburg is to the ef-
fect that Gen. Banks,with Gen. Shields, is there 
with Gen. Jackson in sight, and a battle was ex-
pected to-day. Preparations were being made 
to,strengthen our forces. 
Winchester, March 25—Evening. Our col-
umn is now five miles beyond Strasburg, and is 
still in pursuit of the flying rebels. 
Baltimore, March 25. Two hundred and 
thirty rebel prisoners, captured at the battle of 
Winchester, `arrived here this afternoon, and 
have been provided with quarters in the north 
wing of the new city jail, the most comfortable, 
probably, they have enjoyed for many months. 
They are as miserable, dirty, and about as un-
soldierly looking a crowd as were ever seen. 
They are all Virginians with the exception of five 
or six Baltimoreans,who left here before the war 
broke out. One of the prisoners on reaching 
the quarters threw up his hat and exclaimed : 
"Thank God ! I am in the United States once 
more !" Others congratulated themselves at the 
prospect of getting something good to eat, which 
they admitted they had not had for some time. 
Papacy in Pekin. 
The following highly interesting account of 
the Roman Catholic cathedral and cemetery at 
Pekin, China, is extracted from a letter from 
Dr. Lockhart, who resides there,to the Rev. Dr. 
Tidman, of England. Dr. Lockhart writes : 
The old Romish cathedral is being repaired. 
It is a fine building, ornamented and painted by 
the Jesuit missionaries two hundred years ago. 
It has been closed for many years , by edict, but 
now comes forth again. From the roof there is 
a grand view of the city and palaces of Pekin. 
Outside one of the gates is the old cemetery. 
It is in excellent order, and well kept. The 
gates of the inner inclosure (for everything in 
China has inner as well as outer gates) are of 
white marble, the coping richly carved in high 
relief. The gates themselves are plates of white 
marble also, each gate one plate, very handsome 
and grand. Inside are native altars, very large, 
and of marble. Here are the graves and large 
marble tablets of Ricci, Schaal, Vdheist, Longs-
hard, and Auglius, and many others of 
the old illustrious ones. It is a most interest-
ing place, and full of imperial gifts in marble ; 
the tablets to the above are in the form of vast 
tortoises, the sign of royal gift. On the city 
walls, on a terrace sixty feet high, about fifteen 
feet higher than the walls, which are forty-five 
feet, the top of the terrace being one hundred feet 
square, is the Jesuit observatory,with the bronze 
astronomical instruments made by the Jesuits 
for the Emperor Kaghe. Vast things they are 
—large celestial sphere in bronze, armillary 
spheres, etc., etc.—all in good order, but not 
used—beautiiul specimens of work. At the foot 
of this tower is the Astronomical Board,of which 
Schaal was president. 
Outside the north gates of the city is the Rus-
sian cemetery, where are the graves of the mur-
dered English prisoners, who were cruelly put to 
death this time last year. In the northeast cor-
ner of the city is the Russian ecclesiastical mis-
sion. It is a neat place of good extent ; it is 
under an archimandrate, who has three priests. 
There are two schools for boys and girls ; the 
girls are under the care of Madame Ballazeck, 
the embassador's wife. Of course the priests do 
the work ; their flock consists chiefly of the de-
scendants of Cossacks taken prisoners on the 
frontier by the Chinese in 1715 ; a minister was 
called from Russia to instruct them, and the mis-
sion has grown up since. There are not many 
additions among the heathen, but there are oc-
casional receptions of such. The Lazarists have 
two missionaries stationed here,and there are oth-
ers in the province ; but I shall know more of 
them by and by. 
From the observatory the view of the city,and 
the palace and park, and of the hills to the north 
and east, is very grand. I know no scene equal 
to it, To see Pekin from a height is very splen-
did—the place gives a glorious prospect ; but 
when you leave the height and descend, it takes 
away the poetry of the thing altogether, and you 
find yourself in the dust and dirt of a Chinese 
city. 
The cabs, or rather cart-stands, are rows of 
very good little carts, like a bird-cage set on 
strong wheels, drawn by a horse, ass, or mule, 
according to circumstances. These stands are at 
the gates and other public places, and the Pekin 
cab-drivers are about as honest, and civil, and 
moderate in charging, as those in London. It is 
curious to see the great flocks of sheep kept 
here ; hence mutton is very good and cheap, as 
are also beef and fowls. Long strings of fine 
camels bring in vegetables, lime, and coal from 
the mountains. Sometimes I see a hundred ca-
mels in a row passing along. The Chinese are 
very kind to their animals ; they hardly ever 
abuse them, but are attentive to them, and do 
not overload them ; in fact, the laden camels, 
mules,and asses come in with quite a jaunty air, 
which it is refreshing to see. 
Peace of Mind. 
God in Christ reigns over our world. It is 
a small, a very small part of his vast domin-
ion. Even to the watching of sparrows, the 
clothing of the grass of the field with flowers,and 
the numbering of hairs on our heads, its affairs 
are under his survey. The heathen are his in-
heritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth a 
possession. When men rage against law, and 
threaten to overthrow the very foundations of 
government ; when they involve a peaceful Chris-
tian country in the horrors of civil war for the 
gratification of ambition, and for the upholding 
of a vast system of social wrong ; when they 
threaten to turn back the centuries in their pro-
gress, and to bring to naught the great experi-
ment of self-government inaugurated at such a 
cost by our forefathers, shall we believe that 
they are in the smallest degree thwarting the 
purposes of the Almighty ? Shall we believe 
that a single life is lost, or a single soul sighs it-
self away on the battle field, or that a single ball 
or bullet speeds on its course out of connection 
with the great lines of his everlasting decrees ? 
Shall we allow ourselves to believe that the i -
sues now shaping themselves were unforeseen by 
Omniscience, and that he will hold aloof, while 
might or chance leads them to conclusions to be 
graven broadly on the pages of history ? If not 
then how complete is the ground of our peace of 
mind ! The plans of' the infinitely Wise are be-
ing carried into execution by these collisions and 
strifes of men. The clouds we so much dread 
are freighted with mercy. Behind the frown-
ing Providence the smiling face of Deity is hid-
den. It is his choice to move in a mysterious 
way ; or, rather,our shortsightedness naturally 
enough makes his way mysterious to us. 
But, more than this, the Christian has a per-
sonal friend in this all-wise and almighty Ruler. 
Peace should, indeed, overspread his soul, when 
THE ADVENT HERALD; 
he reflects that it is to his own Savior the reins of 
empire have been committed. The same being 
who gave such marvelous proofs of love for him ; 
who, to save him, took on him the likeness of 
sinful flesh, and became obedient unto death— 
the death of the cross—is now governing the 
world, and making all events work for the illus-
tration and fulfillment of his plan of redemption. 
We need not dread the thunderbolt wielded by 
the hand of a friend so mighty, so wise and so 
near. Though he may slay me, yet will I trust 
in him. Calmly can we trace his footsteps, and 
follow the path of his flaming arrows in the sky; 
they go charged with the high command : Touch 
not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. 
We see his judgments abroad in the land, and 
are not confounded. The sense of his redeeming 
love shed abroad in our hearts disarms them of 
their terrors. 
The Christian is complete in Christ. In Christ 
is all riches, all health, all wisdom and all know- 
ledge, all glory and all joy. Christ is all. In 
Christ--that is, so far as Christ sees to be use-
ful and consistent with his true interest—the 
Christian has everything ; the world, life, death, 
things present or things to come—all are his. 
So far as these are withheld from him, he may 
feel that as surely as Christ reigns they are pur- 
posely withheld, and that eternity will show it. 
If, in the convulsions of the times, any of them 
are snatched away, are seriously imperiled, he 
may recognize the same intelligent, loving pur-
pose devising his good. Meanwhile no power, 
no change can rob him of his Savior. Who shall 
separate him from the love of Christ ? What 
convulsions of the times can shake his faithful- 
ness, or diminish his affection, or deprive him of 
one ray of his glory, or vitiate his all-sufficiency 
and perfect adaptedness to the wants of fallen 
man ?—Clothed in his righteousness, reposing 
on his covenant as on a rock, looking for hisnot 
very remote and most glorious appearing, what 
is there in the most extreme changes of worldly 
affairs, and in the breaking up of the established 
institutions of men, to destroy the Christian's 
peace of mind ? There is, indeed, much to in-
terest him, much to call out his energies,and his 
active, zealous and whole-souled participation. 
