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BOSTON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1861. 
VOLUME XXII. 
XXII. NO. 41. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
Ts published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up 
stairs), Boston, Mass., by 
The American Millennial Association." 
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Peace ! Be still ! 
In this night of sorrow how. 
Oh, my heart ! contend not thou ! 
What befalls thee is God's will—
Peace ! Be still ! 
Peace ! Be still ! 
All thy murmuring words are vain—
God will make the riddle plain ; 
Wait His word and bear His will—
Peace ! Be still ! 
Hold thee still 
Though the Father scourge thee sore, 
Cling thou to Him all the more, 
Let Him mercy's work fulfill ! 
Hold thee still ! 
Hold thee still 
Though the GOod Physician's knife 
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Seem to touch thy very life, �
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Death alone be• means to kill—
Hold thee still ! 
Lord, my God 
Give me grace, that I may he 
Thy true child, and silently 
Own Thy sceptre and Thy rod, 
Lord, my God ! 
Shepherd mine 
From Thy fullness give me still 
Faith to do and bear Thy will, 
Till the morning light shall shine, 
Shepherd mine ' 
—Christian Examiner. 
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THE REWARD. 
"For whosoever shall give you a cup of wa-
ter to drink in my name, because ye belong to 
Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose 
his reward" Mark 9:41. 
At Worms, when Luther had returned, forsa-
ken and dispirited, to his hotel, a servant enter-
ed, bearing a silver vase filled with refreshing 
beverage, the offering of the aged Duke Eric of 
Brunswick, a powerful lord belonging to the 
Pope's party. As the Reformer, touched deep-
ly by the kindness, drank, he said : 
"As on this day Duke Eric has remembered 
me, may the Lord Jesus Christ remember him in 
the hour of his last struggle !" 
The servant took back the message to his mas-
ter. The aged Duke called to mind these words 
at the moment of his death, and addressing a 
young man who stood at his bedside, said: 
"Tale the Bible and read to me." 
The youth read the words of Christ, and the 
soul of the dying wan took comfort : "Whosoev- 
er shall give you a cup of cold water to drink in 
my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I 
say unto you, he shall not lose his reward." 
THE ONLY VERSE THE BOY COULD REMEMBER. 
"Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest," Matt. 
11:28. 
In the county of Kent lives, or lived a clergy-
man and his lady, who took a very active part 
in the Sunday-school connected with his church. 
They had in the schoo', a boy, the only son of a 
widow, who was notoriously wicked, despising 
all the earnest prayers and admonitions of the 
clergyman, who, out of pity for his poor widowed 
mother, kept him at the school eighteen months; 
but at length found it absolutely necessary to 
dismiss the lad as a warning to others. He soon 
after enlisted as a soldier in a regiment that was 
subsequently ordered to America, it being the 
last, American war. Some time after the poor 
widow called on the clergyman to beg a Bible of 
the smallest size. Surprised at such a request 
from an individual who was on the verge of eter-
nity, and who he knew had one or more Bibles 
of large print, which she bad long used to good 
purpose, he inquired what she wanted it for. 
She answered:—"A regiment is going out to 
America, and I want to send it to my poor boy; 
and 0 sir ! who knows what it may do ?" 
She sent the Bible which the clergyman gave 
her by a pious soldier, who, upon his arrival at 
their destination, found the widow's son the very 
ringleader of the regiment in every description 
of vice. After the soldier had made himself 
known, he said :—"James, your mother has sent 
you her last present." 
"Ah !" he replied in a careless manner, "is she 
gone at last ? I hope she sent me some cash." 
The pious soldier told him he believed the 
poor widow was dead ; "but," said he, "she has 
sent you something of more value than gold or 
silver, (presenting him the Bible,) and James, it 
was her dying request that you would read one 
verse, at least, every day, and can you refuse her 
dying charge ?" 
"Well," said James, "it is not too much to 
ask, (opening the Bible,) so here goes." 
He opened the Bible at these words : "Come 
unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest." 
"Well," said he, "that's very odd. I have 
opened to the only verse in the Bible that I 
could learn by heart when I was in the Sunday-
school ; I never could for the life of me commit 
another. It is very strange ; but who is this Me 
that is mentioned in the verse ?" 
The pioes soldier asked if he did not know. 
He replied he did not. 
The good man then explained it to him ; spoke 
to him of Jesus, and exhibited the truth and in-
vitations of the Gospel. They walked to the 
house of the chaplain, where they had further 
conversation ; the result was, from that hour he 
became a changed man, and was as noted for ex-
emplary conduct as before he had been for wick-
edness. 
Some time after this conversation, the regi-
ment in which he was, engaged the enemy ; at 
the close of which the pious soldier, in walking 
through the field of blood, beheld, under a large 
spreading oak, the dead body of Jame , his head 
reclining on his Bible, which was opened at the 
passage : "Come unto me,all ye that are weary." 
Poor James had gone to his rest. 
TIIE INHERITANCE OF THE MEEK. 
"Blessed are the meek ; for they shall inherit 
the earth," Matt. 5:5 
The Rev. J. W. Brooks, Rector of St. Ma-
ry's, in Nottingha'm Eng. related to a visitor * 
in 1846,how he was led to see that the earth re-
newed is to be the abode of the redeemed. He 
said he was delivering a course of sermons on the 
Beatitudes, and came to the text, "Blessed are 
the meek ; for they shall inherit the earth ;" 
which he explained as meaning the meek do now 
inherit it by having as much of it as is good for 
them, when his wind became impressed with the 
idea that he was not giving the true meaning of 
the passage,—that the blessing is in the future. 
The impression had such an effect on him at the 
time that his hearers noticed it, and at the close 
of the service hastened to ask him if he was not 
unwell while in his sermon. He then began to 
examine the subject, and was conducted to the 
conclusion that the earth restored will be the 
possession of the meek, and that this blessedness 
will be introduced at the coming of Christ and 
the resurrection of the just. 
He further said that soon afterwards he was 
in company with the late Rev. E. Bickersteth, 
Rector of Watton, on a missionary occasion, 
who, in conversation, was dwelling on the future 
triumphs of the Church of Christ. Mr. Brooks 
gave it at his conviction that this could only take 
place at the Second Advent. Mr. Bickersteth, 
with his characteristic warmth, exclaimed, "And 
is Brooks- among the prophets !" The conversa-
tion which followed, however, led Mr. Bicker-
steth to examine the question ; and he embraced 
the Premillennial Advent, and has written and 
preached much on the subject. 
* Dr. It. Hutchinson of Waterloo, C.E. 
Saved by a Woman. 
A true woman is generally braver and more 
self-possessed than man in danger or suffering, 
and the following story, which we have never be-
fore seen, told by a pilot, with incidental proof 
of its truth, is a fine illustration of this phase of 
human nature : 
Many years ago, when I was so small a boy 
as to hardly recollect it now, my brother and 
myself were placed on board one of the St. Law-
rence river steamers as cabin boys and waiters, 
with a view to become pilots when we were old- 
er. �
That was nearly fifty years ago, and boats 
were not fitted up in the style they are now, nor 
were good pilots a thing to be found every day. 
We had run up and down, several times, when 
one morning, about ten o'clock, we stopped at 
Brockville, to take on board, as usual, a govern 
ment pilot to guide us down the river. 
It was late in the season, and we had a strong 
wind the night before, leaving the river rough, 
and our usual pilot had hard work to keep the 
boat in its proper trace, while it brought us into 
Brockville two hours later than the usual time. 
The clouds overhead still looked cold and the 
wind blew fresh and strong, when, making all 
possible haste, we again put out of the harbor 
and were soon bounding on our way. Through-
out the morning I noticed an anxious look on 
the captain's face, which bespoke his uneasiness 
about the final termination of our journey. 
We had a good many passengers on board, 
and although we usually reached Montreal by 
four o'clock in the afternoon,we should be delay-
ed until six, if not later. About ten miles this 
side Lachine a storm of rain commenced, which 
rendered it almost impossible to guide the boat 
at all ; while the rapids of that name, the most 
terrific in the whole river,were yet to be passed, 
The pilot was oue of the best on the route, but 
a man of passionate temper, with a peculiar, 
dogged look. Between him and the ordinary 
boat pilot there existed an old grudge, which 
had once or twice led to blows, when they came 
in contact with each other. That morning while 
passing one of the higher falls, they stood togeth-
er at the wheel, when, owing to the strong cur-
rent of the water and almost exhausted strength 
of him who had guided us all the night, one 
spoke of the wheel slipped from his hands and 
nearly caused an accident of a pretty serious na-
ture. This annoyed his companion, and hard 
words passed between them, since which time a 
sullen silence had been preserved. 
When about two miles above the Lachine ra-
pids, some of the rigging aloft gave away, and 
the night pilot mounted the upper deck with a 
ladder and attempted to make it fast. The wind 
blew fiercely, and while exerting all his strength 
to stay the mischief, he lost his hold and fell,the 
ladder coming down directly upon the head of 
our government aid, wounding him pretty severe-
ly. Not pausing to look at the mischief, he 
seized the unfortunate man, and with almost su-
perhuman strength, lifted him above the boat 
railing. The other, quickly guessing his mean-
ing, and winding his arms around the neck of his 
companion, they fell together in the boiling flood 
below. We lowered the lifeboat as quickly as 
possible, ropes were thrown out and every effort 
put forth to save them—but in vain. They rose 
to the surface of the water, still locked in each 
other's arms, and then sank from our view for-
ever. 
The boat now rapidly rushed on, coming near-
er the frightful rapid, while terror-struck faces 
were around us, at the thought that no master 
hand was near to guide us through the dark pas-
sage below. The scene which we had just been 
called to witness only made our situation more 
terrific, while wild and fearful eyes around us 
bespoke the agonizing apprehension of the pas-
sengers and crew as we went plunging madly to 
destruction, scarcely half a mile from the gulf, 
whose dashing waves we could distinctly hear. 
The captain had frankly told us of his inability 
to guide us through the perilous passage, while 
deck, gangway and cabin, were filled with men, 
women and children, some of whom were pray-
ing, some weeping, others intensely crazy with 
an agony too intense for utterance. Women ea-
gerly clutched their children and husbands press-
ed their wives to their bosoms, with only the 
hope of dying together. The captain stood at 
the wheel, assisted by one of the passengers, 
vainly endeavoring to hold out to the last and 
guide her until every effort should prove fruit-
less, while with strained eyes and looks of de 
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spair they gazed through he almost blind 
 
storm upon the craggy �
Tunis, lifting high thi.4- 
gray bare heads out of t.41water,attlopon what 
they expected every moment to be dashed 
pieces. 
