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BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1861. 
VOLUME XXII. NO. O. 
The Times before us. 
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was interested in. I do think that had I not I 
seen those tears, I might have gone home without 
benefit. I saw that the preacher felt the impor-
tance of his subject. And as he brought up all 
classes of sinners to the trial of the word of God, 
he dismissed each with those solemn words, "and 
what will ye do in the end thereof ?" How of-
ten have I thought of those tears, and a precious 
harvest followed, for over eighty were gathered 
into the same church. Even now the good old 
man ministers to the same flock he then did, and 
as often as I see his name, I seem to see his 
form in the pulpit as it then was, with tears on 
his cheeks. 
NO. 74. 
SIMILITUDES, 
"They four had the face of a man, and the 
face of a lion on the right side ; and they four 
had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four 
also had the face of an eagle." Ezk. 1 : 10. 
The Rev. William Wilson of Perth, and some 
of his friends, were, on one 'occasion, enjoying 
themselves with some innocent pleasantry, by 
proposing severally to what they might compare 
the Four Brethren, with whom the secession in 
Scotland originated. When it came to Mr. Wil-
son's turn, he did not see any thing they could be 
better compared to than the four living creatures 
in Ezekiel's vision. "Our brother, Mr. Erskine," 
said he, "has the face of a man. Our friend Mr. 
Moncrieff, has the face of' a lion. Our neigh-
bour Mr. Fisher, has the face of an eagle. And 
as for myself, I think you will all own that I 
may claim to be the ox ; for, as you know, the 
laborious part of the business falls to my share." 
NO. 75. A MINISTER WITHOUT TEARS. 
"Also the word of the Lord came unto me, say-
ing Son of man, behold I take away from thee the 
desire of thine eyes with a stroke, yet neither 
shalt thou mourn or weep, neither shall thy tears 
run. Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the 
dead, hind the tire of thine head upon thee, and 
put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy 
lips, and eat not the bread of' men. So I spake 
unto the people in the morning, and in the even-
ing my wife died, and I did in the morning as I 
was commanded, and the people said unto me, 
'Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to 
us, that thou doest so ?" Ezek. 24: 16-19. 
A curious instance of the command which a per-
son can have over his own feelings was exhibited 
in the church of St. Margaret's, Westminister. 
The curate of the parish officiated in the morn-
ing, it being the festival of St. Luke ; whilst en-
gaged in the service, his wife was seized with 
the cholera, and died in the short space of 30 
hours. On the following Sunday the same gen-
tleman preached a funeral sermon over the re-
mains of his wife, and took for his text the por-
tion of scripture above. From this text he preach-
ed a most impressive sermon : there was scarce-
ly a dry eye in the church, and the only one who 
seemed perfectly unmoved was the preacher him-
self, such was the complete command which he 
possessed over the expression of his own feelings, 
necessarily acute. 
"Sir, you may depend upon it, there will be 
no blood spilt in America," said an English states-
man to Dr. Stennett, shortly before the War of 
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THIS IS NOT HOME. 
BY MISS H. M. JOHNSON. 
This is not home ! from o'er the stormy sea 
Bright birds of passage wing their way to me ; 
They bear a message from the loved and lost 
Who tried the angry waves and safely crossed, 
And now in homelike mansions finds repose 
Where billows never roar nor tempest blows. 
As strangers here in foreign lands we roam, 
0, why sould not the exile sigh for home? 
A thousand snares beset our thorny way, 
And night is round us--why not wish fur day ? 
The storm is high, beneath its wintry wing 
The blossom fades-0, why not watch for spring? 
The waters roll o'er treasures buried deep, 
And sacred dust the lonely churchyards keep—
Homes are dissolved and ties are rent in twain, 
And things that charm can never charm again, 
On every brow we mark the hand of time, 
0 why nut long fur the celestial clime? 
Wave after wave rolls inward to the land, 
Then comes the wail and then the parting hand, 
And those for whoM we would have freely died 
Are borne away upon the ebbing tide ;—
We weep and mourn, we bid the sea restore, 
It marks our grief—and takes one idol more. 
'Tis well for us that ties which bind the heart 
Too strongly here are rudely snapped apart, 
'Tie well the pitcher at the fountain breaks, 
The golden bowl is shattered for our sakes, 
To show how frail and fleeting all we love, 
To raise our souls to lasting things above. 
We are hut pilgrims—like the tribes who roam 
In every land but call no land their home,— 
And what their ancient Canaan is to them, 
So is to us the New Jerusalem ; 
Then while our hopes, our hearts, our homes are there, 
'Thy Kingdom come" must be our fervent prayer ! 
Magog, C. E. 
Scripture Illustrations. 
NO. 73. 
A TEARFUL MINISTER. 
"And what will ye do in the end thereof." Jer. 
5: 
Nearly forty years ago I attended church one 
Sabbath, and saw, says one, a stranger in the pul-
pit. There was something benevolent and kind 
in his appearance, and he spoke with an earnest-
ness to which I had not been accustomed. His 
text was "What will ye do in the end thereof ?" 
I did not pay much attention to the introduction 
and forepart of the discourse, but at length I saw 
the tears running down his cheeks, and this fixed 
my attention. It was the first sermon I ever 
the Revolution broke out. Eight years of hos-
tilities---of impoverishment, carnage, and demor-
alization, stood on the threshold ; but his eye 
discerned no token of their coming. As little 
doubtless, when the winds of that storm began to 
blow and beat, could he forecast its long dura-
tion, or the disasters that awaited British arms. 
How thick the veil behind which Divine Prov-
idence bides the issue of national commotions ! 
How imperative the demand for caution, and 
modesty, and self-distrust, in the formation of 
judgments, where even the highest sagacity may 
prove utterly at fault ! 
How absolute the necessity for inflexible ad-
herence to the law of right ; which is, as well the 
policy of wisdom ! 
How precious the privilege of prayer to Him 
who can overrule all things for His own glory 
and the good of those that trust Him ! 
How unutterable the blessedness of incorpora-
tion into Christ, as "members of His body, of 
His flesh and of His bones"—that the care with 
which the Father would set watch round about 
Hit) in evil tinaes, may extend to us also ! 
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The Resurrection. 
A Sermon, delivered on Sabbath morniny, April 
1st, 1860, at Exeter Hall, London, 
BY REV. C. H. SPURGEON. 
So, brethren, though of course we shall retain 
no weakness, nothing which will cause us sorrow, 
yet every Jhistian will retain his individuality ; 
he will be like and yet unlike all his fellows. 
As we know Isaiah from Jeremy here, so shall 
we know them above. As I differ from you here, 
if we too shall together praise God, there shall 
be some difference between us above. Not the 
difference in failings, but .the difference in the 
perfections of the form of the new body. I some-
times think martyrs will wear their scars. And 
why should they not ? It were a loss to them 
if they should lose their honors. Perhaps they 
shall wear their ruby crowns in Paradise, and 
we shall know them— 
"Foremost 'mongst the sons of light, 
'Midst the bright one doubly bright." 
Perhaps the men who come from the cata-
combs of Rome will wear some sort of pallor on 
their brow that will show that they came from 
darkness, where they saw not the light of the 
sun. Perhaps the minister of Christ, though he 
shall not need to say to his fellows, "know the 
Lord," shall still be chief among the tellers out 
of the ways of God. Perhaps the sweet singer 
of Israel shall still be foremost in the choir of 
the golden harps, and loudest among them that 
shall lead the strain. And if these be fancies, 
yet am I sure that one star differeth from anoth-
er star in glory. Orion shall riot be confounded 
with Arcturus, nor shall Mazaroth for a moment 
be confounded with Orion. We shall all be sep-
arate and distinct. Perhaps we shall each one 
have our constellation there, as we shall cluster 
info our own societies, and gather around those 
whom we best have known on earth. Personal-
ity will be maintained. I do not doubt but what 
you will know Isaiah in heaven ; and you will 
recognize the great preachers of the ancient 
Christian church ; you will be able to speak with 
Chrysostom, and will talk with Whitefield. It 
may be you shall have for your companions those 
who were your companions here ; those with 
whom you took sweet counsel, and walk e d to 
the house of God, shall be with you there, and 
you shall know them, and with transporting joy 
you shall tbere together tell your former trials 
and ancient triumphs, and the glories you are 
alike made to share. 
Treasure up, then, these things, the identity 
of your body after its glorious transformation, 
and, at the same time, the personality which will 
prevail. 
I want, now your solemn attention for some 
five minutes, while I sketch a most fearful con- 
trast here. The things I have already spoken 
should make the children of God happy. At 
Stratford-on-Bow, in the days of Queen Mary, 
there was once a stake erected for the burning 
of two martyrs, one of them a lame man, the 
other a blind man. Just when the fire was lit, 
the lame man hurled away his staff, and turning 
round said to the blind man, "Courage, brother, 
this fire will cure us both." So can the righte- 
ous say of the grave, 'Courage, the grave will 
cure us all ; we shall leave our infirmities behind 
us." What patience this should give us to en- 
dure all our trials, for they are not of long du- 
ration. They are but as the carvings of the 
graver's tool, shaping these rough blocks of clay, 
to bring them into the right form and shape, 
that they may bear the image of the heavenly. 
But the contrast is awful. Brethren, the wick-
ed must rise again from the dead. The lip with 
which you have drunk the intoxicating drink till 
you have reeled again, that lip shall be used in 
drinking down the fiery wrath of God. Retnem-
ber, too ungodly woman, the eyes that are full 
of lust will one day be full of horror ; the ear 
with which you listen to lascivious conversation 
mustlisten to the sullen moans, the hollow groans, 
and shrieks of tortured ghosts. Be not deceiv-
ed ; you sinned in your body, you will be damn-
ed in your body. When you die your spirit 
must suffer alone, that will be the beginning of 
hell ; but your body must rise again, then this 
very flesh in which you have transgressed the 
laws of God, this very body must smart for it. 
It must lie in the fire and burn, and crack, and 
writhe throughout eternity. Your body will be 
raised incorruptible, otherwise the fire would con-
sume it. It will become like the asbestos stone, 
which lies in the flame and yet is never consum-
ed. If it were this flesh and blood it would 
soon die under the pangs we must endure, but it 
will be a body all but omnipotent. As I spoke 
of the righteous having such great power, so 
shall you have ; but it will be power to agonize, 
power to suffer, power to die, and yet to live,.un-
crushed by the stern foot of death. Think of 
this, ye sensualists, who care not for your souls, 
but who pamper your bodies; you shall have 
that fair complexion scorched away; those mem-
bers that have become instruments of lust, shall 
become instruments of hell. Rotting as they 
will do in the grave, they will nevertheless rise 
with a fiery immortality about them, and endure 
an eternity of agony and unutterable woe and 
punishment. Is not that enough to make a man 
tremble and cry, "God be merciful unto me a 
sinner ?" 
But further, remember that while your body 
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the assassin, was to substitute for English Pro-
testantism and England's queen the Roman Cath-
olic religion and a foreign sovereign. "The holy 
league," said Duplessis-Mornay, one of the no-
blest characters of the age, "has destined us all 
to the same sacrifice. The ambition of the Span-
iard, which has overleaped so many lands and 
seas, thinks nothing inaccessible," 
The Netherland revolt had therefore assumed 
world-wide proportions. had it been merely the 
rebellion of provinces against a sovereign, the 
importance of a struggle would have been more 
local and temporary. But the period was one 
in which the geographical land-marks of coun-
tries were almost removed. The dividing line 
ran through every State, city, and almost every 
family. There was a country which believed in 
the absolute power of the church to dictate the 
relations between man and his Maker, and to ut-
terty exterminate all who disputed that position. 
There was another country which protested against 
that doctrine, and claimed theoretically or pfac-
deafly, a liberty of conscience. The territory 
of these countries was mapped out by no visible 
lines, but the inhabitants of each, whether resi-
dent in France, Germany, England, or Flanders, 
recognized a relationship which took its root in 
deeper differences than those of race or language. 
It was not entirely a question of doctrine or dog- 
ma. A large portion of the world had become 
tired of the antiquated delusion of a papal su- 
premacy over every land, and had recorded its 
determination, once for all, to have done with it. 
The transition to freedom of conscience became 
a necessary step, sooner or later to be taken. 
To establish the principle of toleration for all re-
ligions --was an inevitable consequence of the 
Dutch revolt ; although thus far, perhaps only one 
conspicuous man in advance of his age had bold-
ly announced that doctrine and had died in its 
defence. But a great true thought never dies— 
though long buried in the earth—and the day 
was to come, after long years, when the seed was 
to ripen into a harvest of civil and religious em-
ancipation, and when the very word toleration 
was to sound like an insult and an absurdity. 
A vast responsibility rested upon the head of 
a monarch, placed like Philip II. found himself 
at this great dividing point in modern history. 
To judge him, or any other man in such a posit-
ion, simply from his own point of view, is weak 
and illogical. History judges the man according 
to his point of view. It condemns or applauds 
the point of view itself. The point of view of 
a malefactor is not to excuse robbery and mur-
der. Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded 
in defence of the evil-doer at the time when mor-
tals were divided into almost equal troops. The 
age of Philip II. was also the age of William of 
Orange and his four brethren, of Sainte Alde-
gonde, of Olden-Barneveldt, of Duplessis-Mar-
ney, La None, Coligny, of Luther, Melancthon, 
and Calvin, Washington, Sidney, Raleigh, Queen 
Elizabeth, of Michael Montaigne, and William 
Shakspeare. It was not an age of blindness, but 
glorious light. If the man whom the Maker of 
the Universe had permitted to be born to such 
boundless functions, chose to put out his eyes 
that he might grope along his great pathway of 
duty in perpetual darkness, by his deeds he must 
be judged. The King perhaps firmly believed 
that the heretics of the Netherlands, of France, 
or of England, could escape eternal perdition on-
ly by being extirpated from the earth by fire and 
sword, and therefore, perhaps, felt it his duty to 
devote his life to their extermination. But he 
believed, still more firmly, that his own political 
authority, throughout his dominions, and his road 
to almost universal empire, lay over the bodies 
of those heretics. Three centuries have nearly 
passed since this memorable epoch ; and the 
world knows the fate of the states which accept-
ed the dogma which it was Philip's life-work to 
enforce, and of those who protested against the 
system. The Spanish and Italian Peninsulas have 
had a different history from that which records 
the career of France, Russia, the Dutch Com-
monwealth, the British Empire, the Transatlan-
tic Republic. 
And there sat the patient letter-writer in his 
cabinet, busy with his schemes. His grey head 
was whitening fast. He was sixty years of age. 
same machinery, aided by the pistol or poniard of His frame was slight, his figure stooping, Ms di- 
shall be identically the same, yet it too will be 
transformed ; and as the wheat brings forth the 
wheat, so the nettle seed bring forth the nettle. 
