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THE WORLD HARVEST. 
BY EDITH OAKLEY. 
They are sowing their seed in the dawnlight fair, 
They are sowing their seed in the noon-day's glare ; 
They are sowing their seed in the. soft twilight, 
They are sowing their seed in the solemn night. 
What shall the harvest be ? 
They are sowing the seed of pleasant thought ; 
In the spring's green light they have blithely wrought; 
They have brought their fancies from wood and dell, 
Where the mosses creep, and the flower-buds swell. 
Rare shall the harvest be. 
They are sowing their seed of word and deed, 
Which the cold know not, nor the careless heed ; 
Of the gentler word and the kindly deed 
That have blessed the heart in its sorest need. 
Sweet will the harvest be. 
And some are sowing the seed of pain, 
Of late remorse and a maddened brain ; 
And the stars shall fail, and the sun shall wane, 
Ere they root the weeds front the soil again. 
Dark will the harvest be. 
And same are standing with idle hand, 
Yet they scatter seed on their native land ; 
And smite are sowing the seed of care, 
Which their soil bath borne, and still most bear. 
Sad will the harvest be. 
They are sowing their seed of noble deed, 
With a sleepless watch and an earnest heed ; 
With a careless hand o'er the earth they sow, 
And the fields are whitening where'er they go. 
Rich will the harvest be. 
Sown in darkness, or sown in light, 
Sown in weakness, or sown in might, 
Sown in meekness, or sown in wrath, 
In the broad world field, or the shadowy path— 
Sure will the harvest be. 
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From the London " Quarterly Journal of Prophecy." 
Genesis. 
(Continued .1 rom our last.) 
CHAP. II. 
Vs. 21-24—" And the Lord God caused a deep 
sleep to fall upon Adam, and lie slept ; and he took 
one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof : 
and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, 
made he. a woman, and brought her unto the man. 
And Adam said, This is now bone of my hones, and 
flesh of my flesh : she shall he called Woman, because 
she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man 
leave his father and his mother, and shad cleave to 
his wife : and they shall be one flesh." 
fore God has joined together, let not man put 
asunder."—Mark 10:6-9. 
With one or two further remarks, we leave 
this passage. 
As to Adam's sleep. It was a heavy or 
deep sleep. It was a sleep sent directly from 
God. It was a sleep for a special end. In the 
case of Abraham and Daniel we see the same 
thing. (Gen. 15:12 ; Dan. 8:18 ; 10:9.) A 
deep sleep from God fell on both these when 
God designed to communicate visions to them. 
In their case, God caused them to sleep that he 
might shew them what was to be done ; in the 
case of Adam, that he might actually do the 
thing. In both instances, the individuals were 
rendered unconscious to outward things by that 
which we call sleep, and in that state God took 
possession of them,—in Abraham's and Daniel's 
case of the soul, in Adam's of the body. It 
would seem to be intimated that, not until 
Adam had been brought into that state which 
approaches nearest to death, could God accom-
plish his design. There must be sleep in the 
first Adam ere God can take out of him the or-
dained spouse ; and there must be death in the 
second Adam ere God can take out of him the 
chosen bride. In this way there might be 
something prefigurative in Adam's sleep. 
As to the taking of woman out of man. As 
it was God that caused Adam to sleep, so it 
was God himself that took the rib out of him. 
Thus God shews himself to us as at once 
the great purposer and the great doer of all-
things. Second causes, as we speak, are but 
an expression of the tools or instruments which 
he makes use of in carrying out his designs. 
He lays us to sleep each night, and he awakens 
us each morning with his own loving hand. 
He is the God of our nights and of our days. 
It was from Adam that God took the substance 
which he meant to fashion into woman, indicat-
ing that as man was formed first, and as wo-
man sprang from man, so man is to be her 
head. He from the dust, she from him. 
He 
directly from the Former's hand, she indirectly, 
and through him. " Adam," says the apostle, 
" was first formed, then Eve."-1 Tim. 2:13 ; 
therefore, says he, she is " not to teach nor to 
usurp authority over the man, but to be in si-
lence." Thus, again, he states the gradation : 
(1) the head of the woman is the man, (2) the 
head of the man is Christ, (3) the head of 
Christ is God. (1 Cor. 11:3.) Farther he adds, 
that " the woman is the glory (or ornament) of 
the man," for says he, " the man is nut of the 
woman, but the woman of the man ; neither 
was the man created for the woman, but the 
woman for the man."-1 Cor. 11:8, 9.. Such is 
God's order of things ; such his assignment of 
place and rank to the creatures which he has 
made. We may be sure that there is a reason 
for this gradation, not merely a typical, but a 
natural one, whether we fully understand it or 
not. We cannot alter this law, and be blame-
less. We cannot reverse it, and not suffer loss. 
The construction of our world's fabric is far too 
delicate and complex for man to attempt the 
slightest change without dislocating the whole. 
One star displaced, one planet thrown off its 
orbit, will confound the harmonies of space, 
and strew the firmament with the wrecks of 
the universe ; so one law lost sight of or set 
at naught, will mar the happy order of God's 
living world below. In one age or nation man 
treads down woman as a slave; in another, he 
idolizes her, and sings of her as of a goddess; 
in both cases inflicting a social wrong upon the 
race—in the latter case as truly as in the former; 
and who can say how deep au injury, both spir-
itual and social, has been wrought, and how 
fatal an influence has been sent forth. by that 
fond sentimentalism which, impregnating our 
poetry, and, coursing like fever through the 
veins of youth, not only " costs the fresh blood 
dear," but saps the whole social system, nay, 
propagates a principle of subtle ungodliness and 
creature-worship, in its praise of woman's beauty 
and idolatry of woman's love. 
7. As to the woman's introduction to the man. 
" He brought her unto the man." God himself, 
as if standing in a father's room, and acting the 
father's part, brings the bride to the bridegroom. 
As a beloved daughter he presents her to her 
future husband. He joined their hands and 
pronounced over them the marriage-blessing 
(ch. 1:28), " Be fruitful and multiply, and re-
plenish the earth."* A stranger, and yet no 
stranger,—a part of himself, the filling up of 
his being, she was brought before him, and 
knit to him in inseparable bonds. And it is 
thus that the true Eve speaks of herself in 
the Song, " The King hath brought me into his 
chambers" (chap. 1:4) ; and again, " He brought 
me to the banqueting house.." (Chap. 2:4.) 
Of her also it is written, " She shall be brought 
unto the King in raiment of needlework " (Ps. 
45:14) ; and again, that she is " prepared as a 
bride adorned for her husband." (Rev. 21:2) 
One of her special characteristics is that she is 
" given " of the Father to the Son ; and in that 
day when he comes in his glory, she shall be 
caught up to meet him in the air, and be brought 
into his presence by the Father, there to have 
the marriage service celebrated, and as a "chaste 
virgin" (2 Cor. 11:2), to be presented to hi►n to 
whom she has been so long betrothed. Then 
shall that song be sung, to which all the new 
creation shall echo, " Let us be glad and re-
joice, and give honor to him ; for the marriage 
of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made 
herself ready ; and to her was granted that she 
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, 
for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." 
—Rev. 19:7, 8. 
8. As to Adam's recognition of her. Whether 
by revelation or consciousness, we know not ; 
but Adam knows the woman thus brought to 
him, and calls her woman, as being a part of 
man. This is his response to God's introduc-
tion of her. He acknowledges the oneness, and 
receives her as himself. We have God's con-
sent in bringing, the woman's consent in com-
ing, and now we have Adam's consent in re-
ceiving,. Thus is the marriage completed by 
the full concurrence of all. Arid so is it with 
the second Adam too. He receives and owns 
his bride. Hs welcomes her as indeed part of 
himself, one with himself. " Both he that sane-
tifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of 
one : for which cause he is not ashamed to call 
them brethren."—Heb. 2:11. And again it is 
written, " We are members of his body, of his 
flesh, and of his bones."— Eph. 5:30. And 
thus recognizing the mysterious oneness between 
himself and his bride. He expresses his admi-
ration of her beauty, as the " fairest among wo-
men " (Song 1:8), " All glorious within " (Psa. 
45:13), whilst she with joy responds and speaks 
of him as " fairer than the children of men."—
Psa. 45:2. " Behold, thou art fair, my love,—
thou art all fair, there is no spot in thee " 
(Song 4:7), is the utterance of his admiring love 
of her, while she replies, " My beloved is white 
and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand ; 
his head is as the most fine gold ; his locks are 
bushy, and black as a raven ; his countenance 
is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars; his 
mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether 
lovely."—Song 5:10. And in the happy con-
sciousness of possessing him and his love, she 
gives vent to the deep feelings of her satisfied 
soul, "My beloved is mine, and I am his; he 
feedeth among the lilies until the day break 
and the shadows flee away."-2:16. 
All this transaction took place in silence,—
without noise and without violence. In the si- 
lence of deep sleep (it might be midnight too), 
the Lord wrought his work. It might seem a 
deed of pain and violence to man. But no. 
There was the unconscious opening of the side, 
—the tender and unfelt healing of the wound ! 
How strange the work, yet how silent the do- 
ing! And how like the noiseless building of 
the temple on Moriah, of which no sound of 
axes or hammers was ever heard. How like 
the process that is now going on in this world 
* Marriage was thus instituted before the fall ; yet 
it remains after the fall, a standing ordinance. No 
precept concerning it was given afterwards till the 
time of Moses, yet it remained in force, and Christ 
appeals to this marriage transaction in the unfallen 
state as the basis of the law of marriage. 
for the building of the " living Temple !" The 
work advances in silence. No uproar, no shout-
ing, no clamor. From day to day it moves on 
noiselessly. Stone after stone is-cut from the 
rude rock, hew►t and polished,—ready to be fit-
ted into the glorious fabric. Member after 
member is gathered in and added to the mystic 
body,—the bride, the Lamb's wile ! All by an 
invisible hand, and by a process of which the 
world knows nothing! And when this midnight 
is over, and the world's great Sabbath dawns, 
then in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, 
shall this prepared bride, in full maturity of be-
ing and bloom of resurrection beauty, stand 
forth to view, when the Bridegroom's voice 
shall be heard," Rise up, my love, my fair one, 
and come away, for lo ! the winter is past, the 
rain is over and gone ; the flowers appear on 
the earth, the time of the singing of birds is 
come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard 
in our land."—Song 2:10 
V. 25—" And they were both naked, the man and 
his wife, and were not ashamed." 
There they stood, just as they came from 
the hands of God. They did not need to blush ; 
they felt no shame. It is sin that has connected 
nakedness and shame together. No sin, no 
shame. There is no blush upon an angel's 
brow. Unfallen man had the unshamed naked• 
ness of innocence ; but with the fall this has 
passed away, not to be returned to even under 
redemption, but to be replaced by something 
higher, the glorious raiment of a righteousness 
that is unfading and divine. Unfallen man 
needed no covering, and asked for none ; butt 
fallen man, under the bitter consciousness of 
the unworthy and unseemly condition to which 
sin has reduced him, as unfit for God or angels 
or man to look upon, cries out for covering,—
covering such as will hide his shame even from 
the eye of God. Hence he who undertook to 
provide this covering, must bear the shame. 
And he has borne it,—all the shame of hang-
ing naked on the cross,—the shame of a sinner, 
—the shame of being made the song of the 
drunkard,—the shame of being despised and 
rejected of men,—the shame of being treated as 
an outcast, one unfit for either God or man to 
look upon,—unfit not only to live, but even to 
die within the gates of the holy city. (Heb. 
13:11, 12.) All that shame has he borne for 
us, that we might inherit his glory. He stooped 
to the place of shame below that we might ob-
tain the place of honor in the better Paradise 
above. 
Thus walked our first parents amid the groves 
of a Paradise that had not then been lost. Thus 
dwelt they in its bowers as a home, and wor-
shipped in it as a sanctuary. For with them 
the family mansion was the temple of their God. 
These were one, ere man had sinned. The en-
trance of sin divided these. Nor did grace, 
though coming in so largely and so swiftly, 
unite them again. From that day onward 
they have been separate. But the time is at 
hand when they shall be again united as in 
Paradise ; and in the New Jerusalem, the church 
shall find at once her temple and her home. 
Even now we anticipate this blessed re-union ; 
for faith brings us into the holy of holies, there 
to worship and to dwell. We pitch our tents 
beside the mercy seat and under the shadow of 
the glory. In the innermost shrine of the tem-
ple is the church's proper home. And when 
we pass from the visions of faith into•the reali- 
ties of possession and enjoyment, we shall find 
the same happy union of the home and the 
temple. In the Jerusalem beneath the separa- 
tion may be still kept up, but in the Jerusalem 
above, the palace and the temple are one ; for 
as it is the Lord God Almighty that is to be 
the temple there, so it is in the Lord God Al-
mighty and the Lamb that we are to abide, we 
in him and he in us. It is the bosom of the 
Father that is to be our dwelling for ever. 
That promised inheritance of the saints was 
prefigured by Adam's Paradise, with this differ- 
ence, that as the second Adam far transcends 
the first, so shall the Paradise of the second 
Adam far excel and outshine the Paradise of 
the first. The glory of the terrestrial is one, 
God now proceeds to supply the void, but in 
such a way as shall make man feel God's 
design and meaning. The peculiar process 
adopted by the Creator in forming the help-
meet was to intimate to man the nature of the 
companion presented to him, and the closeness 
of the tie between them. Adam was thrown 
into a deep sleep, which made him insensible 
to pain, though perhaps not unconscious of 
what was passing. When in this state, God 
took one of his ribs, and fashioned out of it a 
woman, healing the wound at once. Then God 
brought her to Adam, revealing at the same 
time to him the history of her formation. Adam 
recognizes Jehovah's gracious purpose in this ; 
he feels the void supplied ; he acknowledges the 
oneness between himself and her ; he gives her 
a name"expressive of this. Her name is to be 
Woman, Isha, derived from his own Ish, man. 
Then follows the historian's statement regard-
ing the oneness of the two, and man's duty to 
make this tie paramount. The conjugal re-
lationship is closer than the filial. All other 
bonds must yield to this, however sacred and 
tender they may be. The words of the twenty-
fourth verse are evidently not the words of 
Adam himself, but the comment of Moses upon 
the words of Adam. And a greater than Moses 
has enlarged this comment :—" From the be-
ginning of the creation God made them male 
and female. For this cause shall a man leave 
his father and mother, and cleave to his wife ; 
and they twain shall be one flesh. What there- 
 