Just as frenzy had begun to calm down into 
sober, earnest preparation for the d?orrykieb 
await sl them, th.ertoame out of the otate4Ottuns 
a fair, young reature, o' �
esilloSe head hoarse 
children still live there. One is a noble boy, or 
rather monessmo and ploughs the ocean in one 
of theme,, Ole hattle-ships of England." 
rlasting Punishment. 
-,-- 
e different views concerning the future 
8ta /held by the Christian Church may be thus 
li 
cla-ssifled, arranging them exhaustively, under 
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divisions : — 
Roman Catholic Church talfes three 
s, hereafter, namely :- 
1. Eyrlasting joy. 
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2.- iverlasting suffering. 
3. Temprtry sorrow in purgatory. 
II. .1‘1;e Or tedox Protestant Clit}r.91Lmakes. 
two conditions hereafter nafnely :— 
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Infinite and eternal joy. 
2. �
Infinite and eternal suffering. 
III. The Old School Universalists make one 
condition hereafter, namely :- 
1. �
Eternal joy. �
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III. The Old School Universalists and Res-
torationiats make two conditions hereafter,nanae-
ly :- 
1. Eternal joy. 
2. �
Temporary and finite suffering. 
Unitarians make an indefinite nuiriffef of 
conditions hereafter, according to the various 
characters and status of men: 
The Swedenborgians make an indefinite 
but limited number of heavens and hells, suited 
to the varieties of character, but having a supe-
rior origin. 
The Annihilationists believe that the 
finally impenitent will perish wholly, and come 
to nothing. 
At first sight this looks like a very formidable 
array of varying opinions, and might lead to the 
conclusion that there is really a wide divergence 
of Christian sentiment on a point so interesting 
and so important. But this is far from being 
the case. 
It will be observed by the reader, that the 
view which holds the final state of men to be one 
of everlasting joy or everlasting suffering,is that 
which has always been held by the great body 
of professed Christians, which is found incorpor-
ated in the standards of every historical Church, 
and which is now held by nine tenths of all those 
in every land, who bear the Christian name. 
Can it he that the Holy Spirit, who was to guide 
Christ's people into all truth, has suffered al-
most the whole Church to be in error on this 
point, from the apostolic days down to our own ? 
—Christian intelligenEW 
The Glorious Resurrection. 
Christ, we are told,is "the first-fruits" ofthem 
that, sleep. . . . . Since then, millions have fal-
len asleep with the name of Jesus upon itheir dy-
ing lips. Millions of little children, too, have 
passed away, too young to speak that blessed 
name. And millions upon millions more, as 
time rolls4i, Shall thus depart, -speaking or 
speechless, but dropping their Weary heads up-
on that faithful breast : Millions upon millions of 
them, till the last of the human generations sball 
have come and played its part in the grand dra- 
ma 'of redemption. And then our Lord will 
come, riding upon a cloud; to sit in judgmeutup-
on our race. Fear not, ye sleeping million0C 
who are asleep in Christ. Ye shall not over-
sleep that trumpet call. Your souls are already 
in the Conquerdi'S train, coming with him to 
iudgmeni:"'Alicttiow your bodies shall awoke. 
And theci ili'eflitag shall all enter together the 
New Jertisalem. See, 0, see its shining battle- 
4ift up your heads, 0, ye gates, and 
be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors." 
What a stopendous consummation ! And yet 
how sweet !itodies like unto the glorious body 
of our Lk'
k—as the three disciples beheld it 
beaming upon the mount : such is the assurance 
given us. Painless, tearless, glowing with im-
mortal bloom. No more sin, no more sorrow, 
no more bitter partings. The venerable sire,the 
tender mother,the faithful companion, the sweet, 
sweet child ; we shall meet them all. They are 
not lost to us. They are only lent ; their souls 
to Christ, their bodies to the dust. And both 
are safe. POI. "Riot is Christ risen from the 
11•11.11•MINIIIINIMM 
Christian Antiquity. :)„, , 
The Comet of 1712. 
When the comet appeared on the 14th Oct., 
1712, according to prediction, a number of per-
sons in and about London seized all the barges 
and boats they could lay hands on in the Thames, 
very rationally concluding that when the confla-
gration took place there would be most safety on 
the4salter. A gentleman, who had neglected 
family prayer for better thanifive years, inform-
ed his wife that it was his determination to re-
sume that laudable practice the same evening ; 
but his 
g a•uct Dyi �
The run upon the bank 
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morn 
inadan 
, 
he Sa ath a Delight. 
In an interesting memoir of the late Lord 
Bloomfleld, who for nine years filled the high 
and responsible office of minister plenipotentiary 
and envoy extraordinary from Great Britain to 
the court of Svodep, we have a beautiful instance 
of Christian consistency. 
"It is not eau, iua country where the conti- 
nental
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Sancta's nrevairs, says the writer, "for 
f. 
one in his position to keep holy the Sabbath day, 
as it was the custom at the Swedish court to invite 
all the representatives of foreign powers to dine 
at the palace on the Sunday. His lordship had 
however, received his views of' Sabbath obser-
vance from the 13ible, and felt that he must 'obey 
God rather than man.', I3e.explained this to the 
king (Bernadotte), who acceded to the request of 
the British minister not to invite or 'command' 
him on the Lord's day ; but lest his absence from 
the diplomatic dinner should be misunderstood, 
took care to explain to those assembled the rea-
son of that absence." 
The example of his lordship influenced another 
nobleman (Count Rosenblad), who resolved never 
again to give a state dinner on the Lord's day, 
but invited some twenty or more of the nobility, 
and secured the services of a zealous clergyman 
to preach to them in his drawing.room. 
His lordship did this. He attended the mis-
sion chapel twice every Sabbath day. No in. 
clemency of the weather prevented his walking. 
He was also certain, if well, to be present at the 
week-night seryiee oft en escaping, for the time, 
from some _lagoon, :banquet, and coming in full 
court costume. How much might be done, by 
similar consistency, to raise the tone of moral 
perception and feeling in Europe. 
Clear Sky beyond. 
One's pathway of' life is not always clear. Of 
God it is said, "Clouds and darkness are round 
about Him." We suppose it means in reference 
to our copoeations of Him, our not knowing His 
ways ; for it is added, "Righteousness and judg-
ment are thTii6hitation of His throne." But 
respecting human pathways, it is certain that 
clouds settle down upon all of us at times. In 
such times, it is not in man that walketh to di-
rect his steps: He needs to trust, and to walk 
by faith. 
All men have troubles. When the morning 
opens fair and clear, its noon soon becomes over-
cast with Lind: clouds, and nothing is more na-
tural than to fear as one enters the cloud. We 
want to see 
in ana 
our. way ; aid when God shuts it up, 
d,.13sis 
we comply �
cry uut, All this is against me ; 
as blindly and erroneously as Jacob did. Now 
this is uoekriiian. We ought to trust and not 
be afraid{ 9What promises we have! "I will 
never leave thee nor forsake thee." "As thy day 
so shall thy strength be. "Nothing shall harm 
you if ye be followers of that which is good." 
Beyond theme clouds there is a clear sky ; and 
when theiraveller can see but a little before him, 
he must still press on, and success shall soon re-
pay all his toil. 
Othergisttili along smoothly while my lot is a 
hard one, is theisSomplaint of thousands Well it 
may be so, or *May only seem so. Each heart 
knows its own bitterness, and a stranger inter-
meddleth not with one's inmost experiences. Per-
Imps your 'friend who always seemed to you so 
cheerful and undisturbed, has his full share of. 
the ills that flesh is heir to---equal to your own ; 
but that he bears up better under them than you 
do. �
This is the more probable. But if not---if 
you have more clouds and less sunshine than is 
the common lot, not a sparrow alights on earth 
ern clime. She donned 
stuff, while the coat of one �
the decease �
ilots 
was buttoned tightly around her slight form. 
Her face was ashy pale as she mounted the stair-
way, and with her hair disheveled by the wind, 
she exclaimed in a voice which rang as clear as 
the notes of a bugle above the storm : 
"I knowyplitietkiigithis Lachine,40, and 
will use my best endeavors to guide yeas although 
we have every thing of wind and water against 
us. �
Let tiolf jeti,iiiho are the strongest and 
most self-posseSsed, stand by me at the wheel, 
while the rest invoke His aid who ever stilleth 
the tempest, to guide our life-laden bark safely 
through the troubled waters !" 
As if in derision of her talitchless courage, the 
mad waves dashed higher, *idle the thunder 
pealed a louder defiance to her words. With 
pallid face and lips compressed, she took her 
station at the wheel, while two powerful men 
stood by to aid her as far as possible. With a 
firm hand she raised the glasi' and swept the 
scene before her, then bilking them have-cour-
age, the boat entered 'ttPon' its fetifik dettrie, 
bounding onward; ttW'if conseibius iii-tihelitiad 
that guided its clCitiny. Her orditti'velere given 
in clear, loud tones, while she stolid proudly 
erect, her eyes brightened into a darker blue, 
until one would have fancied her the ruling spir-
it of the storm. The water dashed against the 
side of the boat, *Owning her fair head with glit-
tering drops ; yeillstill she stood unheeding,while 
not an eye in all that group but gazed with min-
gled awe and confidence upon that delicate form. 
Once again the spoke of the wheel slipped from 
the grasp of him who held it, but a fair jeweled 
hand arrested its progress, arc ''stayed the de-
struction which otherwise wein have followed 
its swerve from duty. Onwarcrsified the noble 
bark, and when darkness shut the last rock from 
our sight, one deafening shout .rose high above 
the storm for her who had so brgfely guided us 
through the shadow of death. �
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She would receive no thanks foiliPi4eff,ibut 
bidding us "give thanks to Him whose voice ev-
er ruleth the storm," she retired to her state-
room, and was lost to view. 
Around the cabin-table that night, about an 
hour before we entered the harbor of Montreal, 
we learned her history. She was the daughter 
of a merchant who owned the line of boats, one 
of which she had just saved from ruin. Her 
mother died when she was a child, aiihet fath- 
er had yielded to her wishes, and allowed her to 
accompany him in the boat of which he Cs cap- 
tain. By degrees she became accinaiiiVed with 
every bend in that beautiful river, while Calm 
and storm alike brought scenes of beauty to her 
eye. She was now on her way to visit some 
friends in Quebec, where her father proposed 
joining her to spend the winter. 
A gentleman artist sketched her likeness on a 
leaf of his portfolio, as she stdbd at the wheel, 
wrapped in the pilot's coat, with the glass in her 
hand ; and her full length portrait still graces 
the gallery of fine arts in Montreal. Many a 
rough hand grasped the snowy fingers at part-
ing, and many a blessing crowned that noble 
head. 