He may deem it his clear duty to mingle per-
sonally in the deadly affray. But his peace of 
mind need not, meanwhile, be disturbed. Liv-
ing and mingling in the world, he sees it from 
its spiritual side, and rises above it in sympathy 
and communion with him who gives it its ordi-
nances, and perpetually sways it to his own glo-
rious and holy purposes. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, APRIL 5, 1862. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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The whole receipts during the year now closing, 
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with their accustomed liberality. The promptness 
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remove the debt from the Association,encouraged the 
hope that future aid would be supplied with equal 
generosity. It is not pleasant to bwobliged to re-
mind friends of these necessities ; but it is still more 
unpleasant to lack the adequate means for the Her-
ald's publication. This is the season of the year, 
when, better perhaps than any other, it is easier to 
obtain new subscribers, and to remit donations. 
Our treasury needs aid in both these directions ; and 
will not the friends see to it that it is supplied ? 
They would not wish us to abandon the Herald ; 
but its weekly issue costs money, and it is not the 
policy of the Association to run into debt. We have 
kept out thus far,but without more abundant week-
ly remittances, this cannot continue. What is now 
wished for, is that every subscriber will endeavor to 
forward the name of an additional one. And we al-
so wish to see a full column of Donations.each week, 
till it shall amount to $400 ; which was needed 
by Jauuary first. 
Brethren and Sisters,shall this expectation be rea-
lized ? 
Did Samuel appear at Eudor ? 
Bro. Bliss:—with your permission I would like to 
ask a question or two on a subject recorded in 1st 
Sam. 28 chapter, with a view of learning your in-
structions upon it. It.has come before our Sabbath 
School, and we are at a loss to know how to dispose 
of it. 
I refer to the appearance—or generally supposed 
appearance—of Samuel to the witch of Endor. 
Did he or his spirit really appear to her, or was 
she infatuated and deceived like Ahab's false proph-
et ? 1 Kings 22:22, into whose mouth Jehovah had 
"put a lying spirit," that he (Ahab) might "go up 
and fall at Ramoth Gilead ?" 
If Samuel did actually appear there are some 
things connected with the narrative which appears 
very strange to me. 
1st. In verse e, "Then Saul inquired of the Lord, 
Jehovah answered him not, neither by dreams, nor 
by Urim, nor by prophets." And would it not ap-
pear unreasonable that he should permit Samuel to 
return an answer to Saul's questions ? 
2nd. As this woman was under a Satanic influ-
ence, or translating it into modern language, "a 
Spiritual medium"—and as God had solemnly char-
ged the Israelites not to hold intercourse with such, 
Lev. 19, 31:20, 6, is it presumable that she actual-
ly held communion with the departed Spirit of the 
pious Samuel ? 
And then, if spiritualists are permitted to con-
verse with holy spirits in one instance, may they 
not in others ? And what argument can we meet 
them with, who aver positively that they do con-
verse with the spirits of the pious ? 
This subject may have been discussed in the Her-
ald years ago ; but as we have all become readers of 
it since,and our sole object is information,we should 
like to have your views on it again. 
Yours very sincerely, 
W. II. SWARTZ. 
Shiremanstown, Pa. March 7, 1862. 
Few passages have been discussed, in past ages, 
with more warmth than that of 1. Sam. 28:7-20. 
Some commentators have conjectured that the whole 
affair was a juggle of the Pythoness whom Saul 
consulted ; others, that the vision was in appear-
ance only, and attended by no real presence ; Au-
gustine and others have claimed that Satan then 
appeared and personated Samuel ; there have been 
others who claimed that the spirit of Samuel was 
brought up by infernal power, or by force of magi-
c LI incantation or other arts of the Pythoness ; 
Bishop Patrick claimed that Samuel was personated 
by some evil spirit ; whilst others hold that Samuel 
er. "When Saul saw the host of the Philistines,he 
was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled." (v. 5). 
It was customary in such emergences to ask coun-
sel of the Lord. Thus Moses said of Joshua that he 
should "stand before Eleazer the priest, who shall 
ask council for him after the judgment of Urim be-
fore the Lord : at his word shall they go out, and 
at his word they shall come in, both he and all the 
children of Israel with him, even all the congrega-
tion," Num. 27:22. Saul had, before this, enquir-
ed of the Lord and received answers. Before he 
was king, when sent in search of his father's stray-
ed asses, and finding "that they were no where," he 
had recourse to the prophet Samuel, (1 Sam. 10: 
14,) to enquire which way he should go for them ; 
when he was told that they had been found, (9:20). 
On a previous occasion, when the Philistines came 
against Israel, "Saul asked council of God, Shall I 
go down after the Philistines ? wilt thou deliver 
them into the hand of Israel ? But he answered him 
not that day," (1 Sam. 14:37) ; for the king's son 
had transgressed by eating, whilst engaged in shed-
ding blood. Afterwards when Saul asked the Lord 
to show by a perfect lot who had sinned, the lot fell 
on Jonathan, (v. 41) ; and subsequently the Lord 
sent messages to Saul by Samuel,— as when he 
commanded him to destroy Amelek, (15:1-3). Saul, 
however, had now grossly sinned, had been rejected 
of the Lord, and Samuel was dead. He "enquired 
of the Lord" in his present emergency : but "the 
Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by 
Urim, nor by prophets," (v. 6.) 
Had Saul humbled himself, been truly penitent 
for all his sins, and continued to enquire of God,we 
are not warranted in saying that no answer would 
have been given. Saul, however, shows his disregard 
of God, and the insincerity with which he had en-
quired of Him, by turning his back upon the throne 
of grace and saying to his servants : "Seek use a 
woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go 
to her, and enquire of her," v. 7. 
God had said of such : "Thou shalt not suffer a 
witch to live," Ex. 22:18. "Regard not them that 
have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards to 
be defiled by them," Lev. 19:31. "A man, also a 
woman, that bath a familiar spirit shall surely be 
put to death," [lb. 20: 271 "There shall nut be 
found among you any one that maketh his son or 
his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth 
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, 
or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with famil-
iar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer : for all 
that do these things are an abomination unto the 
Lord," Deut. 28:10-12, And Saul himself "had 
put away those that had familiar spirits, and the 
wizards, out of the land," 1 Sam. 28:3. He there-
fore knew God's law in respect to the act he now 
contemplated, and was fully aware that in seeking 
for a woman with a familiar spirit, he was directly 
rejecting Jehovah and giving himself over to Sa-
tan. 
Saul's servants, of whom he had made enquiry, 
knew of a Pythoness living at the foot of the moun-
tain on which he was encamped ; and they "said to 
him, Behold, there is a woman that bath a familiar 
spirit at Endor." Disguising himself, laying aside 
his royal robes and putting on other raiment, and 
taking with him only two servants, so as to appear 
like a common person, he went down to her in the 
night and said : "I pray thee, divine unto me by 
(0b.—i. e. make known unto me by) "the familiar 
spirit, and bring him up whom I shall name unto 
thee," v. 8. 
The woman, knowing the severity of the law 
against the practice of her art,feared this visit might 
be for the purpose of ensnaring her and causing her 
destruction, like others of her craft ; and warily re-
minded her unknown visitor of the peril in which 
she was placed, and intimated her suspicions that 
his visit was a snare for her life. 
Reassured by Saul's earnest avowal that no 
harm should befall her, she enquires : " Whom shall 
I bring up unto thee ?" (v. 11)—thus avowing her 
profession as a necromancer,—a talker with the 
dead, either real or pretended. To this enquiry 
Saul's prompt response was, "Bring me up Sarno-
el"—the deceased prophet, whose dust was entomb-
ed at Ramah, 55 miles south of Endor. 