 
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aftwommeeimeam. 
but the glory of the celestial is another. The The next room we entered was the " Capella God, the Saviour ;" the Vine, the Dove with the Paris, Minerva, Ganymede, Adonis, and the 
glory of unfallen creation is one, but the glory Sistina," or Sistine Chapel, so called from Pope olive-branch, the Anchor, the Palm, and the " Crouching Venus " just from the bath. 
of restored creation is another, The glory of Sixtus IV., who built it in 1473. It is a lofty Sheep. 
We next enter the " Hall of the Muses," 
earth, standing alone in its beauty is one, but apartment, 150 feet by 50, with a gallery on Next follows the "Museo Chiaramonti," which adorned with sixteen Corinthian columns, found 
the glory of earth and heaven united,—of earth three sides. The sides and roof are covered contains upwards of seven hundred pieces of in Hadrian's Villa. Nearly all the statues arid 
and heaven reflecting and augmenting each with paintings in fresco, representing scriptural ancient sculpture, managed in thirty compart- busts in this hall were found together in the 
other's splendor, is another. Yet still the scenes. The most remarkable are Michel An- ments. It is impossible in these limits, even villa of Cassius at 'Tivoli. Here you are ad- 
earthly arid the heavenly have their common gelo's, comprising those upon the roof, represent- to mention the most celebrated. They consist rnitted into the society of Apollo and the Nine 
features by which the one is known to be a ing scripture history, and the one upon the end of bas-reliefs, statues, and fragments, allegorical, Muses, the " Seven Wise Men of Greece," and 
copy of the other, just as the tabernacle was a wall opposite the entrance, the LAST JUDGMENT. mythological, and historical, some of them ex- her most celebrated sages, orators, and poets. 
copy of heavenly things shown to Moses on The painting of the Last Judgment is sixty feet quisitely wrought in the finest marble. Next is the " Circular Ball," in the centre 
the mount. In the Apocalyptic picture of the high, and thirty broad. It was not designed by The " Nuovo Braccio," i. e., " New Arm," is of which stands the great porphyry vase, forty- 
" inheritance of the saints in light," we can the great artist till his sixtieth year, and not a noble hall nearly two hundred and thirty feet two and a half feet in circumference, which 
trace the likeness between the two in the main completed till after a labor of nearly eight years. in length, lighted from the roof, which is sup- was found in the " Baths of Titus." Here also 
aspect of the outline, though the filling up may The Saviour is seated at the head of the pic-p orted by twelve fine columns with Corinthian is a very fine head of Hadrian. 
somewhat differ. This unlikeness certainly we ture, with the Virgin at his right hand. Groups capitals. The floor is paved with beautiful Then comes the "Hall of the Greek Cross," 
notice, that in the one there was no building of angles fill the angles above. On the right marbles and ancient mosaics. It contains forty- a noble room, with a fine door-way, ornamented 
whatsoever, in the other there is a magnificent of the Saviour, is the host of saints and patri- three statues, and seventy-two busts, the statues by two colossal statues in the Egyptian style, 
city. Yet this city is embosomed in a gorgeous archs ; on the left, the martyrs, with the sym-in niches, and the busts on columns of red ori . in red granite, found in Hadrian's Villa. The 
Paradise; and it is built of the various gems bols of their sufferings. Below is a group of ental granite. The statue of Demosthenes is one pavement is composed of ancient mosaics. The 
for which the ancient Paradise was rioted ; as if angels, sounding the last trump, arid bearing of the most celebrated. 
most conspicuous objects in this hall are two 
God had for these many ages hedged in and the books of life and death. On their left isNext came the 
Hemiegele of the Belvedere," immense sarcophagi of porphyry, one the " Sar- 
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veiled the secret spot, that he might enlarge represented the fall of the damned ; the de- consisting of five rooms filled with busts, a cophagus of St. Constantia," the daughter of 
and beautify it after a fashion which eye had mons are seen coming up out of the pit to seize semi-circular gallery containing the Egyptian Constantine, the other, the " Sarcophagus of the 
not seen ; nay, that he might rear within its them as they struggle to escape. Their features. Museum, and three chambers containing plaster Empress Helena." 
bowers and out of its rich mines, a city worthy express the utmost despair, together with the casts of the Elgin marbles, the recumbent Ilys- Next comes the " Hall of the Biga," a cir- 
of himself and of that Son who was to be its wildest rage. anguish, and defiance. Charon is sus, and other statues in the British Museum. cular chamber, so called from the white mar-
Lord, and of that company, redeemed by blood, ferrying another group across the Styx, and isThen follows the 
Museo Pio Clementino," ble chariot of two wheels with two horses yoked 
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who were to inhabit it, so that when at last the striking down the rebellious with his oar. On without exception the most magnificent museum to it, which is preserved there. Its complete-
fence is taken down and the covering removed, the opposite side, the blessed are rising slowly in the world. The entrance is a square vesti- ness is due to modern restorations. 
there stands forth to view, not the ancient Para- and in uncertainty from their graves. Some bule, which contains the Torso Belvedere, a The "Museo Gregariana" is a suite of rooms 
dice, for the dwelling of " the man and his are ascending to heaven, while saints arid an- noble fragment by Appollonius of Athens, and filled with a most extensive collection of Etrus- 
wife," but the "many mansions " (John 14: 2), gels are assisting them to rise into the region the Sarcophagus of Scipio, in which you may can antiquities, such as funeral urns, vtt ye 
the "prepared city" (Heb. 11 : 16), the city of of the blessed. It is a wonderful production of read distinctly the name of Lucius Cornelius offerings, small busts and profiles, sarcophagi, 
gems and gold, for the habitation of the nobler genius, though much of the original effect of Scipio Barbatus, great grandfather of Scipio bronzes, household utensils, gold ornaments, 
heirs, the great multitude that no man can num- the painting has been destroyed by the damps Africanus, who was Consul B. c. 297. When it and vases, &c. One of the rooms has been fit- 
ber. 
of three centuries, and the smoke of the candles was first opened, in 1781, more than 2000 years ted up as a fac-simile of an Etruscan tomb, with 
In the midst of the street of this city there and incense, upon all occasions of public service. after Scipio's death, the skeleton was found en- a low door, two vaulted chambers within, hung 
re-appears the tree of life; just as the former The PAULINE CHAPEL, (" Capella Paolina,") tire, with a ring upon one of its fingers. Then with vases, cups, and other sepulchral accom- 
tree of life had been " in the midst of the gar- which likewise opens on the " Sala Regia," is comes a round vestibule, with fragments of paniments, and the sarcophagus in its u...ual 
den," and just as the pot of manna (sole memo- also remarkable for two frescoes by Michel An- statues ; then the Chamber of Meleager, so position on one side. 
rial for ages of the tree of life), was in the midst gelo, viz.—the Conversion of St. Paul, and the called from a statue of Meleager,with the boar's The " Gallery of the Candelabra" is an im- 
of the ark. (Heb. 9:4) Of the tree of knowl- Crucifixion of St. Peter. 
head and the dog; arid then the famous "Car- posing hall, upwards of 1000 feet in length, 
edge no trace is to be found, as if no memorial Next we passed through the " Sala Ducale," tile di Belvedere," i. e., " Court-yard of the Bel- filled with a miscellaneous collection of antique 
of man's sin were to remain,—or as if the inter- or Ducal Hall, in which the Popes in former vedere." This court is an octagonal space with candelabra, columns, statues, &c., arranged in 
diet being removed, there was no longer any times gave audience to princeses. It is now used a fountain in the centre, surrounded by an open six compartments. 
need to specify it,—or as if it had been entirely during the holy week for the ceremony of portico with four small cabinets, which contain The " Gallery of the Maps" is a fine hall, 
superceded by him in whom are hid all the trea- washing the feet of the pilgrims, and for the some of the most celebrated examples of cn- four hundred and twenty feet in length, cele-
sures of wisdom and knowledge,—or as if knowl- consecration of new cardinals.
cient art. The first cabinet contains the Per- brated for its series of geographical maps painted 
edge and life, once separated, had now become Next catne the LOGGIE. 
The word "log- sees and the Two Boxers, by Canova. The on the walls in fresco in 1581, by Padre Ignazio 
so entirely one that the tree of life might repre- gia " means an open gallery. These " log- second, the Belvedere Antinous, the statue of a Danti, 
sent both,—for this is life eternal, that they gie " are three porticoes, one above another, on beautiful youth. In the third is the LAO-COON, 
At another time we visited the " Library." 
might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ the sides of the building, richly adorned with a group representing the father and his two sons Passing through the " Entrance Hall," where 
whom he bath sent." Adam in Paradise had stuccoes, and arabesques, and frescoes. The in the folds of two huge serpents, which is men- we saw a fine Egyptian Papyrus in a glass 
the tree of life ; Israel in the wilderness had second story contains the celebrated frescoes tioned by Pliny as standing in the Palace of the case, we enter the " Chamber of the Scribes," 
the manna (angel's food, Psa. 78:25, as tempo- which have given it the name of the " Loggia of Emperor Titus. It is thus described by the au- adorned with a series of portraits of the cardinal 
rary supply till the true bread should come Raphael." It has thirteen arcades, richly orna- thor of Childe Harold : 
Librarians, and thence into the " Great Hall," 
down); but the Church, in the New Jerusalem, rnented with stuccoes, and painted arabesques 
"Or, turning to the Vatican, go see 
divided by pilasters into two portions, and de- 
 
is to have the more glorious tree, of which the of figures, flowers, animals, mythological sub- Lao-coon's torture dignifying pain— 
corated with frescoes, representing the history of 
 
former was but a terrestrial shadow. Beyond jects, &c., and the roof is divided by the arches A father's love and mortal's agony 
the library, the General Councils of the Church, 
 
" the mountain of myrrh " and the ,, hill of into different epochs of scripture history, and With an immortal's patience blending :—vain and the buildings erected by Sixtus V. From 
frankincense," when the day has broken and painted with corresponding subjects. 
The struggle ; vain, against the coiling strain this we enter the immense " Double Gallery," 
the shadows fled ; beyond Lebanon, and Amana, From this we passed into the " Stanze of And gripe and deepening of the dragon's grasp, consisting of eighteen rooms in long perspective. 
The old man's clench :the long envenom'd chain 
The books are in painted cabinets, or presses, at 
and Shenir, and Hermon ; beyond " the lions' Raphael," four chambers, covered with magnifi- 
Rivets the living links,—the enormous asp 
dens " and the " mountains of the leopards " cent paintings in fresco, illustrating the estab- 
Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp." the sides, with closed doors, so that you might 
 
(Song 4:6, 8), she shall sit down in the garden of lishment and triumphs of the church. The first 
walk through the library without seeing a 
her God, under the fair branches of the" Plant chamber contains subjects illustrative of Theolo- 
The fourth cabinet has the " APOLLO BELVE- book. 
of renown," partaking of him who is her life, in gy, Philosophy, Poetry, and Jurisprudence.— 
DERE," which, by universal acknowledgment, At the end of the left gallery is the " Museum 
a way such as she has never done on earth, and The second, the Expulsion of Heliodorus from stands at the head of the sculptor's art, as the of Christian Antiquities," a collection of lamps, 
feeling that thus she has a life which Adam the Temple, the Miracle of Bolsena, the Attila, beau ideal of the human form. The attitude and paintings, glass vessels, gems, personal orna-
had not, which angels have not,—a life that the Deliverance of St, Peter, all executed with expression has given rise to the supposition that ments, and other relics of the early Christians, 
flows out of the deepest well of life, the bosom amazing effect, and regarded as the very finest it represents Apollo just after having shot the found in the catacombs. The second press con- 
of him who is in the bosom of the Father. 
arrow with which he slew the serpent Python. 
 
productions in the whole range of art. The 
tains a collection of various instruments of for 
 
third chamber contains the Conflagration of the I sat for a long time before this statue, trying titre, by which the Christians suffered martyr- 
Borg°, (a suburb of Rome,) and several scenes to account for its celebrity, endeavoring to catch dom. Among the ancient vessels, we were 
(For the Herald.) 
in the time of Leo III. and IV. The fourth, the spirit of Byron's fine description, shown cups used in the communion for the laity! 
Sketches of Travel. several events in the history of Constantine, " Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, 
The Vatican library is famous for its choice 
 
viz., his Battle with Maxentius, the Cross ape The God of Life, and Poesy and Light— collection of manuscripts. 
Among the most 
 
No. XXII—THE POPE'S PALACE OF THE VATICAN. pearing to him on the field of battle, his Bap. The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow 
celebrated, are the Greek Bible of the sixth cen- 
All radiant from his triumph in the fight : 
The shaft bath just been shot—the arrow bright 
ttourpyo;pethIennAocctesnt written in gold, and presented 
An adjoining gallery, though not visited in 
tism, and his Gift of Rome to the Pope. 
With an Immortal's vengeance ; in his eye 
VIII. by the Queen of Cyprus; 
And nostril beautiful disdain and might 
a large Hebrew Bible richly illuminated, for 
this connection, contains the famous " Tapes- 
flash their full lightnings by, which the Jews in Venice offered its weight in 
 
tries of Raphael," in two series ; one, represent- And majesty 
 
 
ing the history of St. Peter and St. Paul, and Developing in that one glance the Deity." gold ; the parchment scroll of a Greek manu- 
the other, various scenes in the life of Christ. Yes ! It is not a mere representation of the script of the seventh century ; thirty-two feet 
long; commentaries on the New Testament 
'The pictures in the Vatican Gallery are few human form. There is life, soul, immortality, of the fourteenth century, the letters of Henry 
in number, (less than fifty,) but the choicest in the very attitude, in every feature. It is MAN 
 
VIII. to Anne Boleyn ; Tasso's autographs; Pe- 
work of arts. T 
trarch's autographs ; several manuscripts of Lu- 
The
hey are arranged in four rooms. "in the image of GOD, after his likeness." 
 
TRANSFIGURATION, by Raphael, is generally The adjoining "Hall of Animals," derives its they, &c., &c. 
S. J. M. M. 
regarded as the finest oil painting in the world. name from the sculptures of animals which it 
 
The Communion of St. Jerome, the master-piece contains, mostly by Grecian artists, in which 
of Domenichino, ranks as the second. There department they attained a high degree of ex-
are several others by Raphael, some of Guido's cellence. The hall is divided by the vestibule 
best, others by Titian, N. Poussin, Perugino, into two parts, and paved chiefly with mosaics 
Paul Veronese, &c. 
front Palestrina. Among the most remarkable 
" Galleria Lapidaria," is a long gallery, one objects in this collection 1 have noted Her-
thousand feet in length, occupied almost exclu- cules leading away Cerberus, a Camel's head ; a 
sively with ancient sepulchral inscriptions and Crocodile; aSphynx in flowered alabaster; a Sow 
monuments, arranged in classes. It is like a and Pigs; the head of an Ass crowned with ivy; 
walk through an ancient cemetery. On the Hercules slaying two Greyhounds making love ; 
right hand are the Pagan inscriptions, classified Mithras stabbing the Bull ; a Stag in flowered 
according to ranks and professions, from divini- alabaster; a Lion in yellow breccia, with the 
ties to slaves. On the left, are the early Chris- teeth and tongue of different marble ; a large 
tian inscriptions, found in the catacombs. Some Lion in grey marble ; another with a ball under 
of them are very touching. The constant refer- his paw ; Europa and the Bull ; Hercules and 
ence to a life beyond the grave is in striking the Nernwan Lion ; Diomed and his horses slain 
contrast with the hopeless grief expressed in the by Hercules, &c. 
 
Roman monuments. Many of the inscriptions Then succeeds the " Gallery of Statues," the 
are accompanied by symbolical representations ; 
 