What your body will be like I cannot tell, but 
perhaps as the body of the righteous will come 
to be like Christ, yours may become like the bo-
dy of the devil, whatever that may be—the same 
hideous conformation, the same demon gaze and 
hellish stare which characterize that proud arch-
angel shall characterize you; you shall have the 
image and the lineaments of the first traitor 
stamped upon your fire enduring face. Seeds of 
sin, are ye prepared to ripen into the full blown 
flower of destruction ? Ye seed of evil, are ye 
ready to be scattered now from Death's hand, 
and then to spring up an awful harvest of tor-
mented ones ? Yet so it must be unless you 
turn to God. Except you repent, he has said, 
and he will do it, he is able to cast both body 
and soul into hell. 
And let me remind you yet once again, that 
there will be in you an undoubted personality ; 
you will be known in hell. The drunkard shall 
have the drunkard's punishment ; the swearer 
shall have the swearer's corner to himself.—
"Bind them up in bundles to burn, and cast them 
into the fire." Thus saith the voice of inflexible 
justice. You shall not suffer in another man's 
body, but in your own, and you shall be known 
to be the very man that sinned against God. 
You shall be looked at by one who sees you to-
day, if you die impenitent, who will say to you, 
"We went up to that hall together; we heard a 
sermon on the resnrrection which had a frightful 
ending ; we laughed at it, but we found out that 
it is true." And one will say to the other, "I 
should have known you though we had not met 
these m any years till we met in hell. I should 
have known you ; there is something about your 
new body which lets me know that it is the same 
body that you had on earth." And then you 
will mutually say to one another, "These pangs 
that we are now enduring, this horror of great 
darkness, these chains of fire that are reserved 
for us, are they not well deserved ? And you will 
curse God together again, and suffer together, 
and will be made to feel that you have only re-
ceived the due reward of your deeds. "Did not 
the man warn us," you will say, "did he not 
warn us, did he not bid us fly to Christ for ref-
uge ?—did we not despise it, and make a jeer of 
what he said ? We are rightly punished ; we 
damned ourselves, we cut our own throats, we 
kindled hell for ourselves, and found the fuel of 
our own burning for ever and ever. 
Oh ! my hearers, I cannot bear to stay on this 
subject; let me finish with just this word. "Who-
ever believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be 
saved." That means you, poor man, though per-
haps you were drunk last night, and scarcely 
got up time enough to come here this morning. 
If thou believest, William, thou shalt be saved. 
This means thee, poor woman, harlot though thou 
be—if thou cast thyself on Christ thou art saved 
This means thee, respectable man, thou who 
trustest in thine own works—if thou reliest on 
Christ thou shalt be saved but not if thou trust-
est in thyself. Oh ! be wise, be wise. May God 
give us grace now to learn that highest wisdom, 
and may we now look to the cross and to the 
quivering Lamb that bleeds upon it, and see him 
as he rises from the dead and ascends up on high, 
and believing in him, may we receive the hope and 
the assurance of a blissful resurrection in him to 
everlasting life. 
From the History of the U. Netherlands, by J.L. Motley. 
Philip II. of Spain. 
A small, dull, elderly, imperfectly-educated, 
patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and 
protruding under-jaw, and dreary visage, was sit-
ting day after day, seldom speaking, never smil-
ing, seven or eight hours out of every twenty-
four, at a writing-table covered with heaps of in-
terminable dispatches, in a cabinet far away be-
yond the seas and mountains, in the very heart 
of Spain. A clerk or two noiselessly opening 
and shutting the door, from time to time, fetch-
ing fresh bundles of letters and taking away 
others—all written and composed by secretaries 
or high functionaries—and all to be scrawled 
over in the margin by the diligent old man in a 
big school-boy's hand and style—if ever school- 
boy, even in the sixteenth century, could write 
so illegibly or express himself so awkwardly ; 
couriers in the court-yard arriving from or de- 
parting for the uttermost parts of earth—Asia, 
Africa, America, Europe—to fetch and carry 
these interminable epistles which contained the 
irresponsible commands of this one individu- 
al, and were freighted with the doom and desti-
ny of countless millions of the world's inhabi- 
tants—such was the system of government against 
which the Netherlands had protested and revol-
ted. It was a system under which their fields 
had been made desolate, their cities burned and 
piliaged, their men hanged, burned drowned, or 
hacked to pieces ; their women subjected to eve-
ry outrage ; and to put an end to which they had 
been devoting their treasure and their blood for 
nearly the length of one generation. It was a 
system, too, which among other results, had just 
brought about the death of the foremost states-
man of Europe, and had nearly effected simultan-
eonsly the murder of the most eminent sovereign 
in the world. The industrious Philip, safe and 
tranquil in the depths of the Escorial, saying his 
prayers three times a day with exemplary regu-
larity, had just sent three bullets through the bo-
dy of William the Silent at his dining-room door 
in Delft. "Had it been done two years earlier," 
observed the patient old man, "much trouble 
might have been spared me; but 'tis better late 
than never." Sir Edward Stafford, English en-
voy in Paris, wrote to his government—so soon 
as the news of the murder reached him—that, 
according to his information out of the Spanish 
minister's own house, "the same practice that had 
been executed upon the Prince of Orange, there 
were practisers more than two or three about to 
execute upon her Majesty, and that within two 
months." Without vouching for the absolute ac-
curacy of this intelligence, be implored the Queen 
to be more upon her guard than ever. "For 
there is no doubt," said the envoy, "that she is 
a chief mark to shoot at ; and seeing that there 
were men cunning enough to inchant a man and 
to encourage him to kill the Prince of Orange 
in the midst of Holland, and that there was a 
knave found desperate enough to do it, we must 
think hereafter that anything may be done. 
Therefore God preserve her Majesty." 
Invisible as the Grand Lama of Thibet, cloth-
ed with power as extensive and absolute as had 
ever been wielded by the most imperial Caesar, 
Philip the Prudent, as he grew old and feebler, 
in mind and body seem to become more glutton-
ous of' work, more ambitious to extend his sceptre 
over lands which he had never seen or dreamed 
of seeing, more fixed in his determination to an-
nihilate that monster Protestantism which it had 
been the business of his life to combat, more eager 
to put to death every human creature, whether 
anointed monarch or humble artizan, that defend-
ed heresy or opposed his progress to universal 
empire. 
If this enormous power, this fabulous labor 
had been wielded or performed with a beneficent 
intention; if the man who seriously regarded him-
self as the owner of a third of the globe with the 
inhabitants thereof, had attempted to deal with 
these extensive estates inherited from his ances-
tors with the honest intention of a thrifty land-
lord, an intelligent slave-owner, it would have 
yet been possible for a little longer to smile at 
the delusion, and endure the practice. 
But there was another old man, who lived in 
another palace in another remote land, who in 
his capacity of representative of Saint Peter, 
claimed to dispose of all the kingdoms of the 
earth—and had been willing to bestow them up-
on the man who would go down and worship him. 
Philip stood enfeoffed, by divine decree, of all 
America, the East Indies, the whole Spanish Pe-
ninsula, the better portion of Italy, the seven-
teen Netherlands, and many other possessions far 
and near ; and he contemplated annexing to this 
extensive property the kingdoms of France, of 
England, and Ireland. The Holy League, main-
tained by the sword of Guise, the pope's ban, 
Spanish ducats. Italian condottieri, and German 
mercenaries, was to exterminate heresy and es-
tablish the Spanish dominion in France. The 
gestion very weak, his manner more glacial and 
sepulchral than ever ; but if there were a hard-
working man in Europe, that man was Philip 
And there he sat at his table, scrawling his apos. 
tilles. The fine innumerable threads which stretch-
ed across the surface of Christendom, and cover-
ed it as with a net, all converged in that silent 
cheerless cell. France was kept in a state of 
perpetual civil war ; the Netherlands had been 
converted into a shambles; Ireland was maintain-
ed in a state of chronic rebellion ; Scotland was 
torn with internal feuds, regularly organized and 
paid for �
Philip; and its young monarch— 
"that lying King of Scots," as Leicester called 
him--was kept in leash ready to be slipped upon 
England, when the master should give the word; 
and England herself was palpitating with the 
daily expectation of seeing a disciplined horde 
of brigands let loose upon her shores ; and all 
this misery, past, present, and future, was almost 
wholly due to the exertions of that grey-haired 
letter-writer at his peaceful library-table. 
Patient in Tribulation. 
To be patient in tribulation !—it is a great at-
tainment ! Many are the afflictions of the righ-
teous. He is in trouble, not only like other men, 
but more than other men. As members of Christ's 
body, having to bear your part according to the 
grace that is given you, in the offices and func-
tions of the body, you are liable to be troubled 
on every side. The ordinary evils of life beset 
you, and others evils besides, to which your Chris-
tian calling and profession lay you open. Trib-
ulations come to you, not only in the form of 
personal suffering and domestic distress, but in 
the form also of persecution for righteousness' 
sake. 
You share the common lot of man. You sick-
en, or are hurt. Your family is smitten. You 
are bereaved of your beloved. And you share 
also, moreover, the lot of Christ ; for you are 
members of his body. You are treated as he 
was treated. It should be so ; it must be so, if 
you are his. And all this may come upon you 
in the midst of most hopeful and well grounded 
anticipations of good. It may look as if the 
wettest of all blankets were thrown over your 
burning zeal ; as if the cruelest of all arrests 
were put—and that, too in the very crisis of their 
success—upon your best and most benevolent un-
dertakings. Truly, in such circumstances, you 
have need of patience. The tribulation in which 
you have to be patient is not merely sad and 
sorrowful in itself, as all tribulation must be, 
whether to a selfish or to a sympathizing sufferer, 
to "the tender groaning for another's pain," or 
"to the unfeeling groaning for his own"—it is 
aggravated, in your case, by the interruptions 
which it causes in your joy, the ioy of your hope-
ful industry in the service of the Lord. 
Physical, bodily pain is hard to bear. Pain 
in the affections—the lacerating, not of material 
ligaments, but of the tissues of the heart—is 
harder still to bear. But hardest to be borne of 
all, to a soul that in serving the Lord rejoices in 
the pain of being laid aside, or cut off from that 
most loved and hopeful and joyous service ; laid 
aside by God ; cut off by man ; doomed to pine 
in helpless inactivity, when all within is on fire 
for the Lord's glory and the salvation of souls. 
To be patient in tribulation thus viewed ; to com-
bine patience in tribulation with rejoicing in 
hope ; patient endurance of what in agony hind-
ers work, with the joyous buoyancy of hope in 
work when work is possible—this is the test of 
godliness ; this is the function and the fruit of 
prayer.—The Two Great Commandments. 
Personal and Family Devotion. 
"They that are after the flesh, do mind the 
things of the flesh ;" "they that are after the Spir-
it, the things of the Spirit," Rom, 8. 5. "But as 
for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." 
Josh. 24. 15. 
It is truly distressing, to the pious mind, to 
contemplate the manifest carnality of Christian 
society—so called. We can hear and see every-
thing attended to but Christianity. If, there-
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and act, our stock of heart religion---of spiritual 
sentiment and devout affection, must, indeed, be 
very small. We can scarcely hear a word of it 
in a family. I speak of professors in general. 
It is true, we may sometimes hear sectarian con-
troversies, and what is called the religious news 
of the day—a sort of religious politics. But 
what Christianity is in these things ? What spir-
itual edification ? The four grand cardinal points 
which concentrate the entire intentional effect of 
Christianity, are personal holiness, family educa-
tion, church edification, and public reformation ; 
the latter the combined extrinsic effect of the for-
mer three. Matt. 5. 16. Whatever, then, does 
not directly and properly tend to promote these, 
is foreign to the benevolent and blissful design of 
our holy religion. 
Now certainly nothing can have a direct and 
proper tendency to promote personal holiness, 
which is but another name for supreme love to 
God, but what goes to promote the knowledge, 
belief, and retention of the holy scriptures. And 
what means, in our power, are calculated to do 
this, but reading, thinking, and conversing about 
their divine contents (as directed for this purpose) 
accompanied with prayer to God ? And, as 
personal holiness is essential and fundamental to 
the three following comprehensive and blissful 
effects of our holy religion, that being duly se-
cured, all is secured that is necessary to our pres-
ent saving utility, and also to our future happi-
ness : 'For witnout holiness no man shall see the 
Lord.' Consequently, every one possessing this, 
shall enjoy his presence. 
These things being demonstrably so, how 
disgusting and mortifying to hear and see in pro-
fessing families, almost nothing but the concerns 
of this world !---the paltry affairs of a present 
life ! They have no time to make an education.-
al and edifying use of the scriptures in their 
families, by reading them connectively and at-
tentively, with suitable interrogations, observa-
tions, and exhortations, for the edification of all 
concerned, according to their respective abilities, 
but, if I read at all, they close the book without 
a single remark, and leave it as ignorant and un-
affected as before they opened it ; and so pass 
,on to something else. Besides they never 
think of reading it regularly, in its proper con-
nection, as they do to other books they want to 
understand : or, of assiting one another by con-
versing with each other familiarly and interest-
ingly about it. Many of these indevout triflers 
are not ashamed to tell you, that they have no 
time : that they cannot afford to make such a 
sacrifice of their precious hours ;---thus to waste 
their time in reading, and praying, and convers-
ing about the sacred contents of the Book of 
life ! 
Are not such professors confessedly carnalists, 
minders 'of things of flesh,---earthly things ?' 
Surely ;—'For they that are after the Spirit do 
mind the things of the Spirit.' But the things 
of the Spirit are all Bible things. They are no 
where else to be found but in the Good Book :—
no, not one of them. In so far, then, as we ne-
glect the Bible, we despise and neglect spiritual 
and heavenly things. But not so the good and 
happy man—the blessed man,—'for his delight 
is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law does he 
meditate day and night.' Wherefore, 'whatso-
ever he doeth shall prosper :' but 'the ungodly 
are not so.' Psalms I. 4. Yea, says another 
good man, ' I have esteemed the words of his 
mouth more than my necessary food.' Job 23. 
12. �
And another,---'Thy words were found, and 
I did eat them ; and thy word was to me the joy 
and rejoicing of my heart.' No wonder, then, 
that the godly Daniel and David, and other such 
lovers of the divine word, should be as careful 
to enjoy it, as they were to enjoy their necessary 
food, even three times a day, in their family wor-
ship : see Psalms 55. 17., with Dan. 6. 10. Nay 
the latter did it at the risk of his life. 