That the Pythoness, by any magical art or other-
wise, had power over the spirit of Samuel, it is dif-
ficult to imagine any sensible person can for a 
moment suppose ; nor is there any evidence in the 
narrative that she believed Samuel would respond 
to her call. It is not unlikely her expectation was 
that her visitor would be so imposed upon by her in-
cantation as to be effectually deceived ; and she may 
have had reason to believe, from past experience, 
that some demon, perhaps her familiar spirit,would 
personate Samuel to the satisfaction of her guest, 
without any exposure of her imposition. She was 
therefore prepared to act her part. Whether or not 
she commenced her incantations the record does not 
reveal ; but,apparently before commencing her arts, 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
((se it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
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osity of friends for a few hundred dollars, annually, brought the two armies in plain view of each oth- 
terms of the appeared in person, though disembodied,—appear-
in advance ;—with ing either voluntarily by God's permission, or sent 
to communicate with Saul by God's direction, 
To determine which of these conflicting hypothe-
ses is the true one, we need to take the inspired nar-
rative according to its plain, simple, and natural 
meaning, divesting ourselves of any preconceived 
opinions, and admitting
i 
 the reasonableness of what- 
ever the Divine Word clearly affirms. Let us,then, 
carefully examine the recorded testimony. 
In the year B. C. 1070, about two years subse-
quent to the death of Samuel, the army of the Phil-
istines had encamped at Shunem,—a city of Issa-
char, about five miles south of Mount Tabor and 
sixty north of Jerusalem,in the great plain of Jezre-
el—to fight against Israel. Saul hearing of this in-
vasion of his kingdom, assembled his armies, went 
forth to meet the Philistines and encamped on 
mount Gilboa, which overlooked the enemy, and 
(To be continued.) 
she utters a loud cry of mingled astonishment and 
fear : she has discovered the person and rank of her 
visitor, and immediately accused Saul of deception 
in coining as a common person when lie was Israel's 
King. How she made this discovery, whether pen-
etrating the king's disguise, or by the attending 
vision, is not revealed ; and to attempt its decision 
would he mere speculation. 
The inspired record affirms that "when the wo-
man saw Samuel she cried out," (v. 12,). The or. 
iginal, when more closely rendered, says the learn-
ed Dr. Hales, reads, "And the woman saw Samu-
el." If she saw only Satan, or a demon personat-
ing Samuel, or if there was only a deceptive appear-
ance,it is inexplicable that the inspired writer should 
affirm that she " saw Samuel." 
The reality of his appearance on this occasion 
was a doctrine of the primitive Jewish church, as 
may be gathered from the ancient Jewish writer 
who says of Samuel : "And after his death he proph-
esied and showed the king his end ; he lift up his 
voice from the earth to blot out the wickedness of 
the people," Eccles. 46:20. And Josephus says, 
"when he appeared, and the woman saw one that 
was venerable and of a divine form, she was in dis-
aster," Ant. 6, 14. 2. 
These opinions of the Jews are not authoritative, 
but show the meaning conveyed to them by the lan-
guage of the text ;—their knowledge of which gave 
them facilities for understanding it correctly, and 
no one can show that they were not honest in their 
interpretation. 
Seeing the woman's consternation, Saul said, "Be 
not afraid : fur what rawest thou ? And the wo-
man said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of 
the earth," v. 13. 
The word “gods," is in the original 'elohim,' the 
term applied to the Creator who is the Elohiin. It 
is the denomination also of false gods. It is the 
plural form of the Hebrew word, of which elope is 
the singular, standing fur god as elohim does for 
gods. It should not, however, be forgotten that in 
the Hebrew there is a plurality of excellence ; so 
that plurality of number is not determined by the 
plural form of a noun. The same word is applied, 
by a metaphor, to the judges, who were to decide 
questions in the place of God, in Ex. 21:6 ; 22:7, 8, 
and 28:27. It is applied to angels in Psalms 8:5, 
and perhaps once to kings in Pea. 82:1. Socinians 
have claimed that in Pea. 45:6, "Thy throne, 0 
God," 8cc., the king only is meant ; but an inspir-
ed commentator has affirmed its application to the 
Son, Heb. 1:8. It is evident that by the use of this 
term the woman meant to affirm that she saw a spir-
it, or spirits, coming up ; for such she claimed abil-
ity to evoke, and her profession.was that of a talker 
with the dead. But as she was a servant of Satan, 
and was capable of any falsehood or deception,noth-
ing which she affirms can have any weight in the 
decision of this question, except as the inspired re-
cord substantiates it; which simply affirms that "the 
woman saw Samuel," without intimating whether 
she spoke truthfully or falsely, in saying she saw 
gods come up from the earth. 
As "the lowest parts of the earth," was a Ile-
braism for the unseen and invisible,—as in Pea. 
139:15, where David said, "My substance was not 
hid from Thee when I was made in secret and curi-
ously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth ;" 
and as it is said of our Lord, Eph. 3:9, "Now that 
He ascended, what is it but that he also descended 
first into the lower parts of the earth"—so by the 
woman's affirmation that gods came up out of the 
earth, she may have designed only to affirm that 
she saw such coming from the unseen and the invi-
sible. And though she uses the plural form of the 
Hebrew, it is evident that Saul understands her to 
have spoken only of one ; for he immediately en-
quires, "What form is he of ? And she said an old 
man cometh up ; and he is covered with a mantle," 
v. 14. 
This appearance of age, and the apparel, have 
been relied on in disproof of Samuel's presence being 
real. It should, however, be borne in mind that 
the woman's testimony can weigh nothing in these 
particulars ; which, elsewhere are neither affirmed 
or denied. She may have spoken truthfully ; for it 
remains to be shown that her statement was incon-
sistent with the reality. Age and decreptitude are 
not synonyms ; and until it can be shown that the 
form of the spirit of an old man should appear oth-
er than old, this can be no valid objection. The 
word rendered "mantle," meil, signifies a long gar-
ment that extends down to the feet. The woman 
says nothing of the nature of the mantle covering ; 
and it may,for all that appears to the contrary,have 
been a halo of light, so adjusted as to resemble in 
form the ominous mantle of Samuel which rent when 
Saul laid hold of its skirt to detain him, when the 
prophet came with the message from the Lord that 
the kingdom was to be rent from Saul, 1 Sam. 15: 
27. 
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is slowly being filled. Our readers can readily im-
agine on what a substantial pecuniary basis the Her-
ald would be placed by a few hundrel pledges like 
the following—to the maker of which we are greatly 
obliged. 
"Bro Bliss :—I am interested in the Herald, and 
wish to do what I can to sustain it. I have been 
trying to get subscribers for the Herald ; but as yet 
have not succeeded. 
"Enclosed you will find five dollars,which I agree 
to pay annually in furtherance of the objects of the 
AmeriCan Millennial Association. 
MARY JANE YODER. 
Harrisburg, March 25, 1862. 
A like pledge is also aeknowledged in this No. of 
the Iferald from a sister in Vermont. 
failed to recognize instantly and with certainty the 
identity of the remains. 
"Fur the purpose of gleaning further intelligence 
about this horrid affair, the Governor and Colonel 
Arnold visited the house from whence the colored 
girl had issued, and there conversed with the occu-
pants, mho corroborated every word the girl had 
said. Mr. Coleman also made inquiries at another 
house in the neighborhood, and held a long conver-
sation with a white woman on the premises who had 
nursed our sick and wounded at Sudley Church. 
She assured him that she herself had witnessed the 
whole affair, and had expostulated, begged and en-
treated that the dead should be held sacred, but the 
savages mocked at her, and then finding all endeav-
ors useless, she had saved a lock of his hair and pre-
served it for his friends, who she was confident some 
day would appear, and this lock of hair she gave to 
Mr. Coleman. The men who performed this hellish 
deed were members of the 21st Georgia regiment, 
and it will be remembered that it was Georgia regi-
ments that the 2d Rhode Island had met and van- 
quished on the battle-field."—Boston Journal. , 
plained of not being allowed to go farther North 
than Cairo. In the parlor of of the Gayoso House 
she attracted universal attention by her denuncia-
tion of Pillow and Floyd. The former is represen-
ted to have said that he would shoot Floyd whenever 
he met him. 
The above facts are reliable, as I have them from 
a Northern man, an old acquaintance, whose word 
may be relied upon." 
