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The Luxury of Luxuries. 
Go thou and wipe away the tear which dims the widow's eye; 
Be a father to the fatherless, and still the orphan's sigh ; 
Help thou thy brother in distress with open hand and heart; 
Hut do thou this when seen by none, save Him who dwells apart; 
Rejoice with those of spirit glad, upraise the drooping head, 
Mid to the wretched let thy words bring back the hope long fled , 
Forgive as thou wouldst he forgiven, and for thy fellows live; 
lie happy in the happiness thou canst to others give. 
These are the heavenly luxuries the poorest can enjoy; 
These are the blissful banquets of which men never cloy. 
Rich and poor, old and voting, know this as ve should— 
The luxury of luxuries is that of doing good ! 
Win. Hurlon. 
The Work of the Messiah. 
BY RIDLEY H. HERSCHELL, 
PASTOR OF A CHURCH OF CONVERTED JEWS 15 LONDON, ENG. 
(Continued from our last.) 
MUCH has been written on the 53d of Isaiah; 
yet it is impossible, in an inquiry like the 
present, to pass it over in silence. 
The re-
ception of this chapter by the Jews, is a stand-
ing proof how much the will has to do with be-
lief and unbelief. 
Infidelity is not, as infidels 
pretend, from want of evidence, but from not, 
seeking evidence: nay, in many cases, from a 
determination not to seek it, and to resist it 
when forced upon them. 
This chapter has 
been brought forward to the Jews by their op-
ponents for the last eighteen centuries, as a 
conclusive proof of the claims of Jesus of Naz-
areth to be the Messiah; and yet they possess 
to this day no authorized exposition of this 
chapter! 
Many explanations of it have been 
given by Jewish authors; but none of them 
has been sufficiently satisfactory to the Jews 
at large, to deserve to be called the received 
opinion on the subject. 
Nothing can more 
clearly testify that this is the case than the ex-
pressive silence of one of their most sensible 
modern authors, David Levi, who gets over 
alt difficulties by entirely omitting this chapter 
in his "Dissertations on the Prophecies of the 
Old Testament." He divides the book of Isaiah 
into fourteen distinct prophecies, and states 
that, " the ninth prophecy commences chapter 
51:1, and is continued to the end of v. 12, of 
chap, fifty-two" (vol. i., p. 282); and that 
"the tenth prophecy commences chap. 
54:1, 
and is continued to the last verse of chap. 55. 
(Vol. ii., p. 1.) 
What, then, I ask, is chap. 
52:13, to the end of chap. 53? 
Is it not a 
portion of tbe book of Isaiah at all ? 
No Jew 
will venture to assert this. 
Is it, then, no 
prophecy ? 
This cannot be admitted, because 
it foretels future events as decidedly as any 
other portion of the prophet's writings. 
But it 
is clearly a prophecy which Mr. Levi thinks it 
wisest to let alone. 
I cannnot doubt that the utmost amount of 
Jewish skill has been expended on this chapter : 
and the product of it amounts to—nothing.— 
Ought not this to make a reflecting Jew pause 
and inquire, Why is it so ? 
It is undeniable 
that the ancient Jewish commentators applied 
this passage to the Messiah ; and it is evident 
that the most natural construction demands that 
it be applied to an individual. 
An individual 
has appeared 
who is asserted to be the one 
here spoken of. 
Is this some obscure person 
who has passed away, and left no trace on the 
world's history ? 
No ; it is One whose name 
and history are known wherever civilization 
is found; 
it is One 
who has " turned the 
world upside down." 
Has, then, the Individ-
ual in question cunningly adapted his actions 
to suit the predictions of this chapter ? 
This 
might have been alleged had the 
prophecy 
contained a detail of actions to be performed; 
but it predicts, not what Jehovah's " servant" 
was to do, but what he was to suffer, what 
others were to do unto Him ; the fulfilment of 
which is beyond the skill of the cleverest im-
postor. 
I earnestly and affectiwiately appeal 
to my Jewish brethren, whether it' is reasona-
ble to set aside such claims without a full ex-
amination ; whether it does not savor of a de-
termination not to be convinced ; nay, even of 
a fear, lest examination should necessarily end 
in conviction ? 