A magnificent diamond bracelet, bearing up-
on an inside plain the name iir 'the vessel and 
date of the occurrence,was prersaVed to her about 
a week after her arrival in Quebec, by the pas-
sengers who were on board at the time, while 
loud and triumphant were the praises borne to 
the ear of a fond parent of the noble conduct of 
that frail but fearless one, who had braved the 
dangers before which stout hearts and strong forms 
had quailed. 
"And what became of her afterwards ?" I in-
quired. 
"She married an officer in Quebec, and her 
L.„. 
and people, and tongues. We shall meet them 
all ; patriarchs, and kings, and prophets, s iapo$- 
theas and martyrs, sages and saints : out of the 
 
dim ages that lie behind the Deluge, outenntrit-
el and Judah, out of all the Christian genota-
tions from Pentecost till now,out of all-the.Chris-
tian generations that are to come, till the whole 
harvest has waved and ripeCe'r. --Enoch and 
lartaltaya,Rtivicl -se4 Isaiah, Stephen, Peter, 
Paul, John, Luther, with all the heroic and all 
the gentle spirits that are yet to come and go. 
We shall meet them all ; not as shadows meet 
shadows, flitting in dim twilight through vast 
spaces, but as man meets man, as conqueror 
pets conqueror, all clothed in white, and wav-
ing our palm branches, as we march and sing. 
"Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from 
our sins in his own blood, and hath made us 
kings and priests unto God and His Father ; to 
Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. 
Amen."—Prof. R. D. Hitchcock. 
tug 
.d'In London Quarterly Review, for July, we 
find the following paragraph : 
"So engrossed were the first generations of be-
lievers with the expectation of their Lord's speedy 
return, that they paid, it would seem, ittle re-
gard to the past or the present ; they kept no 
account of their own history ; they retained no 
memorial of places hallowed by the,great events 
even of their Saviour's ministry, nor preserved 
the faintest record of the later lives of many of 
those who were most closely connecte 4. with it. 
They gazed ,upwards and onwards, and cast no 
curious look around, no lingering look behind 
them. Hence the real history of the men and 
the times next succeeding the age of the apos-
tles seems to have perished almost entirely. We 
have loA all historical account even of the Mar- 
- -;n9v, 
tyrdorn of the apostles ; the traditions which re-
, 
niain of them are late, uncertain, and often con-
tradictory ; they are, as it were, fragments, or 
merely shadows of the truth, caught at with a 
loving faith by a later generation, which had 
cooled in its anticipations of the future, but turn-
ed the more fondly to the reminiscences it could 
recover of the past. Under such circumstances, 
it would be contrary to all experience, if tradi-
tiens thus sought and found, had not been col-
ored with the imagination of the seekers ; if, in 
short, the Fathers of the third century had not 
represented to themselves the first and the se-
cond in the hues familiar to their own genera-
tion." 
dead, and become the first-frtilts of. them that Livia 
sleep." �
f
tcas s 
Nor they alone, the partner, 11.ci‘r �
d, the from 
companions of our earthly piqt*Inl �
who ha-yo !han 
struck their tents and moved on befor-e us to the more 
silent shore; but a great multitude, who no Ma 
e 
man can number, out of all nations,and kindrecls, to crwn 
timei head 
all the fire-oice 
eel go 
t 
all hands were employed 
ight in discounting notes and 
e. �
On Thursday, considebly 
kit mistresses were legally 
ace ogs3everal congregations ; and 
it Gilbert Heathchote, at that 
ctor of the Bank,, issued' orders to 
ondon, requiring thereto 
ook-out .-Tiald have' ear iculOye 
of 
wife, having engaged a ball at her house, 
persuaded her husband to put it off till they saw 
whether it appeared or not.. The South Sea 
stock immediately fell five per cent., and the. In-
dian to 11 ; and the captain of a Dutch ship 
threw all his powder into the river that the ship 
might not be endangered. The next morning, 
however, the comet appeared according to pre-
diction, and before noon the belief was univer-
sal that the day of judgment was at hand. About 
this time 125 clergymen were ferried over to 
Lambeth, it was said, to petition that a short 
prayer might be planned and ordered, there be-
ing none in the church service on that occasion. 
Three maids of honor burnt their collections of 
novels and plays, and sent to a bookseller's to 
buy each of them a Bible, and ',Taylor's Haly without the notice of your Father which is in 
THE ADVENT HERALD, �
323 
pressing burdens of life ;—how they whisper 
some sweet promise in the inmost chambers of 
the soul, which comforted our hearts and led us 
to trust anew in God, and with new energy to 
press forward on the broad battlefield of earth ; 
—how they never left us till we were safely 
through, and placed within that impregnable for-
tress where the fiery darts of Satan will never 
enter. 
I feel weary in though not of the conflicts 
of earth, and look forward with pleasure and 
anxiety for the trump of jubilee to sound, and 
that He who gives directions to the embattled 
hosts of the Cross, will ere long appear in per-
son in the field ; and then the crowning victory 
will come. Oh how tear will take hold of those 
who stand arrayed against the followers of Jesus ! 
What ashy paleness of' the cheek—what tremb-
ling of' the limbs when they see that the 'Captain 
of' the Lord of hosts' himself has come! 0 what 
a day that will be ! Conflicts of earth all over : 
'things that were, but then are not.' By the 
mercy of God, brother, then— 
'Then we'll. march up the heavenly street 
And ground our arms at Jesus' feet.' 
With what soul-stirring energy on that ever to 
be remembered morning 
'The ransomed- hosts will shout— 
We are come, we are come !' 
Then the sword, so long held with firm grasp, 
shall go to its home in the scabbard,---the armor 
all lain forever by ; and then shall each soldier 
receive one of those 'many crowns' of unsullied 
brightness that will outshine the sun in its noon-
tide splendor. With such prospects let us never 
falter. Though the battle hangs long, and the 
conflicts are often fierce, the victory in God's 
own time will turn on the side of those who have 
marshaled under the banner of the Cross �
 
'We sympathise with you in your present afflic-
tion and hope it may soon pass away ; and hope 
that my epistle will not seriously injure you. I 
did not think of spinning so long a thread, but 
the wheel run with less friction than it sometimes 
does,and if you find many poor places in it your 
charity will lead you to impute it to anything 
rather than indifference on the part of the spin-
ner. Hoping that you and yours may be spared 
to labor in the vineyard of our absent Lord un-
til he shall come, I remain, affectionately, your 
fellow-soldier, 
COLUMBUS GREEN." 
The above coming to hand on my birthday, I 
deemed designed of Providence to encourage me 
in renewing my determination to win and wear 
the crown of glory that fadeth not away. 
"The humblest wayside flower„ �
.A n 
Will lift its head on high, Trifirp a la 
And gradually, each hour,,, neon 1.,b4 „ 
Rise closer to the sky. �
A 
Anto7.no 
So may I live each day 
Of life that's to me given, :ow ani al eel 
ThatOilte the flower, I may ,ello Int*, 
Be nearer unto heaven." �
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J,,M) 
The Day of Christ "at Hand" in the 
Apostolical Ago—in What Sense. 
The day of Christ was at hand 1800 years 
ago. Paul says, "The night is far spent, the day 
is at hand." "The Lord is at hand." Peter says, 
"the end of' all things is at hand." It is said in 
the Apocalypse, "The time is at hand." Accord-
ing to these passages, the day of Christ was at 
hand in some sense in the apostolical age. In 
what sense was it then at hand ? It must, as it 
seems, have been at hand in one of two senses, 
either absolutely, or relatively. It was not ab-
solutely at hand, or it would have come in that 
age ; and the Apostle assured the Thessalonian 
Christians, that it was not at hand in that sense. 
After affirming the Second Advent, he said, 
"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming 
of' our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering 
together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken 
in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by 
word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day 
of Christ is at hand." It is worthy of' remark, 
that the original word here rendered at hand, is 
not the same as is so rendered in the other pas-
sages above quoted ; for in this passage, the 
word rendered "at band," describes an event as 
imminent, or just about to transpires--hence the 
But above all, do not borrow trouble before-
hand. More than half of the troubles of mortals 
are imaginary. Clouds will come that are real. 
Do not encircle your way with unreal mists. 
When clouds are rotted about you, these have 
silver linings, and the sky is clear beyond. Soots 
these shall break away, and God's sunshine shall 
burst in glory around thy head. 
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Pgahn XCI, 
at hoe 
He that within the secret place 
Where God Most High stores up his grace, 
!lath chosen his abode, 
Shall lodge, whei+' fed14'41iiii"nc'er invade---
Beneath the everlasiing shade" '" Vide 
Of Gods—Almighty God. 't �
9tr 
Of the Eternal I will say- 
rind etI
—e, 
He is my refuge; and my siaY; 
My strong, combatted tower ; 
My Lord, in whose protecting arm, �
911T" 
I will coufide, amid alarm, �et tioneai 
When gloomy dangers lower. /eh) 
By guile shalt,thou not be decoyed, 
For he will help thee to avoid 
The subtle fhWlet'S snare ; �
4tl'a 
His favor shall preserve thy life, all �
' 
When noisome maladies are rife, 
And plagues infrst the° air. �
ett a 31_ 
With love peternal, o'61. thy head �
; 
His feathers will he kindly spread, �
" 
To fosterthee in youth ; teinnol'etta od$ 
Beneath his wings shalt thou repose, mule ,l' 
Thy shield and fortress from thy foes, sr/ 
His everlasting truth. fa �
g es,hotal 
To thee the dangers of the �
`411"flt$"41.• 
Shall bring no terror, nor the flight �
ofturi 
Of deadlteshafts by day ; �
'T .%1114,1' 
Nor pestilence, that darkling walks, estate! 
Nor fell destrnetion, when it stalks Moon Mei 
Abroad at neoe:to slay, en,„e„iiinR eass„ 
A thousand at thy side shall die, 
On thy right hand ten thousand lie ; 
But thee it shall not reach ; 
Only thine eyes shall surely see 
What retribution their's shall be 
Whom nought can wisdom teach. 
,Ehe ai rt 
Though much has been done for this people, I 
am greatly mistaken if the mass are not more 
inclined to look ores` "the perfect law of liberty," 
than they are to "look into it, and continue 
therein." But "the day will declare it." After 
meeting we rode six miles so as to be, near the 
place of Sabbath service. 
Sunday, July 14th. Preached twice in the 
Stone school house, to the largest andiences we 
have ever had there ; and in the evening spoke 
at Glind's Cotner from Matt. 22 : 42, "What 
think ye of Christ?"—a vital and momentous 
question of which an English poet thus speaks : 
"What think you of Christ ? is the test, 
To try both your state and your scheme; 
You cannot be right in the,reet, 
Unless you thinkly rightly of Him. 