A letter from Knoxville in the Atlantic (Georgia) 
Confederacy expresses the opinion that the Federal 
troops will not attack the rebel forces at Cumber-
land Gap because the great valley of East Tennessee 
is penetrable, over a better road than via Cumber-
land Gap, and without any fortifications to encoun-
ter. Cumberland Gap is "flanked," and must be 
abandoned whenever a Federal army occupies Knox-
ville or London. The writer adds : 
"'The Unionists by thousands are running away 
from East Tennessee to join the federal army. These 
fugitives carry with them a thorough local knowledge 
of the country and its affairs, and I can hardly im-
agine that a federal commander could commit the 
blunder of attacking Cumberland Gap." 
A letter from Barboursville to the Louisville Jour-
nal reports a successful skirmish of the forces under 
Gen. Carter, with the rebels at Big Creek Gap,near 
Jacksboro', Campbell county, Tennessee. Two re-
bels were killed, four woundod, one of whom died 
subsequently, and fifteen were taken prisoners, in-
cluding Lieut. Col. White, who was in command. 
All the stores, munitions, oamp equipage, and ani-
mals of the rebels were captured. General Carter, 
with his Tennessee regiment and one hundred of the 
Ashland Cavalry, commanded by Capt. Milward of 
Lexington,after the battle, took possession of Jacks-
boro', which is the country seat, and about forty 
miles from Knoxville. 
The Richmond Dispatch has the following in re-
gard to the defeat of the rebels at Newbern : 
"It seems to be admitted on all hands that the 
first representations made by parties who fled in the 
general panic were greatly exaggerated. Indeed it is 
believed that the strength of the attacking force has 
been considerably overrated, and we are unable to 
understand why, under such circumstances, a more 
determined effort was not made to prevent the dis-
aster. The fight on Friday was of very brief dura-
tion,and the result shows that the artillery men sus-
tained the brunt of the battle, and suffered severely. 
The public will desire to hear something definite in 
regard to the panic and flight of the militia and the 
conduct of some of the officers, and we believe that 
full developments will be made before many days. 
Our troops fell back to Tuscarora, ten miles from 
Newbern, where it is understood they will make a 
stand. Gen. Gatlin was indisposed at the time of 
the fight, and the command devolved upon Gen. L. 
0. Branch. Our loss in killed, wounded and pris-
oners has dwindled down to about three hundred. 
Most of the commissary stores at Newbern were des-
troyed. 
We learn that a nest of traitors has been discov-
ered and broken up in Davidson N.C. and that fifty 
of the number have been sent to Raleigh as prisoners. 
The Lynchburg Virginian claims that in the re 
cent cavalry skirmish near Warrenton, Va. the re-
bels killed 40 Federals and took 100 prisoners, with 
their horses. The loss on the rebel side was only six 
killed and one hundred and eighty wounded. The 
rebel force is stated to have been 300 and the Feder-
al 500. 
St Louis, March 30. The army correspondent 
of the Repuhlican,writing under date of Cairo March 
29, says the firing on Friday at Island No. 10 was 
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quite heavy, the rebels opening from a new battery, 
mounting, it is supposed 128 pounders. The enemy 
could be seen cuttingaway trees and rapidly pushing 
forward other means of defense. They seem to have 
no idea of evacuating at present, and are daily get-
ting more cannon in position. Word reached the 
fleet last night that four rebel gunboats, partly clad 
with railroad iron, appeared below Point Pleasant, 
but as Gen. Pope's batteries extended in almost a 
continuous line for fifteen miles, it is not supposed 
they can force a passage. 
New York, March 30. The Empire City brings 
intelligence that Pensacola has been evacuated, in-
cluding Forts Barancas and McRae, and the rebels 
announce the entire abandonment of Florida. The 
rebel troops raised in Florida were ordered off but 
refused to go. 
New York, March 29. The Herald's Washing-
ton dispatch says an advance was made by the cen-
tre of our army of the Potomac on Thursday upon 
the rebels, 10,000 itrong, on the road between War-
renton Junction, driving them several miles toward 
Gordonsville. The bridges and tracks on the rail-
road were all destroyed and torn up, but our troops 
were pursuing the enemy as rapidly as circumstanc-
es would permit. 
Fortress Monroe, March 29. All is quiet here. 
There have beon no new demonstrations on the part 
Bible Questions and Answers. 
153. "What man is he that desireth life,and lov-
eth many days,that he may see good ?" 
Ans. "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips 
from speaking guile. Depart from evil,and do good; 
seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are 
upon the righteous,and his ears are open unto their 
cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do 
evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the 
earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord delivereth 
them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh 
unto them that are of a broken heart ; and saveth 
such as be of a contrite spirit," Psa. 34: 12-18. 
"Who is this that cometh up from the wil-
derness, leaning upon her beloved ?" Cant. 8 : 5. 
_4ns. John, in vision in Patmos, "heard as it 
were the voice of a great multitude,and as the voice 
of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thun-
derings, saying Alleluia : for the Lord God Omni-
potent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and 
give honor to Him : for the marriage of the Lamb 
is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And 
to her was granted that she should be arrayed in 
fine linen, clean and white : for the fine linen is the 
righteousness of saints. And he said unto me,Write, 
Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage 
supper of the Lamb," Rev. 19: 6-9. 
"W ho is she that looketh forth as the morn-
ing, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible 
as an army with banners ?" Cant. 6: 10. 
Ans. Said John in Patmos, "There came unto 
me one of the seven angels . . . and talked with 
me, saying,Come hither, I will show thee the bride, 
the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the 
Spirit to a great high mountain,and showed me that 
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of 
heaven from God, having the glory of God : and 
her light was like unto a stone most precious even 
like a jasper stone,clear as crystal. . . And the city 
had no need of sun, neither of the moon to shine in 
it ; for the glory of God did lighten it,and the Lamb 
is the light thereof," Rev. 21: 9-11, 23. 
"I heard one saint speaking, and another 
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How 
long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacri- 
fice, and the transgression of desolation,to give both 
the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" 
Ans. "He said unto me, Unto two thousand and 
three hundred days ; then shall the sanctuary be 
cleansed," Dan. 8: 13, 14. 
What answer was given to the one who 
"said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon 
the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the 
end of these wonders?" 
Ans. heard the man clothed in linen, which 
was upon the waters of the river, when he held up 
his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and 
Swore by biro that liveth forever, that it shall be fur 
a time, times, and an half ; and when he shall have 
accomplished to scatter the power of the holy peo-
ple,all these things shall be finished," Dan. 12: 6,7. 
Says Daniel, "I heard,but I understood not : 
then said I, 0 my God what shall be the end of 
these things ?" 
Ans. "He said,Go thy way Daniel : for the words 
are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried ; 
but the wicked shall (to wickedly : and none of the 
wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall under- 
stand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice 
shall he taken away,and the abomination that mak-
eth desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two 
hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that wait-
eth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and 
five and thirty days. But go thou thy way till the 
end be ; for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at 
the P n d of the days." Dan. 12: 8-13. 
"God is not a man that lleshould lie ; neith-
er the Son of man, that lie should repent : hath He 
said, and shall Ile not do it? or hath he spoken,and 
shall he not make it good ?"—Num. 23: 19. 
Ans. "My thoughts are not your thoughts,neith-
er are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as 
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my 
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than 
your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and 
the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, 
but watered' the earth, and maketh it bring forth 
and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and 
bread to the eater : so shall my word be that goeth 
forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unto me 
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, 
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I send it 
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with 
peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth 
before you into singing, and all the trees of the field 
shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall 
come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall 
come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord 
for a name, fur an everlasting sign that shall not be 
cut off," Ise. 55: 8-13. 
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names of those who pledge a given annual amount, 
The War. 
The Norfolk Day Book of Monday gives evidence 
of the uneasiness and apprehensions existing here. 
Among the military orders, with which the adver-
tising columns are filled, is one directing all the 
young men of the city between the ages of 16 and 
18 years to assemble at the Academy lot for the pur-
pose of being enrolled. No schooners, sloops, or 
other craft are permitted to pass about the harbor 
after dark, except ferry boats, or boats in Govern-
ment service. All craft entering or leaving the har-
bor must stop at the guard ship and exhibit their 
permit. 