In this wonderful chapter, which is more like 
a history of Jesus of Nazareth, written after 
He had " poured out his soul unto death," than 
a prophecy uttered many centuries before His 
birth, we learn tbe atoning work of Messiah ; 
that He was the true Lamb of the sin-offering, 
in whom all the types and shadows of the law 
had their fulfilment. 
This was His work of 
suffering and humiliation, that He might bring 
back fallen man to bis allegiance to God, be-
fore He could establish His glorious kingdom 
in this revolted province of God's empire. 
In the chapters that follow, the sin and op-
pression of Israel, with God's vengeance on 
their enemies, and the final glorious consum-
mation, are dwelt upon alternately ; the proph-
et, as his manner is, returning to narrate more 
fully the subject briefly noticed before. 
The 
work of Messiah is connected with these events 
by the declarations in 59:20, 61:1-3, and 63: 
1-6. 
The latter passage is an awful descrip-
tion of His coming in judgment, when He is 
" revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking 
vengeance 
on them 
that 
know 
not God." 
2 Thess. 1:7, 8. 
These concluding chapters of 
Isaiah, compared with their parallelisms in the 
other prophets, and in the New Testament, 
might furnish matter for a volume. 
I can only 
afford space for a few of them 
The state of the Jewish people, described in 
chap. 59, though in many respects applicable 
to them at various periods of their history, ap 
pears to me to refer especially to their condi 
tion after that restoration to their own land 
which we are yet expecting.* 
It harmonizes 
with the account given in Zech. 13:8, 9; 14: 
1, 2. 
In both passages this state of things is 
mentioned as immediately preceding the advent 
of the Deliverer. 
lt When the enemy shall 
come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord 
shall lift up a standard against him ; and the 
Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them 
that turn from transgression in Jacob." 
59:19, 
20. 
Here is " the great and terrible day of the 
Lord " briefly hinted at; and then the " glory 
of the latter days" follows in magnificent de-
tail. 
No attentive reader can fail to perceive 
the close resemblance between the latter part 
of chapter 60 and Rev. 21 
In chap. 65 there is the same allusion to an 
evil condition of Israel in the latter days, to 
which I have already adverted. 
A certain 
portion of them are charged with apostacy and 
wickedness, and contrasted with another por 
tion, denominated the Lord's " servants " and 
" elect." 
In v. 9 there is a remarkable allusion 
to the Messiah, as King of Israel, that is gene 
rally overlooked, and applied both by Christian 
and Jewish commentators to the nation of Is 
rael at large. 
" And 1 will bring forth a seed 
out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of 
my mountains." 
Now the "seed out of Ja 
cob" might be.^so construed; but the ""Ti anv 
" inheritor 
of my mountains," is most distinctly 
in the singular, 
"jn? and 
are collect 
tives," says Henderson. 
This I deny as far as 
the latter is concerned. 
When the participle 
STVT is used, it is put in the plural form. 
I 
could adduce several instances; but the fol 
* Or, us we should say, to Israel raised from the 
dead, in the new earth.—Ed. 
lowing is the most striking, because the singu-
lar and plural follow each other in successive 
verses. 
" Is there no heir to Israel ?" Jer. 49: 
1. 
Here g^y 's 
the 
smgular- 
the 
lowing verse, " Then shall Israel heir [or suc-
ceed to] them that were his heirs." 
Heirs here 
is in the plural, rerr. 
I believe the Heir or in-
heritor here spoken of to be no other than the 
Messiah, tbe Lord Jesus Christ; the true heir 
of David's throne; the true inheritor of 1m-
manuel's land. 
For, if Israel at large were 
meant as this heir, why say "out of Judah ?" 
It is not Judah alone that is to be settled on 
the mountains of Israel in the latter days; for 
"thus saith the Lord God, Behold I will take 
the s:ick of Joseph, which is in the hand of 
Ephr*im and the tribes of Israel his fellows, 
and will put them with him, even with the 
stick of Juclah, and make them one 
stick1 
will take the children of Israel from among 
the heathen, whither they be gone, and will 
gather them on every side, and bring them into 
their own land ; and I will make them one na-
tion in the land upon the mountains of Israel." 
Ezek. 37: 19-22* 
I believe the threatenings contained, vs. 11-
15 of this 65th of Isaiah, are not addressed 
merely to the apostate Jews of the latter day, 
but to nominally Christian and infidel nations, 
who 
then be found confederate with them 
" against the Lord and against His anointed ;" j 
when it is said to them, " Associate yourselves, 
O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; 
take counsel together, and it shall come to 
nought; for God is with us." 