AS Jesus appears to your view, 
AS he is beloved or not, 
8'' So God is disposed toward you, 
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And mercy or wrath is your lot. 
e7Eleane take him a creature to be, 
A man or an angel at most : 
"`'Sure these have not feelings like me, 
Nor know themselves wretched and lost : 
VlAi guilty, so helpless am I, 
durst not confide in his blood, 
. Nor on his protection rely, 
Unless I were sure he is God. 
Some call him a Saviour in word, 
But mix their own works with his plan, 
And hope he his help will afford 
When they have done all that they can : 
If doings prove rather too light, 
(A little they own they may fail,) 
They purpose to make up full weight 
By casting his name in the scale. 
Some style him the pearl of great price, 
And say he's the fountain of joys, 
Yet feed upon folly and vice, 
And cleave to the world and its toys : 
Like Judas, the ,Saviour they kiss, 
And while theyesalute him, betray : 
Ah ! what will profession like this 
Avail in his terrible day ? 
If asked whet of Jesus I think, 
Though still my best thoughts are but poor, 
I say, he's my meat and my drink, 
My life and my strength and my store : 
My shepherd, my guardian, my friend, 
My Saviour from sin and From thrall ; 
My hope from beginning to end, 
My portion, my Lord and my all." 
Monday, July 15th. Returned home after a 
week's absence and found, among other mail 
matter which had accumulated, a letter from El-
der Green of Montgomery Centre, Vt., which 
though not designed for publication I take the 
!liberty of transcribing in part—as it will be in-
teresting to others beside myself. Under date 
of July 6th, he says : 
"Since you were here, I have been more than 
usually unwell. My health is poorer than many 
would suppose. I can perform physical labor 
better than any other, andfeel the best when I 
perform to the extent of My ability ; but mental 
labor, I cannot enduree I have suffered so much 
that I shrink from it,—and still when my health 
lethe best my mind bends to my former pursuits. 
rather painful to be thus laid aside, but 
tnis
ae is a portion of "the cup that my Father has 
given me, and shall I not drink it ?" 
I look back with satisfaction upon the brief 
visit you made us. I would like one much long-
er—but we may not enjoy it here. The wheat 
must be scattered among the tares until the time 
of tarvest ; then comes the rest, the crown, and 
the palm-wreath of final victory. I hope, dear 
ibrother, we may visit there. What a season that 
when all the soldiers of a 6000 years' 
campaign are gathered home ! There we hope 
Itensee Him 'whom having not seen we love.' 
There we shall see all that were born to lead, 
and all that were born to follow in the long con-
flict with the Prince of darkness. The patriarchs, 
prophets, apostles, and reformers will all be 
there. What a privilege it will be to grasp 
the hands of those that have given direction, and 
!stood foremost in the battle of earth ;—to hear 
!them tell how at times they almost fainted---then 
were strengthened, struggled hard, and overcome, 
and all by the grace of God,---by virtue of the 
blood of the Lamb. And then we shall see those 
angels that were our minoring spirits. We shall 
learn more fully of their sleepless watch-care 
over us ;---how they camped around us in dan-
ger's hour, and' put underneath us their arms to 
hold us up when we were sinking under the soul- 
Apostle affirmed that the day of Christ was not 
imminent, or just ready to be introduced. He 
assigns his reasons. He tells them that there 
was to be "a falling away first," and the revela-
tion of "that man of sin, the son of perdition," 
who was to have his time according to the sure 
word of the prophecy, and then be' "consumed 
with the spirit of the Lord's mouth, and be des-
troyed with the brightness of his coming." Thus 
we are conducted to the conclusion that the day 
of the Lord was not absolutely at hand when the 
Apostle wrote. 
The end must therefore have been at hand in 
the other sense, viz., relatively ; that is, the time 
to the end would be short, compared with the 
period of the world's history then in the past. 
This principle of exegesis is virtually expressed 
in the following text—"And that knowing the 
time, that now It is high time to awake outfof 
sleep : for now is our salvation nearer than when 
we believed ; the night is far spent, the day is at 
hand." It will be seen at once that the Apostle 
is speaking relatively : he looks at the amount 
of the great night of this werld then in the past, 
—at the amount of night still in the future ; 
and then, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, 
delibeaately says, "The night is far spent, the 
day is at hand." As though he had said, "We 
are far from the beginning of the night, we are 
near its end : the time till the morn of blessed- 
ness is short, compared with the long hours of 
night which are gone." Thus we are furnished 
with the principle of interpretation,that the day of 
Christ was at hand relatively in the apeStolical 
age. 
If so, where must we be now ? Must not the 
comparatively small balance of "the night" which 
was then in the future, be about past? and must 
not the Sun of the eternal day soon, very soon 
arise? Must not the day of Christ, which was 
relatively near then, be absolutely so now ? If it 
was at hand in any sense then, must it not be at 
hand in every sense now ? In short, is not 
the end of all things, in the very nature of the 
case, "night at hand ?" But let us look at 
OTHER PHRASES OF LIKE IMPORT. 
There are other forms of expression in the 
New Testament to which persons generally ats; 
tach no definite meaning ; but which are plain 
and significant, in the light of the relative prin-
ciple stated above. Sonic of them are found 
in the following class of passages :—"A little 
while and ye shall not see me; and again a little 
while and ye shall see me." "For yet a little 
while and he that shall come will come, and will 
not tarry." "The coming of the Lord draweth 
nigh." "Behold the Judge standeth before the 
door." "Behold I come quickly." 'Those who 
lose sight of the relative principle suggested by 
the Apostle, are forced to the conclusion that 
the Advent referred to in the above passages, is 
some other event than the personal appearing of 
Christ, and is far in the past ; but in view of 
this obvious principle of interpretation, we can 
easily understand the advent intended to be per-
sonal and future ; though even on this principle 
it cannot be far distant, but must now be special-
ly nigh. 
Take also the following class of texts : "Breth-
ren, the time is short." "God, who at sundry 
times and in divers manners spake in time past 
unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these 
last days spoken unto us by his Son ;"—intimating 
that the last days of the great week of the world's 
history had begun when our Redeemer was on 
earth. Peter speaking of the First Advent, says 
that Christ "was manifest in these last times for 
you." John mentioning the developments of an-
tichrist which were then taking place, says, 
"whereby we knew that it is the last time s!haal 
all of which forms of expression convey the idea 
that the closing period of the world's existence 
had dawned, and, if so, must now be near its 
termination. 
Another form of' expression is worthy of no-
tice :—the Apostle speaking of certain things 
which occurred under the old covenant, •says, 
'They were written for our admonition, upon 
whom the Olds of the world are come," or as it 
has been rendered, "upon whom the last of the 
agels come." But in what sense were "the ends 
of the world," or "the last of the age," come up-
on them ? May we not suppose it to be in the 
heaven ; the hairs of your heads are numbered, 
your trials are all known unto God ; it is He 
that appoints the rod which you are to greet joy-
ously. 
."laths 
,,tell 
Because the Lord, my safe retreat, t �
,Fay, 
Even God Most Hight withheart discreetia 
Thy dwelling, thou hest made ; L4,,i301; 
No evil shall on. thee alight 
No pestilence they person smite 
Or thine. abode invade. 
He will appoint an angel guard, 
From danger all thy paths to ward; haw sesa 
Thou shalt not walk alone ; �
• e .,en 
Their hands shall bear thee up with care, ht ac 
In case thou injure unaware 
Ji tipuoe? 
Thy foot against a stone. w ateseaghtit laiwe 
Since he haseent ou,Me his love,. ,H$1 1.i miro,1 
For him deliverance from above,, �
„en, .101 
I surely will provide ; 
Him will I raise to highest fame, 
Because he has to know My name, '"":`h 
His heart and mind applied. 
Mine aid shall he invoke in rarer ql Loeb ed 
eseeb adoeb 
I will attend, 'and him My care 
Shall hititYttiAtieSs and woes '1 /1
. 
u"8"11 
Deliver, and to honor raise ; �
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To him will I give length of days, �
ste 
And my salvation show. 
iir
eoases �
[Jewish Chronicle. 
For the Herald. 
'err 
T2avels about Home, No. 9. 
Friday, July 12th.. Preached at Oliver Cor-
ner and distnibulted copies of the "Millennial 
News." Eldeetll Mitchel, of the Baptist denom-
ination, was present and took part in speaking 
and prayer. His nanie will be found in the Me-
moirs of Wte Nifirthe p. 121, attached to the 
following certificate, dated "June 28, 1836 :—
Having heard the above mentioned lecture [of Mr. 
Miller] I see no way to avoid the conclusion that 
the coming of Christ will be as soon as 1843." 
Though he still holds to the personal advent of; 
our Lord and the glorification of the saints, he' 
manifestly has no desire to be identified widt iho 
Adventists, and I fear that the arrival of "the 
last enemy' (1.1Cor. 15 : 26) is made more pro-
minent in his''t4ching.than the speedy coming 
of our first anti best Fr'iend. 
Saturday, July 13th. Made several visits 
and preached at 5 o'clock at Fitch Bay. We 
had, as usual in this place, a good envegation. 
Ilir-
rasitathanzrmrzzaramtzrama 
324 �
AbVENT- HERALD, 
same sense that one feels that the end of a jour-
ney has come upon him when he has travelled 
more than two thirds of the entire distance ? 
When Paul penned the above passage,the Church 
had journeyed, according to recent authors of 
great le •rning and investigation, .nearly 4200 
years ; and this period, according to the above 
illustration, had brought her through more than 
the beginning and middle divisions of her jour-
ney ; and if so must she not now be almost home ? 
Is not the great wilderness nearly all behind ? 
Is she not on the margin of the heavenly coun-
try ? It seems that she may now sing with the 
understanding, as well as with the spirit :— 
"On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, 
And cast a wishful eye 
To Canaan's fair and happy land, 
Where my possessions lie." 