Another article dated on the 12th, says : 
"Clergymen, actually holding the pastoral func-
tions, will be excused from drill on Sunday by the 
Captains of their respective precincts. 
Fire Wardens of the cities of Norfolk and Ports-
mouth are exempted from military duty after being 
enrolled, and the captains will detach them accord-
ingly." 
In case of an attack all the enrolled militia are to 
assemble immediately at their aupointed rendez-
vous and arm themselves with such arms as they 
have or can procure. The annexed items are from 
the same source : 
Gen. Johnston has shut out the army of the Po-
tomac from all intercourse with the public. New 
levies are said to be pouring in, and a thorough sys-
tem of defense is being inaugurated. 
The Secretary of war has allowed re-enlistment 
of volunteers to choose the regiments and company 
to which they will attach themselves. Cavalry 
companies will be received for the war without 
arms. 
The Crescent regiment, composed of youths from 
school, is from Louisiana,and was at Jackson, Tenn. 
Ten letters from England are in Norfolk Day 
Book office, and parties to whom they address are 
requested to call for them. 
No less than seventy-seven citizens of London coun-
ty were sent to Richmond on Thursday last and con-
fined in prison on the charge of being disloyal to 
the South. 
Twenty-nine ladies of the Macon WesleyanInsti-
tute transferred the blankets from their own beds to 
the soldiers. 
A special dispatch of the 25th from Cairo to the 
Chicago Tribune, contains these items : 
"A gendernan just from Memphis brings the fol-
lowing information : He represents Memphis as in 
a state of agitation and terror. The fair-grounds 
are used for camps. Every one capable of bearing 
arms is being impressed into the service. Men are 
even dragged from their beds. 
The proclamation of the Mayor,in regard to burn-
ing the city has no influence. A majority of the 
Aldermen, in connection with leading military offi-
cers, decided at a meeting held a fortnight ago, to 
burn the city when they evacuate, in spite of the 
Mayor. 
There are no fortifications at Memphis. 
The news of the battle at Pea Ridge caused great 
depression. Federal gunboats are expected daily. 
At Memphis and at other large points—even at 
New Orleans—there is considerable Union feeling, 
and Southern papers do not represent the feelings of 
the mass of the people, as they, as well as every-
thing else, are under the control of politicans and 
the military. 
The report that the South is well supplied with 
provisions is absurd. They have not stock enough 
on hand to last six months. Clothing, shoes, &c., 
are also very difficult to obtain. No confidence is 
felt in Southern currency, Southern politicians or 
Southern mill tory leaders. 
Jeff. Davis was unanimously denounced as incom-
petent. 
Floyd is everywhere considered an arrant knave 
Mrs. Buckner had arrived at Memphis. She corn- of the Merrimac as yet. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
We have a communication signed "M. Baxter," 
criticising our specifications of the errors we found 
in Mr. Shimeal's 6000 years chronology, which we 
suppose to be designed for the Hei.ald—addressed to 
no one except as our address was on the outside of 
the envolope. We shall give it attention as soon as 
we find the requisite leisure. 
"A. S." There being names mentioned in your 
letter, and some strong expressions used, we think 
it advisable not to insert it, although it expresses 
precisely our opinion. 
Rebel Barbarities. 
When the war is over, the historian will have a 
fearful catalogue of rebel barharities which none will 
be more anxious to forget than the Southern people 
themselves, or at least those of them whose feelings 
are not entirely blunted and brutalized. Already 
the list of heads under which these barbarities will 
be grouped is fearful : tomahawking and scalping 
the wounded by Indian allies ; poisoning wells ; as-
sassinating sentries ; shooting prisoners ; carrying 
away the bones of the dead for mementoes—making 
them into pipes, rings and cups ; neglecting to bury 
the federal dead on fields of battle which remain in 
possession of the rebels ; wanton destruction of pri-
vate property and of public improvements ; hanging 
and shooting their own fellow-citizens who are true 
to the Union. Such are a few of the general heads 
under which this chapter of the war will be written, 
and the impartial historian will rightly trace these 
and all the other enormities of the rebellion to the 
brutalizing influence of the institution of slavery. 
The Providence Press gives an interesting account 
of the visit of Gov. Sprague and some of his staff to 
the battle ground of Bull Run, to recover the bodies 
of some of the Rhode Island dead, from which we 
extract the following fresh illustration of rebel bar-
barity. 
'The party had butjust commenced digging—the 
troopers had lifted out but one or two shovelfulls of 
earth, when a negro girl came down through the 
woods from a house near by, on the hill, and watch 
ed the proceedings. Suddenly she came up by the 
side of the grave,and asked if they were not digging 
for Colonel Slocum's body. On being answered in 
the affirmative she said : 'You're too late ; the Geor-
gia regiments have dug him up a good many weeks 
ago to procure his bones for trophies—(it sickens 
me to write the revolting account)—that his body 
had been burned for this purpose, and finding the 
bones consume with the flesh, end the stench intol-
erable, they had thrown dirt on the fire to extingu-
ish it.' She pointed out the place where the canni-
bal rites occurred,and there,in the midst of coal and 
cinders, the horror-stricken party saw verified the 
woman's almost incredible narration. She also guid-
ed the party to a spot a little further down on the 
banks of the little brook, and in the water, stopped 
by a little clump of bushes, the blanket and shirt 
stripped from the body were floating in the current. 
The calico shirt, from its pattern and figure was at 
once pronounced by Mr.Richardson,who nursed him 
in his last moments, to be that of Major Ballou, and 
not of Col. Slocum. After circumstances also proved 
that the Ghouls had mistaken the object of their 
vengeance,and that the fate intended for the remains 
of Colonel Slocum were received by those of the he-
roic and unfortunate Major Balton. I write this 
with a trembling hand and a burning heart. I would 
have spared you the pain of such a narrative, but a 
calm, clear version of this fiendish outrage must be 
given,and sensibility laid aside for the moment. The 
ashes and bones were gathered with scrupulous care, 
wrapped in the blanket, and were, with the clothes, 
carefully laid in the coffin. 
"The body of Col. Slocum was discovered to be 
unmutilated. It was enveloped in his blanket, and 
had been contained in a rude box. So well defined 
were the distinguishing traits that none of the party 
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In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
She always made Home Happy. 
BY THEO. D. C. MILLER. 
" Such was the brief but impressive sentence, 
which a friend wished us to add to an obituary no-
tice of one who has gone before.' What better 
tribute could be offered to the memory of the loved 
and the lost? Eloquence with her loftiest eulogy, 
poesy with her most thrilling dirge, could afford 
nothing so sweet, so touching, so suggestive of the 
virtues of the dead, as those simple words—She al-
ways made home happy." 
She always made home happy, 
She—the dearest of our care ; 
The pearl that graced our household band, 
The object of our prayer ; 
We strove to teach her, day by day, 
To live for Christ, and to Him pray. 
She always made home happy, 
When a little, sportive child, 
As she bounded gaily to our knee— 
A fairy sun-ray smiled 
On her—the offspring of our care, 
Our tender one, so pure and fair. 
She always made home happy, 
As day by day she grew, 
To be more fair and lovely— 
More womanlike and true ; 
Alas ! she was a being pure 
That could not on this earth endure. 
She always made home happy, 
And we prayed that she might stay ; 
But angels came, and bore her in 
Their arms from earth away ; 
And took her to a world of light, 
Where there will be no cloudy night. 
She always made home happy, 
And we miss her smiling face; 
We miss her sweet' and clarion voice— 
Her ever faultless grece ; 
We miss her presence here--on earth, 
Her frequent strains of joyful mirth. 
She always made home happy, 
Till the summons came, to go 
And live with Christ in fairer climes, 
Redeemed from sin and woe ; 
Her spirit sighed that rest to share, 
Free from disease, and want, and care. 
She always made home happy, 
But she lives with Jesus now ; 
A robe of white enwraps her form, 
And glory crowns her brow ; 
Alas ! that she—a tender flower, 
Should bloom and wither in an hour. 
Low Hampton, N. Y. 