Isa. 8:9. 
This 
great and terrible day is followed by the resti-
tution of all things: " For, behold, I create 
new heavens and a new earth, and the former 
shall not be remembered nor come into mind." 
65:17. 
This was the promise that cheered 
and supported Peter. 
But many Christians in 
these times shrink from the idea of a new 
earth, as if it were a carnal notion. 
The fol-
lowing statement of a recent commentator em-
bodies an opinion very generally received :— 
" Isa. 65: 17, 18. 
Creation is here to be un-
derstood not physically, but in a civil and reli-
gious sense. 
The subject is Jerusalem and the 
Jews. 
Their restoration will be like a fresh 
springing into existence; and the constitution 
to be established among them will be entirely 
different from their ancient economy"! 
But 
is not this explanation directly at variance with 
the inspired,commentary on the subject ? 
Pe-
ter is not speaking of an ecclesiastical polity 
when he says, " The day of the Lord will come 
as a thief in the night; in the which the hea-
vens shall pass away with a great noise, and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the 
earth also, and the works that are therein, 
shall be burnt up" (2 Pet. 3 : 10); he is speak-
ing of a great convulsion of nature, similar to 
that when " the earth, being overflowed with 
water, perished.'' 
In the view of such a con-
vulsion, it would be strange indeed to urge the 
prospect of a new social, or religious constitu-
tion, as that which is to support men's minds 
during tbe dissolution of the elements of na-
ture. 
If the new heavens and new earth of 
Isaiah be a social or ecclesiastical polity, then 
are those of Peter the same; and then, as a 
matter of consistency, not only must the hea-
vens and earth destroyed by£re, be also a con-
stitution or polity, but the perishing of the old 
world by water must also mean the overthrow 
of some civil or religious system. 
If one part 
be figurative, so must the whole. 
But we know 
that the flood was a real, and not a figurative 
inundation; and, therefore, we believe that the 
" new earth " of Isaiah and Peter, is a real and 
not a figurative earth. 
It is to be a new earth, 
not in the sense of a substance newly called 
into being, but of a substance 
renovated—formed 
anew. 
After dwelling on the elory and blessedness 
of the renovated earth in general, and Jerusa-
lem in particular, the prophet again glances at 
the evil state which precedes this glory ; and 
his language corroborates, in some measure, 
the views of those who consider that there will 
be a remnant of believing Jews in Jerusalem 
in ihe latter days, who will be the special ob-
jects of Antichrist's wrath, and of the persecu-
tion of their unbelieving brethren. 
" Hear the 
word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His word ; 
your brethren that hated you, that cast you out 
for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glo-
rified ; but He shall appear to your joy, and 
they shall be ashamed." Isa. 66: 5. 
If Gentile 
believers were here addressed, it is not natural 
to suppose that unbelieving Jews would 
be 
called their brethren. 
Another notion long en-
tertained 
by 
students of 
prophecy 
is 
also 
strongly confirmed in this chapter; that the 
restoration of the Jews to their own land, pre-
vious to the second advent of Christ and final 
consummation, though it may include a consid-
be but 
af-
erable number of the nation, will 
partial; as it is here 
ter the wonderful display ol the Lord's glory, 
when He " will come with fire, and with His 
chariots like a whirlwind," (v. 15,) a great 
number of Jews are to be brought out of differ-
ent countries to the holy mountain Jerusalem, 
for an offering to the Lord.* 
Wonderful time, when " Jerusalem shall be 
a rejoicing, and her people a joy ! " 
Alas ! 
they have hitherto been a joy to none; they 
departed from the Lord, and rebelled against 
Him, until He was obliged, for the honor of 
His name, and the vindication of His character, 
to " make their plagues wonderful," so that the 
nations hissed at them, and made them a re-
proach and a bye-word. 
But God hath prom-
ised that they shall be a joy ; and has linked 
the blessedness of the whole earth with the bless-
edness of His chosen people. 
" Rejoice, O ye 
nations with his people; for he will avenge the 
blood of his servants, and will render vengeance 
to his adversaries, and will be merciful 
unto 
his land, and to his people." I)eut.32:43. 