by the Greek letters X and P ; the Fish, 
;" the ' 
most celebrated ornament of which is the " Sleep- 
such as the well known monogram of Christ. ing Ariadne 
ing of three chambers 
 kia; / / 
t
heof , , 
or the " i-xt9v5," composed of the initial letters of 
s of 
consist- 
formed
th e
Masks," with its fine mosaic pavement, found 
Busts,"
Cbi iz t 
the Greek epigraph, " Jesus Christ, the Son of in Hadrian's Villa, and its beautiful statues of 
The Pope's Palace of the VATICAN is an im-
mense collection of buildings, with courts and 
gardens interspersed, which has been accumu-
lating for more than a thousand years. Some 
idea of its extent tnay be gathered from the com-
mon saying, that the Palace, with its grounds, 
covers a space as large as that within the walls 
of the city of 'Turin. It has eight grand stair-
cases, two hundred smaller staircases, twenty 
courts, and 4,422 apartments. One part of the 
Palace is appropriated to the residence of the 
Popes, but the greater part is occupied with 
chapels, and halls, and galleries, and saloons, 
and porticoes, and cabinets, which are filled with 
the choicest antiquities, and adorned with the 
finest paintings and statues in the world. 
The entrance is on the right of the Piazza of 
St. Peter's, by the "Scala Regia," or Royal 
Staircase. This consists of two flights of broad 
marble steps, with columns and pilasters at the 
sides, so arranged as to deceive the eye by its 
perspective, and appear much longer than it is. 
Groups of the Swiss Guards, in their picturesque 
costume, which reminded me of the parti-colored 
foliage of autumn, were ranged along at inter-
vals. At the head of the stair-case is the " Sala 
Regia," or Royal Hall, which was built as a 
'all of audience for ambassadors. It is decorated 
with stucco ornaments, and carved with fres-
coes, illustrating various events in the history 
of the Popes, such us the Absolution of the 
Emperor Henry IV. by Gregory VII., the Mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew, the Removal of the 
Holy See from Avignon by Gregory XI., &c. 
" Hungary in 1851." 
(Concluded from our last.) 
ATTACK ON THE HUNGARIAN PROTESTANT CHURCH. 
The edict of " Field Marshal Gen. Haynau " 
opens as follows Guided by the purpose of 
aiding to do away with the mournful condition 
in which the Protestant Church of Hungary 
has been placed by the misuse of their offices 
on the part of certain overseers of said Church; 
and with the view of rendering it possible to 
the parishes of this Church to use the rights se-
cured to them by the Constitution during the 
state of siege, I have decided to enact the fol-
lowing ordinances : 
1. That the junctions of the General inspec-
tor and the District Inspectors, as well as those 
of the Curators, are to be considered at an end." 
Let this be noticed,. The laity, who in the 
whole history of the Hungarian Church have 
shared in its deliberations, are now to be ex-
cluded. But who are to take their place ? We 
Humility is a virtue all preach, none prac-
tice, and yet everybody is content to hear.—
The master thinks it a good doctrine for his ser-
vant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for 
the laity, 
203N\, 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
give in answer " Ordinance II.," somewhat con-
densed, however : 
" II. Inasmuch as the holding of elections for 
the unoccupied places of Superintendents, as 
well as that of any other election, is illegal 
during the continuance of the state of siege, 
and yet as it is desirable that trustworthy men 
should be placed over the parishes, I hereby 
will summon certain men to these places, who, 
under the name of Administrators,'and in com-
pany with certain reliable men, shall conduct 
the government of the church." 
The ordinance is simple enough, and does 
not sound so dangerous. But it is, in effect, 
with one stroke of the pen, dashing out the 
whole self-governing system of the Church of 
Hungary ; all the church assemblies, all the dis-
trict conventions, all the parish meetings are at 
an end, for an election for any of these bodies 
is ‘' illegal during the continuance of a state of 
siege." The highest officers of the Church are 
to be replaced by men chosen by a brutal soh 
dier,—hirnself but the instrument of the Jesuits. 
And these new governors of the churches are 
to consult,—not with laymen selected by the 
people,—but " with reliable men," whom he 
shall see fit to choose ! The whole is a com-
plete destruction of the great principle of their 
Constitution—a principle sanctioned by three 
separate and solemn treaties, and won after three 
centuries of suffering and struggle. We do not 
wonder that the cry went through Hungary, of 
fear for their Church. " A drawn sword," ex-
claims one writer, " in the Protestant Church of 
Hungary ! Christ our Lord put under a state of 
siege! " 
We pass on, however, to the other ordinances 
of the edict : 
Ordinance III. provides that the Administra. 
tors and their assistants from the laity, are to 
lay all their public plans and measures before 
the consideration of the military commandants 
of the districts, and that all the church and 
school funds, formerly controlled by the " As-
semblies," are now to be under their direction, 
subject to the approval of the said commandants. 
Ordinance 1V. makes it necessary in every 
meeting of the churches for consultation which 
may in future take place, that a military official 
should be present. 
Ordinance V., in view of the poverty of the 
Protestant churches, enacts that these overseers 
and administrators shall be paid by the State. 
We pass over the remaining ordinances as un-
important, except the eighth. This impresses 
it on the newly-appointed officers of the Church, 
that the great and especial object with the 
Government now is, " to form a closer union on 
every side between State and Church." 
The edict closes in the following manner :— 
" I expect from these men (i. e., administrators 
and curators,) who at once on their nomination 
are to enter on the discharge of their offices, a 
careful and zealous performance of their duty, 
at the came time furthering the views of the 
Government and the religious good of their con-
gregations, for which they will lay a solemn 
pledge in the hands of the commandant of the 
district." 
" Head-Quarters, PESTH, Feb. 10th, 1850. 
"From the Commander-in-chief of the third 
army for Hungary and Siebenburgen. 
" HAYNAU, F. Z. DI." 
We beg the reader attentively to consider 
this edict, perhaps the sentence of death to the 
old Church of the Hungarians—a Church for 
which they and their fathers have given their 
blood and their toils so long. 
It opens with a reproach at the " mournful 
condition " of the Protestant Church. It is 
true, as all the Hungarians allow, that their 
Church is poor and weak, for it has been plun-
dered too often by Jesuit, and oppressed by Aus-
trian, to allow it the opportunity of gaining any 
great wealth or power. But if it is meant that 
it is " weak " in its moral influence, in its hold 
upon the affections of the people, in its power 
over the conscience and the life of the nation, 
-they utterly deny the charge. They point to 
the statistics of morality in the Protestant par-
ishes, as an evidence of its influence. They 
point to the fact that all the principal institu-
tions of education are in its hands, and that 
Protestant young men are everywhere employed 
as teachers in Catholic families, and that the at-
tendance upon churchly exercises and the inter-
est in the Church, was never greater than now. 
The edict hints too at " the misuse of their of-
fices by certain of the overseers of the Church." 
No one can deny that many of the Protestant 
clergymen headed the resistance of the nation 
against Austrian tyranny. For this they have 
atoned at the gallows or on the scaffold. But 
the Church itself, as a body, has never taken 
any part in this struggle. And, furthermore, 
what Baron Haynau has carefully forgotten, 
the offer of a Protestant Hungarian Ministry, 
in 1818, " to unite the Church more closely with 
the State," they opposed as unwaveringly, as 
they do that of the Jesuit-Austrian Cabinet now. 
It will be seen, that by Baron Haynau's plan, 
the Church utterly loses every right for which 
it has struggled for three hundred years—rights 
guaranteed by repeated treaties, and established 
by the very Austrian Constitution of 1848, to 
which he himself appeals. All its elections for 
church offices are at an end ; all its represen-
tative assemblies are dissolved, and even in 
every council of the Church for spiritual im-
provement, a soldier must be present as censor. 
The highest officers of the Church are tools of 
a Jesuit ministry, and before entering on their 
religious duties must receive the secret instruc-
tions, and lay their pledges in the hands of 
military authorities. The guards which the 
Hungarians have preserved so long against 
priestly despotism, are thrown down, and their 
officers from the laity are to be henceforth ap-
pointed by the clergy, who are themselves the 
creatures of the Government. 
More than this, all the public funds of 
churches and schools, are to he made under the 
control of a military board, and every church 
officer, under the new regulations, is to be in 
the pay of the Austrian Government. 
Add to this an order which had appeared 
within three or four months from the " Ministry 
of Instruction " in Vienna, completely chang-
ing the form of the Protestant schools, forcing 
the books and the teachers recommended by 
Government upon them, enacting that all the 
public institutions which do not make the re-
quired outlay of money shall be at once de-
graded and lose their privileges—and is it not 
all enough to make one fear for the very exist-
ence of Protestantism in Hungary ? If these 
orders are thoroughly carried out, the Hungarian 
Protestant Church either becomes Catholicized, 
or is made into a mere police institution of Aus-
tria. All life and voluntary energy are des-
troyed. Its spiritual leaders are only the agents 
of a Catholic Cabinet, and its young men bred 
up under the teachings of Rome. Is it to be 
wondered at, if the Church of Hungary, now in 
its time of utmost need, utters its despairing 
cry for help, to its brethren in all lands ? 
Remember, ye in America, of whatever re-
ligion—ye who love free thought, and who la-
bor to spread free institutions, what it means, 
to Catholicize Hungary ! it is to crush and ex-
tinguish the last hope of a better future for that 
generous nation. It means to introduce, not 
the Catholicism of America, or of France, or 
of England, hut the lying Jesuitry, and the 
freedom-hating Catholicism of Vienna and of 
Naples. It means to utterly blot out the old 
Church Constitution, which for so long has 
cherished and nourished independent thought. 
And you, Protestants of America, whose an-
cestors have won in toil and suffering the same 
privileges which the Hungarians are now losing, 
you who know their value, who know that the 
cause of a pure faith, and the hope of a better 
time for humanity, depend on these principles, 
—have you nothing now to do, or speak for 
your brethren in their sore and trying need ? 
Christ's cause calls to you from Hungary ! 
And you, clergymen of my country, whose 
glory and whose power it has ever been in 
America, that you have stood first in the strug-
gle for religious and civil liberty,—remember 
that your brethren, " the Puritans," the Prot-
estants of Hungary, are in the heat and burden 
of the contest which you have finished. The 
surges of attack are beating over them, and they 
must have your aid soon or never. With their 
downfall, with the ruin of Protestantism in Hun-
gary, goes out the last glimmer of a pure faith 
in Eastern Europe. 
The expression of sympathy to the world can 
do something; the offer of our means and 
money, more. It can help to build up the two 
Protestant universities, which have been utterly 
sacked and plundered during the war; it can 
aid to restore the hundred and more churches 
entirely stripped of their means by the Aus-
trians ; it can enable the Protestants so to regu-
late their schools, that even the extortionate 
demands of the Government can find no pretext 
to abolish them. No nation of the earth has 
so generous a reputation as the American.—
Their sympathy is published to the world, for 
unfortunate Hungary. What better opportu• 
nity, practically and peacefully, to manifest it ? 
The Disciple that Jesus Loved. 
There is a certain sadness connected with 
the attachment of two friends who have become 
so much to each other, that they divide the 
world into only two parts, "one where the 
loved object is, and one where it is not." It is 
too intense for this life ; changes and separa-
tion will weaken it, or death disrupt it. But 
there is something sadder in the attachment of 
Christ and John. The deep devotion, the pure 
and generous heart, the tender sympathy, the 
* I;et no one take consolation from the fact that all 
these ordinances are given for a " state of siege." 
The Government journals of Vienna openly assert 
that it will need many, very many years, before 
" martial law " can be removed from Hungary. 
And, as I believe, it will never he removed until that 
day of God shall dawn, which shall restore Hungary 
and the oppressed of Europe, everywhere to their 
rights. 
trusting, loving nature of the latter, had so won 
upon the Saviour, that every look he cast upon 
him was a caress, and every word he spoke, took 
the gentle tone of a mother addressing her 
child. He knew how his disciple loved him, 
and knew too how much he must suffer in the 
sufferings that awaited him. John, absorbed 
by his attachment, his countenance by turns 
made tearful and joyous at the kind words and 
glorious truths that fell from his Master's lips, 
seemed never to dream of approaching evil, of 
possible separation. Jesus, on the other hand, 
as he with his sorrowful face looked down upon 
him leaning contentedly on his breast, thought 
of the future. With his human heart beating 
warmly for the true, devoted friend on his bo-
som, he could not but sigh, knowing, as he did, 
the trials and sufferings his tender nature must 
yet pass through to prove its love for him. As, 
in imagination, I behold the two in each other's 
embrace, I seem to see tears on the cheeks of 
JESUS, at the same time that his hand bestows 
a caress. The implicit confidence and trust of 
his follower appealed to every noble quality of 
the heart, and he must in those moments have 
looked upon John, as a mother upon the smiles 
of her infant, when she knows that in a few 
hours the executioner's axe will leave it an or-
phan in the world. The dark hints he ever 
and anon threw out, filled John with wonder, 
rather than anxiety, and he loved on, indifferent 
to his own fate. The other disciples respected 
this attachment, and far from being jealous, 
seemed affected by it. When Christ uttered 
those sad words, " One of you shall betray me," 
they dared not ask him who it was, but re-
quested John, who they knew would not be re-
buked, to do it for them. He, looking up from 
that pillow he could not surrender to any other 
head, said, " Lord who is it ?" and the Saviour 
told him. The youngest of all, a mere youth 
when he began to follow Christ, he was yet 
most beloved of all. 
John must have passed through strange states 
of mind, as the wondrous character of the being 
he loved so intimately and treated so familiarly, 
became revealed to him in his miracles and by 
his high claims. Christ seems always to choose 
him for a companion when about to accomplish 
any great event. John heard his predictions 
respecting Jerusalem and the Jewish nation; 
stood by when he took the hand of the dead 
daughter of JairuQ, and bade her arise amid her 
astonished friends ; was one of the three who 
ascended the Mount of Transfiguration, and saw 
the face and form he had so often caressed as-
sume the likeness and splendor of God ; was in 
the garden on that night of fearful agony, and 
gazed on that pallid face streaked with blood, 
which had so often and so kindly smiled on 
him ; and, last of all, beheld him ascend into 
heaven, triumphant over death and the grave. 
But there is one event which gives John pe-
culiar claims to being" that disciple whom Jesus 
loved." Christ had endured the agony in the 
garden ; his sacred face had been spit upon ; 
his cheek shamefully struck ; the farce and in-
sult of a trial endured ; he had fainted under 
the cross as he struggled with it up the steep 
hill-side ; and with his frame strung to the point 
of extremest sensibility, had been laid on the 
rough beams, and the bolts rudely crushed 
through his shrinking hands and feet, and thus 
suspended on high. Around him was the rail-
ing crowd, behind him a scoffing thief. All his 
friends had forsaken him and fled : and alone, 
all alone, he was left to wrestle with his doom. 
No, not quite alone, for nearer the cross than 
the taunting rabble stood his mother. It was 
her child, bleeding and dying there before her 
eyes, and what were the scoffs and violence of 
those around her ! ay, what was death itself 
compared to the throes of maternal anguish that 
shook her bosom ! There stood John, rivaling 
even the mother in love. He forgot he had a 
life to loose ; he did not even hear the taunts 
that were rained upon him, nor see the fingers 
of scorn that were pointed at his tears ; he saw 
only his dying friend and Lord ; beheld but the 
bosom on which he had so often rested his 
head, heaving and swelling as though the heart 
would burst its confinement, and the brow on 
which peace ever sat like a white winged dove, 
contracted with agony unutterable. True to the 
last, pale as the suffering one before him, he 
stood and wept in speechless sorrow. Christ, 
in the midst of his torture, and in the midst 
of the stupendous scheme he was finishing at 
such a fearful price, cut off from earth, and just 
as heaven too was about to abandon him, and 
the power of his Father was darkening over his 
spirit, was struck with this matchless love. The 
last, the wildest wave that ever broke over the 
soul of the Saviour, was gathering for its flow,yet 
even then he gazed lovingly on those two faith-
ful hearts, and his calm though failing voice 
reached their ears, and he said to his mother, 
" Behold thy son," and to John, " Behold thy 
mother." True-hearted disciple, faithful friend, 
take my place beside my mother; to thy love, 
so great for me, I can safely commit her. Oh ! 
what a proof of confidence and attachment was 
that ! So high an honor was never before paid 
human love. Oh ! what an inheritance was 
that the Son of God gave him, his mother, and 
his affectionate confidence in the last hour of 
his suffering, mid while standing on the portals 
of the eternal kingdom. No wonder that John, 
after that, took her to his own home, soothed 
her sorrows, nursed her declining years, and at 
last gently and sorrowfully laid her in her 
grave. 
Years passed by, and changes and persecu-
tion came, but no change in the affection of 
John for his Master. Living in his life, he now 
lived to make known his death and resurrec-
tion. Love seemed to supply the place of na-
tive energy, and he passed into Asia, preaching 
the gospel, and planting churches, until at 
length the hand of the persecution reached him 
also, and he was banished to a lonely island in 
the ./Egeari Sea. 
How long he remained there we know not ; 
silence and uncertainty rest on his history.—
Alone he trod the desolate beach, cheered by no 
voice, solaced by no companionship. He whose 
happiness had consisted in laying his head on 
the bosom of his friend and Lord, was left with-
out a friend. The monotonous dash of waves 
at his feet, the broad and boundless deep stretch-
ing away before him, the cry of the sea bird 
and theyoar of the storm, these were the only 
sights arid sounds left to the lonely exile. Day 
after day, and week after week, the same un- 
varying routine. The solitary walk on the 
shore, and still more solitary rest under an 
overhanging rock, filled up the measure of fin 
employments. Alt, how sweet then was the res 
membrance of his long and affectionate inter-
views with Christ—how full of solace the words 
he had spoken, so sweet that the desert seemed 
peopled with angels, and the hoarse murmur 
of the sea sounded like an anthem of praise to 
God. As he stood and saw the sun go down 
on the deep, he remembered that just so it 
flashed over the Sea of Tiberias, when Jesus 
fed the five thousand. As he looked up to the 
silent firmament, gorgeous with stars, he re-
membered the strange night he passed with Je-
sus on Mount Tabor, looking on the same 
heavens ; and when he pillowed his lonely head 
upon the sand, he thought, with throbbing heart, 
of him " who had not where to lay his head." 
How long he lived thus in holy contemplation, 
to prepare him for the wondrous revelations 
about to be made, we know not; but one Sab-
bath morning, as he was walking the wild des-
ert island, filled with thoughts of the world to 
come, he heard a voice repeating in trumpet 
tones behind him, "I am Alpha and Omega, 
the first and the last." Turning to meet the 
voice, he saw a form dread enough to appal the 
stoutest man. A mantle wrapped it from the 
neck to the feet ; the head and hair were 
white as wool, the eyes burned like fire, the 
feet shone like brass in a furnace ; in his up-
lifted hand stars were blazing ; his countenance 
was like the sun shining in its strength, and 
his voice like " the sound of many waters." 
No 
wonder the overwhelmed exile fell on his face 
as a dead man, before his fearful form and as-
pect, and dared not lift his eyes again from the 
earth, till the same terrible voice bade him 
arise. Of the wondrous visions that were then 
revealed to him, who can speak ? The gates 
of hell and heaven were flung open to his view. 
He saw the smoke that curtained the bottom-
less pit, and the city whose only light is the 
presence of the Lamb ; but the speechless agony, 
the terrific conflicts, the appalling sights, togeth-
er with the splendors of the heaven of heavens, 
the throne and the white-vested elders, the daz-
zling glory of the crystal sea and rivers of para. 