We must call attention to another passage be-
fore closing. The Apostle in the 9th ch. of He-
brews, says, "Now once in the end of' the world 
bath he appeared to put away sin by the sacri-
fice of himself." According to this, it was "in 
the end of the world" when the First Advent 
took place. Some may suppose that the Jewish 
age is intended, but that this is not correct is 
obvious from the fact that the Jewish age com-
menced when God took the children of Israel by 
the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, 
and terminated at the manifestation of the new 
covenant ; whereas the Apostle is here speak-
ing.of an age which began at the foundation of 
the world. The context fully verifies this state-
ment. The previous vs. reads, speaking of Christ, 
"Nor yet that he should offer himself often, 
as the high priest entereth into the holy place 
every year with the blood of others ; for then he 
must often have suffered since the foundation of 
the world." The reader will notice that the start-
ing point in the Apostle's mind is "the founda-
tion of the world." Then come the words under 
consideration, "nut now once in the end of the 
world hath he appeared to put away sin by the 
sacrifice of himself ;" obviously meaning that in 
the close of the world or age, reckoning from the 
creation, our Savior's First Advent occurred. He 
then adds : "And as it is appointed unto men 
once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ 
was once offered to bear the sins of many ; and 
unto them that look for him shall he appear the 
second time without sin unto salvation ;" as 
he had said, instead of the Saviour suffering an-
nually which would have occasioned his suffer-
ing very often from the beginning of the world, 
He delayed his coming till the end of time was 
approaching, when He came in humility, and of-
fered himself as an atonement for sin, on the al-
tar of the cross, and then, as it were, took the 
blood of his sacrifice and went within the veil to 
plead during the comparatively short interval 
which should intervene between his sufferings, 
and the actual end of the age, when he will make 
his Second Advent, without a sin-offering, and 
bless his waiting people with full salvation. 
We are thus conducted to the conclusion that 
it was in the beginning of time, when the Son of 
God took human nature, for the suffering of 
death ; and if so, must not the moment be em-
phatically near in which the dispensation will 
close, and the high Priest of our profession come 
out of the holy place, to pronounce the benedic-
tion of eternal life on the congregation of the 
true Israel ? 
In conclusion we may safely remark :- 
The expressions, "the day at hand," "the 
end of all things is at hand," and similar ones, 
were not uttered at random, but on some definite 
principle. 
The only principle suggested in the aposto-
lical writings, is the relative principle, viz., that 
the time to the end of the age was short compar-
ed with the amount of time then in the past. 
If this principle be well founded then there 
cannot be a 1000 years of universal. righteous-
ness and peace before the end ; but we must be 
occupying the closing hours of grace, and 
"Not many years their round shall run, 
Not many mornings rise, 
Ere all the glory stands reveal'd 
To our admiring eyes." 
ilTil‘ennial News. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTO*, OCTOBER 12, 1861. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
Exposition of Daniel's Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE EPOCH OF THE PAPAL SUPREMACY. 
REV. JOHN CUMMING D. D. minister of the Scotch 
national church in London, and a voluminous wri-
ter on prophecy, is inclined to adopt this year. He 
says : 
"If we begin to count this period from the time 
when Justinian issued his pandects, and constituted 
the pope, not only the ecclesiastical pontiff of Chris-
tendom, but armed him also with power to punish 
heresy with death, then the 1260 years ended at 
the epoch of the French Revolution, in 1792 ; and 
certainly, by the blow it then, received, anything 
like the power of persecution on the part of the 
Papacy has been destroyed. Its principles remain—
its ability only is broken. If, however, you begin 
to count the 1260 years from the time when the 
pope first put forth his claim to be universal bishop 
A. D. 256, this calculation would bring you down 
to the year 1517, when the Reformation began, and 
the Papal power was broken. Taking either of 
these two epochs—and either of them may be the 
right one—from either 1517 or 1792, the power of 
the Papacy to persecute has practically and substan-
tially ceased." Lectures on Dan. 1856 p. 232,3 
"The theory adopted by the interpreters I prefer, 
is that the 1260 years which were to mete out the 
dominant power of the great Western Apostacy be-
gan in A. D. 532, when Justinian in his pandects 
gave the supreme authority to the Bishop of Rome. 
If you add 1260 years to 532 it brings down to 
1792. Accordingly, at the exhaustion of the 1260 
years, in 1792, the Papacy, according to the descrip. 
tion in the word of God, was to come under the 
judgment of Heaven, and gradually to be exhaust-
ed," Great Trib. v. 2, p. 12. 
Dr. Ciimming says that "Mr. Elliot, and Newton 
and Mede, think that the 1260 years (inscriptive of 
the great Western Apostacy, began at the year 
532," (Pe. p. 14) ; but Mr. Elliot commenced them 
'two years earlier, Mede much earlier, and Newton 
much later—see the dates A. D. 376,530 and 727. 
and their churehee," Bower's Hist. of Papacy vol. 
1, p. 334. 
In the year following this, in 533, there was re-
vived with great warmth in the east, the dispute 
about the expression, 'one of the Trinity suffered in 
the flesh.' That expression having been condemn-
ed by the Pope Hormisdas, the monks at Constanti-
nople acquiesced in it ; but the emperor disputed 
with them. Hlearing that its opposers were about 
sending to the Pope respecting it, the Emperor also 
wrote him n. letter,' couched in the following words, 
and dispatched two bishops with it to Rome : 
'Justinian, pious, fortunate, renowned, trium-
phant Emperor, Consul, &c., to John, the most 
holy Archbishop of our city of Rome, and Patri-
arch. 
'Rendering honor to the apostolic chair, and to 
your holinessaas has been always and is our wish, 
and honoring your blessedness as a father, we have 
hastened to bring to the knowledge of your holiness 
all matters relating to the state of the churches. It 
having been at all times our great desire to preserve 
the unity of your apostolic chair, and the constitu-
tion of the holy churches of God which has obtain-
ed hitherto, and still obtains. 
'Therefore we hate made no delay in subjecting 
and uniting to your Holiness all the priests of the 
whole east. 
"For this reason we have thought fit to bring to 
your notice the present matters of disturbance ; 
though they are manifest and unquestionable, and 
always firmly held and declared by the whole priest-
hood according to the doctrine of your apostolic 
chair. For we cannot suffer that anything which 
relates to the state of the church, however manifest 
and unquestionable, should be moved without the 
knowledge of your Holiness, who are the Head of all 
the Holy churches ; for in all things, as we have al-
ready declared, we are anxious to increase the hon-
or and authority of your apostolic chair." 
"The letter then proceeds to relate the matter in 
question, the. heresy of the monks and the bishops, 
and desires. to have a receipt from Rome to Epipha-
nius, Archbishop of Constantinople, giving the pa-
pal sanction to the judgment already pronounced by 
the Emperor on the heresy."—Croly on the Apoc. 
pp. 13.4;, 115. 
The following writers adopt the date of this letter 
as the commencement of the 1260 days : 
REV. ,EDWARD BICKERSTETII, Rector of Watton, 
Herts,' Eng., and author of "A Practical Guide to 
the Propheoies," London 1844, writes thus 
"In, the author's view, the most probable of the 
periods is that of the year 533, ending in the French 
Revolution. It tended to shake this, while there 
was retson to think that part of Justinian's Letter 
in favor of the Pope was a forgery of the Romanists, 
as stated by Comber in his Forgeries of the Coun-
cils, p. 251. In the part which Comber admitted 
to be genuine there is much respect and honor given 
to the Pope ; but not what could of itself be consid-
ered as putting the saints into his hands. But Mr. 
Cunningham has, since this was written, investigat-
ed at some length the doubts thrown out by Com-
ber, and has, I think, satisfactorily removed them." 
Practical Guide, p. 212. 
"The eircuinstanee of so many scriptural dates 
having probable terminations about the same time, 
and the possibility that these terminations may be 
near, both calls for attention, and in proportion as 
we see a real foundation, they are well calculated to 
impress our minds and increase our watchfulness. 
Yet the author would be far from dogmatizing on 
such dates. We may be altogether wrong in this 
interpretation of times, and yet the dates themselves 
he important, and the fact that the events will take 
place at God'a appointed time, infallibly certain," 
lb. p. 219. 
"The year of our Lord 608, exactly 75 years af-
ter 533, is remarkable by the Pantheon being dedi-
cated afresh to the Virgin Mary and other saints ; 
and the �
or following year, Mahomet's preach. 
ing began. This date of 75 years is important as 
being the interval (divided into two parts of 30 and 
45 years) given by Daniel between the close of the 
1260 years, and the years of blessedness. 
"On this view the first term of 30 years terminat-
ed in 1822. The events which distinguished the 
year 1822 were the declaration of independence by 
the Greeks, and the restoration of the seat of the 
third empire to political power. The gospel was 
then also again preached to the Jews in Jerusalem" 
lb. pp. 211,212. 
"If we take its rise in 533, it reaches to 1793 
when Popery began to fall ; if we take its fuller es-
tablishment in 608 to its final fall, it reaches to 
1868." Ib. p. 220. 
"The precise time is yet hidden from us ; but the 
signs of the times are to be discerned and the ap-
proach of the time may be expected to be known, 
as was the time of the first advent to Simeon, Anna, 
and others," lb. p. 210. 
"From whatever dates we reckon, we cannot but 
consider that the time of the end is drawing near, 
and that awful events of judgment and of mercy 
are before us," Ib. p. 213. 
Rxv. GEORGE CROLY of England, author of an Ex-
position of the Apocalypse, London 1828 writes : 
"The momentous paper was not left to the dubi-
ous archives. The, doctrine that the Pope was 'the 
Universal Bishop,' was thrown into the shape of 
law ; the substance was repeated in the various 
forms of the Justinian Cude ; and was thus made 
general and immortal. It may be hopeless now to 
detect the entire motives of this vast concession in 
the subtle, yet feeble system of the imperial policy. 
. . But, however worthless the motives, the act was 
done, authentic and unquestionable, sanctioned by 
all the forms of state, and never abrogated,—the 
act of the first potentate of the world. If the su- 
premacy over the church of God had been fur man 
to give, it might have been given by the unrivalled 
sovereignty of Justinian. From this sera the church 
of Rome dates the earthly acknowledgment of her 
claim. Its heavenly authority is referred to the 
remoter source of the apostles," Apoc. pp. 230, 
231. 
"The period closed with the beginning of the 
French republic in 1793," Ib. p. 143. 
Mr. Croly considers Justinian's gift of the title 
of Head of the Church, to be unquestionable. He 
says : 
"The authenticity of the title receives unanswer-
able proof from the edicts of the 'Novell' of the 
Justinian code. The preamble of the 9th states, 
'that as the elder Rome was the founder of the 
laws ; so was it not to be questioned, that in her 
was the supremocy of the pontificate.' The 131 st, 
on the Ecclesiastical Titles and Privileges, chapter 
II, states : " We therefore decree that the most ho- 
ly pope of, the elder Rome is the first of all the priest 
hood, and that the most blessed archbishop of Con-
stantinople, the new Rome, shall hold the second 
rank, after the holy apostolic chair of the elder 
Rome. The supremacy of the Pope had by these 
mandates and edicts received the fullest sanction 
that could be given by the authority of the master 
of the Roman world," Ib. p. 116. 