The Restitution. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I have read your article on 
" the Restitution," and reread it with much atten-
tion and satisfaction; and though you enlarge much 
more on the restitution of the earth itself, than on 
that of its inhabitants, you very properly include 
both ; and it invites one or two important inquiri4, 
which, with your leave, I should like to make. 
The word restitution is defined to mean, the act 
of restor ng to, or recovering a former state ; the 
act of replacing in a former state ; to give back 
what has been lost ; to restore ; to reinstate ; to re-
trieve ; to repossess ; and the words renewal, reno-
vation and redemption, are nearly synonymous with 
them. But this word, and all its definitions in the 
utmost extent of their signification, fail to set a 
man above his original antecedent : all beyond that 
would be additional bounty, and could be represent-
ed only as unexpected exaltation ; for as man was 
made " a little lower than the angels," something 
more than restitution is necessary to raise him to 
the dignity and equality of angels. Now as the 
saints are to be redeemed and restored to a higher 
state than ever Adam enjoyed in Eden, (as you 
have fully proved,) does not this fact prove as full, 
that they fell from a higher state than Adam did, 
anterior to Adam's fall ? 
It has been said, " The saints must be raised to 
an equality with angels, to fulfil the promise, when 
all things are made new ; it is necessary that they 
should be in a superior condition to that of Adam, 
because there will be a new heaven and a new 
earth." This is so, indeed ; and you have included 
all these, (and rightly, too, as I believe,) under the 
PS. Now, brother, will you give the above letter, 
together with your own response, a place in the 
Herald ? It may be, and probably is the last re-
quest I shall have to make of you ; and I want to 
know your mind, and I wish others would give 
their views on the subject. You have a class of 
powerful minds about you, ten times more able to 
discuss this subject than I am ; and I hope you will 
all write, and if I never see your productions, I 
doubt not they will do good. Yours, &c. 
B.P.H. 
REMARKS. If the " Restitution" places man and 
the earth back in the condition they were in before 
the fall, it must also secure to them all they would 
have ultimately attained to had not man sinned. 
Our view is, that without sin, this earth would 
have been replenished with inhabitants and that 
then Adam's probation and the increase of the race 
would have terminated and man become equal to 
the angels. We therefore differ with you in respect 
to man's condition when created, and in what is 
implied by Restitution As Adam fell from the 
state in which he was created, he could have had no 
apostacy before his fall. 
Your view of God's injustice does not accord with 
ours. Whatever the Lord of all the earth does is 
right. Your view, it appears to our reasoning, 
would make the sufferings of the Savior the conse-
quence of sins of his own ! whereas the Bible clear-
ly teaches that he died for your sins and mine,—
bearing our sins in his own body on the tree, that 
by his stripes we might be healed. The loss to the 
race, incurred by the sin of Adam, and the recovery 
from that lapsed state by redemption thro' Christ, 
are so clearly unfolded in the Scriptures, that we 
see not how any one can regard them as debatable. 
We should not know how to frame an argument 
that would be recognized as having any force, by 
those who fail to be convinced by the reasoning of 
the apostle in the 5th of Romans. ED. 
From Bro. Lawson Long, M. D. 
Bro. Bliss :—With your leave, I will say a few 
words to the scattered flock, who are " chosen to 
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and 
belief of the truth." Paul to Timothy says that 
the last days perilous times shall come ; for men,—
that is, not a few men, but the majority of men,—
will be lovers of their own selves, covetous, proud, 
boasters, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un-
thankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-
breakers, false accusers, &c., having a form of god-
liness but denying the power thereof : from such 
turn away. He says also, " The time will come 
when men will not endure sound doctrine ; but shall 
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, 
and shall turn away their ears from the truth and 
shall be turned unto fables." The same to the Thes-
salonians informs us that " for this cause God shall 
send them strong delusion that they should believe 
a lie, that they all might be damned who believed 
not the truth,but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 
It is important therefore that God's gospel truth be 
presented to the mind, and that it be received with 
meekness, or a teachable spirit, and in love. Now 
it is generally conceded that all evangelical denom-
inations, so called, preach a part of the gospel,that 
is what Paul calls the "gospel of the grace of God," 
measurably correct. But the gospel of the kingdom 
of God, which includes the gospel of the grace of 
God, seems to be understood but by few. We have 
had much instruction on the subject of the gospel 
of the kingdom which has been like the gold, the 
silver and the precious stones, that will stand the 
fiery trial ; and who can deny the fact also that the 
hay, wood and stubble has been abundant, if receiv-
ed, to cause the suffering of a heavy loss. How true 
it is that where the good seed of the kingdom is 
sown, there is the enemy ready to sow the tares.—
When our King says, " Except a man be born again 
he cannot see the kingdom of God ;" the enemy 
says, Yes, at the resurrection. And when the King 
says, Except a man be born of the water and the 
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 
The enemy says the water is not essential. Now if 
God's kingdom is to come, and his will to be done 
iu the earth, as it is in heaven, suppose ye that there 
will be an opposing thought to the will of the King 
in the kingdom? As soon would the sun, or the 
moon, or any of the planetary systems, depart from 
their orbits, or vary in the appointed times of their 
revolutions. Christ is King. Heaven and earth 
will pass away, but his word will not pass away. 
His terms are, Preach the gospel (not another gos-
pel) to every creature. Ile that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved. He by the prophet Isaiah 
has forewarned us that men would in the last days 
impiously change God's ordinance 'and break his 
everlasting covenant. Therefore loath the curse de-
voured the earth, and the earth is burned and few 
men left. God's everlasting covenant is with Abra-
ham and his seed through the righteousness of faith. 
Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto 
him for righteousness ; and by faith he obeyed.—
Men say the covenant was with Abraham and his 
natural seed. Christ's ordinance was changed by 
act of Parliament, in July, 1643, by the Image 
beast. 
Now, brethren, if we have good evidence of being 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
head of " Restitution ;" so that the question is not 
solved, till it is admitted that they are only raised 
to the same dignity from which they apostatized. 
When the King comes, the kingdom will be given 
to the saints ; but Adam had no kingdom. Eden 
was paradise, in which was the " tree of life ;" but 
it is never called a kingdom, though pronounced by 
its Creator to be " very good." Nor was "the tab-
ernacle of God," or new Jerusalem there ; nor was 
it the habitation of angels, only as they were sent 
on missions of love : there were but two rational 
inhabitants in it, and even they, though innocent, 
" were naked." But the saints will be clothed in 
white robes ; the church will be brought to the 
King " in raiment of needlework," enter into His 
palace and stand at His right hand, " in gold of 
Ophir." " Eye bath not seen, nor ear heard . . . 
the things which God bath prepared for them that 
love him ;" but Adam's enjoyments were before 
him. "They that be wise shall shine as the bright-
ness of the firmament ;" but we have no evidence 
that it was the like with Adam. You speak truly, 
sof " the disabilities of the fall," for the curse was 
pronounced on the ground, for Adam's sake ; but 
his sentence was passed on himself only, without 
any intimation of his offspring, or the animal crea-
tion ; and although we suffer the like privations and 
hardships, it is. no proof that original eruption 
was derived from him, mortality alone e*pted.—
Moral corruption must be incommunicable by phys-
ical descent. The body, being derived from a mor-
tal body, is mortal, and subject to the disabilities of 
mortality ; but pain and death endured by any in-
dividual, must have been merited by the sufferer ; 
otherwise he would suffer injustice ; and one act of 
injustice would soil the crown of Heaven, and for 
ever blot out perfection from the character of the 
Great Infinite. I cannot conceive that one individ-
ual can justly be made to suffer for the sin of ano-
ther. In the law of God, Dent. 24:16, and also 2 
Chron. 25:4, we have the assurance that "the child 
shall not die for the father, but every man shall die 
for his own sin," and though the iniquities of the 
fathers are often visited on the children to the third 
and fourth generation of the haters of God, it can 
only be because the children repeat their father's 
crimes. It is supposed by some standard writers 
that the human family has received a morally cor-
rupt nature from Adam ; yet that all will be more 
than compensated by the glory which is to come. 