" At 
that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne 
of the Lord; all nations shall be gathered 
into it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem ; 
neither shall they walk any more after the im-
agination of their evil heart." Jer. 3 :17. 
Was 
this fulfilled at the return from the Babylonish 
captivity ; &nd is it the present position and 
condition of the nations ? t 
I earnestly entreat my readers to do what I 
have neither time nor space to do for them ; 
diligently to study those passages to which I 
have directed your attention, and to compare 
them with those parallel passages to which the 
marginal references and their own recollections 
will direct them. 
I feel sure they will be con-
vinced that the work of Messiah was not only 
to redeem the souls and bodies of His people, 
but " to establish the earth," to " make 
all 
* When they are thus restored, v. 15th says they 
will dwell there forever, under David (Christ), their 
King. 
It will then be the eternal state.—Ed. 
t Why, then, do not the promises apply to all the 
righteous ?—Ed. 
* This must include only the pious; for (2 Thess. 
1: 7-10) " The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking 
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey 
not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall 
be punished with everlasting destruction from the 
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his pow-
er*, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, 
and to be admired in all them that believe (because 
our testimony among you was believed) in that day." 
f No; it will be fulfilled in the new earth in the 
new Jerusalem.—(See Rev. 21.)—Ed. 
" WE HIVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WB M VDE KNOWN UN TO YOU THE POWER AND COMINO OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OKH1K MAJESTY.... 
NEW SERIES. 
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things new," to reign as king over a renovated | 
world ; to restore the outcasts of Israel; to ga-
ther the dispersed of Judah; to make Jerusa-
lem a praise in the earth, and her people a joy. 
We have next to consider the testimony of 
Jeremiah in regard to the advent and work of 
Messiah. 
There is an interesting peculiarity 
about this prophet, which is worthy of notice. 
He not only prophesied of Israel's approaching 
woe and degradation, and their ultimate deliv-
erance by the Messiah, but he was brought 
deeply into the experience of the sufferings of 
Israel, and of 
the Messiah. 
Like the royal 
prophet David, he found the way into the val-
ley of vision lay through that of humiliation 
and trial. 
He was indeed "the man who had 
seen affliction ;" but he was also permitted to 
see a glorious termination to all the sorrows of 
his beloved people, in the days when "Judah 
shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely." 
The Lord Almighty, who had known him, 
and destined him for a great work, even before 
his birth, was pleased to permit him to spend 
his early years in quiet and retirement, proba-
bly at his native town of Anathoth. 
Even af-
ter the delivery of his first prophecy, it would 
appear he had not attracted great notice ; since, 
five years afterwards, in the eighteenth year of 
Josiah, when this king wished to inquire of the 
Lord, he sent Hilkiah, and the others, not to 
Jeremiah, but to Huldah, the prophetess. 2 
Kings 22:13, 14. 
I do not conceive that this 
was simply because she dwelt in Jerusalem; 
because Anathoth, not being more than about 
four or five Englsh miles from Jerusalem, the 
distance could be no bar in the way of sending 
to Jeremiah, had he been the prophet at whose 
mouth the mind of the Lord was usually learnt. 
I am rather disposed to believe that, as the 
strongest trees are of the slowest growth, so he 
who was to be set " over the nations, and over 
the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, 
and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, 
and to plant;" he who was to be "a defenced 
city, and an 
iron pillar, and brazen walls, 
against the whole land, against the kings of 
Judah, against the princes thereof, against the 
priests thereof, and against the people of the 
land," (Jer. 1:10, 18,) was kept in retirement 
from the busy scenes of the capital; that by 
meditation and communion with God, he might 
gain the strength that was needful for the ar-
duous duties to which, in after life, he was 'to 
be called. 
Those young and fiery spirits, who 
think they cannot be useful in the Lord's cause, 
unless they 
press forward at once to occupy 
some prominent and important station, may 
learn from this, that the more the instrument is 
prepared and fitted for its work, the better able 
will it be for the highest and noblest .service. 
How many a one, in riper years, has mourned 
the loss of that leisure and retirement, which, 
in his youth, he foolishly despised, and rashly 
abandoned !—(To be continued.) 
The New Jerusalem. 
REV. JOHN CUMMIKQ8, D. ». 