And all those were but Old Testament saints, 
Whose scriptures were as far inferior to ours, as 
moon-light is to sun-beams ; yet they were to 
make them their constant theme ; ' they were to 
talk of them when they sat in their house, when 
they walked by the way, when they lay down, 
and when they rose up---teaching them diligent- 
ly to their children, that their days might be as 
ke 
 
th days of heaven upon earth :'see Deut. 11. 18, 
21. �
Alas ! then, of what a heaven upon earth 
do we deprive ourselves and our children, by 
neglecting, as we do, our vastly superior privi-
lieges ! And we had not time to take three spirit-
ual meals per day, as Joshua, and those other 
Old Testament worthies did, who, like him, were 
determined, that, let others do as they pleased, 
as for them, and their families, they would serve 
the Lord. And why not, brethren ? Can we 
possibly make a better choice ? Can we possi-
bly spend our time to better purpose ? Certain-
ly not. But some will perhaps say, 'We feel at 
a loss how to proceed, fur we have never seen 
such a practice.' This excuse, though not suffi-
cient, it must be confessed is lamentably true. 
Still, however, we have the Book, and in it the 
proper directions for using it. We are to read 
it, to study it, to get it by heart, to make it the 
subject matter of cur conversation, of our exhor-
tation, of our meditation, of our prayer, and of 
praise, day and night. Thus are we directed 
to use it. Now what remains, but that we use 
it accordingly, every one according to his pecu-
liar circumstances, as he does his daily food ; 
some at one hour, some at another ; yet all gen-
erally three times a day ; those that have fami-
lies, also thus providing for the nourishment of 
their families, also thus training them up in the 
nurture and admonition of the Lord ; that so 
they may be seminaries of God---nurseries for 
heaven. And this, it is humbly suggested, may, 
for the most part, be conveniently and happily 
effected in the following manner :--- 
As the demands of our sensitive nature gener-
ally bring us together thrice a-day for bodily re-
freshment, let us avail ourselves of those oppor-
tunities for spiritual refreshment also. For this 
purpose let every Christian family keep two ta-
bles ; the one furnished with Bibles for feeding 
their souls, as the other is with the products of 
the earth for their bodily food. Thus provided, 
when they meet for breakfast, let them first take 
their spiritual meal, thus socially begin the day 
with God---by reading a certain select portion of 
his word, with suitable questions, remarks, and 
exhortations for this purpose ; thus rightly divid-
ing the word of truth, that each may get his por-
tion. 
This may be conveniently done by asking the 
following pertinent questions according to the 
respective capacities of the guests, viz.---1. Who 
is the writer or speaker of the portion read, or of 
any particular part of it ? 2. To whom is it 
written or spoken ? 3. What historic facts are 
contained in it ? 4. What commands are con-
tained in it ? 5. What doctrinal declarations ? 
6. What invitations ? 7. What promises ? 8. 
What threatenings ? Lastly, the why, when, 
and where those things were spoken or written, 
still remain to be considered, and are circumstan-
ces sometimes worthy of particular attention, in 
order to a correct understanding of particular 
passages. These things duly attended to accord-
ing to the ability and discretion of the heads of 
families, and the capacity of the respective mem-
bers, with pertinent observations and exhorta-
tions, accompanied with appropriate prayers and 
praises, could not fail to make the scripture 
forthcoming for the edification and instruction of 
every capable subject. These blissful exercises 
repeated thrice a-day, viz. before breakfast, after 
dinner, and after supper, we would begin, con-
tinue, and end the day to God, as a family ; 
that is, in our social capacity. And these exer-
cises continued, the word of Christ, would dwell 
in us richly, so that we should be neither bar-
ren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, and thus we should never fall. 'For 
so an entrance should be ministered to us abun-
dantly into tho everlasting kingdom of our Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ.' 1 Peter 1.5-21. For 
this is the highway of personal holiness—from 
which all good and happiness proceed. And 
which, of course, being carried out in the church 
by its duly qualified Elders, those heads of fami-
lies who had thus successfully taught and ruled 
their own families well, the church would short-
resume its proper character, the school of Christ, 
with his one Book, Christian disciples, a famili-
ly of families, taught and ruled by a selection 
of its own proper elders, instead of scientific col-
lege-taught clergy ; every member furnished with 
his own proper book—the Book of life ; which 
being duly read and studied as above, would 
make every student 'wise to salvation, throughly 
furnished for all good works.' May the Lord 
hasten that happy time ! Amen. 
Banner of the Faith. 
(Original.) 
Admonitory. 
"I stir up your �
 minds by way of re- 
membrance." 2 Pet 3 I. 
Looking for the coming of the Lord—the pass-
ing away of the heavens—the melting of the 
earth and the elements—the burning up of the 
works of man—the awful scenes of judgment—
the restitution of all things—the glorious reward 
of the righteous—and the fearful doom of the 
wicked. The day of the Lord near and hasting 
greatly. 
In view of these things, my brother, my sister, 
what are you doing? "Well, we are trying to 
keep ourselves in the love of God, waiting for 
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal 
life." But what are you doing ? Where is the 
activity and energy that characterized those who 
were thus "waiting and watching" a few years 
since ? Is it enough that you keep yourselves? 
Surely you are not asking the question, "Am I 
my brother's keeper"? Where is the love of 
thine espousals ? Oh ! think of that time ! what 
unction in your prayers ; what fervency in your 
exhortations ? How multiplied your epistles of 
love through the Herald, and what spirituality 
characterized the same ! But 0, how changed ! 
How many to whom the language of the poet ap-
plies ? 
"But now when evening shades prevail, 
My soul in sadness mourns ; 
And when the morn its light reveals 
No light to me returns." 
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of ? 
Are not the promises the same ? Is not the hope 
as blessed ? Is not our salvation nearer than 
when we believed ? Oh ! is not God saying of 
many who once 
" Looked for Christ's coming kingdom, 
And longed to be there," 
"I have somewhat against thee"? Is he not 
calling us to do our first works ? Child of God, 
awake to duty. See the heavens gathering black-
ness—earth trembling beneath our feet—the na-
tions distressed, and perplexed—men's hearts 
failing them for fear ; and while these and a 
thousand other signs, conspire to tell us "The 
night is far spent, the day is at hand ;" Tell me, 
is it not time to gird our loins and light our 
lamps once more ? to buckle on our armor and 
come up to the Lip of the Lord ? 
The world is sleeping---souls are perishing---
the work is great---"God's own arm has need of 
thine." Come brethren, whatsoever is right he 
will surely give thee. Let us have those brief, 
but soul-stiring epistles that used to greet our 
eyes in the Herald in days that are past. And 
thus will we stir each other up, and all be better 
prepared hence to hear the Master say, "Well 
done"! 
D. B. 
Waterbury, Pt,. Jan. 16. 
For the Herald. 
Waifs from the West. No. 16. 
Sunday, November 25th. Attended divine 
service in the forenoon in the Presbyterian church 
in Rochester, N. Y. and heard the Rev. Mr. Se-
ward preach from Isaiah 40 : 31 and Psa. 37 : 7 
"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew 
their strength ;"—"Rest in the Lord and wait 
patiently for him ;" from which he endeavored 
to shew that as creation groaned and travailed 
sore in pain long ages ago, and groans and tra-
vails still ; and as idolatry existed in its most 
degrading form in the apostolic age, and is now 
as beastly and degrading as ever, it becomes the 
duty of the people of God to patiently wait 
for the fulfilment of the glowing predictions of 
the prophets respecting millennial bliss. The Rev. 
J. B. Shaw, D. D. is the pastor of this church, 
and from conversation with him I learned that 
the doctrine of the world's conversion forms no 
part of his faith : he regards the Scriptures as 
teaching that each saint in a future state will have, 
to use his own expression—"a glorified soul, in a 
glorified body, on a glorified earth," he views 
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ as being 
emphatically, the hope of the church, and express-
ed the opinion that one reason of our Lord's de-
lay to cLnie is that the people of God may be 
led to see that as evil men and seducers wax 
worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived, 
the return of the Lord is their only hope. The 
views of the pastor and of the one who officiated 
for him are obviously widely different. 
I had arranged to supply the pulpit of Dr. 
Shaw in the evening, but there was a difficulty 
with the gas, so that after several ineffectual at-
tempts to light the house we had to give up the 
meeting. This was regretted as there would have 
been a large congregation. Being disappointed 
with respect to our meeting, I went with other 
friends to Plymouth Church, where we heard 
Peter Sinclair, Esq. of Scotland speak for near-
ly two hours on the subject of Temperance. He 
has considerable ability as a lecturer, and having 
been engaged in the temperance cause since 1828 
has had no little experience. Believing that 
"Drunkards will ne'er be dead ; 
I'll tell you the reason why : 
The children will begin to drink 
Before the old folks die," 
the most of his efforts have been directed towards 
training up the children in the way that they 
should go, and he has had good success, especial-
ly among the youth of his own land. 
Tuesday, Nov. 27th. Visited with Bro. Boody 
the house of Refuge, where we found 412 boys 
confined for crime. We were politely shewn 
through all the buildings, and our guide seemed 
willing to give us any information in his power. 
In the hospital department we found no patients, 
which seemed to speak well for the institution. 
Children are received here under 16 years of 
age,and taught to make shoes,shoe-brushes, chairs, 
&c. Three hours a day they devote to scholas-
tic acquirements, and religious services are held 
regularly on the Lord's day. When they give 
evidence of being reformed and places can be 
found for them they are dismissed. The insti-
tution—which belongs to the State—is certainly 
a good one, yet it was sad to see so many con-
fined in one place for such a cause, and as we 
went away I could not but think that the demon 
of Intemperance had much to do with the course 
of conduct which brought these children here. 
In the evening I preached in a school house about 
a mile from the city, where Bro. Boody has for 
several years been engaged as superintendent, or 
teacher of a Sunday school. 
Wednesday, Nov. 28th. Preached in Dr. 
Shaw's church to a good audience, on the present 
condition r.nd hope of the children of God, from 
1 John 3 : 2, 3, "Beloved, now are we the sons 
of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall 
be : but we know that when he' shall appear we 
shall he like him, for we shall see him as he is ; 
and every man that hath this hope in Him puri-
fieth himself, even as he is pure." The discourse 
was we'l received by the pastor, who said he had 
spoken to his people as plainly respecting the 
coming of the Lord being the hope of the church 
as I had that evening, and was persuaded that 
it is God's truth because the devil hates it so 
much ! Bro. Shaw has just entered on the twenty 
first year of his pastoral labor in the city. I 
was told his church numbers about eight hundred 
members—a large flock for one shepherd to tend. 
His people are building a commodious church 
edifice, which, when completed, will be one of 
the first in Rochester. My interview with him 
was brief, but the christian friendship with which 
I was received was refreshing, and to him I could 
say,—as a minister of the Free Church of Scot-
laud did in a letter to me a few years since,---
"Let us be diligent while the day lasts. 0 let 
us, my brethren, live, and act, and preach in view 
of the. speedy coming of Jesus our Master." As 
the doctor is now a reader of the Advent Herald 
I would be pleased to see something from his pen 
in its columns, either on the cross or the crown ; 
and this I have no doubt would be gratifying to 
others. 
Having called on several brethren, and spent 
a week at Bro. Boody's, at 9 o'clock in the even-
ing of Friday, Nov. 30th. we took the cars for 
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Parables. 
the Lord said of Coniah, that though he "wore the 
signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee 
thence," Jer 28• : 24 ; and "onyx stones were gra-
ven, as signets were graven," Ex. 39 : G. 
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the 
night fasting ; neither were instruments of music 
brought before him : and his sleep went from him. 
T. 18. 
That the lions did not molest Daniel when he was 
cast in among them must have been apparent to the 
king and his lords ; which must account for the pre-
cautionary seals affixed to the door of the den ; and 
the king must have had strong hopes that Daniel 
might yet be saved. His deep concern for him, and 
great anxiety for what had oCcurred, by which one of 
his most meritorious subjects was reduced to the ex-
tremity of peril, was shown by his passing a supper-
less, sleepless, and sorrowful night. His friendship 
for Daniel was evidently unfeigned, and he improved 
the earliest moment to assure himself of his friend's 
safety. 
The king arose very early in the morning, and 
went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he 
came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice 
unto Daniel : and the king spake and said unto Dan-
iel, 0 Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God 
whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee 
from the lions? �
vs. 19, 20. 
"Early in the morning" is rendered by Stuart, 
"as soon as it was light." The "lamentable voice" 
of the king showed his anxious solicitude ; it is lit-
erally "a voice full of grief :" he hoped to find Dan-
iel unharmed, but must have feared his destruction, 
and he hailed him, "when he drew near to the den," 
as Stuart renders it, to see whether Daniel was alive 
and would respond. He had doubtless heard Jeho-
vah spoken of by Daniel, as "the living God," and 
therefore addressed Daniel as a servant of the same. 
Bro. J. Pearce : 
The parable of the field, the seed,the husbandman, 
the servants, and the harvest, in Matt. 13 24-30, 
seems to be very clearly explained in vs. 36-43 ; 
from which we gather that the field is this habita-
ble globe ; that the good seed sown in it was man in 
a state of innocence ; that the husbandman was our 
Saviour as its Creator, Redeemer, and final judge; 
that the enemy was Satan; that the tares sown were 
the sinners introduced into this world through his 
agency by the fall of man ; that the harvest will be 
the final adjudication at the end of the world, when 
the curse shall be removed, the wicked be banished 
from the earth, and the saved be restored to it as 
their recovered and eternal possession. 
The parable in vs. 31,2, illustrates to our mind 
the growth of the church from its small beginning to 
its present enlarged proportions. 
That in v 33, illustrates to our view a similar 
reuslt. 
Those in vs. 44-6, illustrates simply the relative 
estimate, by the Christian, of the kingdom, in com-
parison with all things else. 
That in the 47-9 conveys to our mind theresults of 
the gospel proclamation, which gathers out of the 
sea of this world a vast number of professed follow-
ers of Christ, only a part of whom will finally be 
saved. 
That in Matt. 25 : 1-13, we think, covers the en-
tire gospel dispensation, and closing with the com-
ing of our Lord at its close. 
The kingdom of God we understand to be brought 
to view in the scriptures under two aspects—in its 
present condition, where only a part of the race re-
cognize God's sovereignty ; and in its future glory, 
when it will fill the entire earth. It is to its for-
mer state that we understand reference is made in 
Col. 1 : 14,—we being now delivered out of the 
kingdom of darkness, and translated into that of 
Christ, whenever we have renounced allegiance to 
Satan and become willing subjects of the Prince of 
Peace. It is in that sense that we are now compan-
ions "in ttibulation and in the kingdom and pati-
ence of Jesus Christ" &c. in Rev. 1: 9. 