HON. AND REV. GERARD NOEL,—author of "A 
Brief Enquiry into the Prospects of the Church," 
London, 1828, writes : 
"If we deem 'the judgment to consume and to 
destroy' to have begun its retribution work in 1792 ; 
and, then retrace the course of 1260 years, we come 
to the year 533, which year is characterized by the 
first authoritative effort to give supremacy to the See 
of Rome—a circumstance sufficiently marked to con-
stitute the commencement of a despotism which 
should hereafter wear out the saints of God �
 
The domination rapidly matured, but this was the 
first tangible demonstration of its existence. We have 
at least this extraordinary fact before us ; a course 
of 1260 years lying between two events, the grant, 
though it be but nominal, of supremacy, and the 
awful judgment which stripped the see of Rome of 
power, splendor, and respect," Brief Enquiry p. 
101. See Lit. v. 1. 
FREDERIC SARGENT ESQ. author of "An Essay on 
the Advent,' London, 1833, says this period "may 
be dated from the year 533, when Justiuian's Pan-
dects decreed supremacy ,to the papal see, and ter-
minated in 1732, when France became a republic," 
Essay, p. 29. 
REV. WM. �
PYM, author of "Thoughts on 
Millenarianism," London, 1829, according to Mr. 
J. Scott, made a "1st commencement of 1260 years 
made by Justinian's edict, in 533," and a "2d. 
commencement marked by confirmation of title of 
Universal Bishop to John of Constantinople in 587, 
and so ending in 1793 and 1847." 
REV. JAMES SCOTT, author of "Catechism 011 
Prophecy," Edinburg, 1847, gives and adopts Mr. 
Pym's view. p. 77. 
REV. EDWARD IRVING, late minister of the Cale-
donian church London, and author of Babylon and 
Infidelity 2 vols. Glasgow 1826, says : 
"It must be some great event in the history of 
Christendom ; not the petty encroachments of a 
bishop of Rome, or his ambitious pretences, but 
some great and conspicuous action of power, where-
by he obtained a right to, and inheritance over all 
the churches. And it must be ascertained not by 
impotent acts of counsels, or doubtful edicts of pet-
ty princes, but by enactments issued from the foun-
tainhead of power, and enrolled amongst the con-
stitutions of empire. For, unless it were so record-
ed, in a sure place, the comfort of the prophecy 
were wholly lost to the church, and its warning to 
the world : and seeing from the ending of this the 
other periods of thirty and forty-five years do date 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give 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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22. From A. D. 533 to 1793. 
By the extract last given from Mr. Cunningham, 
under the previous date, it appears that in his ear-
lier writings he adopted these dates for the begin-
ning and ending of the 1260 days. In A. D. 533 
the emperor Justinian wrote a complimentary let-
ter to the Pope ; which, being regarded by many as 
an instrument that gave the saints into the Popes 
hands, is entitled to particular notice. 
In the previous year, 532, the emperor had re-
sorted to persecution,—the most cruel that had been 
countenanced by any Christian emperor—as a means 
of clearing the churches of the East from all here-
sies. He issued an edict "to unite all men in one 
faith, whether Jews, Gentiles, or Christians ;" and 
"such as did not in the term of three months em-
brace and profess the Catholic faith, were declared 
infamous, and, as such, excluded from all employ-
ments, both civil and military, rendered incapable of 
leaving anything by will, and their estates confiscat-
ed, whether real or personal." In the enforcement 
of this edict, "great numbers were driven from their 
habitations," and "others betook themselves to 
flight. The Montanists in Phrygia, retiring with 
all their wealth to their churches, set them on fire, 
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ent day almost universally dated A. D. 533-Eight 
Letters, p. 15. 
Lord Teach a Little Child to Pray. 
In the year 1786, the late Rev. Andrew Fuller of 
Kettering, Eng. lost a young daughter. While she 
lay sick, which she did during some months, Rev. 
John Ryland, D. D. at the request of her father, 
wrote for her special use the hymn beginning with, 
"Lord, teach a little child to pray, 
Thy grace betimes impart." 
This hymn the child committed, and used it for a 
form of prayer, with great pleasure and good effect. 
After the death of little Sarah, her father had a 
large number of copies of the hymn printed on slips 
of paper, which he distributed among the shopkeep-
ers, to be wrapped around articles purchased by chil-
dren ; in which manner a large number were circa 
fated. 
Half of the Journey Run. 
Mr. Creamer, in his "Methodist Hymnology," 
says of the lines of Charles Wesley, 
"And have I measured half my days, 
And half my journey run ?" 
"It is a coincidence worthy of notice in the con-
nection, that when Mr. Charles Wesley composed 
this hymn he was about forty years old : he died 
aged eighty ; hence he had just, in his own beauti-
ful language, 
-'measured half his days, 
And half his journey run.' " 
Rev. Dr. Annesley, the father of the mother of 
John and Charles 'Wesley, died whispering, 
"When 1 awake up in thy likeness, I shall be 
satisfied,-satisfied." 
REV. R. C. SHIMEALL, of New York city,author of 
"Age of the World," New York 1842 apd "Our Bi-
ble Chronology," N. York, 1860 says of this period. 
"The history, of the rise of the Papal Antichrist 
we should sum up as follows : This man of sin and 
MOD of perdition was conceived in the age of the 
apostles and the primitive church, A. D. 34 to 553, 
[5331 at which time he was born. Thence to the 
period of his adolescence in A. D. 606 ; thence to 
his virility or manhood, in A. D. 666 ; at which 
time, having planted himself firmly in his anti-chris-
tian seat, he prosecuted with more vigorous and un-
relenting fury the already begun work of 'speaking 
great words against the Most High-of wearing out 
the saints of the Most High-of changing times and 
laws," &c. Age of the World p. 260. 
"Now, if, at the expriation of 1260 years from A. 
D. 533,history is marked by any event corresponding 
in magnitude with the taking away of the power of 
the Papal Antichrist, all conjecture, as to the birth 
of this power, viz. A. D. 533, must give place to 
certainty. This, then, we affirm, is true of A. D. 
1793." Ib. p. 261. 
"It was at the fall of the French monarchy, or the 
10th of August, 1792, that a series of the most stu-
pendous events began their awful course, which so 
exactly correspond in character with the results to 
be expected from the judgment of the Ancient of 
Days upon the Papal power, that we are led, rea-
soning from these events,to fix on the following year, 
A. D. 1793, when the Hierarchy was shaken to its 
centre by the apocalyptic earthquake, as the era of 
commencement of that judgment, a description of 
which is given in Daniel 7 : 9-11," Ib p. 264. 
Not Blood of Beasts. 
A Jewess, who had been reduced from wealth to 
poverty, found one day on the leaf of a hymn book, 
which had come into the house covering some small 
purchases, the hymn commencing with,- 
"Not all the blood of beasts, 
On Jewish altars slain, 
Could give the guilty conscience peace, 
Or wash away the stain." 
These words so haunted her, that she could not ban-
ish them from her mind, until she began to read the 
Bible, and there found Him whose blood cleanseth 
from all sin. 
While the above hymn was being sung, some years 
since by some Christian friends in Montreal, a mili-
tary officer present, Capt. L-, said, " I should 
like to have that hymn sung by six young men as 
they lower me into the grave." Ile soon after died, 
and his request was complied with. 
The Quaker Poet. 
Bernard Barton, often called the "Quaker poet," 
gave in a letter the following account of a scene 
which occurred at the funeral of a young lady in 
1841. 
"When the usual service was ended, the clergy-
man stated that it was the wish of the deceased, or 
rather of her relatives, that a little hymn which had 
ever been a great favorite of hers, should be sung on 
this occasion, and he had much pleasure in comply-
ing with the request. After a few minutes, way 
their beginning, we were as much out at sea as ev-
er, respecting the coming of Christ, and the begin- 
ning of the kingdom of the saints. Now the church 
ought to give thanks to God, that by his wonderful 
'preservation of the Pandects of Justinian, the far-
famed imperial code, which, after being lost for cen-
tnries, they say was dug up from the ruins of Am-
,alfi,about the time the light began to dawn upon the 
church ; that from this code, so wonderfully pre-
served, and restored from the dust of ruins, we can 
give the date, not only when power was given to 
the bishop of Rome over the churches, but when the 
very form and character of that power was ascer-
tained and determined. And, as if to make these 
edicts more conspicuous, they stand at the very be-
ginning of that famous code of civil law, as it were 
to call the attention of all civilians and Christians, 
to the most important edicts of the work, (Codicis, 
Lib. 1, Tit. 1, § 6, 7.).. The first of these edicts by 
which authority was given to the bishop of Rome, 
to settle all controversies in the church, by which 
he was declared head of the church, and infallible in 
all matters of faith, and permitted to use the power 
of the empire against whomsoever he decreed hereti-
cal ; this most important edict bears the date of 
March in the year 533," Babylon and Infidelity, 
vol. 1, pp. 81,2. 
"If these acts of Justinian incorporated into the 
code of the empire, by which the empire continued 
to be governed, do not give him that power, I know 
not what since or before could give him power ; for 
no part of the canon law rests upon a surer founda-
tion," Ib. p. 84. 
Mr. Tyso, says, "Edward Irving, and the proph-
ets in his church, reckoned the 1260 days, common 
days, which commenced July 14, 1832, and were to 
end July 14,1835," (Elucidation p. 81) ; but that 
is not sustained by the above. 
REV. ALEXANDER KEITH, minister of St. Cyrus, 
Eng.author of "Signs of the Times" 1832,remarks : 
"In 529 the Code of Justinian was published,and 
the order of Benedictine monks, afterwards the 
most extensive and influential in Christiandom, was 
instituted. . . . Twelve hundred and sixty years 
subsequently to the first publication of the Code of 
Justiuian, the French Revolution begun in 1789, 
and before the close of that year it was decreed 'that 
the estates of the church were at the disposal of the 
nation.' " The Pandects digest, were composed from 
the 15 of Dec. A. D. 530, to Dec. 16 A. D. 533, in 
which year the Institutes were also published. In 
A. D. 1790, or 1260 years subsequent to the former 
of these dates," the property of the church was con-
fiscated, and "about 4500 religious houses were sup-
pressed in France." "As the recognition of the su-
premacy of the pope seemed to be complete in 633, 
on the part of the emperor who put the power into 
his hands, so, in like rapid, and yet graduated pro-
gress, with the same appointed space intervening, 
the dominion of the papacy was destroyed and dis-
annulled in that kingdom which had been its chief 
stay for ages, in the year 1793 the power was whol-
ly taken out of the hands of the pope." Signs of 
Times p 4o0. 
Mr. Tyso mentions "Keith, as extending the pe-
riod from 1198, to 2450 ; but we know not on what 
authority. 