radise, the music of the harpers, the thrilling 
power of that loud hallelujah, " Worthy is the 
Lamb that was slain," as it rolled from ten thou-
sand tongues full on the throne of God and the 
Lamb, who can describe ? That desolate island 
around John, was greater than Mount Carmel 
of old, when horses and chariots of fire encircled 
the prophet. God was there ! unveiling himself, 
this world, and eternity, to a mortal. 
This strange interview, with its long train 
of mysterious and fearful visions, was at last 
ended ; as was also the exile of John, and he 
smiled once more in the midst of his friends. 
But the scenes he had passed through did not 
change his nature ; he was the same gentle, 
loving being as ever. Overflowing with kind-
ness arid sympathy,all things else seemed worth-
less in comparison. 
And when the lamp of life burned dimly, and 
his trembling voice could hardly articulate, he 
still spoke of love. It is said he lived to be 
eighty years of age, and then, too feeble to walk, 
was carried into church on men's shoulders, 
and, though scarcely able to speak, would faintly 
murmur, " Brethren, love one another." Affec-
tion was his life, and it seemed to him that the 
world could be governed by love. 
.1. T. Headley. 
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"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 26. 1852. 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give i t 
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 jadgment and discernment of the troth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 
(Continuedfrom our last.) 
CHAPTER XI. 
V. 4-" By faith Ahel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than 
Cain, through which he obtained testimony that he was righteous, 
God testifying of his gifts: and through it he, though dead, yet 
speaketh ;" or, as the mar. reads, " is yet spoken of." 
We read that " ABEL, was a keeper of sheep, but 
CAIN was a tiller of the ground. And in process of 
time it came to pass, that CAIN brought of the fruit 
of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And ABEL, 
he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and the 
fat. thereof: and the LORD had respect unto ABEL, 
and to his offering : but unto CAIN, and to his offer-
ing, he had not respect. And CAIN was very wroth, 
and his countenance fell."—Gen. 4:.2-5. 
ABEL'S sacrifice was superior to CAIN'S, according 
to the apostle, on account of his faith in the things 
hoped for. CAIN on the other hand seems to have 
been destitute of any faith in the things which their 
sacrifices typified. His subsequent anger towards 
ABEL, was because GOD had respect to ABEL'S offer-
ing and not to his ; or as PAUL says, " GOD testified of 
his gifts." Goo testified his acceptance, says THEO-
DATION, by causing " fire to descend from heaven and 
consume his sacrifice." In this manner Goo signi-
fied his acceptance of the sacrifice of ABRAHAM, (Gen. 
15:17) ; of AARON, (Lev. 9:24) ; of GIBEON, (Judg. 
6:21) ; of DAVID, (1 Chron. 21:26) ; of SOLOMON, (2 
Chron. 7:1), and of ELIJAH, (1 Kings 18:28), &c. 
Vs. 5, (3--" By faith Enoch was translated, that he might not see 
death and was not found, because God hail translated him : for be-
fore his translation it was testified concerning him, that he pleased 
God. lint without faith it is impossible to please him : for he, who 
corned] to God, must believe that lie exists, and that he becometh a 
rewarder of those, who seek him out." 
These two texts in connection, show that ENOCH'S 
faith consisted in his belief of GOD'S existence—a 
thing which is not seen, and of Gon's favor to those 
who serve him—a thing hoped for ; accompanied by 
a corresponding walk : " And ENoca walked with 
• GoD, and he was riot : for GoD took him."—Gen. 
5:24. Thus he was taken away, without undergoing 
the process of death—an illustration of the change 
which will pass on all the saints who are living at 
CHRIST'S coming : " Behold, I shew you a mystery ; 
We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, 
in a moment, in the twinkling of ae eye, at the 
last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the 
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be 
changed."-1 Cor. 15:51, 52. " Then we which are 
alive and remain shall he caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the LORD in the air : and 
so shall we ever he with the LORD."-1 Thess. 4:17. 
The nature of ENOCH'S faith is also shown by the ref-
erence to him in JUDE : " And ENOCH also, the 
seventh from ADAM. prophesied of these, saying, Be-
hold, the LORD cometh with ten thousand of his saints, 
to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all 
that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly 
deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of 
all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have 
spoken against thein."—vs. 14,15. 
V. 7-" By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning things 
not yet seen, moved with solicitude, prepared au ark to save his 
house ; through which Ire condemned the world, and became posses. 
sor of the righteousness, which is by faith." 
" The earth also was corrupt before GOD ; and the 
earth was. filled with violence. And God looked 
upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt : for all 
flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And 
GOD said unto NOAH, The end of all flesh is come be-
fore me ; for the earth is filled with violence through 
them : and behold, I will destroy them with the 
earth. Make thee an ark of gopher-wood ; rooms 
shalt thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within 
and without with pitch. .... And behold, 1, even 1, 
do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy 
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under 
heaven : and everything that is on the earth shall die. 
But with thee will I establish my covenant : and thou 
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy 
wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. . . . Thus did 
NOAH; according to all that Goo commanded him, so 
did he."—Gen. 6:11-14, 17, 18, 22. 
Thus NOAH believed GOD, obeyed his command-
ment, saved himself and family from the flood of wa-
ters, avid became an heir of that righteousness which 
is yet to be revealed,—lie, with the other elders, hav-
ing died without receiving the promise. He con-
demed the world by preaching that which was a savor 
of death to those who believed not. For those who 
heard him " were disobedient, when once the long 
suffering of GoD waited in the days of NOAH, while 
the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight 
souls, were saved by water."-1 Pet. 3:20. There-
fore GoD " spared not the old world, but saved NOAH 
the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bring-
ing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly."-
2 Pet. 2:5. 
Vs.8-10- " By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place, 
which he was to receive for inheritance, obeyed ; and he went 
out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he sojourned in the 
promised land, us in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac 
and Jacob, the heirs with hint of the same promise ; for he looked 
for a city which limit foundations, whose builder and maker is 
God." 
ABRAHAM with his father TERAH, had removed 
from " Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of 
Canaan ; and they came unto IIaran and dwelt there " 
till the death of TERAH. 
(Gen. 11:31, 32.) " Now 
the LORD said unto ABRAM, Get thee out of thy coun-
try ; and from thy kindred, and from thy father's 
house, unto a land that I will show thee : and I will 
make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and 
make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : 
and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them 
that curseth thee : and in thee shall all the thmilies 
of the earth be blessed. So ABRAM departed, as the 
LORD had spoken unto him, and LOT went with him : 
and ABRAM was seventy and five years old when he 
departed out of thrall. And ABRAM took SARAI 
his wife, and LOT his brother's son, and all their sub-
stance that they had gathered, and the souls that they 
had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into 
the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan 
they came. And ABRAM passed through the land 
unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. 
And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the 
LORD appeared unto ABRAM, and said, Unto thy seed 
will 1 give this land : and there budded he an altar 
unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he 
moved from thence unto a mountain, on the east of 
Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the 
west, and Hai on the east : and there he builded an 
altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the 
Lord. And ABRAM journeyed, going on still towards 
the south."—lb. 12:1-9. Afterwards he went down 
to Egypt, and again returned " on his journeys from 
the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his 
tent hail been at the beginning, between Beth-el and 
Hai ; unto the place of the altar, which he had made 
there at the first ; and there ABRAM called on the 
name of the LORD."—Ib. 13:3, 4. There was then 
a strife between the herdmen of ABRAHAM'S cattle 
and those of LOT'S, and they separated. " ABRAM 
dwelled in the land of Canaan, and LOT dwelled in 
the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sod-
om. .. .. And the LORD said unto ABRAM, after that 
LOT was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, 
look from the place where thou art, northward, and 
southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the 
land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to 
thy seed forever. And I will make thy seed as the 
dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the 
dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be num-
bered. Arise, walk through the land in the length 
of it and in the breath of it : for I will give it unto 
thee. Then ABRAM removed his tent, and came and 
dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, 
and built there an altar unto the LORD."—Ib. vs. 12, 
14-18. " And ABRAHAM journeyed from thence to-
ward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh 
and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar."—Ib. 20:1. " And 
ABRAHAM sojourned in the Phillistines' land many 
days."—Ib. 21:34. He afterwards returned to Ca-
naan and " dwelt in Beer-sheba."—/b. 22:19. " And 
SARAH died in Kirjath-arba ; the same is Hebron in 
the land of Canaan ; and ABRAHAM came to mourn 
for SARAH, and to weep for her. And ABRAHAM 
stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the 
sons of HETH, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourn-
er with you : give me a possession of a burying-
place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my 
sight.. And the field of Ephron, which was in 
Machperah, which was before Mamre, the field and the 
cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in 
the field, that were in all the borders around about, 
were made sure unto ABRAHAM for a possession in 
the presence of the children of HETH, before all that 
went in at the gate of his city. And after this, ABRA-
HAM buried SARAH his wife in the cave of the field 
of Machpelah, before Mamre ; the same is Hebron 
in the land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave 
that is therein were made sure unto ABRAHAM for a 
possession of a burying-place, by the sons of HETH." 
—lb. 23:2-4, 17-20. Here was ABRAHAM buried. 
(lb. 25:9.) 
The above is the history of ABRAHAM'S sojourn 
in Canaan as recorded by MOSES ; but STEPHEN makes 
reference to it and says : " Men, brethren, and fa-
thers, hearken ; The Goo of glory appeared unto our 
father ABRAHAM when he was in Mesopotamia, be-
fore he dwelt in Charran, and said unto him, Get thee 
out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come 
into the land which I shall spew thee. Then came 
he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in 
Charran. And from thence, when his father was 
dead, he removed him into this land wherein ye now 
dwell. And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, 
not so much as to set his foot on ; yet he promised 
that he would give it to him for a possession, and to 
his seed after him, when as yet lie haul no child."—
Acts 7:2-5. 
IREN/EUS, one of the early Christian fathers in 
speaking of the resurrection of the just, says : 
" The promise likewise of God which he made to 
Abraham decidedly confirms this : for he says, Litt 
up now thine eyes, and look from the place where 
thou art, northward, arid southward, and eastward, 
and westward ; for all the land which thou seest, to 
thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.'—Gen. 
13:14, 15. And again, Arise, walk through the land 
in the length of it and in the breath of it for I will 
give it to thee.'—v 17 For Abraham received no 
inheritance in it,—not even a foot-breadth, but always 
was a stranger and a sojourner in it. And when Sa-
rah his wife died, and the children of Heth offered to 
give him a piece of land for a burial place, lie would 
not accept it, but purchased it for four hundred pieces 
of silver, from Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite ; 
staying himself on the promise of God, and being un-
willing to seem to accept from man what God had 
promised to give him, saying to him, To thy seed 
will I give this land, from the great river of Egypt 
to the great river Euphrates.' Thus, therefore, as 
God promised to him the inheritance of the earth, 
and he received it not during the whole time he 
lived in it, it is necessary that he should receive it, 
together with his seed, that is, with such of them as 
fear God, and believe in him—in the resurrection of 
the just. 
Irenmus then goes on to show, that Christ 
and the church are also of the true seed, and par-
takers of the promises, and concludes the chapter 
as follows : Thus, therefore, those who are of faith 
are blessed with faithful Abraham; and the same are 
the children of Abraham. For God repeatedly prom-
ised the inheritance of the land to Abraham and his 
seed ; and as neither Abraham nor his seed—that is, 
not those who are justified by faith—have enjoyed 
any inheritance in it, they will undoubtedly receive it at 
the resurrection of the just. 
For tine and unchange-
able is God wherefore also he said, " Blessed are 
the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." ' "—Lit-
eralist, vol. 3,pp. 40, 41. 
The promise of the land of Canaan to ABRAHAM 
was thus repeated to ISAAC : " Sojourn in this land, 
and I will be with thee, and will bless thee : for unto 
thee, and unto thy seed I will give all these coun-
tries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto 
ABRAHAM ; and I will make thy seed to multiply as 
the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all 
these countries : and in thy seed shall all the nations 
of the earth he blessed."—Gen. 26:3, 4. It was also 
repeated to JACOB, when he stopped a night in Bethel, 
and GOD said to him : " I am the LORD God of ABRA-
HAM thy father, and the GOD of ISAAC : the laud 
wherein thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy 
seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the 
earth : and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and 
to the east, and to the north, and to the south : and 
in thee and in thy seed shall the families of the earth 
be blessed. And behold, I am with thee, and will 
keep thee in all places, whither thou guest, and will 
bring thee again into this land : for I will not leave 
thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to 
thee of."—Gen. 28:13-15, 
Thus the land was promised to them, and they so-
journed therein, but were strangers and pilgrims 
there ; and though they were well reported of, they 
" received not the promise, GOD having provided 
some better thing for us, that they without us should 
not be made perfect."—Heb. 11:40. For they looked 
beyond the resurrection, into the regenerated earth, 
for the New Jerusalem, which is to descend " out of 
heaven from GoD. 
Having the glory of God : and 
her light was unto a stone most precious, even like 
a jasper-stone, clear as crystal ; and had a wall great 
and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates 
twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are 
the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Is-
rael. On the east, three gates ; on the north, three 
gates ; on the south, three gates ; arid on the west, 
three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve 
foundations, and in them :the names of the twelve 
apostles of the Lamb."—Rev. 21:10-14. 
Vs. it, t2.-" Ity faith also Sarah herself also received strength to 
conceive even when mist age, because she considered him faithful, 
wlto had promised. Therefore there sprang up even from one, and 
him
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SARAH at first seems to have been incredulous res-
pecting the promise of a son (Gen. 18:12)—she being 
ninety years old ; but we have PAUL'S testimony that 
she did have faith respecting it—probably not know-
ing at first that it was from the LORD. 
Thus was 
fulfilled in the descendants of ISAAC, Goo's promise 
to ABRAHAM : " That in blessing I will bless thee, 
and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the 
stars of the heaven, arid as the sand which is upon the 
sea-shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his 
enemies."—Gen. 22:17.— (To be continued.) • 
THE friends who have so kindly furnished us with copies 
of No. 23 of the Herald, will please accept our thanks for 
the same. We have received all that we need. Those who 
have not received the Crisis in return, may have them by 
apprising us of their wish. 
WHAT SHALL BE DONE IN THE PRES-
ENT EMERGENCY 
When PAUL was being pursued by the Jews, sorely 
Persecuted by them, and " many grievous complaints" 
alleged against him, he said, " If I be an offender, 
or have committed anything worthy of death, I re-
fuse not to die ; but if there be none of these things 
whereof these accuse tne, no man may deliver me 
unto them. I appeal unto Cesar."—Acts 25:11. 
When an individual is being subjected to a course 
of conduct that is evidently designed solely for his 
destruction ; when he is met on every hand, and 
hunted like the partridge on the mountains; when by 
his being thus pursued and covered with opprobrium, 
a great cause with which he is connected is made to 
suffer in him ; when month after month, and year af-
tet year, those thus engaged are becoming more 
and more emboldened and impudent by the leniency 
and forbearance which have been extended to them, 
it becomes with me a serious question whether the ex-
ample of PAUL, when similarly situated, is not obli-
gatory upon us. He assures us that " the law is 
good, if a man use it lawfully," (1 Tim. 1:8) ; and 
that it is made for " the lawless and disobedient, for 
the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and pro-
fane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of moth-
ers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that 
defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for 
liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other 
thing that is contrary to sound doctrine."—Ib. vs. 
9, 10. 
For the last ten years an individual, well known 
to us all, has been maligned and. falsified with the 
most unrelenting maiice, so much so, that the ma- 
jority of the community regard as a very base 
man. We who know him, know to the contrary; 
but while lie is held in such estimation, those who 
honestly thus regard him will be forever prejudiced 
against the doctrine with which he is connected, so 
that it is not he but the cause that is injured. He 
may eat and drink and sleep and pass through life, 
at peace with his GOD and with his fellows, and con-
gratulate himself that he has never been guilty of 
aught to win the applause of those who thus lie, 
and assail him ; but shall the cause of GOD be periled 
by supineness arid indifference respecting these at-
tacks on it? They have been of late so emboldened 
as to subject him to a suit at civil law—hoping to 
enrich themselves at his hands, or to so cripple him, 
that he would he constrained to give up the agency 
he had originated, and by which the cause had been 
built up. They have thereby prevented his laboring 
in other directions, and have compelled the use of 
means for the fee-ing of lega+-counsel-,,'and tiresome 
journeys, which might otherwise have been employed 
in the circulation of tracts, and in aid-Of the living 
preacher. After many wearisome days and anxious 
nights, they have been met before their chosen tri-
bunal, and there routed horse foot and dragoons, and 
fairly driven from the court-house, having n cease to 
submit to the jury. It was hoped that with such a 
Waterloo defeat, experience would have been to them 
a school of instruction ; but alas, defeat seems only 
to have added fuel to their hate. No sooner do they 
back out of court, than they commence a series of at-
tacks in the shape of published and private letters, 
and verbal reports. Several puffilisiteft.1th40-already 
been deceived by some of them, and have admitted 
to their columns defamatory articles respecting the 
trial. Some editors are publishing libelous para-
graphs in reference to it. Statements false and dis-
reputable are being circulated. It has been affirmed 
that the judges,—men of courtesy, impartiality and 
legal attainments, were " fools ;" the jury, — an 
uncommonly intelligent and attentive one, — was 
" bribed; " that the report of the trial—published by 
Gov. ANTHNOY, late Governor of the State of Rhode 
Island, in the Providence Journal, was false and decep-
tive ; that his reporter was bribed to suppress every-
thing prejudicial to Mr. H. ; and that they hacked 
out, because the case was going to be decided on 
false issues, when the closing counsel had not even 
argued the case, and the judges had not charged the 
jury respecting a single issue ! ! ! Industriously pur-
suing this course, they hope to accomhlish in their de-, 
feat, what they hoped to win by victory—the blacken-