Thank you for your expressions of gratification 
with our general expositions of scripture. It is al 
ways our aim to seek to learn and give the mind of 
the Spirit—not assuming however any infallibility, 
and being often conscious of imperfection of judg-
ment. 
The False Prophet. 
As the name of an organized body of false relig-
ionists, it would seem that no believers of any name 
were more entitled to it, than they whose creed is 
embodied in the confession : "There is no God but 
God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God." 
This religion, inaugurated twelve and a half cen-
turies ago by Mohammed, now holds sway over the 
hearts of a hundred millions of men—of one tenth 
of our race. Mohammedanism is felt as a power 
from the straits of Gibraltar to the mountains of 
India, and from the Black Sea to Central Africa and 
Low Hampton, N. Y. where we arrived next 
day about noon, and were cordially greeted by 
Bro. D. E. Atwood,---another of our old Cana-
dian friends at whose house we had often found a 
home in the days of long ago. 
Sunday, December 2nd. Gave two discour-
ses in the Advent chapel, where there was a gen-
eral gathering of the friends of the cause. Near-
ly seven years have passed since nay last visit to 
this place, and they have been years of change. 
The church has passed through severe trials, and 
though not in the enjoyment of all that prosperi-
ty which God is willing to grant, yet I believe 
there are a faithful few who have taken a "thro' 
ticket " to the Celestial City, and to them 
especially the words of my text in the afternoon 
were applicable,---"Behold, I come quickly ; 
hold that fast which thou hast that no man take 
thy crown." Rev. 3 : 11. Elder G. W. Burn-
ham preaches to them half the time, and as pray-
er and labor are marks of a living church, I trust 
he will see ere long increased evidences that this 
church yet possesses vitality, and is not like 
"clouds without water." 
In the evening Bro. Howard took me in his 
wagon to Castleton, Vt. eight miles---where a 
goodly number were assembled to hear the stran-
ger, and the Lord gave me liberty in presenting 
the following important sum in addition, to be 
wrought out in daily life. 
A SCRIPTURAL SUM. 
Add to your faith virtue ; 
And to virtue knowledge ; 
And to knowledge temperance ; 
And to temperance patience ; 
And to patience godliness ; 
And to godliness brotherly kindness ; 
And to brotherly kindness charity. 
Answer. Itthese things be in you and abound, 
they make you that ye shall neither be barren, 
nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Je-
sus Christ. 
Proof 
For so an entrance shall be minister-
e I unto you abundantly into the everlasting king-
dom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Pe-
ter 1 : 5---11. 
After meeting I returned to Bro. Atwood's 
and spent most of the next day in writing and 
study. I saw it stated in a London Journal 
some time since that the last words written by 
the late Rev. John Angell James were---"Use-
fulness is within the reach of all." This being 
true we should seek to redeem each passing mo-
ment : for to spend one's time in trifles is to 
act more foolishly than Nero who shod his hors-
es with gold. "Like a solitary soul, I seem 
perched on a little point of time. All behind 
me is past, gone, irreclaimably lost : all before 
me is blank---not mine---unfilled and uncertain. 
When shall 1 stumble ? when shall I fall ? and 
over me sweep a wailing sound, 'Time is short' ?" 
"The army which has slept too long and been be-
trayed feels it ; the laborer who has rested in the 
heat of the day, and sees the sun going down 
acts upon it ; the man in a dangerous stream, 
who has been too long pleasing himself with the 
flowers upon the bank, and rouses to find him-
self in the rapids," owns the force of the motive 
derived from mis-spent time for future activity ; 
and I, conscious of guilt, must exclaim— 
Much of my time has run to waste ; 
My sins, how great their sum ! 
Lord give me pardon for the past, 
,.)11,pui And strength for days to come. 
rmt93 o3 bisti4rpeim ono •I , �
J. M. ORROCK. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 2, 1801. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
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discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
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Exposition of Daniel's Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Then the king commanded, and they brought Dan-
iel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the 
king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom 
thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. 
v. 16 
There can be no justification for the king's inflic-
tion of the threatened penalty—seeing, as he must 
have done, its injustice. A wicked law should be 
repealed, not executed. It is a sin to decree an 
unrighteous enactment, and much more so to enforce 
it. �
It is also better to break an unjust oath, than 
to observe it ; for there is a fault committed when 
such an oath is made, and the keeping of it involves 
a double fault. Thus David did well when he re-
versed his revengeful oath against Nabal (1Sam 25); 
and Herod sinned when, "for his oath's sake and 
them which sat with him at meat" with him, he 
commanded the head of John the Baptist to be giv-
en to the daughter of Herodias, Matt. 14 : 9. 
The heathen believed in the interposition of their 
gods, for the help or deliverance of their worshipers. 
Darius had full confidence in Daniel's integrity, and 
speaks to him hopefully of Divine protection. It is 
not certain how much Darius had confidence in Dan-
iel's God, over other gods. He may have had some 
knowledge of him ; but probably did not recognize' 
him as the only living and true God, the Creator of 
heaven and earth, yet recognizing him as a god 
among gods, he hoped for a safe deliverance for Dan-
iel though not unattended with painful anxiety re-
specting him, as was shown by the manner in which 
he passed the night. 
And a stone was brought. and laid upon the mouth 
of the den ; and the king sealed it with his own sig-
net, and with the signet of his lords ; that the pur-
pose might not be changed concerning Daniel. 
v. 17 
The closing of the mouth of the den with a stone. 
seems to indicate that the den was inaccessible only 
through this aperture ; for, otherwise, it would 
have been useless to seal the stone laid upon it ; 
which must have been large enough to cover it, and 
so heavy that it could not be removed by any one 
inside. It was usual to close sepulchers in this 
way. The grave of Lazarus "was a cave, and a 
e one lay upon it," John 11 : 38 ; and Joseph laid 
the body of our Lord in his own new tomb, which 
he had hewn out of a rock ; and be rolled a great 
stone to the door of the sepulchre," Matt. 27 : 60. 
Whilst the den was thus made secure against the 
escape of any one within,it was accessible from with-
out by the removal of the stone. To guard against 
this, the king sealed the stone with his own signet, 
and with that of his lords—which must have been 
impressed on wax, or some impressible substance, 
so placed on the edges of the stone door and the out-
side covering that the stone could not be moved 
without breaking the seal : which would show any 
unlawful interference. The king's seal could pre-
vent any interference on the part of the lords, who 
might be disposed to do Daniel injury, on seeing 
that he was unharmed ; and their seals would pre-
vent his liberation by the king, as they may have 
feared on seeing that the lions did not at once de- 
vour Itim. 
A signet was usually a ring worn on the finger, 
with a seal or device of some kind upon it. Thus 
the Indian Ocean. Next to Paganism, it is the 
great opponent of Christianity. Mohammedanism 
takes one man for its pattern, and his one book as 
its embodiment, and is lived out in the lives of all 
who embrace it. It is Mohammed imitated and 
reproduced in his followers, both individually and 
collectively. What he was as the founder of a false 
system of faith and ethics, his followers are as its 
development. And as he, as an individual, is en-
titled above all other individuals, to the denomina-
tive of the "false prophet," so do those who bear 
his name, constitute a body of co-religionists who 
are equally entitled to the same distinctive cogno-
men. 
The word "Perish" 
To L. The word perish does not necessarily have 
the signification of ceasing to be. We read : "Nei-
ther do men put new wine into new bottles ; else 
the bottles break, and the wine runneth out,and the 
bottles perish," Matt. 9 : 17. The precise sense of 
this is expressed in Mark 2 : 22, where we read, 
"the bottles will be marred." The bottles are ac-
tually perished in respect to their designed use as 
wine bottles, but have not ceased to exist for other 
uses. Thus an old writer says of the uses to which 
perished wine bottles—that is those made of skins, 
and such as were then in use,—that, 
Then when this bottle cloth grow old, 
And will good liquor no longer hold, 
Out of the side you may take a clout, 
Will mend your shoes when they're worn out ; 
Else take and hang it on a pin, 
It will serve to put many trifles in, 
As hinges, awls, and candle ends, 
For young beginners must have such things. 
The Gates of Zion. 
Dear sir :—In Psalm 87:2, we read, " The Lord 
loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings 
of Jacob." I have to request you will flavor me 
with your view of what is meant by the gates, &c., 
in a gentile Christian's practice. �O.E. 
The gates of Zion, literally, were the entrances 
to the city of Jerusalem. They were the places of 
concourse for the inhabitants of that city—the marts 
of trade, the seats where justice was dispensed, and 
the places of social intercourse. The gates of a 
city are therefore often put, by a metonymy, for all 
that pertains to its interests. And when it is said, 
" The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all 
the dwellings of Jacob," we understand the affirm-
ation to be, that God gives the preference to that 
locality over all other places in Judea: "He refused 
the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of 
Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount 
Zion which he loved : and he built his sanctuary 
like high palaces, like the earth which he bath es-
tablished for ever," Psa. 78:67, 8. God calls Jeru-
salem, " The city which I have chosen to put my 
name there," 1 K..11:36. And again we read of 
" Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose 
out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name 
there," lb. 14:21. 
In answer, now, to the inquiry ; we suppose the 
" gates of Zion," in the faith of the Christian,have 
respect to the restored dominion in the new crea-
tion, when God will have fulfilled the prediction : 
" Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zi-
on," Psa. 2:6 ; when " the Lord of hosts shall 
reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before 
his ancients gloriously." The Christian, in loving 
the gates of Zion, loves that future restoration of 
the capital of the restored dominion ; and loving 
that, he also loves all the interests connected with 
God's cause and kingdom. 
Faith and Tradition. 
"How is it that the only proof-text for a millen-
nium is found in the twentieth of Rev., and yet the 
tradition of a 1000 years reign obtained prior to 
the apocalypse"? 
An oral revelation of God's will to man preceded 
the written word. Thus the promise that the wo-
man's seed should bruise Satan's head, was revealed 
to man more than twenty five hundred years before 
the writing of the text in Gen. 3 : 15 ; which on the 
completion of the Pentateuch, was the only proof 
text to that effect,—though the tradition of it had 
obtained ever since the expulsion from Eden. What 
could be in one instance, could be in an other : and 
so the question is answered, how a true faith could 
precede the written word. As, however, that which 
is not might be .claimed to be a true faith, it was es-
sential that, in the compliation of the written word, 
there should be clear expression given to all teach-
ings needful for man to know. And whilst a con-
flict of any tradition with the subsequent word, is 
full proof of the error of such tradition ; its agree-
ment with what is afterwards an inspired record, 
is equal proof of its purity. 
If it is farther asked, how there should be only one 
clear enunciated text given in support of a tradition 
having an inspired original ? It may be replied that 
 
God's word being true, one recorded declaration of 
A Noble Child. 
"Be kindly affectioned one to another with broth-
erly love ; in honor preferring one another," Rom. 
12 : 10. 
At one of the anniversaries of a sabbath school 
in London, two little girls presented themselves to 
receive a prize, one of whom had recited a verse more 
than the other, both having learned several thou-
sand verses of Scripture. The gentleman who pre-
sided inquired— 
"And couldn't you have learned one verse more, 
and thus kept up with Martha?" 
"Yes sir," the blushing child replied ; "but I 
love Martha, and kept back on purpose." 
"And was there any one of all these verses you 
have learned," again enquired the President, " that 
taught you this lesson ?'•' 
"There was, sir," she answered, blushing still 
more deeply—"In honor preferring one another." 
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his, to any given effect, is equally valid with a thou-
sand—God's credibility not being dependent on the 
number of his utterances. The prediction is only 
once recorded, that the seed of Abraham should be 
afflicted 400 years, Gen 15 : 13 ; and yet it was none 
the less true. Only once did the Lord say to Israel, 
that they should be in the wilderness forty years ; 
and yet that once spoken word came to pass. 
It does not, however follow that that was not dis-
tinctly revealed to the comprehension of the enlight-
ened intelligence of a past age, in the written words 
to which we have access, and which we may not 
think sufficiently explicit to be regarded as proof 
texts. "Now that the dead are raised, even Moses 
showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the 
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the 
God of Jacob ; for he is not a God of the dead but 
of the living," Luke 20 : 37, 8. And yet without 
the Divine assurance that the resurrection was there 
affirmed ; no one would have been likely to quote Ex-
3 : 6, "1 am the God of thy father, the God of Abra-
ham," as a proof text of that event—although, 
thus Divinely assured, it is one in fact. Our Savior 
said, "Thus it is written, and thus it behoved ChriSt 
to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day," 
Luke 24 : 46 ; but if we enquire where this is writ-
ten, we might be at a loss to determine, had not our 
Savior, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets," 
expounded to the disciples the things concerning 
himself. Moses had taught the people to kill the 
passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, 
(Lev 23 : 5), and on the morrow after the Sabbath 
to wave a sheaf of the first fruits of the barley har-
vest, (v. 12) ; which, standing alone, we might not 
regard as proof texts of Christ's future death and 
resurrection ; and yet they become such in the light 
of the declaration, that "Christ our passover is sac-
rificed for us" (1 Cor 5: 7), and that "now is Christ 
risen from the dead, and become the first fruit of 
them that slept," (lb. 15 : 20). And as Paul could 
witness "both to small and great, saying none other 
things than those which the prophets and Moses did 
say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that 
he should be the first that should rise from the dead," 
(Acts 26 : 23),—finding proof texts where we should 
not suppose they existed—so may there exist proof 
texts for other doctrines which some have not detec-
ted. And that the divine significance of the oft re-
peated number of seven," in the order of time—in 
the 7th day, 7th month, 7th year, and seven times 
seventh year—in the typical observances, coupled 
withlthe years of release and Jubilees, is not full proof 
of the millennium,as those other types were of other 
events, no man is authorized to say. Whilst we may 
not dogmatically affirm that they are, neither may 
we so affirm that they are not. And as the faith, 
there was in a millennial period before the date of 
the Apocalypse, must have had some origin, no one 
can deny that it thus originated ; and as it is confirm-
ed by subsequent revelation, it is conclusive that its 
origin was inspired, whether we know it or not. 
That the explicit teaching of Rev. 20th is not in 
conflict with any other scripture, but is in harmony 
with the words of the prophets, of our Lord, and 
of his apostles, has been too frequently shown to be 
needed in this connection. The Roman Catholic 
view that the 1000 years of Rev. 20 covers a period 
in the past, and the post millennial advent theory, 
that it is still future and must precede Christ's com-
isg, have both within the last few years been often 
weighed in all their length and breadth. Should we 
see at any time, any argument, not before met and 
answered, it will give us pleasure to endeavor to en-
lighten honest enquiry ; but interrogations, offered 
with a design to controversy, we hold ourself under, 
no obligation to notice editorially. 