Of writers whose works we have not had access to, 
the name of Mr. Gisborne is given by Mr. Bicker-
steth (Guide, p. 211) as commencing this period in 
533. And Mr Tyso p 78 adds to the list the name 
of "E. Cooper." those thus referred to are doubtless, 
REV. THOMAS GISBORNE, author of a volume of 
"Essays," one of which is on the 17th chapter of 
Revelation : and, 
REV. EDWARD COOPER, Rector of Hamstall Rid-
ware, and author of the "Crisis," London 1825. 
REV. J. W. BROOKS. author of "Elements of Pro-
phetic Interpretation," Lon. 1837,gives Mr. Cuning-
ham's argument, and says, "he ably vindicates this 
date ;" from which it may be inferred that Mr. 
Brooks favors it. He also says, "Mr. Faber like-
wise adopted it in the former editions of his Sacred 
Calendar, but has abandoned it in the last edition," 
Elements, p. 336-See Lit. vol. 3. 
JAMES HATLEY FREER, ESQ, author of "A 'combin-
ed view of the prophecies of Daniel, Esdras and St. 
John," London, 1815 ; also of "Eight letters on the 
Prophecies relating to the last times," London 1831, 
says : 
"This period of the 1260 years captivity of the 
Gentile Church, during which she is delivered into 
the hands of the Babylon of the Apocalypse, i. e. the 
little Papal horn of Daniel, who makes war with 
the saints and prevails against them, as also the far-
ther periods of the 1290, and of the 1335 years 
(Dan. 7: 25 ; 12 : 7, 11,12) are stated to commence 
from the establishment of "the abomination that 
maketh desolate (v. 11), which event is at the pres- 
was made for the children of the village school,which 
this esteemed girl had almost made and managed, to 
come up to the grave side,-about twenty or twenty 
five little things, with eyes and cheeks red with cry-
ing. I thought they could never have found tongues, 
poor things ! but once set off, they sung like a little 
band of cherubs. What added to the effect of it,. to 
me, was that it was a little almost forgotten hymn 
of my own, written years ago, which no one present, 
but myself, was at all aware of." Belcher's Hist. 
Sketches of Hymns. 
It would have added much to the interest of this 
occurrence, had the hymn sung on this occasion been 
given. 
The Dying Song. 
Rev. Benjamin Beddome, an English clergyman, 
who fell asleep in Jesus, Sept. 3, 1795, in the 79th 
year of his age, was found composing, only an hour 
before his death, a hymn, of which he wrote,- 
"God of my life and of my choice, 
Shall I no longer hear thy voice ? 
Oh, let the source of joy divine 
With rapture fill this heart of mine. 
"Thou openedst Jonah's prison doors,-
Be pleased, 0 Lord, to open ours : 
Then will we to the world proclaim 
The various honors of thy name." 
Lines Posted on a Clock. 
Rev. John Berridge, who died Jan. 22, 1793, 
wrote the following lines, and posted them on his 
clock : 
"Here my master bids me stand 
And mark the time with faithful hand : 
What is his will is my delight,-
To tell the hours by day and night. 
Master be wise, and learn of me 
To serve thy God as I serve thee." 
Confidence in Christ. 
When Rev. James Boden, who died in England 
in 1841, was suffering his last illness, a friend re-
marked to him one day that the sun shone very 
beautifully ; to which he replied with delightful em-
phasis :- 
"He is my Sun, though he forbear to shine : 
I dwell forever on his heart, forever he on mine." 
"Wesley's famous Hymn.99 
In the Upper House of Convocation, consisting of 
the Bishops of the Church of England, which has 
lately met, it was proposed to guard against heresy 
by adopting an authorized collection of hymns to be 
used in all the churches. During the debate the 
Bishop of Litchfield referred to the universality and 
influence of Mr. Wesley's Collection throughout 
all the world, and related an incident which took 
place in Cornwall. At the Land's End, on that 
western point where the visitor has a sea on either 
hand, Dr. Lonsdale was told by his guide, a Cor-
nish mariner, "It was here that Wesley wrote his 
famous hymn." "What hymn ?" asked the bish- 
op. �
Surprised at his lordship's ignorance, the man 
replied, "Why the hymn on the 61st page !" The 
prelates of the Upper House smiled benignly. But 
none acquainted with the hymn can doubt the per-
tinency of the bishop's anecdote We give a cou-
ple of verses. 
"Thou God of glorious majesty, 
To thee, against myself, to thee, 
A worm of earth, I cry ; 
A half-awakened child of man, 
An heir of endless bliss or pain, 
A sinner born to die ! 
"Lo ! on a narrow neck of land 
'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand, 
Secure, insensible ; 
A point of time, a moment's space, 
Removes me to that heavenly place, 
Or shuts me up in hell.'' 
The Fount of Blessing. 
It is related of Rev. Robert Robinson, author of 
the hymn commencing with, 
"Come, thou Fount of every blessing," 
that in the latter part of his life, when he seemed to 
have lost much of his former devotional feeling, he 
was traveling in a stage coach and was asked by a 
lady his opinion of this hymn ; which she said she 
had just been reeding. The parties were strangers 
to each other, and Mr. Robinson waived the subject ; 
but the lady soon returned to it, when, overcome by 
his feelings, he burst into tears, and said, "Madam, 
I am the poor unhappy man who composed that 
hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand 
worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings 1 then 
had." 
Bethel. 
The modern town is a small village fifteen miles 
north of Jerusalem, and called by the Arabs Bieten. 
It stands on a low ridge between two valleys which 
terminate into Wady Suweinet. To the east is the 
mountain range on which Abraham pitched his tent, 
and from which he saw Mount Zion and his south-
ern inheritance. At the base of the mountain in 
the western valley is a noble fountain enclosed with- 
SUSPENSION OF NEWSPAPERS.-The New York 
Daily News has suspended publication for the pres-
ent. The New Hampshire Gazette, published at 
Portsmouth, one hundred and five years old, as dis-
continued. The circulation of the Dubuque Her-
ald has been interdicted in St. Louis by order of the 
Provost Marshal. The. Rev. Sabin Hough, editor 
of the Cincinnati "Banner of Reunion," was arrest-
ed not long since, and the paper suppressed. Mr. 
McMasters, editor of the Freeman's Journal and 
Freeman's Appeal, New York, has been arrested. 
On the morning of Sept. 19th, the United States 
Marshal seized the office of the Louisville Courier, 
arrested ex-Gov. Morehead, Reuben T. Murrett,one 
of the proprietors of the Courier, and Martin W. 
Barr, telegraphic news reporter for the New Orleans 
press, on charges of treason or complicity with trea-
son. 
There is not a spider hanging on the king's wall 
but bath its errand : there is not a nettle that grow-
eth in the corner of the church-yard but hath its 
purpose ; there is not a single insect fluttering in the 
breeze but accomplisheth some divine decree ; and I 
will never have it that God created any man, especi-
ally any Christian man, to be a blank, and to be a 
nothing.---Spurgeon. 
SIN.-The Presbyterian Banner regards the fol-
lowing definition of sin attributed to the oldest Theo-
logical Seminary in New England, as the very latest 
improvement in theology :-"Sin is a disturbance 
of the balance of our moral sensibilities." 
in an oblong basin three hundred and fourteen feet 
long, and two hundred and seventeen feet wide. Its 
walls are formed of massive stones, still retaining 
their place ; but owing to years of disuse, it is over-
grown With grass,and beautiful flowers bloom around 
the spring. In a vale so retired and beside these 
refreshing fountains, perhaps Jacob lay down to 
sleep, when the pilgrim sleeper had the resplendent 
vision of the Ladder. We looked 'up into these 
same skies to see the angels and hear the rustling of 
their wings, hoping, as of old, to behold the ladder 
on which to ascend to purer worlds. But the skies 
were sealed, the vision was withdrawn, and faith, 
and love, and prayer, were the only steps we could 
find on which to reach our God. 
We searched for the old oak tree under which 
Jacob, after the lapse of thirty years returning to 
the same spot, buried Rachel's faithful nurse Deb-
orah, and we looked for the pillar he set up, calling 
it El-beth-el. But time has wrought his change of 
ruin here ; and neither the graves of the good, nor 
the altars of God, nor the school of the prophets, 
nor Jeroboam's idol temple could be found. Pro-
phecy has been fulfilled : "And Bethel shall come 
to naught."-Rev. J. P. Newman. 
EDITORIAL WISDOM.-The Nashville Christian 
Advocate says with great truth : "To get up a fuss, 
an interesting squabble, is fay easy. Our experi-
ence is that this could be done any week of the 
year. Elements are always at hand which need on-
ly to be cast into the paper to make a flare-up. 
Then times would be lively. The editor would be 
gloriously visible, marching up and down his col-
umns like an Irish constable in a row,baton in hand, 
commanding the peace, begging brethren to be re-
conciled, explaining his position, defending himself 
from misrepresentationg, replying to personal at-
tacks, and such like. But would all this be to the 
edification of the Church? Peace in the Church, 
like health in the body, is not noisy, not demonstra-
tive. There is not much self-consciousness in such 
a state, not much visibility ; but things move along 
quietly, and there is solid prosperity."-Richmond 
Religious Herald. 
There is much truth in the above. It is very easy 
for any one so disposed to get into a difficulty ; but 
we have long been satisfied that it is wiser not to 
notice the little things in our pathway, which might 
be magnified and made large ones. The Hon. Win. 
II. Seward,the Secretary of State under the new ad-
ministration, is a remarkable instance of this. It is 
said that he has never been known to notice or re. 
ply to any reproachful allusion to himself, during 
his entire congressional career. On one occasion, 
when he was expected to speak in the senate, the 
one who preceded him in the debate indulged in the 
most violent and rancorous disparagement and abuse 
of him. Mr. Seward sat and listened to it, much of 
the time twirling his spectacles, and sometimes writ-
ing down an occasional thought, with apparent in-
difference to what was said ; and when he arose to 
speak, he confined himself strictly to the argument, 
and made no allusion whatever to his opponent's 
abuse ; who was thus effectually silenced. When 
asked on one occasion, how he was able to pass un-
noticed the mass of abuse he was so often subjected 
to, his reply was in the words of Cowper : 
"-A decent well bred man 
Will not insult me, and no other can." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Providence Prospers Honesty. 
A TRUE STORY. 
A poor boy, about ten years of age, en-
tered the warehouse of a rich merchant, 
Samuel Ritcher, in Dantzic, and asked the 
book keeper for alms. " You will get no-
thing here," grumbled the man ; " so be 
off !" 
Weeping bitterly, the boy glided toward 
the door, and at that moment Herr Hitcher 
entered. 
" What is the matter here?" he asked, 
turning toward the book-keeper. 
" A worthless beggar boy," was the 
man's answer, and he scarcely looked up 
from his work. 