ing of his individual character—knowing that not him, 
but the cause, suffers by such action. 
We have therefore reached an emergency in which 
I wish for a little counsel. I request that all who 
have the good of the cause at hea'it,- will Write me 
what steps they would adviSe to be taken. 
Pe- 
. 
cuniary damage from any one is not desicid;+btit are 
nut a few examples needed? Ought not some one to 
say to those whose duty it is to seek outatfiLfunish 
offenders : " Here are libels and slairde.0*ing pub-
lished in the current papers of the day, and will you 
see that the proper parties are held accountable for 
the same 1" This would involve no expense except 
to the state, and to the guilty parties ; and would 
meet and cure the evil, which past forbearance has 
so much emboldened. One publisher in this city 
and two in Hartford have already been imposed on, 
and we have obtained the names of the two corres- 
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205 
pondents. Besides these there are others that have " Ah !" I can imagine some reader saying, " this 
not been inquired respecting. One editor in this is all foolishness, raving and nonsense ; the man is 
city has made himself liable by his manner of refer- beside himself. This is all extravagant fanaticism, 
ence to it. We hope that brethren of the press will Where is the likelihood, where is the probability of 
everywhere do us justice, and not be imposed on by all this? The world is going on as it always did. 
anonymous writers. Will our friends send me cop- The world will last my time." Do not say so. Do 
ies of all papers containing references to it, which not drive away the subject by such language as this. 
fall beneath their notice. When wrongfully noticed This is the way that men talked in the days or NOAH 
editorially, will they give the editor the facts, so that and LOT ; but what happened ? they found to their 
if he is disposed he may make amends ; and if by cost that NOAH and LOT were right. Do not say so. 
correspondents, will they learn the name of the cor- The apostle PETER foretold eighteen hundred years 
respondent, get the original manuscript when practi- ago that men would talk in this way. " There shall 
cable, and also give the editor the facts, so that he come in the last days scoffers," he tells us, " saying, 
may disavow any endorsement of it, and make mat- Where is the promise of his coming ? fur since the 
tens all right so far as himself is concerned. And fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were 
in addition to this, will they give the advice before from the beginning of the creation."-2 Pet. 3:3,4. 
requested—i. e. advice accompanied by sound reason Oh! do not fulfil his prophecy by your unbelief. 
and argument; for sickly sentimental advice without Where is the raving and fanaticism of the things 
reason is of no force whatever, and would weigh which I have been saying Show it to me if you 
nothing. I wait to learn all that can be said for or can. I calmly assert that the present order of things 
against a given course, in view of its effect on the will come to an end one day. Will any one deny 
cause and the honor and glory of GoD—which should that? Will any one tell me we are to go on as we 
he the sole consideration at present. I am settled re- do now forever ? I calmly say that CHRIST'S second 
specting what would be right; but as those who co- coming will be the end of the present order of things. 
operate, can only do so understandingly, expediency I have said so because the Bible says it. I have 
requires that the counsel of the wise and good be so- calmly said that CHRIST'S second coming will be a 
licited—for which I wait. I do this on my own re- sudden event, whenever it may be, and may possibly 
sponsibility, and without the knowledge of any other be in our own time. I have said so, because thus 
person, till they read this in the Herald. B. and thus I find it written in the word of Con. If 
"WATCH." 
BY J. C. RYLE. 
.‘ Then shall the kingdom of heave
- 
n be likened unto ten virgins, 
which took their lamps, and went fiirth to meet the bridegroom. 
And live of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were 
foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them but the wise 
took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom 
tarried, they all slumbeted and slept. And at midnight there was a 
cry made, Boold, the bridegrootn cometh ; go ye out to meet him. 
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the 
foolish said unto the wise, Give tin of your oil fur our lamps are 
gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there be not 
enough for us and you but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy 
ye for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom 
came ; and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage: 
and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, say-
ing, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily, I 
say, unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know nei-
ther the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh."-Matt. 
teouttnued from our last.) 
Reader, the suddenness of the Lotto's second ad-
vent is a truth that should lead every professing 
Christian to great searchings of heart. It should 
lead him to serious thought, both about himself and 
about the world. 
Think for a moment how little the world is pre-
pared for such an event. Look at the towns and 
cities of the earth, and think of them. Mark how 
most men are entirely absorbed in the things of time, 
and utterly engrossed with the business of their call-
ings. Banks, counting-houses, shops, politics, law, 
medicine, commerce, railways, banquets, balls, thea-
tres,—each and all are drinking up the hearts and 
souls of thousands, and thrusting out the things of 
GoD. Think what a fearful shock the sudden stop-
page of all these things would be, the sudden stop-
page which will he in the day of CHRIST'S appear-
ing. If only one great house of business stops pay-
ment now, it makes a great sensation. What then 
shall be the crash when the whole machine of worldly 
affairs shall stand still at once? Front money-count-
ing and earthly scheming, from racing after riches 
and wrangling about trifles, to be hurried away to 
meet the King of kings, how tremendous the change! 
From dancing and dressing, from opera-going and 
novel-reading, to he summoned away by the voice of 
the archangel and the trump of GOD, how awful the 
transition Yet remember, all this shall one day be. 
Look at the rural parishes of such a land as ours, 
and think of them. See how the minds of the vast 
majority of their inhabitants are buried in farms and 
allotments, in cattle and corn, in rent and wages, in 
rates and tithes., in digging and sowing, in buying 
and selling, in planting and building. See how 
many there are who evidently care for nothing, and 
feel nothing, excepting the things of this world : who 
reck nothing, whether their minister preaches law 
or Gospel, CHRIST or anti-christ, and would be 
utterly unconcerned if the Archbishop of Canterbury 
was turned out of Lambeth Palace, and the Pope of 
Rome put in his place. See how many there are of 
whom it can only be said, that their belly and their 
pockets are their gods.. And then fancy the awful 
effect of a sudden call to meet the Lord CHRIST,—a 
call to a day of reckoning, in wbich the price of 
wheat and the rate of wages shall be nothing, and 
the Bible shall be the only rule of trial ! And yet 
remember, all this shall one day be. 
Reader,:ple.ture these things to your mind's eye. 
Picture your own house, your own family, your own 
fireside. What will be found there? Picture above 
all, your own feelings, your own state of mind. And 
then remember, that this is the end towards which 
the world is hastening. There will be no longer 
notice to quit. This is the way in which the world's 
affairs will be wound up. This is an event which 
may possibly happen in your own time. And surely 
you cannot avoid the conclusion that the second com-
ing of CHRIST is no mere curious speculation. It is 
an event of vast practical importance to your own 
soul. 
you do not like it, I am sorry for it. One thing only 
you must remember,—you are finding fault with the 
Bible, not with me. 
IV. Learn in the last place, that Christ's second 
coming will make an immense Mange to all members 
of the visible church, both good and bad. 
I draw this truth from the concluding portion of 
the parable,—from the discovery of the foolish vir-
gins that their lamps were gone out,—from their 
anxious address to the wise, " give us of your oil," 
from their vain knocking at the door when too 
late, crying, " LORD, LORD, open to us,"—from the 
happy admission of the wise who were found ready, 
in company with the bridegroom. Each and all of 
these points are full of food fir thought. But I have 
neither time nor space to dwell upon them particularly. 
I can only take one single broad view of all. To all 
who have been baptized in the name of CHRIST,—
converted or unconverted,—believers or unbelievers, 
holy or unholy,—godly or ungodly,—wise or fool-
isy,—gracious or graceless,—to all the second ad-
vent of CHRIST shall be an immense change. 
It shall be an immense change to the ungodly,—to 
all who are found mere nominal Christians, — a 
change both in their opinions and positions. 
All such persons, when CHRIST comes again, shall 
see the value of real, spiritual religion, if they never 
saw it before. They will do in effect what the para-
ble describes under a figure,—they will cry to the 
godly, " Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone 
out." 
Who does not know, that, as things are now, 
spiritual religion never brings a man the world's 
praise I It never has done, and it never does at this 
day. It entails on a man the world's disapprobation, 
the world's persecution,—the world's mockery,—
the world's sneers. The world will let a man serve 
the devil and go to hell quietly, and no one lifts a 
little finger to stop him, or says, " be merciful to 
your soul." The world will never let a man serve 
CHRIST and go to heaven quietly; everybody cries, 
" Hold hard," and does everything that can be done 
to keep him back. 
Who has not heard of nicknames in plenty be-
stowed on those who follow CHRIST and try to he 
saved ; — Pietists, Puritans, Methodists, Fanatics, 
Enthusiasts, Calvinists, Ultra-religionists, the Saints, 
the righteous over-much, the very good people, and 
many more? Who does not know the petty family 
persecutions which often go on in private society in 
our day ? Let a young person go to every ball, and 
opera, and race-course, and worldly party, arid ut-
terly neglect his soul, and no one interferes,—no one 
says, " spare thyself,"—no one says, " take care, 
remember GOD, judgment, and eternity." But let 
him only begin to read his Bible, and be diligent in 
prayer,—let him decline worldly amusement, and 
become particular in his employment of time,—let 
him seek an evangelical ministry, and live like an 
immortal being ;—let him do this, I say, and all his 
friends and relations probably be up in arms. 
" You are going too far. You need not be so very 
good. You are taking up extreme views." This, 
in all probability, is the very least that such a per-
son will hear. If a young woman, she will be 
marked and avoided by all her equals. If a young 
man, he will be set down by all who know him, as 
weak, silly, and precise. In short such a person will 
soon discover that there is no help from the world in 
the way to heaven, but plenty of help in the way to 
hell. 
Alas! that it should be so : but so it is. These 
are ancient things. As it was in the days of CAIN 
and ABEL, as it was in the days of ISAAC and ISH-
MAEL, even so it is now. They that are born after 
the flesh will persecute those that are born after the 
spirit. The cross of CHRIST will always bring re-
proach with it. As the Jews hated CHRIST, so the 
world hates Christians. As the Head was bruised, 
so also the members will he. As contempt was 
poured on the Master, so it will be also on the disci-
ple. In short, if a man will become a decided evan-
gelical Christian, in the present order of things, he 
must count the cost, and make up his mind to lose 
the world's favor. In a word, he must be content 
to be thought by many little better than a fool. 
Reader, there will be an end of all this when 
CHRIST returns to judge this world. The light of 
that day will at length show everything in its true 
colors. The scales will fall from the poor world-
ling's eyes. The value of the soul will flash on his 
astonished mind. The utter uselessness of a mere 
nominal Christianity will burst upon hint like a thun- 
derstorm. The blessedness of regeneration and 
faith in CHRIST, and a holy walk, will shine before 
him like Mene, Mene, Tekel, Peres, on the wall of 
the Babylonian palace. The veil will fall from his 
face. He will discover that the godly has been the 
wise, and that he has played the fool exceedingly. 
And just as SAun wanted SAMUEL when it was too 
late, and BELSHAZZAR sent for DANIEL when the 
kingdom was deserting from him, so will the ungodly 
turn to the very men they once mocked and despised, 
and cry to them, " Give us of your oil, for our lamps 
are gone out." 
But as there will be a complete change in the feel-
ings of the ungodly, in the day of CHRIST'S second 
advent, so will there also be a complete change in 
their position. Hope, the plank to which they now 
cling, and on which they generally depend to the 
very last, hope will be entirely taken away in that 
awful day. They will seek salvation with earnest-
ness, but not be able to find it. They will run 
hither and thither in a vain search for the oil of grace. 
They will knock loudly at the door of mercy, and 
get no answer. They will cry, " LORD, LORD, open 
to us," but all to no purpose. They will discover to 
their sorrow that opportunities once let slip can never 
be regained, and that the notions of universal mercy 
always to be obtained, is a mere delusion of the devil. 
Who does not know that thousands are urged to 
pray and repent now, who never attempt it ? They 
mean to try one day, perhaps. Like FELIX, they 
hope for a more convenient season. They fancy it 
will never be too late to seek the Lorin. But there 
is .a time coming when prayer shall be heard no 
longer, and repentance shall be unavailing. There 
is a time when the door by which MANASSEH and 
SAUL the persecutor entered, shall be shut and opened 
no more. There is a time when the fountain in 
which MAGDALENE and JOHN NEWTON and thousands 
of others were washed and made clean, shall be 
sealed forever. There is a time when men shall 
know the folly of sin, but like JUDAS, too late for re-
pentance ;—whon they shall desire to enter the prom-
ised land, but like Israel at Kadesh, not be able ;—
when they shall see the value of GOD'S favor and 
covenant blessing, but like ESAU, when they can no 
longer possess it, when they shall believe every jot 
and tittle of GoD's revealed word, but like the mis-
erable devils, only to tremble. 
Yes ! reader, men may come to this, and many 
will come to this in the day of CHRIST'S appearing. 
They will ask and not receive. They will seek and 
not find. They will knock and the door shall not he 
opened to them. Alas ! indeed, that so it should be. 
Woe to the man who puts off seeking his manna till 
the LORD'S day of return ! Like Israel of old, he 
will find none. Woe to the man who goes to buy 
oil when he ought to be burning it! Like the fool-
ish virgins, he will find himself shut out from the 
marriage supper of the Lamb. Oh ! that professing 
Christians would consider these things ! Oh ! that 
they would remember the words of our LORD have 
yet to be fulfilled, " When once the master of the 
house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, arid ye 
begin to stand without, 'and to knock at the door, 
saying, LORD, Lou), open to us, and he shall an-
swer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye 
are : then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and 
drank in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our 
streets : but he shall say, I tell you I know you not 
whence ye are, depart from me, all ye workers of 
iniquity."—Luke 13:25-27. 
But as CHRIST'S second coming will be a mighty 
change to the ungodly, so will it also be a mighty 
change to the godly. 
They shall at length be freed from everything 
which now mars their comfort. " The door shall 
be shut." Against the fiery darts of Satan,—against 
the loathsome weakness of the flesh which now clings 
to them,—against the unkind world, which now mis-
represents and misunderstands them,—against the 
doubts and fears which now so often darken their 
path,—against the weariness which now clogs their 
best efforts to serve the LORD,—against coldness and 
deadness,—against short-comings and backslidings, 
—against all these the door shall be shut forever. 
Not one single Canaanite shall be found in the land. 
They shall no longer be vexed by temptation, perse-
cuted by the world, warred against by the devil. 
Their conflict shall all be over. Their strife with 
the flesh shall forever cease. The armor of GOD, 
which they have so long worn, shall at length be laid 
aside. They shall be where there is no Satan, no 
world and no sin. Ah ! reader, the second Eden 
shall be fir better than the first. In the first Eden 
the door was not shut ; our joy was but for a mo- 
ment. But blessed be Goa, in the second Eden, the 
LORD shall shut us in. 
And as the godly shall enjoy a freedom from all 
evil in the day of CHRIST'S appearing, so shall they 
also enjoy the presence of all good. They shall go 
in with the bridegroom to the marriage. They shall 
be forever in the company of CHRIST, and go out no 
more. Faith shall then be swallowed up in sight. 
Hope shall become certainty. Knowledge shall at 
length be perfect. Prayer shall be turned into praise. 
Desires shall receive their full accomplishment. Hun-
ger and thirst after conformity to CHRIST'S image, 
shall at length be satisfied. The thought of parting 
shall not spoil the pleasure of meeting. The com-
pany of saints shall be enjoyed without hurry and 
distraction The family of ABRAHAM shall no more 
feel temptations, nor the family of JOB, afflictions ; 
nor the family of DAVID, household bereavements ; 
nor the family of PAUL, thorns in the flesh ; nor the 
family of LAZARUS, poverty and sores. Every tear 
shall be wiped away in that clay. It is the time 
when the Logo shall say, " I make all things new." 
(To be continued.) 
A DESPERATE FELLOW. 
The folovving, account of the pursuit and capture 
of a convict named MULLOY, who recently escaped 
from the State Prison at Charlestown, will give our 
readers an idea of the characters which our police 
officers occasionally have to deal with. 
" Information was obtained by Constable CLAPP of 
the intention of Mummy, who was known to be in 
the city, to leave for St. John Saturday afternoon, 
and constables HOPKINS arid HOLMES were sent out 
to identify and arrest him. While walking clown 
Long wharf they noticed an individual who answered 
the description, and one of them said, WILLIAM,' 
whereupon the person addressed, who proved to be 
MULLOY, took to his heels and run down the wharf, 
closely pursued. He dodged through a store and 
gained T. wharf, but finding that he was headed 
off, he turned and ran up the north side of Long 
wharf, where he was seized by a person who at-
tempted to retain hint, but finding it impossible re-
leased him, when MULLOY jumped into the dock and 
swam toward T. wharf again, climbing up the side 
of a vessel. The officers at once pursued him into 
a store, where MULLOY drew a sheath knife, arid hold- 
ing it up menacingly, swore that he would kill the 
first man who laid hands upon hint. Officer Hop- 
K INS approached and was about to seize him, when 
Mummy struck him with his knife, inflicting a flesh 
wound upon his hand. In return, the officer struck 
him a severe blow upon the head with a piece of 
board, and finding himself in danger, MULLOY again 
jumped into the dock and took refuge under the north 
end of T. wharf, where he concealed himself with 
such security that it was thought impossible to arrest 
him. The wharf is a hundred feet square, and built 
of cob work. There he had every advantage of his 
pursuers. It was supposed that the tide which was 
coming in, would dislodge him, but finding that it 
did not, officers JOHN C. WARREN, EDWARD NEW-
HALL, and Mr. JELLISON, of the North Watch, each 
putting on a suit of oil cloth, commenced swimming 
about under the wharf, pursuing him from one cob to 
another, but without overtaking him. He still held 
in his hand the sheath knife, and had he turned upon 
the officers, their position would have been rather 
unenviable. Officers ROBERT TAYLOR and BENARD 
MCGINNISKIN took a small boat and intercepted him, 
and at half past six he was seen and summoned to 
surrender, but he replied in the most insulting man-
ner, declaring that he was an Irishman, and would 
never be taken alive by a d—d Yankee. 
" After threatening to shoot him if he did not sur-
render, the warden ordered a pistol to be discharged, 
with a view to intimidate him, which was done. The 
pistol was charged only with powder. He still con-
tinued to defy the officers, but, coming near the boat, 
TAYLOR and MCGINNIS.KIN seized him and attempted 
to take him into it. They succeeded in wresting 
the knife from his grasp, and others jumped into the 
boat to assist in taking him on board, when the boat 
sank from under them, and left seven or eight persons 
in the water. Here the scene became most exciting. 
Somehow or other, either by accident or a resolve to 
drown himself, MULLOY sank under the water, grasp: 
ing with all his strength about the lower part of 
officer TAYLOR'S body, dragging him under water 
up to his neck, and would have dragged him com-
pletely below the surface had TAYLOR not grasped a 
line that was hanging from the side of a vessel, and 
thus held his head above water till a larger boat came 
to his rescue. MULLOY was then taken on board 
more dead than alive. He was ironed, and placed in 
a hack and driven over to Charlestown, to serve out 