United States South. 
According to the recent census, the chain of South-
ern coast States, extending from South Carolina to 
Texas, seven in number, have a free population, in 
round numbers, of 2,700,000, and 2,350,000 slaves. 
These are all that we think will secede, and only 
the first six have now done so, and the last one may 
possibly not. Should the northern republic still be 
know by the sobriquet of " Uncle Sam," the 
southern one, from the great preponderance of the 
slave element, would inevitably be known during all 
time by that of "Uncle Sambo,"—a name now very 
generally given to it. 
The seven other slave states (excluding Delaware, 
which has never talked of secession) have a free pop-
ulation of about 5,600,000, and 1,660,000 slaves. 
It will thus be seen that there are two great sec-
tions of the slave states—the southern half where 
the slaves nearly equal the whites, and the northern 
ones where three fourths of the population are free. 
The relation between these two sections will not 
be unlike that formerly existing between the north 
and south as a whole. The interest between those 
two sections will be greatly diverse, and their long 
continued harmony will be found impossible. 
The Gulf States South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana will probably 
meet in convention at Montgomery on the 4th of 
February, and while there lay the foundations and 
construct the frame-work of the Southern Confeder-
acy ; and Virginia, Maryland and the other border 
States must come in afterward, if at all, and take 
things just as they find them. Since this prospect 
has dawned upon the people of Maryland and Vir-
ginia, secession may lose its charms ; but a few 
weeks will solve the future in respect to them. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
J. T. S. The inquiry you make we will answer ; 
but the article, containing remarks personal, and 
making complaints of unfairness—is thereby render-
ed admissible. There is no necessity for sinking dis-
cussion into controversy. We have a right to de-
mand that arguments shall be confined to the ques-
tion at issue, and free from personalities. It is as 
easy to support a position by argument, independent 
of allusion to what has preceded or anything ex-
traneous, as it is to make it controversial. And an 
editor must be allowed the exercise of his discretion 
whether or not any given argument would he of any 
interest to his readers, or whether it contains any-
thing needing a reply, without having his motives 
questioned or his fairness impugned. Also argu-
ments must not be mixed up with questions to which 
answers are wished; and these must come separate 
from along discussion, either accompanying or to 
follow them. 
S. Chapman. Your obituary notice of Bro. P. 
comes too late for this paper. One was given of him 
last week, and one was received from J. T. which 
was not needed, on account of the one given. Will 
however, give yours next week. 
The Theological and Literary Journal. Edited 
by David N. Lord. No. LE. January, 1861. N. 
York : published by Franklin Knight, 135 Grand 
street. 
We have received the January No. of this able 
Journal. It contains the following articles : 
Mr Gascoyne's theory of the Apocalypse. 
Dr. Barth's travels and discoveries in Africa. 
Reply to the errors and misrepresentations of J. 
R. Blake. 
The golden image, Daniel 3. Nebuchadnezzar's 
vision of the tree, Dan. 4. 
Designation and exposition of the figures in Isa-
iah, chapters 61, 62 and 63. 
Literary and critical notices. 1. Dr. Hengsten-
berg's commentary on Ecclesiastes. 2. Life of Rev. 
Richard Knill. 3. Prof. Faraday's lectures on the 
various forces of matter. 4. Mr. Davis's beautiful 
city. 
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Foreign News. 
The following is the report of that portion of Lord 
Palmerston's speech at Southampton refering to the 
United States : 
"Gentlemen, the third event, which is, I fear, al-
ready not fully accomplished, but too far advanced, 
has taken place in another quarter of the globe—I 
mean America. We have too much reason to fear 
that that Union which has now existed not much less 
than a century, which has conduced to the peace 
and prosperity of our kinsmen on the other side of 
the Atlantic, is likely to be broken and disrupted. 
It is not our business to express in regard to that 
event any other feeling than this, that we wish from 
the bottom of our hearts that those disputes, what-
ever they may be, may be settled by amicable under-
standing—(hear, hear)--and that whether that Un-
ion is destined to remain unimpaired, or whether 
those States are determined to separate into different 
communities, our fervent prayer is that the result 
may be reached by amicable means, be it for main-
taining or dissolving the Union, and that the world 
may be spared the afflicting spectacle of hostile con-
flict between brothers and relations. (Cheers.)" 
FRANCE. 
The London papers receive from Paris the an-
nouncement that very serious conflicts have taken 
place in Algiers. The exaggerated military charac-
ter of the government had given rise to much dis-
content, and disturbances had occurred which caused 
the Military to act. It is declared that the fighting 
was very severe between the natives and the French. 
The French journals, however, do not refer to the 
subject. 
VENETIA. 
According to the Augsburg Gazette, the Austrian 
forces in Venetia consist of 183,000 infantry, 52 bat-
teries of field artillery, 10,000 of the corps of engi-
neers, and 5000 cavalry. These figures do not in-
clude the garrisons in the forts and the men in the 
navy. As reserve, there are 36000 soldiers in the 
neighborhood of Trieste, and along the coasts of 
Istria and Dalmatia, their headquarters being Trieste; 
and 35,000 men in Styria, Elyria, and Carinthia ; 
headquarters Gratz. 
ITALY. 
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post de-
clares that the government of King Victor Emman-
uel is not committed to war against Austria in the 
spring, and that Count Cavour desires to avoid war. 
The writer, however makes the significant addition ; 
"If it ware possible to come to an arrangement for 
uniting Venetia to the new kingdom of Italy there 
is every disposition on the part of the king of Italy and 
his advisers to renew frindly relations with Austria." 
Of this there can be..but little doubt. There is also 
a rumor afloat that efforts have been made to bring 
the influence of Victor Emmanuel to bear upon Gar-
ibaldi, so as to restrain the Liberator from his con-
templated movements in the spring. 
But the committees which prepared the expedition 
to Sicily last year have been re-organized, Garibaldi 
being the honorary President, and Signor Bertai 
being the active President. The avowed object of 
these associations is the liberation of Rome and 
Venice. A subscription is to be got up sufficiently 
large to raise a million of soldiers, that number be-
ing considered indispensable by Garibaldi. 
AFFAIRS AT GAETA. 
The Times Paris correspondent writes that a pri-
vate telegram, dated Toulon, eleven o'clock on Tues-
day morning, says that the ship of the line Re-
doubtable, which left Gaeta on Saturday, brought 
news that the Piedmontese continued a terrible fire : 
that they were constructing new batteries at only 
500 yards from the fortress, and from which serious 
results were anticipated ; and that the Neapolitan 
artillery had converged its fire on that position, 
which it covered with projectiles, but that this did 
not prevent the Piedmontese from continuing their 
works. The dispatch adds that the news from the 
mountains was still unfavorable to the Piedmontese, 
and that their moveable column could with difficulty 
keep down the insurrection, which was breaking 
out all around them. On the other hand, the report 
gains ground in Paris that the Emperor is certain 
to impose on Victor Emmanuel the acceptance of 
an armistice with the King of Naples, to last three 
months so as to allow time for a congress to meet 
and settle the Italian question. The congress is 
what the Emperor seems most to have at heart. 
The Turin correspondent of the London Times 
writes : 
"There are men, however, who still feel uneasy 
as they look at the signs of the times. The Empe-
ror Napoleon, they think, is still going to do a 
job for the Italians. He has still Venetia to conquer 
for them. There is little doubt in the minds of 
these deep searchers into men's interiors that Gari-
baldi, Cavour, and Napoleon, whether by a secret 
understanding, or unintentionally playing into each 
other's hands, have for some time been plotting a 
final stroke to be presently dealt against Austria. 
Ships laden with rifled field pieces,muskets,ammuni-
tion, and every variety of warlike material, have 
been seized by the Turkish Government at the mouth 
of the Danube. The ostensible owners of these con-
traband goods were, it would seem, Garibaldi and 
his Hungarian friends, and the object of the expedi-
tion, it is obvious to surmise, was an attack upon 
Austria in Hungary, favored by a simultaneous at-
tack on Venetia." 
Saturday, January 12, being the first day of the 
year in Russia, Old Style, was the day fixed by the 
Emperor for emancipating the twenty million of Rus-
sian serfs, and elevating them to the rank and con-
dition of men. These serfs are white men and were 
to all intents and purposes slaves as much as our 
African slaves in the Southern States ; but they en-
joyed a greater degree of liberty than our Southern 
slaves. All Europe, so far as actual slavery is con-
cerned, is now free. 
TUE SECEDING STATES. South Carolina is one of 
the Old Thirteen. Florida was obtained of Spain, 
and has cost the country fifty million dollars, first 
and last, and counting the bills incurred by the va-
rious wars she has caused us to wage. Alabama is 
composed of territory ceded to the United States by 
Georgia and South Carolina ; and so is Mississippi. 
Texas was a nation when she came into the Union, 
but she has cost this country a large amount of 
blood and gold. Louisiana is a part of the territory, 
bearing the same name, which Napoleon I. sold to 
us, she was nursed into a State by the American 
nation ; and she would have been a British colony 
at this moment but for the genius of Jackson. Geor-
gia is one of "the Old Thirteen." Arkansas is com-
posed of a portion of our territorial purchase from 
France, and so is Missouri. Virginia is one of the 
thirteen original States, and the oldest of them all. 
Tennessee is made of territory ceded to the nation 
by North Carolina. North Carolina is one of "the 
Old Thirteen." Kentucky was originally a part of 
Virginia. 
We give a chronology of the progress of the war 
against the Federal Government, as illustrated in 
the capture of or attack upon its defenses : 
December 27—Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney 
at Charleston seized. 
December 27—Revenue cutter William Aiken sur-
rendered by her commander, and taken possession of 
by South Carolina. 
December 30—United States Arsenal at Charles-
ton seized. 
January 2—Forts Pulaski and Jackson, and the 
United States Arsenal at Savannah, seized by Geor-
gia troops. 
January 2—Fort Macon and the United States 
Arsenal at Fayetteville, seized by North Carolina. 
January 3—Fort Morgan and the (Mount Vernon) 
United States arsenal at Mobil* seized by Alabama. 
January 6—Apalachicola arsenal in the Chatta-
prochus captured by Florida. 
January 8—Forts Johnson and Caswell, at Smith-
ville, seized by North Carolina. 
January 9—Star of the West bearing reinforce-
wents for Major Anderson, fired at in Charleston 
harbor. �
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January 10—Fort McRae, at Pensacola, seized 
by Florida. 
January 10—The steamer Marion seized by South 
Carolina ; restored on the 11th. 
January 11—The United States arsenal at Baton 
Rouge, and Fort Pike, St. Philip and Jackson, 
seized by Lousiana. 
January 12—Fort Barrancas and the Navy Yard 
at Pensacola, seized by Florida. 
January 20—Fort at Ship Island, Miss., 12 miles 
from Biloxi, seized by Mississippi troops. 
January 24—Arsenal at Augusta,Ga., surrender-
ed to Gov. Brown and 700 Georgia troops. 
The North Carolina forts seized on the 8th of Jan-
uary have been restored by the Governor. 
COERCION. The Chief Justice of North Carolina, 
in his recent letter, declares that the menbers from 
that State should be instructed "not to vote for co-
ercion ;" but when he comes to define what should 
be done, it appears that he advises precisely what 
the majority of men in this part of the country w nt. 
Ile thinks it best— 
"To give up to the seceding States all the forts 
and arsenals within their limits, situate on the main 
land, retaining and properly garrisoning such as can 
only be approached by water. Our ships of war can 
command the sea and collect the revenues without a 
collision. In this point of view it seems providen-
tial that the States have no navies. So the revenue 
can be quietly collected, the postal arangements can 
be stopped, and the States, being 'circled around' 
and left to cool reflection, will soon become convinc-
ed that their true interest is in the Union ; in other 
words, 'the fire will burn out of itself.' " 
THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT.—Bayard Taylor says, 
in a letter to the N. Y. Journal of Commerce :— 
"I have twice travelled through the Papal States 
(once on foot,) have conversed much and freely with 
peasants, priests and nobles, have employed my own 
habits of observation with a sincere desire to discov-
er the truth, and it is my deliberate conviction that 
the Papal Government is the very worst in the world. 
It has not 'a liberal Constitution, light taxation, 
very little pauperism, an economical administration, 
cheap and free education for all classes (!),' &e. &-c. 
as I am made to say. No government of priests 
ever has been, or ever can be, a good government. 
Pius IX. is a kind, humane, honest man ; but he 
has no longer the knowledge or even the power, to 
do anything.—The real Pope is the wolf of the Ap-
peninesi An tonelli " 
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 .$116.82 
I have preached during the year about 180 dis-
courses ; traveled near 4000 miles, of which more 
than 300 have been on foot ; have taken special 
pains to visit scattered members and others, con-
nected with our congregations ; attended our usual 
prayer and conference meetings ; witnessed the con-
version of a few souls ; baptized 6 ; labored every-
where to the extent of my ability to promote the 
interests of the A. M. Association, often, and in 
many places, under peculiar embarrassments and 
heart sorrow, because of conflicting interests on the 
one hand, and awful lethargy, with leanness of soul 
among our own people on the other. Yet I have 
been, and still am encouraged to labor without 
fainting, in the confidence that while many among 
us are sickly and asleep, God is arousing many no- 
From Bro. John Pearce. 
Bro. Bliss :-I see you are reminding the friends 
of the Advent Herald that funds are needed to pur-
chase a new stock of paper. Some have responded, 
and others will, we hope, respond, who are able. 
Let there be no lack in God's store-house. The 
treasury ought to be kept well supplied by the 
Lord's stewards. 
The Herald is engaged in a very important work, 
the proclamation of great and astounding truths-
not new truths, but those that have been uttered by 
prophets, patriarchs, Christ, and his apostles. True 
they have been buried in the rubbish of tradition, 
but God wills that they should have a resurrection ; 
and for this purpose, he has, in his providence, rais-
ed up a few men, and blest them with graces and 
gifts, courage, and independent minds. They have 
been, and still are engaged in looking into the sure 
word of prophecy. Some of them • have fought a 
good fight, have finished their course, and kept the 
faith. Their work was done ; they have died in the 
Lord, waiting for the trump to sound, when they 
will have part in the resurrection of the just, and 
participate with their brethren who still are in the 
field of battle, warring a good warfare, waiting for 
their discharge when their work is done, that they 
all may be rewarded together, when the Master 
comes, and this heavenly plaudit be pronounced : 
Well done, good and faithful servants ; enter into 
the joy of your Lord. 