But ten thousand rights can never undo one wrong; 
and the thought is perfectly revolting that a holy 
Being may justly subject a little inoffensive child to 
the pains and agonies of death merely because Ad-
am once disobeyed God : and the creeds of all who 
believe that we inherit sin from Adam, (Milton's 
not excepted,) amount to this—in whatever words 
they may be couched. But the holy One affirms, 
" The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father; 
neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: 
the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon 
him ; and the wickedness of the wicked shall be 
upon him," Ezek. 18:20,—which proves that nei-
ther sin nor suffering can justly be imputed or at-
tributed to another. Could these facts be made 
plain to be understood, there would be less com- 
plaint of the justice of God when parents are call-
ed to part with their little ones, and it would anni-
hilate materialism. if the doctrine, that inherent 
impUrity was derived from Adam, is dishonorable to 
God, should we not do all we can to counteract it? 
No slanderer, accusing us of arraigning the Most 
High before a human tribunal, should for a mo-
ment deter us from defending His character from 
every suspicion. Nor should derision move us to 
act a cowardly part, and swerve from the high res-
ponsibility we have been called to assume. Paul's 
remonstrances with the Grecians and Romans ar6 
in point, and an exemplary precedent ; for the dear-
est object we can have is an assurance of the spot-
less purity of the Most High. Redemption is a 
whole work, and does not take a man halfway back 
and leave him where Adam was ; but it fully rein-
states him in the dignity and grandeur of angels, 
which lie once lost. Preapostacy sets the character 
of God, respecting man, in its true light, which no 
other view ever did or can do ; and restitution, as 
you have judiciously presented it, restores us back 
to the primeval state we filled, before the founda-
tion of the world. This I fully believe ; and it is 
a great relief to my mind to be so assured that no 
particle of injustice pollutes the escutcheon of the 
great Eternal. Time is short ; and I hope we shall 
all take the position which God requires us to fill ; 
and ere long hear the thrilling salutation, Well 
done. I remain as ever yours very sincerely, 
B. P. HILDRETH. 
Holyoke, Feb. 24, 1862. 
From Bro. Z. W. Cornfield, 
Dear Brother :—After reading the letter from the 
brother who gave the earnings of one day to the A. 
M.A. I was desirous of doing likewise, and having 
obtained a dollar I resolved to send it ; but calling 
to mind a remark which I think you published,that 
an efficient way of aiding the Association was to 
extend the circulation of the Herald, and likewise 
the recommendation of Bro. Orrock, for those who 
cannot enjoy the blessing of associating with those 
of like precious faith, to send for the Herald for 
their minister ; and hoping it might lead to a fur-
ther circulation of the Herald, I concluded to for-
ward the dollar-and request you to send the Herald 
as long as that will pay, to a Baptist minister and 
friend of mine, who I believe holds in a good mea-
sure the great truths which we are trying to ad-
vance in the world. And may the great Head of 
the church so bless its instructions to him, that he 
may see more clearly than he ever has done into the 
precious Revelation which God has given us, and so 
become a more able minister of the New Testament. 
Yours in love, 
ZIBA WM. CAMFIELD. 
Kelvin, March 3, 1862. 
We have forwarded the Herald according to the 
address given, and hope it will prove not an unwel-
come visitor. We thank the brother also for his 
interest in the Herald, and hope it may stimulate 
to like efforts. 
En. 
From Bro. B. D. Haskell. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I trust the Lord is with you 
in your work ; you preach every week to a large 
congregation by the press ; and I know, " not in 
vain." I have long been tired of this hunting up 
new light process. It is well to "prove all things;" 
but, if possible, it is better to hold fast that which 
is good. The true Advent doctrine is nut, necessa-
rily, and should not be mixed up with every notion, 
theory or whim, that people can, or think they can, 
spell out from the word of God. On the contrary, 
if our great leading truth be truth, it is good rea-
son why we should leave these incidental points (all 
of us,) and devote ourselves to the great work of 
preparation,—there being so much to do, and so 
short a time to do it in. The Lord bless you and 
yours, and gather to his coming glory. 
Your brother, 
B. D. HASKELL. 
Haverhill, .Mar. 20, 1862. 
born of the Spirit-7-ff we believe in Christ and his 
gospel—if we have been buried with Christ in bap-
tism—if we have gotten the victory over the beast, 
or Catholic superstition, and his image—anything 
like it, relying on governmental aid—and his mark 
and abominations (human additions to God's truth) 
for her name is Mystery, Babylon the Great, the 
mother of harlots and abominations of the earth—
we shall assuredly stand on the sea of glass having 
the harps of God, and sing the song of Moses and 
the Lamb. And we need not trouble ourselves about 
the marvelous future exploits of Louis Napoleon 
and Jeff. Davis. Let us look for and love the ap-
pearing of the Lord, and be ready to say, Lo, this 
is our God ; we have waited for him. 
LAWSON LONG. 
From Bro. A. S. Kendall. 
Bro. Bliss :—I want to give my views on some 
passages of Paul's letter to the Romans; and if not 
according to the true spirit of what he meant to 
communicate, please set me right on that subject. 
I see that the London Quarterly Journal of Proph-
ecy has alluded to it, in the last Herald. It is in 
the eighth chapter, commencing at 19th verse,"For 
the earnest expectation of the creature (or animal 
creation) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons 
of God. For the creature (animal creation) was 
made subject to vanity (to decomposition, to decay) 
not willingly, but by reason of him who bath sub-
jected the same in hope ; because the creature (the 
animal creation) itself also shall be delivered from 
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 
of the children of God. For we know that the 
whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain to-
gether until now (or until the new creation). And 
not only they, but ourselves also which have the 
first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit 
the redemption of our body." 
Now if I am not right, please set me right ; for 
the truth is good and will make us free 
Yours in the bonds of love, waiting for the com- 
ing of the Lord, 
A. S. KENDALL. 
Romer, N. Y. 
Our brother will see that we take the same view 
as the above, on page 10 of our tract on the Resti- 
tution. 
ED. 
THE ADVEN T HERALD 
111 
From Bro. M. Winslow. 
Bro. Bliss :-As the letter 1 wrote you on the 3d 
of February, containing two dollars, with an ac-
count of a revival of religion in our district, was 
lost, I once more attempt to give an account of 
God's dealings with us. 
It is now eight years since Bro. Chapman was 
with us. God blessed his labors, sinners were con-
verted, and he established a church, which was 
blessed with his presence for two or three years.-
Then many of the brethren and sisters moved to 
other parts of the State, others fell back into the 
world, and others apostatized, until our church be-
came extinct. But God's mercies were not gone 
forever. He heard the prayer of his children and 
sentaro. Lowe, a Baptist preacher, who labored 
incessantly about four weeks fur the conversion of 
souls. Although a different chain of argument was 
used from the one used in 1854, yet God blessed our 
labors and sinners were converted. Eleven were 
baptized, and others, we hope, will follow their Sa-
viour, be buried with him in baptism and rise again 
to newness of life. At the same place and house 
where Bro. Chapman labored eight years ago, we 
have formed a church of 15 members, with a pros-
pect of six or eight more to be soon 'united with us 
in trying to keep up preaching and prayer meetings 
until Jesus conies, or we are released by death. 
That fable of the last days, the conversion of the 
world, is not advocated, neither are we confined to 
the one plain truth taught in God's word that Je-
sus' coming is near at hand. We believe that to 
be but one of the many facts there taught, none of 
which we dare leave unbrought before the mind of 
sinners to persuade them to come to Jesus now.-
Truly the signs portray him near at hand, as the 
budding fig-tree shows that summer is near. 
My brethren, I fear one of the great reasons why 
so many of our advent churches formed out West 
, have become so weak and sickly, and are so soon 
passed away, is the fact that our preachers and 
brethren who have carried on our meetings could 
see no other truth, of the many taught by Jesus 
just before he ascended, but the one of his second 
coming. Brethren ,have we not been looking from on-
ly one stand-point ? I fear, while we have told the 
truth, it is only one truth. Have we not been like 
some other denominations who have made one truth 
a hobby (baptism, for example) to the sacrificing of 
almost every other doctrine taught in the Bible ?- 
I fear so. But may God forgive us for the wrong, 
and may we he found living soberly and righteously 
in this present evil world, looking for the appearing 
of Jesus' kingdom to supercede all earthly king- 
doms. 