the balance of his term of six years. He had been 
in prison about one year and a half." 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
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sad experience has taught us a great, and, we trust, 
a salutary lesson ; therefore we have quite abolished 
that system. The Lord has raised up from amongst 
our brethren those that are able to " teach and ex-
hort ;" therefore the expenses incurred by a paid 
ministry are saved ; so by our weekly contributions, 
we are able to pay the rent of our meeting-house, 
and relieve our poor brethren and sisters. We have 
three pastors and seven deacons, all chosen by the 
church, with three evangelists in the field of labor. 
These go into the surrounding neighborhoods, pro- 
claiming the gospel. All the officers of the church 
labor with their own hands in order to support them-
selves and families, and thereby have to give to him 
that needeth. We have no seat-letting, neither any 
contributions taken at the door ; consequently we 
take no money from any person that is not a Chris-
tian, considering that the Lord's cause ought to be 
supported by his people. Our great object is to ad-
here, as closely as possible, to the principles laid 
down by the apostles, avoiding the " creeds " and 
" issues " of men. 
There is something cheering to behold our church 
assembling on Lord's day morning, listening to the 
exhortations of brethren, and casting in their mite 
into the Lord's treasury as he has prospered them 
during the week, and participating in the breaking 
of bread, and drinking of the cup, arid looking stead-
fastly for that " blessed hope, and the glorious ap-
pearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," to 
reign on the renovated earth. 
You will readily suppose, that all those persons 
that have been immersed are not with us at present : 
some, I am sorry to say, have departed from us, 
while others have removed to distant parts of the 
globe ; others have " fallen asleep in Jesus." An 
aged sister departed this life April 10th, 1852, aged 
88 years, after two weeks' illness, full of the hope of 
immortality. This sister was 82 years old when 
she yielded to the requrements of the gospel. 
Permit me to tender to you the united love of the 
church, and may the Lord prosper you and yours 
now and evermore. Should it be your privilege 
again to visit England, we should be most happy to 
see you, or any of the faithful brethren from Ameri-
ca, or elsewhere. 1 remain yours truly in the bonds 
of the gospel. 
HENRY FARLEY. 
Piltdown, May 19th, 1852. 
[I am truly glad to hear of the prosperity of the 
church in Piltdown. Bro. Farley will accept my 
thanks for his kind epistle. May 1 not hope to hear 
from him again? Should I visit England again, 1 
shall surely visit them.—s. V. 11.] 
mangled both .hands, and considerably [injured his 
face, so that he has lost one hand a little above the 
wrist, and the thumb and fore finger of the other, 
and his sight also is partially impaired. Though 
his suffering is great, he endures it with the fortitude, 
and meek submission becoming the saint of God. 
The church in Shipton feels deeply afflicted in his 
sufferings, and her privation of his ministerial labors, 
and have resolved to lay aside for a while the build-
in, 
 of a meeting-house, and to do something toward 
building the dwelling house of Bro. Porter. But 
we have not much of this world's goods, and cannot 
do as we would wish. 
How truly may it be said that the child of God in 
this world of probation, is made subject to pain, 
and sickness, and death ; and that in the midst of 
health and prosperity, he is made to feel the smart of 
affliction and adversity. Yet we know that these 
things are permitted by a wise and gracious God, 
" that the trial of our faith being much more precious 
than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with 
fire, might he found unto praise, and honor, and glory, 
at the appearing of Jesus Christ." Yours in the 
hope of the gospel. 
Shipton, (C. E.), June 10th, 1852. 
CORRESPONDENCE. ets, which would, if it were possible, deceive the very 
elect. But we need not enlarge upon these omens. 
We rather call upon all the holy brethren to awake, 
arise, and gird themselves to battle, that they may 
be able to stand in the evil day. Strengthen your 
hold upon the hand of the mighty Deliverer. Cry 
to the Lord for help—abandon luxurious ease and 
indulgence—separate yourselves from the world—
lay aside every weight and the sins that doth more 
easily beset you—confirm yourselves in the truth— 
THE DEVIL. 
stand fast—be resolute—your enemy the devil, as a 
roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may 
BY REV. JAMES INGLIS. 
devour. 
" Be sober, be vigilant ; for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring 
Parting words to the children of the wicked one. 
lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."-1 Pet. 1:8. 
(Concluded Jrom our last.) 
The contest between the Seed of the woman and 
A call to watchfulness and courage against the enemy. the seed of the serpent, is the reality of time. The 
Yes, the triumph is certain as it is glorious ; but human race are divided between those who are " in 
the conflict is none tLe less intense and perilous. Let Christ" and those who are " of the devil." Every 
those who would secure the victory, know their one has chosen his side in the conflict, and each will 
enemy. We have no speculations to offer regarding share the destiny of his leader. We urge those who 
the manner in which such an enemy may assail your are out of Christ to reflect upon the humbling and 
hearts. We know enough of the agents and instru- hateful light in which this truth exhibits them. 
ments by which he does assail you. He has no want " Every one that doeth sin is of the devil." Some 
of ministers. He used a crowd of idlers and a for- may disclaim any active or violent share in the con-
ward damsel, when he desired to have Peter, that he troversy with the Prince of Peace ; but there is no 
might sift him as wheat. He has the world with its neutrality, " He that is not with me is against me." 
allurements—this life with its cares and distractions Their unbelief, irreligion, and indifference, which the 
—an apparatus which he works with craft and power. world regards as so respectable, are here exposed as 
It is not in personal and supernatural manifestations in a hideous and destructive alliance with Satan. 
that you are to encounter him. His wiles are all 
This is no extravagant expression of bigotry, but 
around you—neither the Spirit of God on the one the words of truth and soberness, uttered in sadness, 
hand, nor Satan on the other, now carries on his re- and with a shrinking of heart in view of the terrors 
spective work by supernatural manifestations. But of the Lord which must overtake them. We do not 
the one uses the word—the church—and the move- rail, but entreat them to turn front Satan to God, and 
ments of providence, with all agents of good ; the other to wait for his Son from heaven. Let them contrast 
has the world of sense—the ministers of unrighteous- their lord and leader thus imperfectly depicted, with 
ness, the wealth, ambition, literature, and glory of a the Captain of our salvation. Behold the Lord our 
carnal life. 
righteousness, all love and loveliness, humbling him- 
It is no time of repose for believers, in the country self to become obedient to death, even the death of 
of such an enemy. Be sober, be vigilant, be bold. the cross, and therefore highly exalted, having re-
But while there are such calls to vigilance, there ceived a name that is above every name. Behold 
are encouragements to resistance. Believers are am- him perfected by suffering, leading many sons to 
ply provided for the warfare. There is prayer, as glory, lifting up the debased and wretched, and mak-
the Lord hath taught them ; there is the complete ing them sons of God, elevating all good, putting 
armor of God—truth fur their girdle, righteousness down all evil, and pressing on to the time when the 
for their breastplate, the preparation of the gospel of overthrow of the devil and his children shall be utter 
peace for their greaves, over all the shield of faith, and irremediable ; when in the greatness of his might 
whereby they may quench the fiery darts of the ene- he shall obliterate every trace of the fall, so that 
my. In this mail, the " wicked one toucheth you there shall he nothing to hurt or destroy in all God's 
not." In addition, taken for an helmet the hope of holy mountain ; and when, in the plenitude of his 
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the love, he shall crown his ransomed ones with eternal 
word of God ; and thus accoutred, " resist the devil, glory and gladness, and shed universal and unfading 
and he will flee from you." 
beauty over a renovated world ! 
The last fierce onset. 
And can we not prevail with the lost and misera- 
ble victims of the deceiver, to change sides in the 
We have shown that Satan is moving the great controversy? The way is yet open ; for Christ hath 
body of antichristian influence—promoting wicked- 
 died for all our offences, and his blood cleanseth from 
ness in the world and hypocrisy in the church— all sin. Jesus yet stands pleading, " Come unto me, 
thwarting the means of grace, endeavoring to ensnare 
all ye weary and heavy laden." A hope is set be-
the believer, and in all ways hindering and opposing fore the heirs of despair in this gospel of the king-
the church. In the horrid cruelty of idolatry he is dom. 0 that they would lay hold upon eternal life. 
rioting ; the son of perdition is his tool ; the beast and 
We tell them of the sufficiency of his sacrifice and 
the false prophet receive power from him ; in the 
intercession, of the efficacy of his Spirit, and of the 
plausible corruptions of Christian doctrine, his min- 
 union of his perfections to secure the offered victory. 
isters, polished, learned, eloquent, and persuasive, 
And thereupon we preach repentance and remission of 
exercise a fatal craft ; in science falsely so called, 
sins in his name. Perishing men, believe the things 
an infidel philosophy, and a debasing and voluptuous 
concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Je- 
literature; as well as in the direct provocations of 
sus Christ, and be baptized—put on Christ—enter 
the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride 
into the obedience of the gospel—be conformed to 
of life, he is laying his snares. 
the image of God's Son—fight the good fight of faith 
But we have also intimated that the doctrine re- 
--and when the Lord the righteous Judge shall ap- 
garding the devil, is truth for the times. We have 
pear, he will give to you a crown of righteousness. 
reason to anticipate that in these last days he will 
But remember what the devil knows, and knowing 
prosecute his malicious purpose with the desperate trembles—that the time is short—the Lord is at hand. 
energy of a death-struggle. The church was warned 
of a time when the devil should come down to earth 
in great wrath, because he knoweth that his time is LETTER FROM ENGLAND. 
short. However a luke-warm church may forget it, he 
knows it. Everything seems ominous of this last DEAR BRO. HIMES : — In reading your valuable 
onset. The powers of evil are all in unwonted ac- publication, the Advent Herald, it brings to my mind 
tivity. The well-concerted and energetic measures the recollection of' the past, and calls afresh to my 
of the Romish priesthood, at the very time when mind the happy event of the opening of the meeting-
Rome itself topples to its fall, say intelligibly enough, house at Piltdown, July 9th, 1840, at which you 
The devil is come to you having great wrath, be- were present, and I have therefore taken the present 
cause he knoweth that his time is short." The de- opportunity of addressing you. You will no doubt 
liberate, strong, and efficient measures of the tyrants be interested to hear that the cause is still progress-
of the earth to uphold despotism, and their unmasked ing here. We continue to meet on the " first day of 
league with antichrist to renew the persecution of a 
dark age, at the very time when men were expecting 
to see the last remnant of despotic power crumbling the week " three times, in the morning to " break 
bread," in commemoration of our Lord's death, res-
urrection, and glorious coming again ; in the after-
noon and evening, for the proclamation of the Gospel. 
into ashes, titters the same language. The hollow, 
Our number when you were with us, was two hun-
but loud, and loud because hollow, boasting of the 
dred and four persons, baptized in the name of the Fa-
infidel zealots of " liberty, equality, and fraternity," ther, Son, and the Holy Spirit. You will perceive 
and of the enthusiasts of human progress, at a time 
that we have, by the blessing of God, made some pro-
when reflecting men of every school and party begin 
gress, as the number immersed up to the present 
to perceive war, tyrranny, and disorder, overhanging time is three hundred and sixty-six. We expect 
the groaning earth, repeats the warning. Nor are more to be added on the next Lord's day. We have 
the wild infatuations of gain, and the mad pursuits of 
passed in our journey through much tribulation ; at 
pleasure—the gambling oscillations between avarice times we have been well nigh wrecked, but our frail 
and prodigality, which are the characteristics of this 
" bark still weatherd the storm," and we are thus 
age and country, without their ominous voice. 
able to say, " The Lord is on our side ; therefore 
From every quarter we hear of seducing spirits, we will not fear what man can do unto us." 
with religious novelties, and moral nostrums—all 
We have suffered greatly from a paid ministry ; 
foreshadowing an era of false Christs and false proph- 
The following was received some time since ; but 
not being in accordance with our ideas of poetry was 
laid aside. We now give it by particular request. 
THE SAINTS' REWARD. 
The times of the Gentiles, are over and past, 
The state of probation, is ended at last : 
For the Judge of tire earth has shut to the door, 
And the doom of the world is now sealed evermore. 
The saints of all ages now hear a blest sound ! 
'Tis the voice of the Lord, saying, Come from the 
ground ! 
Leave now your cold graves, come forth to your rest—
The glorified earth, the home of the blest. 
Here the tears of the saints are all wip'd away, 
As promised by God in this happy day ; 
For the home of the blest,—we have gain'd it at last, 
And the sorrows of earth are forever all past. 
Here friends will unite in this glorified land, 
Who long have been sever'd by death's cruel hand ; 
How sweet their embrace, in the land of the fair,—
In Christ's blessed kingdom forever to share. 
A city is here all radiant with light ! 
'Tis the glory of God which makes it so bright : 
Through the gates of our home we look with delight, 
But 0 what a scene, the throne heaves in sight. 
On the throne of his glory, immortal and fair, 
Our King bids us enter, his glory to share, 
We enter the gates, through streets as we pass, 
That sparkle like diamonds, transparent as glass. 
And the saints of all ages,—I see them here now, 
And crowns of bright glory are placed on their brow, 
In the song of redemption, they all join and sing, 
In anthems of praises to Jesus our King. 
Letter from Geo. Bangs. 
BROTHER HIMES :—I wrote you not long since, 
mentioning our privileges and luminous prospects ; 
but a cloud has overshadowed, our circumstances are 
changed, and we are turned into the valley of hu-
miliation, by a stroke of God's afflicting hand. It 
appears to be my lot to give you an account of a dis-
tressing accident which lately oecured in this place, 
by which our dear brother arid pastor, Elder J. Por-
ter, is made the subject of sore distress, and deep 
affliction. 
On Saturday, May 22d, while Bro. Porter was 
attempting to blast a rock which lay in the cellar of 
a small dwelling house, he was intending to build 
for himself, the charge having missed fire, unexpect-
edly went off, while he was in the act of clearing 
the place, so as to renew the charge, and dreadfully 
Letter from I. H. Shipman. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :-1 wish to say through the 
Herald to my brethren who are requesting me to visit 
them, that the cause in this place demands my con-
stant labor at present. We have a large congregation 
and Sabbath-school, numbering over one hundred ; 
and since Elder Eastman has removed to Whitefield, 
we have no supply in my absence. The state of the 
cause, therefore, demands constant preaching, so that 
I cannot leave on the Sabbath. We have also a large 
field of labor in the immediate vicinity, for God has 
opened a wide and effectual door, and I am disposed 
to do what I can for the surrounding region. My 
brethren may be assured that I have lost none of my 
interest in the cause of Christ, nor my love for my 
brethren, and will visit them as soon as the way 
opens for me to do so. I am fully aware that this is 
no place for rest, and my prayer is that I may fight 
the good fight, and keep the faith. May God raise 
up faithful laborers for our destitute congregations, 
is my sincere desire. Yours in hope, 
Sugar Hill, (N. 11.), June 14th, 1852. 
P.S. We are well pleased with the Youth's Guide, 
and hope it will obtain a wide circulation. 
We rejoice that you are delivered from the hand 
of your persecutors, and hope it may prove a valuable 
lesson to them and a spiritual blessing to you. 
Letter from Mary Winkley. 
BROTHER MIMES :—I am still striving to live as 
a pilgrim and stranger on the earth, knowing that 
here I have no continuing city, I seek a city which 
I hope is shortly to come, whose builder and maker 
is God. I am still striving to lay up treasure in 
heaven, and a good foundation against the time to 
come. 1 am fully persuaded that we are living near 
the close of time, and that he that shall come will 
come, and will not tarry. I am striving to keep my-
self unspotted from the world, and to watch and pray 
always, that 1 may be kept from the hour of tempta-
tion that shall come upon the world, to try them that 
dwell upon the earth. I am seeking for glory, hon-
or, immortality, and hope that I shall obtain eternal 
life. It rejoices my heart to think that the Good 
Shepherd is soon coming, to gather his scattered 
flock, and place them in the green pastures of the 
new earth. 
I prize the Herald very highly—it is all the Ad-
vent preaching I have; but I strive to make the Bi-
ble the man of my counsel. l am strong in the faith 
that the Lord is soon coming, to take his ransomed 
people home. Yours waiting for redemption. 
Aurora, (lnd.), May 31st, 1852. 
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
OF 
Second Adventists. 
Held at Hartford, Ct., June Stk., 9t1t, and 10th, 18 2. 
(Concluded .1. ront our last.) 
THURSDAY—MORNING SESSION. 
The Conference met pursuant to adjournment, and 
was opened by prayer and singing. 
The following resolutions, embraced in the origi-
nal report of the business committee, were adopted : 
Whereas, there are several of our ministerial breth-
ren disabled by excess of labor, and others are liable 
to become so ; therefore 
Resolved, That we recommend that quarterly col-
lections be raised in all our congregations, for the 
purpose of supplying their necessities : these collec-
tions beginning the 2d of August, and being contin-
ued quarterly from that time. The aforesaid collec-
tions to be held by the officers of the church, or by a 
committee appointed for the purpose, and appropriated 
as they and the committee deem best. 
Resolved, That a treasurer and committee be ar-
pointed by this Conference, to receive and appropri-
ate such collections to the cases most needy among 
disabled ministerial brethren. 
On motion, Willard Ide, of New York city, was 
appointed treasurer, and L. D. Mansfield and A. K. 
Warner, committee. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The following resolutions were then moved : 
Whereas, the peculiar circumstances in which Bro. 
J. V. Himes has been placed in the providence of 
God, have exposed him to the envy and avarice of 
professed friends and open foes ; and whereas, he has 
recently been subjected to a most cruel and unjust 
prosecution, and has been delivered by the goodness 
of God from the hand of his enemies ; therefore 
Resolved, That we hereby tender to him our sin-
cere and united congratulations, upon the happy is-
sue of the recent trial at Providence. 
Resolved, That our confidence in our Bro. Himes 
is not only " unabated," but that it is increased, and 
now finally established, by the rigid legal investiga-
tion to which his life, for many years past, has been 
subjected in the late trial. 
On motion of Bro. Riffles, these resolutions were 
laid on the table, that the time might be occupied by 
the brethren in giving accounts of their respective 
fields of labor. 
Deacon J. S. Clapp, of Homer, N. Y., presented 
a letter from the church there, which was read. He 
then spoke of the state of the cause in his region. 
Similar statements were made by others of their 
respective sections of country—viz., by P. B. Mor-
gan, of Portland, who presented a letter from the 
church there, which was read ; Brn. Rice and Ing-
ham, of Nova Scotia ; N. Smith, of Hallowell, Me. ; 
Sherwin and Berick, of Lowell ; Hawley, of Me. ; 
D. I. Robinson ; Bentley ; Merrill ; Bosworth, of Low 
Hampton ; D. T. Taylor, of Boston ; Howell ; W. 
A.. S. Smyth, of Worcester ; Farrar, of Pa. ; and 
Heath, of Lunenburg, and others. 
These reports were of an interesting character. 
Other remarks were made, and the Conference ad-
journed to meet at 4 o'clock. 
L. D. Mansfield preached at 2 o'clock from Nehe-
miah 6 : 3 : " I am doing a great work—I cannot 
come down to you." 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
Conference was called to order by the Chairman. 
The following report of a committee of Advent 
brethren, appointed to report to the Conference re-
specting the trial of Elder J. V. Himes, was then 
read, and moved to he placed on the minutes of this 
Conference. A discussion of some length arose on 
that portion of the report which relates to the duty 