A question, What great truths have been made 
prominent, and brought to bear on the minds of 
this generation ? 
Answer, The sweet connection there is between 
the cross and the crown ; the sufferings of Christ, 
and the church, and the glory and triumphs which 
are sure to follow ; the new earth as the inheritance 
of the saints ; the end of probation near ; the res-
urrection ; the kingdom of God future ; the blessed 
hope ; and the prophetic numbers. The prophecy 
of Daniel (2 and 7) is plain to Bible students,teach-
ing the rise and fall of kingdoms, that one kingdom 
succeeds another, and brings us down to the end of 
all earthly dynasties, when the stone shall strike 
the image on the feet, and all these kingdoms will 
become like the chaff of the summer threshing floors 
-to pass away, and give place to the kingdom of 
God. Then the will of God will be done on earth 
as it is in heaven, Matt. 6:10. " Blessed are the 
meek ; for they shall inherit the earth," Matt. 5:5 
and Psa. 37, teaches the same truth. Num. 14:21, 
Isa. 66:22, 2 Pet. 3:13, Rev. 21:1, Rev. 5:9, 10, 
Dan. 7:27, Zech. 14:9. These truths are only a few 
among the many, that have been proclaimed and 
taught by the servants of Christ, who are instru-
ments in God's hands to give the midnight cry,-
" Behold he cometh, and every eye shall see him," 
-to the joy or sorrow of all ; that the former may 
lift up their heads and rejoice, and the latter be 
warned of their danger, and exhorted to prepare to 
meet the judge in peace. 
May God grant his blessing upon every effort put 
forth to arouse a slumbering church, to reclaim the 
backslidden, in calling back the wanderers, and in. 
bringing sinners to repentance and reformation. 
Bro. Bliss :-The post, or office assigned you by 
Providence, is not an easy one; but the promise is, 
My grace is sufficient for you ; and as thy day is, 
so shall thy strength be. The reward is certain. 
Yours for the truth, 
JOHN PEARCE. 
Pickering, C. W., Dec. 28, 1860. 
ble hearts, to stand up in this sinful and adulterous 
generation, in these last moments of time, for him 
and his swiftly-fulfilling word. As I take a retro-
spect of the year, my heart is moved with mingled 
emotions-of sorrow and hope. That so little fruit 
has been witnessed, gives me feelings of sorrow. It 
was my aim to be instrumental of more good in the 
name of Jesus. Through him I hope my unfaith-
ness will he forgiven, and the comparatively humble 
efforts of the mission will prove in eternity occas-
ions of joy to some. 
Permit me to say plainly and kindly to our chur-
ches and scattered friends abroad, that I cannot 
bear the burden of arrears which my report exhib-
its. Duty to my family, and obligations to others, 
forbid it. Let me once more remind brethren, that 
if the simple plan of the penny collections had been 
carried out. this burden would not trouble you nor 
me. Will you act now ? There is doubtless more 
than $50 on our penny subscription books, which, 
if friends who have pledged would pay in the course 
of two or three months, with a little aid from those 
churches and individuals who hitherto have render-
ed none, would relieve me, and themselves be blest. 
GEO. W. BURNHAM. 
New Haven, Vt., Jan. 1, 1861. 
From the above 
Bro. Burnham deducts . 
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116.82 
. 26.82 
Leaving due him �
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90.00 
Since then received from Massena, N. Y., in 
penny collections �
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From Bro. Saml K. Lake. 
Bro. Bliss :-I am much pleased with the extra 
Herald. It is a suitable paper for the times in 
which we live. I should have been much more 
pleased, had I seen orders for hundreds, instead of 
tens, from many of our brethren in Canada West, 
who are well able to spread them like the morning 
dew. Brethren, are we doing what we can ? There 
are many souls perishing for the want of that bread 
which comes down from heaven. Must they per-
ish, while in our Father's house there is enough and 
to spare ? Many will come in that day, and say, 
Lord, open unto us ; but the Bridegroom will say, 
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,pre-
pared for the devil and his angels ; for I was an 
hungered and, ye gave me no meat, I was thirsty 
and ye gaVe me no drink, &e. There are thousands 
who would gladly drink of the cooling streams that 
flow from the great fountain of life. Who will give 
to them? Will it add anything to our happiness 
to have thousands of bank notes and of gold and 
silver consumed in the fire of the last day ? or how 
will that man feel, who goes into the kingdom by 
the skin of his teeth ? For some will scarcely be 
saved, while others will have an abundant entrance, 
2 Pet. 1:11. The prisoner who just escapes the pen-
alty of the law, though somewhat guilty, cannot 
rejoice with the man who cannot be charged with 
violating the law. The gold and silver is the Lord's, 
and we should remember that we are stewards only. 
I would fain dwell upon some other theme ; but 
while it is our duty to preach the gospel to the poor, 
it is also duty to charge them that are rich in this 
world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in 
uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth 
us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, 
that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, 
willing to communicate, laying up in store for them-
selves a good foundation against the time to come, 
that they may lay hold on eternal life. 1 Tim. 5 : 
17-19. The long, dreary night will soon be passed. 
Behold the morning cometh. Brethren in the Lord, 
it becomes us to have our feet shod, our loins girt 
about and staff in hand, like men that wait for their 
Lord ; for Zion's King will soon rend the heavens 
and come down with the voice of the archangel and 
the trump of God. " Behold I come quickly, and 
my reward is with me, to give unto every man ac-
cording as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12. 
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon us. 
Yours truly, 
S. K. LAKE. 
Wellington Squvre, C. W., Jan. 17, 1861. 
PS. I have found that other new subscriber ;--
have asked for five, and as many more as the Lord 
may give me during the present year. 
S..K.L. 
We thank you, brother, for your great interest in 
the success of this sheet. May the Lord give you 
all you ask, and make many others like-minded. 
ED. 
From sister R TV. Emerson. 
Bro. Bliss :-I have taken the Herald most of the 
time since '44, and consider it the most estimable 
Christian publication I ever read ; and now, by the 
providence of God, I send a dollar to resume my 
subscription, hoping, by the time it is used, to be 
ther ; for one I am grateful that we have one to 
whom we can look for information and instruction 
in these perilous times. I love the Herald, and will 
do what I can to sustain it. 
Your brother in love, 
L. N. WATKINS. 
Toronto, C. W., Dec. 25, 1860. 
Bro. Bliss :-Will you be kind enough to answer 
the following questions in the Herald ? 
What is regeneration ? 
Is there any difference between regeneration and 
conversion ? If so, what is it ? 
S. N. GEERS. 
N. Y., Dec. 24, '60. 
We understand regeneration to be God's act in 
the conversion of the soul, when he grants repent-
ance and remission of sins, and changes the will and 
affections ; which is the same as " conversion." 
ED. 
From Bro. M.' H. Moyer. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-It has been but a short time 
since I have taken the Herald. Ilfirst became acquain-
ted with it while living with Bro. Boyer. 1 sub-
scribed for it, and have ever been glad that 1 did so. 
for it is a feast to my soul to read its contents. I 
prize it next to the Bible. 
I can say that I heartily, approve of your course 
in exposing error ; for it is only by clinging to the 
truth that we can prosper. I am young in years, 
and in the cause of Christ. I love the glorious 
truths we cherish, and which the Bible teaches. It 
is a little more than three years since Bro. Boyer 
first came among us. I knew nothing of the glori-
ous truths which the Bible teaches. I had never 
heard of such an idea as this earth (restored) being 
the final abode of the saints. But thanks be to God 
for the light, for it is from Him that all wisdom 
cometh. I can say with the poet, 
"I once was blind, but now I see." 
I thank God that he did send his servant among 
us to teach us his way more perfectly, and we also 
return our thanks to Bro. Boyer for his untiring 
zeal in the cause, in laboring among us. 
I believe the time is very near when our Saviour 
will come in all his glory. 
" Signs portend that Jesus' coming 
Is near at hand." 
Let us watch, therefore ; " for ye know not what 
hour your Lord doth come." "Therefore be ye al-
so ready ; for in such an hour as ye think not, the 
Son of man cometh." 0 ! let us, who profess to be 
his followers, let our light shine, and have our lamps 
trimmed and burning, so that when the Bridegroom 
shall come, we shall be ready to enter into the mar-
riage supper of the Lamb, that when the master of 
the vineyard shall come he may find us " bearing 
much fruit," and fit to " abide in the vine" forever. 
Pray for me, dear brethren. 
Yours in the blessed hope, 
MANVERS H. MOYER. 
Kersey, Pa., Jan. 4, 1861. 
From Bro. J. Spears. 
Bro. Bliss �
have taken the Advent Herald the 
most of the time since it was first published ; and 
I do not think I could well do without it. I prize 
it next to my Bible. It is with pleasure that I send 
you the names of two new subscribers, with advance 
pay. I hope to be able to induce others to send for 
it soon. 
Permit me to say to the brethren scattered abroad 
that there are a few here who are trying to contend 
for the faith once delivered to the saints-realizing 
the importance of taking heed to the words of the 
Saviour, where he says : " Strive to enter in at the 
strait gate ; for strait is the gate and narrow is the 
way that leads to life, and few go in thereat." We 
have preaching by our beloved brother J. M. Or-
rock one-half of the time. During his visit to the 
West, we felt that we were like sheep without a 
shepherd. His return to us again is truly cheering. 
May God bless him, and you, and all of the rest of 
the watchmen, in the responsible stations they are 
placed in, is the prayer of your brother, 
JEREMIAH SPEARS. 
Beebe Plain, 0. E., Dec. 25, 1860. 
We are pleased that so many of our brethren are 
endeavoring to extend the circulation of the Herald. 
May God give you abundant success in so doing. 
ED. 
From sister Eliza lde. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-Inclosed you will find $5 to 
aid the A. M. Association in the purchase of paper 
for the Herald. I sincerely hope the friends will see 
to it, that the Herald is sustained without embar- 
rassment. �Yours in hope, 
ELIZA IDE. 
Rahway, N. J., Dec. 28, 1860. 
With a few hundred such friends, as our sister, 
the Herald would never lack. �
ED. 
able to send more, should the world remain in its 
present state. 1 am stronger in the faith of the 
Advent doctrine, than when I first embraced it. 
Your sister in the gospel of the new earth, 
R. W. EMERSON. 
Sheldonville, Mass., Dec. 30, 1860. 
We are glad to welcome our sister back again 
among our subscribers-her discontinuance of the 
Herald for a few months not being from choice. 
ED. 
During the last quarter, in all. �
22.30 
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" July 1st �
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Salury for the year �
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Whole amount received �
638.75 
From sister L. M. Lowell. 
Bro. Bliss :-We feel that we cannot do without 
the Herald, while it instructs us to search the bless-
ed word of God, which is given us to illumine our 
pathway through this world of trials, temptations, 
and sin. How many great and precious promises 
there are to the true believer of the recird God has 
given us of his Son. Yes, it is blessed indeed, that 
life and immortality are brought to light through 
the gospel. May you still have heavenly wisdom to 
direct you in your arduous labors, is my prayer. 
L. M. LOWELL. 
Perry, Me. 
From Bro. L. N. Watkins. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-The time has arrived for us to 
pay for our paper ; and I am alway willing to pay 
for value received. The Herald comes, as usual, 
well laden with good news concerning the kingdom; 
which we all profess to be looking for. Dear bro- 
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SELECTED BY TIMOTHY WHEELER. 
M. Brown Sequard, in a recent lecture before the 
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London, 
stated that he had found a spot in the brain, not 
larger than the head of a pin, which, if merely touch-
ed by a foreign body, produces death as instantan-
eously as if the individual had been struck by light-
ning. 
The oriental nations wrote from the right side of 
the paper to the left ; the western nations of Eu-
rope wrote from the left to the right, as we do ; 
the Greeks wrote one line from the right to the left, 
and the next from the left to the right. 
It has recently been discovered, that, if water be 
permitted to run out, through a hole in the bottom 
of the vessel which contains it, a vortex will be form-
ed in a direction contrary to the course of the sun. 
This is said to be invariably the fact ; and if the 
water be forcibly made to whirl round in the oppo-
site course, yet, as soon as the opposing power is 
removed, it will begin to turn contrary to the sun. 
The discoverer of this phenomenon imputes it to the 
rotation of the earth on its axis, and deduces from it 
a method of finding the latitude of places. 
The streets of Paris are daily thronged with twen-
ty-five thousand horses, and fifteen thousand vehi-
cles of all sorts. 
It is the custom in Pegu, a province of the Bur-
man empire, where one man brings a suit against 
another,and the matter cannot be otherwise decided, 
to plunge both parties over head and ears in the wa-
ter. The first who comes to the surface, loses his 
cause. 
The System of public loans, by which war is car-
ried on, is founded on the principle, that future gen-
erations ought to sustain a part of the burden, which 
is supposed to be incurred for their benifit. No 
country can make war with merely its habitual rev-
enue. 
A Whale can suspend its respiration twenty min-
utes, and sink to the depth of a mile in the ocean. 
Bro. Bliss :-The following recipe is passing the 
rounds of our Canadian papers ; and knowing the 
Herald to be a good paper, and designed to benefit 
man in time and in eternity, I forward it,-hoping 
it may find a place in your columns. 
Yours in hope. 
R. BURTENSHAW. 
Finyal, C. W. 
INFALLIBLE CURE FOR CANCER. 
The following recipe for the cure of this most loath-
some disease, by Mr. Fugett, an old gentleman liv-
ing in this country, who assures us that he has nev-
er yet known it to fail : 
German Cancer Recipe. 
Take pulverized beech drops, 29 grains. Red 
Puctoon root,.3 grains. Pure arsenic, 1 1-4 grains. 
Mix together and keep in a dark place. 
To make Ointment. 
Take a handful of slippery elm bark, a handful of 
the weed life-everlasting ; put it in a pot and cover 
them with water, and boil until you get the strength 
t'ioroughly out; then remove the herbs and strain the 
liquor ; then cleanse the vessel and return the strain-
el liquor, and boil slowly down to one pint ; then 
add about one pound of rosin, and one pound of 
mutton suet. Continue to simmer down until the 
water is out. While the mixture is cooling you 
must stir it. 
Application. 
If the cancer be not raw, scarify it, and take a 
piece of thin cloth, half an inch larger in diameter 
than the cancer, and spread the salve on it, and apply 
it to the cancer at night ; the next morning remove 
it and put on a good coat of powders with the salve 
only on the good flesh, so as to hold the powders on 
the parts which are raw ; let the powders remain 
about thiy-six hours and so continue until the can-
tered flesh is all eaten out ; if the dead flesh should 
not come away of itself, or sticks to the bone, you 
may hasten the operation by cutting it away before 
applying the powders. Be not alarmed at this med-
icine, for it will not waste away good flesh. After 
you know the cancer is killed, and all the cancer 
flesh is out and cleaned off well, you must keep the 
salve on the cantered parts until cured up, keeping 
all water from the cancer from the commencement. 