M. WINSLOW. 
Perry, Ill., Mar. 13, 1862. 
From L. M. Lowell. 
Bro. Bliss :-I hope the Herald will be sustain 
ed. It is truly a welcome messenger, and I think 
if Bro. Fassett would come here, it might prove a 
- blessing to inquiring minds. I wish we could have 
those soul-stirring truths presented to the people in 
this section. I wish some one, or rather Bro. Fas-
sett, would come this way. The Lord give you 
strength and patience for your arduous duties, is 
the praylr of one who wishes well to the blessed 
cause. Yours looking for redemption, 
L. M. LOWELL. 
Perry, Me. 
American Bible Union Rooms, 350 Broome st. 
New York, March 22, 1862. 
Editor Advent Herald, Boston, Mass.-Dear bro-
ther : - Be so kind as to state that the Quarterly 
for February and May will be issued in a few weeks 
in one No. The work is steadily progressing, al-
though somewhat retarded by the scantiness of re-
ceipts in consequence of the war. 
Respectfully, 
WE. II. Wvcxorr, Cor. Sec'y 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, in Fairfield, Vt., Feb. 11. 1862, of croup, 
ORPHA P., daughter of William R. and Eliza KIT-
TELL, aged two years, eleven months and 7 days. 
Bro. and sister Kittell's family of six little girls 
had escaped the fell destroyer's grasp until little 
Orpha fell his victim. She suffered much a few 
days, but manifested the judgment and patience of 
a child of more mature years. She had the gift of 
singing ; for one of her favorite hymns was- 
" I want to he an angel, 
And with the angel's stand," &c. 
After her voice failed she would try to sing ; and 
then, placing her hands on her breast, calmly fell 
asleep to awake with those whose waking will be 
supremely blest. Brother and sister K. are, we 
trout, comforted in their affliction, believing that 
as Jesus died and rose again, so likewise them that 
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 
The writer endeavored to speak words of comfort 
in a discourse, based on the words, "Is it well with 
the child ?" 2 K. 4:26. 
Sweetly, little Orpha, sleeping 
In the graveyard cold and low, 
Though the hollow winds are sweeping 
O'er her tomb the drifting snow. 
One more golden cord is binding 
Thou to heaven and your God, 
May the Saviour's love entwining 
Lead you to his blest abode. 
And the gifts you have from heaven, 
Left to shed a gladsome ray 
O'er the hearts by sorrow riven, 
Guide their steps in wisdom's way. 
Teach them young to love the Saviour, 
Tell them that on earth he bled, 
And for little children suffered, 
That to heaven they might be led. 
Tell them that sweet Orpha's waiting 
To receive them in the skies, 
When to brighter joys awaking 
Her blest body shall arise. 
0. ROCKWELL. 
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Joseph read : " And this is life eternal, 
that they might know Thee the only true 
FEED MY LAMBS."--401112 21:15. 
 
 God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast 
BOSTON. APRIL 5. 1862. sent." 
" Now, Joseph, you can tell me what 
knowledge will make your cargo complete. 
Ballast. 
What is it 1" 
" What is ballast, father ?" said Joseph, '' The knowledge of Jesus Christ, fath- 
as he was reading a book about ships and en') 
shipping. 
" Yes, my boy : grammar and arithme- 
" Ballast, my boy," replied his father, tic, science and languages, are more or less 
" is that which they put into a ship when necessary for your own comfort and use-
she is empty, in order to weight her, and fulness on the voyage of life ; but you will 
make her sail steadily. Without ballast, not have a successful voyage unless you 
she would be turned over by the high have as ballast • the knowledge of Jesus 
winds or heavy sea." 
Christ. Where will you get it ?" 
" And what do they use for ballast, pa- "From the Bible, father." 
pa 1" 
" Quite right, Joseph. I am glad, in- 
"In whatever port the ship may happen _I 
deed, that you are doing your best to take 
to be, the captain tries to get a cargo of in a good store of knowledge that shall help 
goods which may be likely to sell well in you to be useful on your voyage ; but, 
the port the ship is going to; and in that above all things, study your Pible, and 
case the cargo itself is the ballast : but pray for the grace of the Holy Spirit to 
when the captain cannot get a cargo of help you to gain more and more, each day 
goods, he is obliged to fill the hold, or bot- that you live, of that knowledge which is 
torn part of the ship, with stones, or gray- able to make you wise unto salvation, 
el, or anything else that he can get, that through faith which is in Christ Jesus.' 
limy be heavy enough for the purpose.— 
While you are speaking on this subject, 
The Sirens. 
Joseph, my thoughts go another way; and Have you ever heard the story of the 
I am ready to say that I hope, as you go Sirens 7 They were women of wonderful 
on your voyage, you will take care to car- beauty, dwelling on an island, green and 
ry ballast, and that of the right kind." flowery, in the Mediterranean sea. When 
" Carry ballast, father ? Why I am not vessels passed their island they would sit 
a ship; nor yet am I going on a voyage, upon the shore, making the air musical 
that I know of." 
with their sweet singing, and entice the 
" No; but did you never heat of the poor sailors so that they could not refrain 
voyage of life,' Joseph ?" 
from leaping into the water to rush to them. 
" 0, yes ! I suppose you mean that this But when the Sirens had them on the 
life is like a sea, and men and women are shore, they murdered them, and the heaps 
as the ships sailing on it." 
of white bones scattered here and there 
" Yes, Joseph, and boys and girls, too. over the beach showed too plainly how 
I hope you have got ballast on board." successful their allurements had been.— 
" Well, father, I can understand how I When Ulysses was returning to his home 
am like a ship on the sea of life; but what in Ithaca, after his long and painful wan- 
do you mean by my having ballast?" derings, he was obliged to pass by the 
" Knowledge, my boy. Knowledge is island of the Sirens. His friend, the god-
the ballast of the soul. Do you think you dess Circe, had warned him of their fatal 
can get through the world without know- beauty, and had advised him how to es- 
ledge?" 
cape it. So when the charming islands 
" I suppose not, father, any better than came in sight the cunning Ulysses stuffed 
a ship can cross the sea without ballast." his ears and those of his men with wax, 
" Just so. But take care that you take so that they might not hear their songs, 
the right sort of ballast. Suppose, now, and he made his sailors bind him with 
a ship should be laden with nothing heav- cords to the mast so that he should not be 
ier than trusses of straw. Do you think enticed by their blandishments to his de- 
it would sail with safety ?" 
struction. Yet when he saw their beauty 
" Well, I suppose that, straw being so he wished to get loose and rush to them. 
light, the ship would not be much safer But his men would not untie him, and so 
than if it had nothing at all on board.— they got safely past. 
But just tell me what you call a good car- Now do you understand what this story 
go." 
means ? Perhaps it is not true, but it has 
" Well, then, suppose you were to read a deep meaning. When you are assailed 
nothing but story-books; suppose you were by temptation and sin, you should close 
to store your mind with no other know- your ears against them, as Ulysses did his, 
ledge than what you could gain from such and cry to God for strength to enable you 
books : would that be a good cargo for to withstand him. Arid if you do yield to 
your ship ?" 
them, you will as certainly suffer as did 
" I suppose, father, that would be like those unfortunate sailors who fell into the 
the cargo of straw. I should think that a Sirens' cruel hands. But when you wish 
good knowledge of English grammar, to indulge in any sin, think of this little 
arithmetic, geography, and history, would story, and try to fight against it and to 
be the best sort of cargo to load my ship conquer it. 
with." 
" A very good cargo, Joseph ; but not all 
that would be wanted." 
" Well, then, father, I suppose 1 may 
add Greek, Latin and French; and also 
science." 
" Very good. But, Joseph, your cargo 
would be wanting unless you had some-
, thing that you have not yet mentioned.— 
Where is your voyage on the sea of life 
to end ?" 
" In eternity, father." 
" Yes, Joseph, we are all journeying to 
eternity. Now take your Bible, and read 
the third verse of the seventeenth chapter 
of John." 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
THE CHINESE Boy. In a Chinese Chris-
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