of the Conference in respect to bro. Himes, in case 
any further annoyance should be attempted. The 
report was as foliows : 
o the Conference to assemble in Hartford, Ct., 
June 8th, 1852 : 
DdAR BRETHREN :—The undersigned, who, among 
many others, having assembled in Providence, R. I., 
to witness the trial before the Supreme Court, of Wil-
liams vs. Humes,—though the testimony abundantly 
showed that others were the prosecutors, as it was tes-
tified under oath, by one whose letters published 
West declared that he had nothing to do with it, that 
he had done about all in preparing the suit,— that 
he had taken, or assisted in taking nearly all the depo-
sitions, and had summoned nearly all the witnesses. 
The most of us having remained during the entire 
trial, and listened attentively to the witnesses in the 
case, were selected p.s a committee to address you 
on that subject. We were appointed to set before 
you the nature, progress, and result of that trial, and 
to report to you some method of action for your con-
sideration, which in our minds would be calculated 
to remedy the evil, as far as it may be remedied, to 
prevent its re-occurence ; or in case of any re-occur-
rence, to meet the issue, and deal with it as it richly 
deserves. In the discharge of this trust, we are not 
slow to comprehend the responsibilities and difficul-
ties in our way, which are owing mostly to our pe-
culiar organization, and to our great desire, in all 
things, to abstain from the very appearance of evil. 
It is, however, our serious opinion, that this is a 
case which calls for action, that shall make itself both 
felt and respected. Our opinions here expressed, 
will be in accordance with the evidence presented in 
the trial. 
The principal witnesses in the case, were the ones 
who have figured most conspicuously in the past 
events, so painful among us. Their testimony left 
on the minds of those nut partizans in the trial, the 
conviction, that envy, hatred, and malice had in them 
a fixed place against the person upon whom they had 
.visited their wrath, and that his destruction was to 
them a pleasant dream, and a determined purpose. 
We can cheerfully speak of the Judges as impartial 
and gentlemanly. The prosecutors had ample time, 
uninterruptedly to bring all their batteries to bear 
upon the defendant. In one instance, when the 
lawyer for the defence interposed a legal objection 
to the kind of testimony being given, he was re-
quested by his client to allow them to testify to all 
and everything within their power : so that every 
event, and every rumor, which the prosecution could 
present, covering the past life of our brother for fif-
teen years, in every fOrm and manner, with all their 
ingenuity, with their selfish ends to gain, arid rage 
to gratify, were fully overwhelmed and exposed, to 
the extent of their ability. 
It is usually expected that the prosecutor, to con-
vict his opponent, must prove his guilt : but in this 
case, it was apparently expected that the defendant 
would prove his innocence, and most triumphantly 
did he do so. There are but few men, having such 
enemies, secret and open, engaged for two years in 
such a work, who could pass such a scrutiny un-
scathed ; especially when the effort is made against 
a public man, and a reformer, or one who has passed 
years in the midst of excitement. Yet such a man 
as the defendant in this suit proved himself to be. 
Attacked on every hand, every act misconstrued, and 
all that could be devised by his most deadly enemies, 
put in requisition against him, he conies out victori-
ous over them ;—all their shafts break, and fall harm-
less at his feet. He has in this proved himself free 
from stain, such as his enemies would cast upon 
him. All whose efforts leave him without a spot on 
his character. So clearly was this seen, that after 
the suit closed, several of the jurymen remarked, 
that at the close of the testimony for the prosecution, 
and before the defence was entered at all, they should 
have rendered a verdict against the plaintiff. 
As to the authors of this crusade, we can only say, 
that they are shown forth in every step of this black 
and malignant prosecution, They are known to you 
all, and we wish to leave them to their well-merited 
forgetfulness. 
It is a more difficult task to recommend a course 
winch will prevent a re-occurrence of such proceed-
ings, or which shall meet the case, if it should be 
attempted again. It is evident that no other attempt 
will be made on the same person, after being so per-
fectly vindicated, with any hope of success, unless 
they shall have been given over to a spirit of mad-
ness. Should they begin again, it must be for the 
purpose of injuring the cause to which we are all 
espoused, under the pretence of attacking him. In 
this view of the case, we recommend the Conference 
and churches to place themselves unitedly with him 
before his enemies, who have (luring the pending 
of this suit so fully developed themselves. There 
is a class of our brethren who have stood undecided, 
looking at the progress of the things now past : 
many of them having confidence in the men engaged 
in this persecution, feeling that they must have had 
some ground for their complaints. Many others, 
honest in heart, have been deceived, and under that 
deception have hitherto acted. To all such we say, 
the past must undeceive all but the wilfully blind. 
Come, then, again-, brethren, unite your prayers and 
labors of love with us, and let us work in this cause 
shoulder to shoulder, till the Master gives us our re-
lease, or calls us home. Let the past be forgotten, 
and on the one common platform now unite in friend-
ship and in love ; and may peace crown our efforts. 
God be our protection in all future time : and may 
our reward be life eternal in God's everlasting king 
dom. 
L. D. Mansfield, N. Y. ; 0. R. Fassett, Hartford ; 
A. Hale, Charlestown, Mass. ; J. Litch, Philadel-
phia ; L. Osier, Salem ; Thomas Smith, Me ; Charles 
Merchant, Newark, N. .1. ; G. W. Burnham, Homer, 
N. Y. ; H. Plummer, Haverhill, Mass. ; A. Brown, 
Providence ; H. Parker, Worcester, Mass. ; H. Tan-
ner, Buffalo. 
The Conference adjourned while the question was 
pending. 
At 8 o'clock Bro. J. Litch preached a discourse 
from Luke 10:2. 
[The outline of this sermon will be given in the 
Herald at a future tirne.1 
FRIDAY—MORNING SESSION. 
The resolutions relating to Bro. H. were then 
called up, and after some brief remarks by Edwin 
Burnham, L. D. Mansfield, and J. J. Porter, were 
adopted without a dissenting vote. 
Bro. Himes expressed his regret that it was neces-
sary to mention his name so often, he had heard it so 
much during the late trial of two weeks, that he was 
wearied. He would, however, express his unfeigned 
thanks to his brethren for their sympathy and sup-
port, which had been to him a great source of consola-
tion. 
The following preamble and resolutions were pre-
sented by the business committee, and adopted : 
Whereas, difficulties sometimes occur in churches 
between members, and sometimes between large por-
tions, so as to lead to division ; therefore 
Resolved, That this Conference recommend our 
brethren in all such cases to immediately use the 
scriptural rules given in Matt. 5th and 18th chapters 
for the settlement of all difficulties ; and when arising 
between sections of churches, this does not suffice, 
then submit their case to a mutual council ; and if 
this cannot be obtained, an exparte council ; and that 
we advise our ministering brethren not to counte-
nance or sustain disaffected divisions, where such ef-
forts fur peaceable adjustment have riot been had ; as 
it would tend directly to disorder and alienation 
among both ministers and churches. 
Whereas, there is often a lamentable deficiency in 
the recepts of preachers to support themselves and 
families, sometimes hardly having their travelling 
expenses paid ; therefore 
Resolved, That we would earnestly urge our breth-
ren and the church officers to see that no good minis-
ter laboring with them be allowed to depart front 
them without a sufficiency for their comfortable sub-
sistence, that all may be able to continue to labor un-
encumbered in the cause and vineyard of the Lord. 
The following resolution, expressive of the grati-
tude of the Conference for the hospitality extended 
to them, was passed : 
Resolved, That this Conference are deeply sensible 
of the generosity of our friends in this city in the 
entertainment of the Conference, and would hereby 
express our acknowledgments for their kindness. 
The following preambles and resolutions were then 
passed : 
Whereas, the " Advent Herald " is an invaluable 
instrumentality in carrying forward and promoting 
tine most healthy condition of the great cause in which 
we are so deeply interested ; therefore 
Resolved, That we the members of this Confer-
ence, in our individual capacity, will exert our ut-
most influence in its support, and endeavor to double, 
if possible, its subscription during the present year. 
Whereas, we still live where we have the poor 
and needy with us, 
Resolved, That we recommend to all the churches 
that they lay by in store as the Lord has prospered 
them, that they may have to give to him that needeth. 
Voted. that the proceedings of the Conference be 
published in the " Advent Herald." 
Voted ten adjourn. JOSIAH LITCH. Pres't. 
0. R. FASSETT, V. Pres't. 
S. Brass, 
} Sec's. 
L. D. MANSFIELD, 
Bro. ROBERT CHOWN writes from Dixon, (Ill.), under date of 
June 2d, /852. 
BROTHER HIMES :—We had a meeting at Cranes-
grove, Stephenson county, Illinois, beginning May 
28th, and continuing till June 1st, of which I send 
you a sketch. Brn. Hugh Jones, N. A. Hitchcock, 
Jacob Momenteller, Dr. Jacobs, Wm. Lawhorn, 
Wrn. 0. Sterns, and others were present, and took 
part in the services. Bro. H. Allard was set apart 
to the ministry by a unanimous vote. 
The Conference Resolved, 1st, to approve of Elder 
Hitchcock as an evangelist. 2d. To make prepara- I 
tion to support an evangelist.. 3d. To hold another 
meeting, commencing on Friday, July 9th, hoping 
that brethren scattered abroad will meet with us, and 
that ministering brethren would come and help us. 
4th. That the proceedings of the meeting be pub-
lished. Yours in the hope of redemption. 
I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE ; Be who beiieveih IR 
ME, though he should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever Event 
and believeth in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
BRO. H1MES :—Our beloved Bro. JOSEPH FLETCHER, 
of Hatley, fell asleep in Jesus on the 22d of April, 
aged forty-four years, after an illness of about four 
months, leaving a wife and seven children, and an 
afflicted church, to mourn his loss : yet we mourn 
riot as those who have no hope. Bro. Fletcher had 
long been a consistent follower of Christ, and when 
the sound of redemption at hand saluted his ear, he 
listened, and investigated the subject, and the result 
was he embraced it. He held fast the beginning of 
his confidence steadfast to the end, and notwithstand-
ing his sufferings were severe, he endured them with-
out a murmur, or complaint. Bro. Fletcher was not 
actuated by impulse, but having the root of the mat-
ter in him, he was ever ready to do his duty. He 
has fallen, but he fell like a soldier—he died at his 
post. He sleeps, but he sleeps in Jesus. He was 
committed to the mother dust on the 25th, followed 
by a large concourse of people, who loved him, and 
sympathize with his afflicted family. Bro. John War-
ren, the pastor of the Advent Church inn this place, 
preached an excellent discourse ten the satisfaction of 
all, from 2 Tim. 4:7, 8—" I have fought a good 
fight," &c. May God sustain the afflicted family 
and Church, and prepare us for that laud where there 
will be no more death. When we see so many of 
the faithful falling, we cry out, " When will the 
morning come ?" 
D. W. S. 
DIED, in South Reading, Mass., May 3d, 1852, 
HENRY GRAY, aged 55 years. Bro. Gray was con-
verted in the spring of 1840, and joined the Baptist 
Church. In 1842 he embraced the doctrine of the 
immediate corning of Christ, and thenceforward was 
one of its most prominent supporters in this place, 
sharing the burdens, privations, and trials, as readily 
as its joys, blessedness, and hopes. The sudden and 
unexpected providence which removed our beloved 
brother, was a heavy stroke both upon his family, 
(a wife and two daughters), and the little Advent 
church in that place, who deeply feel their loss. 
But they sorrow not as others who have no hope. 
For several years our departed brother had been af-
flicted with the heart disease, and two or three times 
he had narrowly escaped with his life, which occa-
sioned him to think he should not live till the Sa-
viour returned. He often made mention of this in 
meeting, saying that he should die very suddenly,—
that it would be like the blowing out of a candle. 
And so it was ; for he was found under the tree where 
he had been grafting, and he was seen but a few mo-
ments before he fell, and was taken up dead. In the 
morning of the same day, feeling the symptoms of 
his disease, he said it would not be strange if he died 
before night. And he was often heard to say, " I 
ant ready." It is due the bereaved friends to say of 
the deceased, that he was a man of more than ordi-
nary talents, and if he had been favored with the ad-
vantages of an education, he might have occupied a 
very conspicuous post in the visible church. But he 
is gone, and while we feel our loss, and mourn, we 
are comforted with tine blessed assurance, that at the 
coming of Christ God will bring back his sleeping 
dust from the land of the enemy, mould it into the 
likeness of Jesus' glorified body, bring him into the 
promised possession ; and that we very soon shall 
meet him there, and be forever blessed. 
SAMUEL HEATH. 
DIED, at Warehouse Point, Ct., April 30th. 1852, 
ROSANNA L. BANCROFT, eldest daughter of Bissell 
and Joanna Bancroft, aged 20 years. She early pro-
fessed to love the Saviou, yet for a time was drawn 
away to the world, but was reclaimed again, and the 
last two years of her life were devoted to God. Her 
sickness was of few days' continuance, in which she 
suffered much. She was patient and resigned. The 
day before her decease, having given all into the 
hands of God, she wished her father to sing tine hymn, 
" On Jordan's stormy banks I stand," &c. She 
joined inn the singing, and seemed to rejoice in the 
prospect of the heavenly inheritance. She called the 
family around her dying bed, exhorted them all to 
be faithful, and to prepare to meet her in the kingdom 
of God, and then bid them adieu. She left words of 
warning for her associates whom she could not see, 
and wished that they might be admonished in the 
funeral service, to prepare to meet God. She was 
respected and beloved by a large circle of friends, 
who with the family mourn her loss. 
Great. God, I own thy sentence just, 
And nature must decay ; 
I yield my body to the dust, 
To dwell with fellow-clay. 
Yet faith may triumph o'er the grave, 
And trample on the tombs ; 
My great Redeemer ever lives, 
My God, my Saviour, comes. 
The mighty Conqueror shall appear, 
High on a royal seat; 
And Death, the last of all his fees, 
Lie vanquished at his feet. 
Then shall I see thy lovely face 
With strong, immortal eyes, 
And feast upon thy wondrous grace 
With pleasure and surprise. 
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had of the Agent, and is worth the attention of asthmatic patients. 
The following letter is from the well-known Druggist at Hills-
dale, Mich., one of the largest dealers in the State, and this case is 
from his own observation : 
" Hillsdale, (Mich.), Dec. 10, 1849. 
" Dear Sir :—Immediately on receipt of your Cherry Pectoral, I 
carried a bottle to an acquaintance of mine who was thought to be 
near his end with quick consumption. He was then tunable to rise 
from his bed, and was extremely feeble. His friends believed Inc 
must soon die, unless relief could be obtained for him, and I in 
duced them to give your excellent medicine a trial. I immediately 
left town for three weeks, and you may judge of my surprise on my 
return. to meet hint in the street on my way home from the ears, 
and find he had entirely recovered. Four weeks from the day he 
commenced taking Your medicine, he was at work at his arduous 
trade of a blacksmith. 
" There are other cases within my knowledge, where the Cherry 
Pectoral has been singularly successful, but none so marked as this. 
" Very truly yours. G. W. UNDERWOOD." 
HEAR THE PATIENT. 
" Dr. J. C. Ayer, Lowell—Dear Sir :—Feeling under obligations 
to you for the restoration of my health, I send you a report of my 
case, which you are at liberty to publish for the benefit of others. 
Last autumn I took a had cold, accompanied by a severe cough, and 
made use of many medicines without obtaining relief. 1 was ob-
liged to give up business, frequently raised blood, and could get no 
sleep at night. A friend gave me a bottle of your Cherry Pectoral, 
the use of which I immediately oommenced according to direc-
tions. I have just purchased the fifth bottle, and am nearly recov-
ered. I now sleep well, my cough has ceased, and all by .the use of 
your valuable medicine. 
E. S. STONE, A. 114•, 
"Principal Mount Hope Seminary." 
" Hanover (0.), April 3, 1F50. 
" Dear Slr :—I wish I could tell all that suffer with a cough, what 
your Cherry Pectoral has done Sir me. It does seem they might he 
beneficed by the information. I had a lung fever, which left my 
lungs weak and inflamed. Being very feeble, and unable to gain 
strength at all, my friends thought I must soon sink in consume 
Lion. I had no appetite, and a dreadful cough was fast wending me 
away. I begat) to take your beautiful medicine, by tine advice of a 
clergyman, who had seen its effects before. It eased Ills CODS!) at 
first, and gave me rest at night. Inn less than a fortnight I could eat 
well, and my cough had ceased to be troublesome, HIV appetite re-
turned, and my food nourished me, which soon restored my 
strength. Now, after five weeks, I am well and strong, With DO 
other help than your Cherry Pectoral, Yours with respect, 
"JULIA DEAN." 
" I hereby certify that the above statement of my wife is inn con-
formity with my own views of her case, and her cure by Ayer'e 
Cherry Pectoral. 
JOSEPH DEAN." 
"The above-named Joseph Dean, and Julia, ma wife, are person-
ally known to me, and implicit confidence may be placed in their 
statement. 
SAMUEL C. VAN DERWENT, 
" Pastor of the Baptist Church," 
Prepared by JAMES C. AYER, Chemist, Lowell, Mass.,and 
sold by S. W. Fowle, Boston; Brown & Price, Salem ; T. F. 
Phillips, Newburyport ; W. R. Preston, Portsmouth; Durgin & 
(fen., Portland ; Cushing & Black, Augusta; G. W. Emerson, Ban-
gor ; W. 0. Poor, Belfast ; Allison & Gault, Concord ; J. A. Perry, 
Manchester ; James Green, Worcester ; H. Brewer, Springfield ; 
Lee & Butler, Hartford ; Lee & Osgood, Norwich ; C. S. Got ham, 
New Haven ; W. E. Bissell, Norwalk ; Balch & Son, Proviirnee ; 
E Thornton, New Bedford ; L. Clapp, Pawtucket ; J. T. , 
Plymouth ; T. A. Peck, Burlington ; S. K. Collins, Montpelier H 
Worthier, Windsor ; and by all druggists everywhere. [I.7-3m 
208 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JUNE 20, 1552. 
 41101111 
Close of the Volume. 
With this number we reach the middle of the current year, 
and the close of its first semi-annual volume. For the last 
year we have been very much diverted from our accustomed 
duties, and occupied in self-defence against those who have 
wickedly brought us before the courts of the land. Notwith-
standing their signal and complete discomfiture, they have 
put us to much perplexity and trouble, and have left no means 
untried to cripple us in our labors, and to lessen the circula-
tion of the;Herald. While their success has been only par-
tial, we would remind our patrons, that what they have ac-
complished should be reversed. As we enter on another 
semi-annual volume of the paper, it is a good time to enlarge 
its circulation. A little effort on the part of each one would 
effect this, and add hundreds to its readers. We solicit the 
kind offices of all interested in the prosperity of the Herald. 
Will those indebted to this office, remember our necessi-
ties, and make returns for all arrearages 3 
THOSE in arrears for the Herald will find their indebted-
ness on the margin of this number of the paper in connection 
with their names. Those who receive the paper in a single 
envelope, will find the amount due on the same. Canada 
and Nova Scotia subscribers seeing the amount due from 
them, will receive it, in accordance with a previous notice, 
that to such as do not pay in advance of those on whose pa-
pers we have to pre-pay the postage, it will be discontinued. 
The Report of the Trial. 
BRO. H1MES :-The article in last week's Herald, from 
IL'Tanner, expresses my mind exactly. I fully believe it to 
be the duty of at least sixty of your friends, and the friends 
of the blessed cause which is so dear to us all, to subscribe 
and pay ten dollars each for the purpose of publishing all the 
evidence given under oath at the late trial, that all may know 
something more about the matter than they can learn from 
the mere language used by Gen. Carpenter in withdrawing 
his case from court. Please put down $10 to my name fur 
this purpose. Very truly yours, CHAS. WOOD. 
Worcester, June 21st, 1852. 
PLEDGES 
To defray the expenses of publishing the Report of the late Trial, 
to be paid in case $600 shall be pltdged, and to receive pay in 
books. 
Herald office t... 100 001 Chas. Wood, Worcester. 10 00 
S. C. Berry, Rye, N H.. lu 001 
EXPENSES OF THE SUIT.-We are tillable at the Ares 
eat time to make a definite statement, from the fact that the 
taxable costs of court will be recovered from the other party, 
-provided his surety proves to be responsible. As this is 
now only problematical, as we know not how much they may 
litigate respecting it, we shall be unable to speak definitely 
till that is determined. 
Witnesses at court who have not been paid, will please to 
indulge us awhile, till we recover the means front the prose-
cutors. 