I am an old man, now nearly eighty-five years of 
age--and I wish the world to know the virtue of this 
medicine, and the good it has done. 
From Bro. E. Matthews. 
Bro. Bliss :-The Herald comes regularly, richly 
laden with the glad tidings of the kingdom, and 
good illustrations of Scripture. I am glad that it 
continues to be what its name is, the Advent Her-
ald. May the Lord give you grace to discharge 
your duty faithfully. 
I see that you need more means to carry on the 
Herald ; and while others have made proposals, I 
will make one : I will be one of six hundred to pay 
$3.00 a year, instead of $2, so long as I can, and 
it is needed for the Herald. Yours, hoping that 
600 others will do likewise. 
E. MATTHEWS. 
Middlebury, 0., Dec. 24, 1860. 
Bro. M. shows what he will do by doing it-his 
$3 for this year accompanying the offer. 
ED. 
From Bro. John Mudyett. 
Bro. Sylvester Bliss :-I esteem the Herald as the 
best religious paper I ever read. I have taken it 
about 18 years, and have been satisfied with the 
doctrine and truths it contains. I wish to take it 
so long as I can work and pray for it. I should be 
glad to do more for the cause, but will try to do all 
I can. 
Yours, hoping to see you when Jesus comes to 
gather in his saints, �
J. MUDGETT. 
Meredith, N. IL, Dec. 27, 1860. 
/ilay our prayer be that we fail not of a meeting 
then. �
ED. 
A brother, in sending money for the Herald, and 
a donation, closes his communication with : 
" The whistle has blown which is to call me to 
the duties of the day : may we by God's Spirit be 
made ready when the last loud trump shall sound." 
MARRIED, in Wellington Square, C.W., January 
16th, by S. K. Lake, Mr. ROBERT CAMPBELL, of E. 
Flamboro', and Miss ANN MCMERRAY, of Nelson. 
Quarterly Conference. 
The next session of the 'Western Central quarter-
ly conference will be held in the Bean school house, 
Mt. Vernon, about three miles east of the village, 
to commence Thursday, 1 o'clock P. M., Feb. 21st, 
and continue over Sunday. I am instructed to say 
that the Christian church and friends will sustain 
the conference. We shall expect to see all our min-
isters, who belong to this conference, present, and 
as many from other parts as can. Also as many 
brethren and sisters as can come to work for the 
Lord, that his cause may be revived, sinners con-
verted, and saints benefited. Behold, the Judge 
standeth at the door. Soon our work will be over, 
and the end come. Let us work while it is day - 
Brethren from abroad will come into the place and 
find directions where to put up. We have not the 
names of persons to give. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Scribe. 
Richmond, Me., Tan. 23, 1861. 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, near Stockton, Cal., GILES NORTHROP, aged 
21 years, 9 months. He was a native of Connecti-
cut. Disease, putrid sore throat. 
DANIEL BURNS, who had his Herald stopt about 
one year ago, on account of his eye-sight failing, 
died Nov. 20, aged 96 years. 
P. BURNS, jr. 
Milford, N. H. 
DIED, at 'Worcester, Mass., Jan. 14, 1861, ETTA 
MARIA, youngest child of Wm. A. S. and Abbie B. 
SMYTH, aged one year, four months and nine days. 
Little Etta-the joy of her parents, the charm of 
the household-was indeed a bright and lovely 
flower, just opening its beauty to the light, while, 
too soon, alas ! in the morn of being the mortal fo-
liage folds over the budding life-that will wake to 
renewed bloom in the sphere of immortality. 
" There seems a sacred presence here, 
A gloom as of approaching night, 
For one whose smile to us was dear 
Here bowed to death's relentless blight. 
The youngest of our household band, 
Fair-browed, and gay, and sunny-eyed, 
Unclasped from ours her little hand, 
And in her childish beauty died." 
Suddenly she died ! Herlstricken parents weep-
sadness and grief reign around their hearthstone-
made desolate by the cruel, inexorable enemy of our 
peace and bliss on earth ; but they sorrow not with-
out alleviating hope ; for they have laid that beau-
tiful jewel-lovely even in death-away in the cas-
ket of promise ; and the horrors of the tomb dark-
en not the eye of faith in these afflicted children of 
God, whose bleeding hearts are solaced by the resur-
rection truth, and the development of being in the 
world to come, where parents will be united with 
their darling offspring, to know, by the improve- 
ment and perfection of a child in heaven, that life 
has not been in vain. 
Rest, sweet babe ! 
Thy struggle is past ! 
Safe is thy Savior's keeping ! 
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Ai/MITTEN'S GOLDEN SALVE is a step by way of 
V progress in the healing art. It is adapted to all the 
purposes of a family Salve. It effectually cures piles, 
wounds, bruises, sprains, cuts, chilblains, corns, burns, 
fever-sores, scrofulous humors, erysipelas, salt-rheum, 
king's evil, rheumatism, spinal difficulties, chafings in 
warm weather, &c. &c., and is believed by many experi-
enced and competent judges to be the best or mbination of 
medicinal ingredients for external inflammatory difficul-
ties that has ever been produced. Many of the best phy-
sicians of the various schools use it and also recommend it. 
Every farmer should have it for horses ; for the cure of 
scratches, sprains, chafings, &c., and also for sore teats on 
cows. It cures felons. It cures warts. 
From Mr. Morris Fuller, of North Creek, N. Y.: "We 
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have tried it for. Among other things for which we have 
used it, is a bad case of 'scald head' of our little girl. 
Its effect in this case was also favorable." 
" We like your Golden Salve very much in this place. 
Among other things I knew a lady who was cured of a 
very bad case of sore eyes."-Walter S. Plummer, Lake 
Village, N. II. 
Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cured 
of a bad case of piles by the use of one box of the Salve. 
Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
of Lowell, was relieved of piles which had afflicted him 
for many years, and remarked to a friend that it was worth 
a hundred dollars a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says: "I 
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last seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
1 never expect to be well, yet to be relieved as I am from 
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with gratitude." 
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other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
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From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
FOR PURIFYING THE BLOOD, 
And for the speedy cure of the subjoined varieties of 
Disease : 
Scrofula and Scrofulous Affections, such as 
Tumors, Ulcers, Sores, Eruptions. Pim-
ples, Pustules, Blotches, Boils, Blains, 
and all Skin Diseases. 
OAKLAND, DA, fith June, 18.59. 
J. C. AYER & CO. Gents : I feel it my duty to ac-
knowledge what your Sarsaparilla has done for me. 
Having inherited a Scrofulous infection, I have suffered 
from it in various ways for years. Sometimes it burst 
out in Ulcers on my :hands and arms; sometimes it 
turned inward and distressed .me at the stomach. Two 
years ago it broke out on my head and covered my scalp 
and ears with one sore, which was painful and loathsome 
beyond description. I tried many medicines and several 
Physicians, but without much relief from any thing. In 
fact, the disorder grew worse. At length I was rejoiced 
to read in the Gospel Messenger that you had prepared 
an alterative (Sarsaparilla), for I knew from your repu-
tation that any thing you made must be good. I sent to 
Cincinnati and got it, and used it till it cured me. I took 
it, as you advise, in small doses of a teaspoonful over a 
month, and used almost three bottles. New and healthy 
skin soon began to form under the scab, which after a 
while fell off. My skin IS now clear, and I know by my 
feelings that the disease is gone from my system. You 
can well believe that I feel what I am saying when I tell 
you, that I hold you to be one of the apostles of the age, 
and remain ever gratefully, �
Yours, 
ALFRED B. TALLEY. 
St. Anthony's Fire, Rose or Erysipelas, 
Tetter and Salt Rheum, Scald Read, Ring-
worm, Sore Eyes, Dropsy. 
Dr. Robert M. Preble writes from Salem, N. Y., 12th 
Sept., 1859, that he has cured an inveterate case of 
Dropsy, which threatened to terminate fatally, by the 
persevering use of our Sarsaparilla, and also a danger-
ous attack of Malignant Erysipelas by large doses of the 
same; says he cures the common Eruptions by it con-
stantly. 
Bronchocele, Goitre, or Swelled Neck. 
Zebulon Sloan of, Prospect, Texas, writes: "Three 
bottles of your Sarsaparilla cured me from a Goitre-a 
hideous swelling on the neck, which I had suffered from 
over two years." 
Leueorrhoen. or Whites, Ovarian Tumor, 
Uterine Ulceration, Female Diseases. 
Dr. J. B. S. Charming, of New York City, writes : " I 
most cheerfully comply with the request of your agent in 
saying I have ibund your Sarsaparilla a most excellent 
alterative in the numerous complaints for which we em-
ploy such a remedy, but especially in Female Diseases 
of the Scrofulous diathesis. I have cured many invet-
erate eases of Lencorrhcea by it, and some where the 
complaint was caused by ulceration of the uterus. The 
ulceration itself was soon cured. Nothing within my 
knowledge equals it for these female derangements." 
Edward S. Marrow, of Newbury, Ala., writes : " A dan-
gerous ovarian tumor on one of the females in my family, 
which had defied all the remedies we could employ, has 
at length been completely cured by your extract of Sat-
saparilla. Our physician thought nothing but extirpa-
tion could afford relief, but he advised the trial of your 
Sarsaparilla as the last resort before cutting, and it 
proved effectual. After taking your remedy eight weeks 
no symptom of the disease remains." 
Syphilis and Mercurial Disease. 
NEW ORLEANS, 25th August, 1859. 
Dn. J. C. AYER. Sir : I cheerfully comply with the 
request of your agent, and report to you some of the 
effects I have realized with your Sarsaparilla. 
I have cured with it, in my practice, most of the com-
plaints for which it is recommended, and have found its 
effects truly wonderful in the cure of Venereal and Mer-
curial Disease. One of my patients had Syphilitic ulcers 
in his throat, which were consuming his palate and the 
top of his mouth. Your Sarsaparilla, steadily taken, 
cured him in five weeks. Another was attacked by sec-
ondary symptoms in his nose, and .the ulceration had 
eaten away a considerable part of it, so that I believe the 
disorder would soon reach his brain and kill him. But it 
yielded to my administration of your Sarsaparilla; the 
ulcers healed, and lie is well again, not of course without 
some disfiguration of the face. A woman who had been 
treated for the same disorder by mercury was suffering 
from this poison in her bones. They had become so sensi-
tive to the weather that on a damp day she suffered ex-
cruciating pain in her joints and bones. She, too, was 
cured entirely by your Sarsaparilla in a few weeks. I 
know from its formula, which your agent gave me, that 
this Preparation from your laboratory must be a great 
remedy ; consequently, these truly remarkable results 
with it have not surprised me. 
Fraternally yours, G. V. LARIMER, M. D. 
Rheumatism, Gout, Liver Complaint. 
INDEPENDENCE, Preston Co., Va., fith July, 1859. 
Dn. J. C. AYER. Sir : I have been afflicted with a pain-
ful chronic Rheumatism for a long time, Which baffled the 
skill of physicians, and stuck to me in spite of all the 
remedies I could find, until I tried your Sarsaparilla. One 
bottle cured me in two weeks, and restored my general 
health so much that I am far better than before I was 
attacked. I think it a wonderful medicine. J. FREAM. 
Jules Y. Getchell, of St. Louis, writes : I have been 
afflicted for years with an affection of the Liver, which 
destroyed my health. I tried every thing, and every thing 
failed to relieve me ; and I have been a broken-down man 
for some years from no other cause than derangement of 
the Liver. My beloved pastor, the Rev. Mr. Espy, advised 
me to try your Sarsaparilla, because he said he knew you, 
and any thing you made was worth trying. By the bless-
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as to make a new man of me. I feel young again. The 
best that can be said of you is not half good enough." 
Sehirrus, Cancer Tumors, Enlargement, Ul-
ceration,. Caries, and Exfoliation of the 
Bones. 
A great variety of cases have been reported to us where 
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the use of this remedy, but our space here will not ad-
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Dyspepsia, Heart Disease, Fits, Epilepsy, 
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Many remarkable cures of these affections have been
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overcomes disorders which would be supposed beyond 
its reach. Such a remedy has long been required by the 
necessities of the people, and we are confident that this 
will do for them all that medicine can do. 
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sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have several 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the �
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
Golden Salve. You may recommend it from me as a val-
uable Salve." 
his wife, and his sons, and set them upon 
an ass, and he returned to the land of 
Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God 
in his hand." Ex. 4:18-20. 
The Broken Saw. 
A boy went to live with a man who was 
accounted a hard master. He never kept 
his boys; they ran away, or gave notice 
they meant to quit; so he was half his 
time without, or in search of a boy. The 
work was not very hard—opening and 
sweeping out the shop, chopping wood,go-
ing errands, and helping round. At last 
Sam Fisher went to live with him. 
" Sam's a good boy," said his mother. 
" I should like to see a boy now a days 
that had a spark of goodness in him," 
growled the new master. 
It is always bad to begin with a man 
who has no confidence in you ; because do 
your best, you are likely to have little cre-
dit for it. However, Sam thought he 
would try ; the wages were good, and his 
mother wanted him to go. Sam had been 
there but three days, before, in sawing a 
cross-grained stick of wood, he broke the 
saw. He was a little frightened. He knew 
he was careful, and he knew he was a 
pretty good sawyer, too, for a boy of his 
age; nevertheless, the saw broke in his 
hands. 
" And Mr. Jones will thrash you for it," 
said another boy who was in the wood-
house with him. 
" Why, of course I didn't mean to, and 
accidents will happen to the best of folks," 
said Sam, looking with a very sorry air 
on the broken saw. 
" Mr. Jones never makes allowances," 
said the other boy; " I never saw any-
thing like him. That Bill might have 
stayed, only he jumped into a hen's nest 
and broke her eggs. He dare n't tell of it; 
but Mr. Jones kept suspecting, and sus-
pecting, and laid everything out of the 
way to Bill, whether Bill was to blame or 
no, till Bill could not stand it, and would 
not." 
" Did he tell Mr. Jones about the eggs?" 
asked Sam. 
"No," said the boy ; " he was 'fraid to, 
Mr. Jones's got such a temper." 
"I think he'd better own square up," 
said Sam. 
" I reckon you'll find it better to preach 
than to• practice," said the boy. " I'd run 
away before I'd tell him ;" and he soon 
turned on his heel and left poor Sam alone 
with his broken saw. 