In the meanwhile Herr Hitcher glanced 
toward the boy, and remarked that, when 
close to the door, he picked up something 
from the ground. 
" Ha ! my little lad, what is that you 
picked up T' he cried. The weeping boy 
turned and showed him a needle. 
" And what will you do with it T' ask-
ed the other. 
" My jacket has holes in it," was the an-
swer. " I will sew up the big ones." 
Herr Hitcher was pleased with the re-
ply, and still more with the boy's innocent, 
handsome face. 
" But are you not ashamed," he said, in 
a kind, though serious tone, " you, so 
young and hearty, to beg 7 Can you not 
work T'. 
" Ah, my dear sir," replied the boy, " I 
do not know how, and I am too little yet 
to thrash or fell wood. My father-died 
three weeks ago, and my poor mother and 
little brothers have eaten nothing these 
two days. Then I ran out in anguish,and 
begged for alms. But alas! a single peas-
ant only gave me yesterday a piece of 
bread. Since then I have not eaten a mor-
sel !" 
It is quite customary for beggars by 
trade to contrive tales like this, and thus 
harden many a heart against the claims 
of genuine want. But this time the mer- 
chant trusted the boy's honest face. He 
thrust his hand into his pocket, drew forth 
a piece of money, and said : 
" There is half a dollar. Go to the ba-
ker's, and with half the money buy bread 
for yourself, your mother, and brothers ; 
but bring the other half to me." 
The boy took the money and ran joy-
fully away. 
Well," said the surly book keeper,"he 
will laugh in his sleeve and never come 
back again." 
" Who knows T' replied Herr Ritcher ; 
and as he spoke he beheld the boy return-
ing, running quickly, with a large lot of 
black bread in one hand and some money 
in the other. 
" There, good sir," he cried, almost 
breathless, " there is the rest of the mon-
ey." Then, being very hungry, he begg-
ed at once for a knife to cut off a piece of 
the bread. The book keeper reached him 
in silence his pocket-knife. 
The lad cut off a slice in great haste, 
and was about to bite upon it. But sud-
denly he bethought himself, laid the bread 
aside, and folding his hands, rehearsed a 
silent prayer. Then he fell to his meal 
with a hearty appetite. 
The merchant was moved by the boy's 
unaffected piety. He inquired after his 
family at home, and learned that his fath-
er had lived in a village about four miles 
from Dantzic, where he owned a small 
house and farm. But his house had been 
burned to the ground, and much sickness 
in his family had compelled him to sell his 
farm. He had then hired himself out to 
a rich neighbor ; but before three weeks 
were at an end he died, broken down by 
grief and excessive toil. And now his 
mother, whom sorrow had thrown upon a 
bed of sickness, was, with her four chil- 
dren, suffering the bitterest poverty. He, 
the eldest, had resolved to seek assistance, 
and had gone at first from village to vil-
lage, then had struck into the high road, 
and at last, having begged everywhere in 
vain, had come to Dantzic. 
The merchant's heart was touched. He 
had but one child, and the boy appeared 
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had drawn on him as a test of his grati-
tude. 
" Listen, my son," he began ; " have 
you then really a wish to learn T' 
" Oh, yes, I have indeed !" cried the 
boy. " I have read the catechism already, 
and I should know a good deal more, but 
at home 1 had always my little brother to 
carry, for my mother was sick in bed." 
Herr Ritcher suddenly formed his reso-
lution. 
Well, then," he said, " as you are 
good, and honest, and industrious, I will 
take good care of you. You shall learn, 
have meat and drink and clothing, and in 
time earn something more. Then you can 
support your mother and brothers also." 
The boy's eyes flashed with joy; but in 
a moment he cast them to the ground 
again, and said, sadly, " My mother all 
this while has nothing to eat " 
At this instant, as if sent by Providence, 
an inhabitant, of the boy's native village 
entered Herr Ritcher's house. The man 
confirmed the lad's story, and willingly 
consented to carry the mother tidings of 
her son Gottlieb, and food and a small sum 
of money from the merchant. At the same 
time Herr Ritcherdirected his book-keeper 
to write a letter to the pastor of the village, 
commending the widow to his care, with 
an additional sum for the poor family, and 
promising future assistance. 
As soon as this was done, Herr Hitcher 
at once furnished the boy with decent 
clothes, and at noon led him to his wife, 
whom he accurately informed of little Gott-
lieb's story and of the plan he had formed 
for him. The good woman readily prom-
ised her best assistance ,in the latter, and 
she faithfully kept her word. 
During the next four years, Gottlieb at-
tended the schools of the great cemmercia; 
city ; then his faithful foster-father took 
him into his counting-room, in order to ed-
ucate him for business. Here as well as 
there, at the writing-desk as on the school 
bench, the ripening youth distinguished 
himself, not only by his natural capacity, 
but by the faithful industry with which he 
exercised it. With all this, his heart re-
tained its native innocence. Of his week- 
ly allowance, he sent the half regularly to 
his mother until she died, after having sur-
vived two of his brothers. She had pass-
ed the last years of her life, not in wealth, 
it is true, but, by the aid of the noble 
Hitcher and of her faithful son, in a con-
dition above want. 
After the death of his beloved mother, 
there was no dear friend left to Gottlieb in 
the world except his benefactor. Out of 
love for him he became an active, zealous 
merchant. He began by applying the su- 
perfluity of his allowance, which he could 
now dispose of at his pleasure, to a trade 
in Hamburg quills. When he had gained 
about a hundred and twenty dollars, it 
happened that he found in his native vil- 
lage a considerable quantity of hemp and 
flax, which was very good and still to be 
had at a reasonable price. He asked his 
foster-father to advance him two hundred 
dollars, which the latter did with great 
readiness. And the business prospered so 
well that, in the third year of his clerk-
ship, Gottlieb had already acquired the 
sum of five hundred dollars. Without 
giving up his trade in flax he now traffick-
ed also in linen goods, and the two com-
bined made him, in a couple of years, a 
thousand dollars richer. 
This happened during the customary five 
years of clerkship. At the end of this pe-
riod, Gottlieb continued to serve his bene-
factor five years more, with industry,skill, 
and fidelity ; then he took the place of the 
book-keeper, who died about this time,and 
three years afterward he was taken by 
Herr Ritcher as a partner into his business, 
with a third part of the profits. 
But it was not God's will that this plea-
sant partnership should he of long dura-
tion. An insidious disease cast Herr Ritch-
er upon a bed of sickness, and kept him 
for two years confined to his couch. All 
that love and gratitude could suggest Gott-
lieb now did to repay his benefactor's kind-
ness. Redoubling his exertions, he became 
the soul of the whole business, and still 
he watched long nights at the old man's 
bedside, with his grieving wife, until in the 
sixty-fifth year of his age, Herr Ritcher 
closed his eyes in death. 
Before his decease he placed the hand 
of his only daughter, a sweet girl of two-
and-twenty years, in that of his beloved 
foster-son. He had long looked upon them 
both as his children. They understood 
km; they loved each other, and in silence, 
yet affectionately and earnestly, they sol-
emnized their betrothal at the bedside of 
their dying father. 
In the year 1828, ten years after .Heir 
Ritcher's death, the house of Gottlieb Bern, 
late Samuel Hitcher, was one of the most 
respectable in all Dantzic. It owned three 
large ships, employed in navigating the 
Baltic and North,•and the care of Provi-
dence seemed to watch over the interests 
of their worthy owner—for worthy he re-
mained in his prosperity. He honored hi:; 
mother-in-law like a son, and- cherished 
her declining age with the tenderest affec-
tion
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 until, in her two-and-seventieth year, 
she died in his, arms. 
As his own marriage proved childless,he 
took the eldest son of each of his two re-
maining brothers, now substantial farmers, 
into his house, and destined them to be his 
heirs. But in order to confirm them, in 
their humility, he often showed them the 
needle which had proved such a source of 
blessing to him, and bequeathed 'it as a 
perpetual legacy to the eldest son in tbe 
family. 
It is but-a few years. since this child of 
poverty, of honesty, industry, and of mis-
fortune, passed in peace from this world. 
" Mark the perfect man, and behold the 
upright, for the end of that man is peace," 
Psalm 37.—Mrs. St. Simon. 
Roman soldier, tell us true, 
What sort of a watch on guard are you ? 
The sepulchre, sealed safe at, night, 
How came it empty at morning light ? 
SOLDIER. 
Why, Peter and Andrew, James arid John, 
They came by night, removed the stone, 
And long before the break of day, 
They stole His body far away. 
CHILDREN.—CHORUS. 
Fie, old Roman, why tell a lie? For 
Christ is risen, Christ is risen indeed. 
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Amen. 
II.—CHILDREN. 
Roman soldier, tell us, then, 
Why slew you not those thieving men ? 
Were a few unarmed Jews too hard 
For a veteran, mail-clad, Roman guard ? 
SOLDIER. 
0 no ! you Jews we never fear ; 
But we had no chap& for sword or spear, 
For up so softly they did creep, 
While we were all of us fast asleep. 
CHILDREN.—CHORUS. 
Fie, old Roman, why tell a lie? For 
Christ is risen, &c. 
ni.—CHILDREN. 
Roman soldier, if you were 
All fast asleep, as you declare, 
How could you know, or see, or say, 
Who 'twas that stole the Lord away? 
SOLDIER. 
Old Annas and Caiaphas told me so ; 
The truth they wished that none should know; 
They gave me, therefore, silver and gold, 
To tell the story I have told. 
CHILDREN.—CHORUS. 
Fie, old Roman, why tell a lie ? For 
Christ is risen, &c. 
IV.—CHILDREN. 
Roman soldier, tell no more 
The stories you have told before—
Too foolish to deceive out youth : 
But tell us now the simple truth. 
SOLDIER. 
An earthquake rolled the stone away ; 
Half dead with fear we Romans lay : 
While, like full sunrise at midnight, 
Christ rose, and glided from our sight. 
CHILDREN.—CHORUS. 
Aye, old Roman, why tell a lie ? For 
Christ is risen, &c. 
Y.—CHILDREN. 
Roman soldier, your own eyes 
Have seen our Lord and God arise ; 
How can you, now that He is known, 
Still worship gods of wood and stone ? 
SOLDIER. 
We Romans conquer where we come ; 
But Christ hath power to vanquish Rome ; 
My idols all I cast away— 
Christ's soldier till my dying day ! 
CHILDREN.—CHORUS. 
Right, old Roman, fight for THE LIGHT ! For 
Christ is risen, &c. 
Receive these questions kindly from one who may 
never meet you till the day of judgment. Think of 
them seriously, think prayerfully, think now, act 
now. 
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