CONGRATULATORY LETTERS.-We have received con-
gratulatory letters from several churches, and private indi-
viduals respecting the result of the late trial. These are 
very gratifying to us individually, and we cordially thank 
those who thus sympathize with us. Letters from the 
churches in Albany and Worcester have been peculiarly 
gratifying, from the opportunity those churches have had to 
know the one whose hand has been in all this. The generous 
assistance rendered by them and others, has net the blow 
which was aimed at the finances of this office. Should we 
begin to publish these epistolary tokens of regard, we should 
hardly know where to stop. Our friends will therefore please 
to accept, instead, our grateful acknowledgments for these 
expressions of their kindness and confidence,which we hope 
to continue to merit. 
To Correspondents. 
BRO. HistEs :-What is to be understood by " the ful- 
ness of the Gentiles?" 
H. SMALLING. 
Ans.-The full number of the Gentiles. It includes every 
Gentile who is to come in, when the fulness, i. e., the full 
number of the Jews will also have come in-thus accom-
plishing the full number of God's elect. 
THE late Conference at Hartford was a very pleasant and 
profitable meeting. It was well attended, and conducted with 
harmony and interest. The friends present were much grati-
fied with the kindness and hospitality with which they were 
received and entertained by the church in Hartford. We 
trust it may prove mutually profitable to all interested. 
TRURO.-Bro. I. Adrian and myself spent last Sabbath 
with the Advent church in Truro. We had a good day. The 
flock there are'prospering in the Lord. They intend to put 
tip a chapel this fall. Bro. Adrian has been invited by them 
to take the pastoral charge. He will commence his labors 
with them the fourth Sunday in July. J. Y. H. 
BRO. J. Po RTE R.-We sympathize with this brother in 
his affliction, referred to in the letter of Bro. Bangs, on ano-
ther page, and commend his case not only to the prayers of 
our brethren, but to their generous aid. J. V. H. 
CALLS.-We have many calls front abroad, Ian shall be 
able to attend to but few at present. Duties will detain us 
at home a portion of the time this season. The cause in 
Boston also requires a portion of our time and attention. 
Elder EDWIN BURNHAM will preach in Chardon-street 
Chapel, Boston, the last three Sundays in July. 
The Blindness of Madness. 
It is a wonder to many, that some persons have pursued so 
remarkable and suicidal a course in persecuting Bro. Himes, 
that they should have gone to such lengths in endeavors to 
destroy his character, exhibiting imbecility and blindness 
such as have rarely been witnessed by men laying any claim 
to Christianity and common sense ; list the following passage 
explains the phenomenon :-" He that hateth his brother is 
in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whi-
ther he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." 
1 John. 2:11. When Haman built the gallows for Mordecai, 
he " knew not whither he was going, because darkness had 
blinded his eyes." So those persons is Ito prepared a court 
of justice with which to execute one who stood in their way, 
little thought that they would lie abundantly convicted on 
their own testimony of having violated every principle of the 
gospel and of honor, and that they should raise him whom 
they thought to destroy, higher in the esteem of the court 
and jury, and all who heard. 
REMARKS. -The ancient pagans had a proverb : - 
" Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." 
The gods of the heathen were demons, and the same gods 
now seek to accomplish similar results by like means. Noth-
ing but the most stupid blindness could have led men into so 
foolish a position as those who originated the late suit found 
themselves in, when it terminated. No doubt their wish 
was father to their thought ; but they must have believed 
they could succeed, or the effort would never have been made. 
Had they not given assurances to their counsel, which they 
failed to substantiate, it is incredible how any respectable 
lawyer would have favored their suit for a moment ; and 
words dropped by the instigators of the plaintiff, show that 
at the very time when his counsel were resolving to discon-
tinue, they, the instigators, were still certain of success. 
This explains their chagrin at the advice of their counsel, 
and their threats' to commence anew, when their counsel had 
withdrawn from the case. 
We learn that many reports are busily circulated respect-
ing the cause of the discontinuance,-circulated for the pur-
pose of screening them from the consequences of their own acts. 
Among other things they say that the merits of the pamphlet 
were not affected by the result. To test their sincerity in 
this assertion, we will give them the privilege of publishing 
the report of the case-reported phonographically, the re-
porter of which informs us that he can take his oath to its 
being verbatim. They also complain that other issues were 
made, than the truth of charges in the pamphlet. Their 
want of sincerity in this, is shown by their making the issue 
that the pamphlet was privileged. They well know that we 
had to make issues to meet that. If they wish to try the 
issue of the truth of the pamphlet, and that only, they can 
easily arrange it so that it can be in the power of no one to 
make any other issue. This and this only would be tried if 
some of them would enter a complaint before the grand jury, 
against one of them, for circulating a libelous hook, or for 
publishing it. Let them take that course if sincere in that 
expression. Some have the impression that the case was 
mutually withdrawn. This is false ; it was a regular back-
ing out, just as Gen. Ames was on the point of opening his 
battery upon them. And thus they saved themselves a scorch-
ing, which would have continued for a day and a half, such 
as is not often visited on a plaintiff and his abetters in any 
suit. 
Our readers are probably aware that an effort on the part 
of two or more to convict one of any crime, is Bfackstone's 
definition of conspiracy in the eye of the law. Therefore 
while any one has a right to assist in defending the assailed 
party, every one who, except their legal counsel, has advised 
or has contributed towards the prosecution of Mr. Himes for 
the crime of slander, or has published an appeal for help fur 
that purpose, is liable to an indictment by the grand jury. 
And it has been hinted, that the sudden " scatteration " from 
the court-house about two hours before the case was with-
drawn, and their emigration from the place in the earliest 
train, was owing to the fact that the grand jury were then in 
session in the upper room of the court-house. 
Letter from C. B. Turner. 
Agreeable to the recommendation of the Conference held 
in Boston in May, 1851, I left New York in June. Our first 
meetings were at Brazier's Falls, St. Lawrence county. On 
one afternoon I preached to a very large and attentive con-
gregation, during a very heavy shower of rain. It was al-
most impossible for me to speak so as to be understood, and 
I felt the effect of the effort on the lungs at the time. After-
wards I preached there a few days, when two were baptized, 
and others embraced the truth. 
I visited Massena, and found warm hearts to greet me, 
where I had before seen hundreds anxiously looking for the 
corning Saviour. A sister of my father, with a niece and 
her husband, that were once ready, with open arms, to cheer 
me on my labors, were then slumbering with the dead ; but 
they expired in hope soon to rise, clothed in immortality. 
The warm greetings, and deep interest manifested, brought 
to my mind thrilling scenes of former days, and our meetings 
were attended with deep interest. 
At East Muria death had been busy. My former pilgrim 
home was entirely broken up,-the wife and daughter were 
sleeping in Jesus. But there were many, whose names are 
in the book of life, to give me a hearty welcome. Meetings 
were well attended, and discourses listened to with deep in-
terest. 
At Depeyster I met warm and open hearts, and preached 
to a good audience. At Canton Falls the attendance and ntt-
tendon were good, and I found many looking for the return of 
Him whom their soul loved. This ended my labors. I have 
not since been able to enter the house of worship. From the 
Falls I returned to Depeyster. 
The result of this tour was very unfavorable on my health. 
On the 15th of July 1 was taken with hemorrhage of the 
lungs, which continued, at intervals, for several days ; but I 
continued my labors for some two weeks. At Canton Falls 
I suffered much on Saturday night with colic, but preached 
twice on the Sabbath. This had scarcely subsided, when 
it was followed with violent fever, and with inflammation of 
the lungs and the brain. This continued with more or less 
intensity till the 12th of August, when the constriction of the 
chest, and the irritation of the lungs, produced a spasmodic 
cough. It was so severe for five hours, that I could not lie 
down, nor had I strength to sit without support ; nor, as 
they tell me, were the eyes opened for that length of time. 
Once before I had not been expected to survive the night, 
and there was now no hope that I should survive the day. 
For several weeks I was subject to these attacks of cough-
ing, and in one of them was, for a while, thought dead. 
With the first attack, 1 lost the power of speech, above a 
whisper, and for many days and nights I was unable to lie 
down, on account of my cough, or move from my seat with-
out help ; and for about three months I was dressed, un-
dressed, bathed, &c., almost like an infant. I was at the 
house of Bro. Ezra Smith, wino, with his family, did what 
human hands could do for my relief. Two of my brothers-
one with his wife-came to my aid. Mrs. Martin, also, of 
Brooklyn, very kindly came to see that everything possible 
was done for my recovery. When everything seemed to fail 
to give relief, Bro. I. E. Jones was sent for, who spent sev-
eral days with me. Bro. Ghoslin had kindly visited and 
comforted me almost daily for several weeks. Many others 
also visited me. For a time the cough subsided in violence, 
and I gained a little strength ; but when the season became 
cooler my cough increased, till it was evident that I could not 
survive the winter if I remained there, and with three days' 
hard labor, by the cars mostly, I reached my father's in Ver-
mont, where I had El mother's care, and all the kindness that 
parents, brothers, and sisters could bestow. But death had 
followed me here, and it soon became evident that I must go 
to the grave, or to some other location. I could not lie 
down by day or night, so severe was my cough. 
My next effort was to reach New York, which I accom-
plished, by the kindness of friends on the way, and with 
much fatigue, the last of November. Here my health im-
proved a little for a time, but when the severe cold came, 
the last of December, or first of January, my health again 
declined. My cough again increased. On the 10th of Jan-
uary I was taken suddenly with a severe fit of coughing, so 
that I was not expected to survive ; and with that attack I 
lost event the pbwer to whisper. For seven days and nights 
I was unable to lay my head upon the pillow, not until I 
sailed for Savannah. Friends consulted together, and con-
cluded that they must carry me to a warmer climate or to 
Greenwood, soon. I was closely wrapped up and veiled, put 
into a close carriage, and taken to the boat for Savannah, un-
der the care of my brother, Jan. 17th. Soon alter the 
steamer had got under way, my nerves relaxed, my cough 
abated, and I was laid upon the side seat of the upper saloon, 
where we were sitting, in entire helplessness. For near 
three days I could not have my head raised from the pillow, 
-not till we reached the Savannah river. On the fourth 
day I was carried on shore, and taken to the house of Capt. 
Moody, Where all was done for me that the situation of the 
family permitted. 
My brother placed me upon the saddle each day, and 
walked beside me when I rode out to take the air. But af-
ter two or three weeks it became necessary that he should 
return to New York. I missed his care, and was soon una- 
ble to spend but a part of the night in bed, at most. What 
time I could sit upon the saddle I spent in a grove of pines 
near my boardinghouse. Capt. Moody treated me with 
much kindness, coining to my room and supporting me to the 
table at each meal. 
When it became evident that I could not live at Savannah, 
I made another effort. With Bro. Southard I started for 
the country. I had been kept alive by the use of stimulants 
on the steamship, and now they again became necessary. 
With much fatigue we reached Taylor's Creek, Liberty co., 
Ga., the fore part of March, and took board with Mr. 
McFail, who, with his very kind family, did what they could 
for us. They were not so situated as to give us the nursing 
hand of a mother or a sister, but they have done cheerfully 
what they could. May the Lord reward them for their kind-
ness. We have also had the kindness and counsel of Dr. 
Avant and Dr. Mooney. 
I have spent what time my strength permitted in the for-
ests which surround us, and Rill benefited by it. My health 
has been improving some for the last few weeks, and I 11111 
warring patiently for the returning power of speech. It will 
come at last, when I enter that land where " the dumb shall 
sing." 
Bro. Southard left me some five weeks since for the North, 
and I shall attempt to return to Brooklyn in a few days. But 
it' life is spared me, I shall be necessitated to return to a 
warm climate next autumn. 
In bonds of Christian love, &c. 
[Since the above was written, Bro. T. has returned to 
Brooklyn, N. Y., as per his letter in the Herald of the 12th. 
Bro. Southard has also arrived in this city, in very feeble 
health.] 
BRO. kV m. RYAN, OF ANTIGUA, W. I.-This brother 
came to the United States to improve his health, but the 
change of climate does not seem to benefit him, and he wishes 
to return. He is extremely feeble, and is without means for 
his return. I should be glad to do all he needs myself, but 
can do but little. I received many kindnesses from him and 
Iris family when in the West Indies, and I feel constrained 
to appeal to 011C brethren and sisters in his behalf,and I hope 
they will aid our brother in a strange land. Any donations 
should be sent at once, as he will sail the first opportunity. 
Direct to L. D. Mansfield, 199 West Fifteenth-street, New 
York city, and the amounts will be acknowledged in the 
Herald when completed. L. D. MANSFIELD. 
June 17th, 1852. 
EXPLANATION :-I see by the minutes of the last Confer-
ence, that the Secretaries have made a mistake, which per-
haps it would be well to correct-at least it would place my-
self in a more enviable light. I was chosen by the chair one 
of three who were to select officers for the permanent organi-
zation of the Conference. I see that only two have been no-
ticed, Bro. Porter and myself, whereas Bro. Taylor (not of 
Boston,) was on that committee. Also, in that report my 
name appears as Vice President. As the minutes now are, 
I appear as having proposed my own name to be acted upon 
by the Conference for the above office ; whereas, the truth 
in the case was, that the majority of the committee after-
wards altered that'report, and placed my name upon it with-
out my sanction, and not bully with any knowledge, till read 
before tine Conference. 
0. R. FASSETT. 
THE DEATH OF JOHN ADAMS.-The Pennsylvanian, in 
series of glances at Congress, gives the following:-"A 
touching incident is told by Mr. Webster, of the father of 
Mr. Adams, the celebrated John Adams. It is no less ap-
plicable to Mr. Clay, whose lamp of life lingers like an Oc-
tober sunset before night descends, than it was to Mr. Ad- 
ams himself. Mr. Webster called to see John Adams on one 
of the loveliest days in June, (Mr. Adams died on the next 
4th of July,) and found him in a more cheerful mood than 
usual. He congratulated hint upon his apparently improved 
health, and predicted for him years of comfort. ' You are 
mistaken, Mr. Webster,' said the sage. 'My days upon earth 
are few and numbered. I tun the tenant of a miserable, worn-
out old mansion ; and what is worse than all, the landlord 
refuses to make any more repairs.' " 
Appointments, &C. 
NOTICE. -As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments trust be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
evening, or they monad be inserted until the following week. 
Bro. L. Kimball wilt preach in Albany, N. Y , Sunday, Jane 27th; 
Fort Ann, 29th, evening Low Hampton, Sunday, July 4th ; Addi-
son, Vt., Sunday, Ilth - will Bro. Smith or Bro. W hit ford meet hint 
at the Vergennes' depot afternoon of the 16th ? Bristol, Sunday, 18. 
We hope our brother will be helped on his way, and that lie will 
be a blessing, to the flocks he may visit. 
Bro. [limes will preach in New York and Brooklyn Sunday, July 
11th-Brooklyn in the A. M., Hester-street P. M., arid Seveatii Ave-
nue in the evening ; Philadelphia, Sunday, July 181.11, no Bro. ',itch 
shall arrange. Intermediate places-Newark, N..1., Monday even-
ing, July loth ; Morrisville, July 13th ; Yardleyville, 14th. 
Bro. 0. D. Gibson will preach in Pomfret,Vt., Sunday, June 270; 
Woodstock, Vt. (on Densmore hill), 28th ; Bridgewater, 29111 ; 
Shrewsbury, Vt.,Sunday, July 4th Mount Holly, 6th. Week days 
atSr. an., or hall-past, as may be thought best. 
A meeting will be held in the barn of Bro. Franklin Gale, New-
ton, N. H., July 5th coinmencing at 10 A.M. Rm. Edwin Burnham; 
.101111 Pearson, myself, and other preachers, will he present. I will 
preach in Alason, N. H. (middle of the town), Sunday, June 87th. 
[Bro. Himes will attend if possible.] 
H. 
m 
Bro. A. Merrill will preach in Montgomery, Vt ,Sa&Lbautmh, EJRu.ne 
211 ; Richford, Sabbath, July 9th ; Fairfield, Sabbath, 18th. 
Bro. Daniels will preach in Providence, R. I., the first Sunday in 
July; Newark, N. J., the second ; Morrisville, Pa., the third. 
Bro I. C. Wellcome will preach in the Town-house in Athens 
village, the third Sunday in July. 
Bro. I. Adrian will pi each in Conway the third Sunday in July. 
I will preach at Nashua, N. H., evening of July 2,1 ; Manchester, 
Sabbath, 4th 
N. BILLINGS.. 
Bro. W. M. Ingham will meet with the brethren in Buffalo, N. 
Y., Sunday, June 27th. 
Bro. Sutherland will preach in Wallingford, Ct., the second Sun-
day in July. 
Bro. Wesley Burnham will preach in New Durham Ridge, Sun-
day, June 27th. 
Bro. J. 1'. Farrar will preach in Essex, Mass., Sunday, June 27th. 
There will be a tent-meeting in Waterloo, U. E., to commence 
Wednesday, June 30th, at 5 P. M., and continue over the Sabbath. 
The brethren will do what they can to sustain the meeting. There 
will be a tent for the accommodation of any that come from antis 
Lance, who may wish to provide for themselves. Board and lodg-
ing can also be obtained on moderate terms at Bro. Reynolds' hotel. 
A meeting will be held in the meeting-house at Sutton Flat, C. E., 
to continence Wednesday, July 7th, at 5 P. m., and continue over 
the Sabbath. 
S. W. THURBER, J. M. °BROCK. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
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son, sr., Water-street. 
New York City.-W. Tracy, 246 
Broome-street. 
Norfolk, N.Y.-Elder B. Webb. 
Philadelphia, Pa.-J. ',itch, 'a/ 
North 11th street. 
Port/and, Me-Win. Pettingill. 
Providence, R. I-A. tierce. 
Rochester, N. Y.-Wm. Busby, 
215 Exchange-street. 
Salem, Hass.-L. Osier. 
Toronto, C. W.-D. Campbell. 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. - R. 
H utchinson. 
Worcester, Mass-J. J. Bigelow. 
NA TATER CURE, Hien ROCK, LYNN, MAss.-AsA 
V having leased of Jesse Hutchinson his beautiful 
High Rock Cottage, Lynn, and fitted it up as a Water Cure estate 
lishment, is now opened for the reception of patients. The Cottage 
is commodious, and suitable for the accommodation of a number of 
patients. It stands on a romantic hill, about two hundred feet above 
the city, from which may be seen the finest scenery on the coast. 
The water is most excellent, RIII1 the location very desirable and 
pleasant • Terms, from $6 to 510 per week, payable weekly. 
ASA SMITH, Proprietor. 
[je. 26.] 
Miss L. A. Smith, Physician. 
Receipts from Jame 15th to the 22d. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of tine Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present iva. at the Herald, the sender will see hose Jar he is in 
advance, or how Jar in arrears. No. 554 was the closing No. of 
last year. No. 580 is to the end of the first szx months of the 
present year ; and No. 606 is to the close of this year. 
Mrs. W. Allen, 586 ; C. R. Smith, 580 ; P. Carpenter, 586 ; J. D. 
Hyde, 566 ; A. Bradtbrd, 606 ; G. W. Gailor, 606 M. Perkins, 602 ; 
John Sylvester, 606 ; T. Tripp, 606 ; S. C. Berry, 606 ; R. F. berry, 
606 ; F. M. Berry, 606 ; S. Edmonds, 542-51 50 due ; J. IL Ed-
monds, 606 ; Rev. A. H. Newton, 606 ; M. Winslow, 602, and books 
sent ; C. N. Ford, 5.80-do the best you can-each $1. 
ll. Fletcher, 541; D. T. /3ebee, 606, and Y. G.; G. Burrows, 625 ; 
D. W Sorriberger, 608, and Y • G.; IL Moran, 606 ; Z. Rich, 566 ; 
D. Rich, 666 ; L. P. Jedkies, 612 ; J. Kinney, 632 ; P. bowald, 606-
each $2. 
Ira Curtis, 612-$5. S. F. Rogers, 606 ; W. Lewis, 710; J. B. 
Scotland, 691-each $1 77. G. Carter, 570-72 cis. Th ilon, 678- 
$l 67. D. Minor, 606 ; J. W. Harden, 580-each 50 ems. .1. B. Pi-
per, 619, (and Y. G.)-$2 25. J. small, 606-75 cis. E. Chandler, 
560-51 76. 
North Pearl-street. 
Auburn, N. Y.-.11. L. Smith. 
Buffalo, " John Powell. 
Cincinnati, O.-Joseph Wilson. 
Clinton, Mass.-Del. J. Burditt. 
Danville, C. E.-G. Bangs. 
Dunham, " D. W. Sornberger. 
Durham, " J. M. Orrock 
Derby Line, Vt.-S. Foster, jr. 
Detroit, Mich.-L. Armstrong. 
Eddington, Me.-Thos. Smith. 
Farnham, C. E.-1M. L. Dudley. 
Glanville Annan., N. S.-Elias 
Woodworth. 
Me.-I. C. Wellcome. 
Hartford, CL-Aaron Clapp. 
Heuvelton, N. Y-W. D. Ghosliu 
Horner, N. Y.-J. L. Clapp. 
Lockport, N. Y.-H. Robbins. 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
Albany, N. Y.-D. Duesler, No. 5, Lowell, Mass.-J. C. Downing