It was after supper, and he was not like.-
ly to see Mr. Jones that n.ght. The shop 
was shut, and his master had gone to some 
town meeting. The next morning he 
would get up early, go into the Wood-
house, and see what was done, for Sam 
would never hide the saw. 
The poor boy did not feel very comfort-
able or happy. He shut up the wood 
house, walked out in the garden, and then 
went up to his little chamber under the 
eaves. He wished he could tell Mrs. Jones; 
but she wasn't sociable, and he had rather 
not. " Oh, my God," said Sam, falling on 
his knees, "help me to do the thing that is 
right." Sam had always said his prayers, 
but he had not put his whole heart into 
his prayer as he did that night ; that night 
he prayed. 
1 do not know what time it was, but 
when Mr. Jones came into the house the 
boy heard him. He got up, crept down 
stairs, and met Mr. Jones in the kitchen. 
" Sir," said Sam, "I broke your saw, 
and I thought I'd come to tell you 'fore you 
saw it in the morning." 
" What did you get up to tell me for?" 
asked Mr. Jones; "I should think morn-
ing would be time enough to tell of your 
carelessness." 
" Because," said Sam, " I was afraid if 
I put it off I might be tempted to lie about 
it. �
I'm sorry Ibroke it, but I tried to be 
careful." 
Mr. Jones looked at the boy from head 
to foot, then stretching out his hand,—
" There, Sam," he said heartily, " give me 
your hand. Shake hands. I'll trust you, 
Sam. That's right ; that's right. Go to 
bed, boy. Never fear. I'm glad the saw 
broke; it shows the mettle's in you. Go 
to bed." 
Mr. Jones was fairly won. Never were 
better friends after that than Sam and he. 
Sam thinks justice has not been done Mr. 
Jones. If the boys had treated him hon- 
" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
reason of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
den Salve was applied, it relieved the pain in a short time, 
and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."—
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. 11. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
Marion, Ill., says, "Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, &c., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he *says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE—A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.--It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved—a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved—
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years—cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.—Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used your 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; antrI 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. �
J. V. HimEs. 
Made only by C. P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer-
rimack street, Lowell, Mass. Sold by druggists, and at 
country stores. Price 25 cts. per box, or $2 per dozen. 
I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
count will be made to agents. �
aug 13—pd to jan 1 '62 
For sale at this office. 
Buy the Best. 
This we believe is WELLCOME'S GREAT GETMAN REMEDY, 
for colds, coughs, bronchitis, inflammation of throat and 
lungs, phthisic, esc. Certificates like the following are 
fast flowing in. 
From I. Wight, Augusta, Me. 
Mr. Wellcome :—Your G. G. Remedy is decidedly the 
best thing I ever saw for throat and lung diseases. $100, 
000 could be made out of it, if you had the capital to put 
it fairly before the public. 
From Eld. 8. K. Partridge. 
Bro. Wellcome—I was badly afflicted with bronchitis 
and cough a long time, which threatened to prevent my 
preaching. I took Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and many oth-
er remedies, all to no effect. I finally obtained the Great 
German Remedy, which entirely cured me. I believe it 
the best medicine in use for such complaints, and other 
affections of throat and lungs. �
S. K. PARTRIDGE. 
Whitefield, Me., Aug. 28, 1858. 
From J. Morrill, Druggist. 
Mr. Wellcome—I can furnish you four first-rate certifi-
cates of cures effected by your G. G. Remedy, after trying 
almost every thing else without effect. Send along three 
or four dozens more of each size. I can sell a large lot of 
it. 
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J. MORRILL & CO. 
Livermore, Me., Oct. 12, 1859. 
It is cheaper than any other. Prices, 4 oz. 25 cts.; 16 
oz. 75 cts. Agents wanted. Sells well: Terms liberal. 
Call for a circular. Sold in Boston by Dr. Dillingham, 
next door to Herald office. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Richmond, Me. 2 Proprietors. 
R. R. YORK, Yarmouth, Me. 
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French Burr Mill Stones, 
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mill machinery. No. 23 Water street, Bridgeport, Conn., 
(nearly opposite the R. R. Depot.) Ware rooms No. 12 
Pine street, N. Y. 
"I have visited Bro. Leonard's shop, and examined his 
Mills, and I think them admirably adapted to the uses 
they are designed for. �
J. V. HIRES.' 
995, pd. to 1001. 1 yr. 
SOMETHING NEW AND VERY DESIRABLE !—
PEARSON'S PATENT-RESPIRATORY COOKING-STOVE.—The 
superiority of this over every other Cooking Stove consists 
in the means by which we accomplish that most desirable 
end in Stove Cooking, viz. : A combination of 
1st, Roasting meats in currents of heated fresh air, pro-
ducing the same effects as roasting on a Spitjack, or in a 
tin kitchen before the open fire ; 
2d, The virtues of the Brick oven ; 
3d, The economy of the heat ; 
4th, An arrangement by which we heat the room in 
Winter, and dispense with heating it in Summer. 
Convinced by the working of the Stoves in use, the Pa-
tentee and the subscriber offer their new stove to the Pub-
lic, with entire confidence that it will fill a vacuum in gen-
eral house-keeping. Without fear, we proclaim it : THIS 
IS THE ONLY STOVE WHICH COMBINES THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY 
OF COOKING. Patented Oct. 26, 1858. 
Books with diagrams describing the invention, and its 
merits over all other Stoves, sent, on application, to 
JAMES WOLSTENHOLME, 
General Agent and Manufacturer, 29 Dorrance street, 
(954, pd. to 1025) �
Providence, R. I. 
DR. LITCH'S RESTORATIVE : a great cure for colds and 
coughs. This medicina is highly prized by all who'use it, 
for the purposes named. Try it. Price, 37 1-2 cts. 
DR. LITCH'S ANTI-BILIOUS PHYSIC. As a gentle purga-
tive, a corrector of the stomach and liver, and cure for 
common Fever and Fever and Ague, and all the every day 
ills of a family, this medicine is not surpassed. I confi-
dently recommend it to every family who prize a speedy 
relief from disease and suffering, as the best they can use. 
Price 37 1-2 cents. Sold by H. Jones, 4S Kneeland st., 
Boston, next door to the Herald office ; and by J. Litch 
127 N. 11th st., Philadelphia. �
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a slow tongue." Ex. 4:10. 
What answer did the Lord make 
to this excuse of Moses? 
Ans. " The Load said unto him, Who 
hath-made man's mouth 7 or who maketh 
the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the 
blind ? have not I the Lord ? Now there-
fore go, and 1 will be with thy mouth, and 
teach thee what thou shalt say." Ex. 4 : 
11, 12. 
Did Moses still excuse himself 
Ans. " He said, 0 my Lord, send, I pray 
thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt 
send"—or, as in the margin, " by the hand 
of him thou shouldest send." Ex. 4:13. 
Was the Lord displeased with this 
reply? 
Ans. " The anger of the Lord was kin-
dled against Moses, and he said, Is not 
Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know 
that he can speak well. And also,bthold, 
he cotneth forth to meet thee : and when 
he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart." 
Ex. 4:14. 
What assistance was Aaron to ren-
der Moses? 
Ans. The Lord said, "Thou shalt speak 
unto him, and put words in his mouth : 
and 1 will be with thy mouth, and with 
his mouth, and will teach You what ye 
shtall do. And he shall be thy spokesman 
unto the people : and he shall be, even he 
shall he to thee instead of a mouth, and 
thou shalt be to him instead of God." Ex. 
4:15, 16. 
Did Moses then return to Egypt? 
Ans. " Moses went, and returned to 
Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto 
him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return 
unto my brethren which are in Egypt,and 
see whether they be yet alive. And Jeth- 
ro said to Moses, Go in peace. And the 
Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, re-
turn into Egypt : for all the men are dead 
which sought thy life. And Moses took 
estly and " above-board," he would have 
been a good man to live with. It was 
their conduct which soured and made him 
suspicious. I do not knr'w how that is ; 
only know that Sam Fisher finds in Mr. 
Jones a kind master and a faithful friend. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
REMOVAL. The Advent Mission church in New York 
will hereafter worship in the meeting-house of the Seventh 
day Baptist church on 11th street, between 3d and 4th 
avenues. Preaching by Elder Josiah Litch. The prayer-
ful support and co-operation of all Christians is solicited. 
CONFERENCE IN CANADA WEST. Bro. Bliss:—I wish to 
remind our brethren through the Herald, of the approach 
of the yearly conference of Messiah's church, according 
to adjournment, February, the second Wednesday, 1861, 
which will be the thirteenth day of said month, and will 
be held at Wellington Square, C. W. The friends at the 
Square are making ample provision to accommodate visit-
ors. Therefore, a cordial invitation is extended to all in-
terested in the spread of the gospel of the kingdom.—
Brethren, let us pray the great Head of the church to 
make this institution a blessing, and let us come together 
with united hearts and hands to devise means, and assist 
and encourage each other in the glorious task of spread. 
ing the intelligence of our soon coming King. 
Your brother in hope, 
D. W. FLANDERS, Sec. Conf. 
Providence permitting, I shall attend the conference at 
Wellington Square, Feb. 13th. �
J. LITCH. 
I have an appointment to preach at Canterbury town-
house, or hall near by, the 2d Sabbath in February. 
T. M. PREBLE. 
The Lord willing, I will preach in North Springfield, 
Vt., Sunday, Feb. 10th; South Ashbnrnbam, Mass., 11th; 
Templeton, 12th; Lowell, 11th ; Haverhill, I5th ; Law- 
rence, Sunday, 17th. �
L. H. InostesoN. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
Wm. 11. Swartz. Have changed on our books the names 
of S. Prepper to S. Pipher, and B. Gilbert to B. Gibler. 
0. Dowd. Have chd. you for Herald to 1075 to Mrs. 
L. W. Stow, and Mrs. Lucina Mallory $2 each, and A. H. 
Matthews and G. W. Pinney $1 each, in addition to form-
er charge—crediting you $2 on account. J. Bisbe is cr. 
on our books to No. 1075—that in Herald must be an er-
ror. 
A. Pearce. You were too late for the bundle. Will 
you give "sister Davis" full name. Have sent the two 
papers by mail. Have cr. you $5 to bal. ace't of W.C.T. 
E. Parker. Will send to S.S. to 1049 as credited. 
J. Pearce. It does not look much like thus disposing of 
it. �
You can, however, have its value in any orders on the 
A.M.A. and transfer to it. We sent your extras by ex-
press, and hope you have now received them. Have sent 
Herald to L D C from July 1. Had before received is copy 
of the same extract, but do not regard it as particularly 
sagacious. Will look at the texts you send. 
A. 31. ASSOCIATION. 
The " American Millennial Association," located in Bos 
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 18',8, under 
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le-
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a 
report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
due notice should be at once given to 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1861. 
— Davis, Providence, R. I. ...... ...........1.00 
POSTAGE.—The postage on the Herald, if pre-paid quay 
terly or yearly, at the office where it is received, will be 13 
cents a-year to any part of Massachusetts, and 26 cents to 
any other part of the United States. If not pre-paid, it 
will be half a cent a number in the State, and one cent out 
of it. 
Elder 'Times is still confined to his room and bed by the 
intermittent fever. He requests the prayers of the breth-
ren and sissers in his behalf. Friends and correspondents 
must be patient. �
W. L. MMES. 
Jan. 29, 1861. 
RE CEIPTS. 
UP TO TUESDAY, JAN. 29. 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD to 
which the money credited pays. No. 1023 was the closing 
number of 1860 ; No. 1049 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1861; and No.1075 is to the 
close of 1861. Notice of any failure to give due credit, 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
L Ingalls 1036, G W Whiting 1052, N T Witbington 
1040, Mr Lees, B Lerned, each to 1023, C Luce 1054,,D T 
Taylor, for extras, Mrs Fanny Parsons 1054, Geo Reich, 
A C Brown, Mrs M C Mesmer, A D Blanchard, J Wheel-
ock, J G Rice, T 11 Prushaw, 0 Elliott, E S Loomis, E 
Tritton, J T Beitel, T F Cluvell, Rev F F Hagen, Geo 
Marshall, each to 1049, J Litch on acc't, F D Atwood 1055 
—each $1. 
A Jenne, G Downing, each to 1062, M M Hoffman 1049 
Mrs J Dannett 1097, E Hathaway, A Pettingill, each to 
1023; J C Burdick, S L Mann, P Richardson, C Brand-
stetter, L F Field, E Erwin, N Norton, L Edwards, L C 
Abbott, John M Goye, to Jan I '62, each to 1075; C Stow 
I090—each $2. 
Joshua Smith of P, 1080—$4; Wm Chamberlain I036, 
50 cts. 
B. W. LEONARD, manufac- fore, nor since thou bast spoken unto thy 
turer of Portable Flouring servant : but I am slow of speech, and of 
and Grist Mills adapted to 
Grinding all kinds of Grain, 
Cement, Plaster, Salt, Spices, 
tize. Also the best quality of 
Questions about Moses. 
Continued from our last. 
Was Moses afraid the children of 
Israel would not believe him? 
Ans. " And Moses answered and said, 
But, behold, they will not believe me, nor 
hearken unto my voice : for they will say, 
The Lord hath not appeared unto thee." 
Ex. 4:1. 
What miracle did Cod perform to 
convince Moses that the people would be-
lieve? 
Ans. " The Lord said unto him, What 
is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod. 
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And 
he cast it on the ground, and it became a 
serpent: and Moses fled from before it.—
And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth 
thy hand, and take it by the tail. And he 
put forth his hand, and caught it, and it 
became a rod in his hand : that they may 
believe that the Lord God of their fathers, 
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 
and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto 
thee." Ex. 4:2-5. 
What other sign did the Lord give 
him? 
Ans. " And the Lord said furthermore 
unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bo-
som. And he put his hand into his bosom: 
ard when he took it out, behold, his hand 
was leprous as snow. And he said, Put 
thy hand into thy bosom again. And he 
put his hand into his bosom again, and 
plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it 
was turned again as his other flesh." Ex. 
4:6, 7. 
What did God say respecting their 
believing these signs ? 
Ans. He said, it And it shall come to 
pass, if they will not believe thee, neither 
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that 
they will believe the voice of the latter 
sign. And it shall come to pass, if they 
will not believe also these two signs, nei-
ther hearken unto thy voice, that thou 
shalt take of the water of the river, and 
pour it upon the dry land : and the water 
which thou takest out of the river shall be-
come blood upon the dry land." Ex. 4:8,9. 
What disqualification did Moses 
think he had for such a mission? 
Ans. " Moses said unto the Lord, 0 my 
Lord, 1 am not eloquent, neither hereto- 
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