The scenes first recorded in Rev. 21:1-3,1 
10-21, follow the Advent of Christ, and as 
plainly precede the long expected millennium. 
First of all, as it seems to me, the earth will 
be purified by the last fire, as it is written in 2 
Pet. 3:10, " The day of the Lord," that is, the 
day in which is fulfilled the promise of his 
coming, "will come as a thief in the night;" or, 
as it is elsewhere written, " Behold, I come as 
a thief." 
What then takes place on this day ? 
" in which the heavens shall pass away with a 
great noise, and the elements shall melt with 
fervent heat; the earth also, arid the works that 
are therein, shall be burned up." 
The same 
startling event is also described in verse 12. 
" Wherein the heavens being on fire, shall be 
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fer-
vent heat." 
When this overflowing fire shall have wrapped 
the world, and consumed all that is in it, and, 
having done its mission, has passed away, 
Christ and his risen saints shall descend from 
their aerial glory upon the purified earth, called 
in verse 13, " the new heavens and the new 
earth;" and this descended company is here 
described as "the Holy City, the New Jerusa-
lem, coming down from God out of heaven, 
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." 
This glorious spectacle is just the fulfilment of 
the prophecy of Isaiah 65, 17; " For, behold, 
I create new heavens and a new earth. I create 
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And 
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: 
and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard 
in her, nor the voice of crying." The Apocalyp-
tic description in this twenty-first chapter, is 
also the fulfilment of a kindred promise made 
by the mouth of Ezekiel (chap. 37:24). 
" And 
David my servant (i. e. beloved servant) shall 
be king over them, and they shall have one 
shepherd : they shall also walk in my judg-
ments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 
I will set my sanctuary in the midst of them 
for evermore. 
My tabernacle, also, shall be 
with them : yea, I will be their God, and they 
shall be my people." 
This New Jerusalem coming down out of hea-
ven, is just the sealed ones out of every kin-
dred and tribe and tongue, that is, the 144,000, 
—those who had " washed their robes and made 
them white in the blood of the Lamb,"—the 
sackcloth-wearing witnesses, once all but extir-
pated from the earth—" a woman," once con-
cealed in the wilderness—now coming down in 
their resurrection and holy bodies, like a cloud 
of glory, to reign on that earth on which they 
suffered so much and so long. 
This scene is the realization of a vision 
thirsted for during eighteen centuries, Rom. 8: 
19,—"the manifestation of the sons of God," 
" the adoption, to wit the redemption of the 
body ;" and also of John 17:21, " That they 
all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me. 
and I in thee ; that they also maybe one in us ; 
that the world may believe that thou hast sent 
me ;" and also of Gal. 4:26, " Jerusalem, which 
is above, is free, and is the mother of us all." 
The old Jerusalem is thus forgotten in the 
richer glories of the new, and the first Paradise 
lost in the lasting splendors of the second, and 
the "vision of peace" is no longer prophecy, 
but performance and blessed fact; all this erec-
tion of glory, magnificence, and beauty, shall 
rest and shine on that very earth which Satan 
has usurped, and sin has harassed, and clouds 
and darkness have hung over for so many, thou-
sand years of pilgrimage and evil. 
God's an-
cient city, the dim type, was called by expres-
sive names: "the city of the Great King;" 
"City of God;" "Beautiful for situation, the 
joy of the whole earth." 
These expressions, it 
is plain, exceed the scene actualized, even in 
Solomon's reign, in which they bad no ade-
quate counterpart; they were rays shot from 
the future, they had their rest on the then 
present, but their light from the future. 
An-
cient Jerusalem wrecked the divine idea of a 
city, just as Adam wrecked God's great idea of 
a man; 
but God's purpose is frustrated in 
neither—it moves over their respective ruins to 
its perfection, and they both find that perfection, 
the one in Christ, and the other in the New 
Jerusalem. 
In this chapter of the Apocalypse, therefore, 
we have dim ancient predictions fully realized, 
prelibations and foretastes of distant blessed-
ness fully met—shadowy outlines filled up, and 
the deep yearnings of humanity, and the fervent 
prayers of saints, responded to in music, in 
beauty, and in glory. 
It is at this period that 
(Heb. 12:22) " ye are come unto Mount Sion, 
and unto the city of the living God, the heaven-
ly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company 
of angels, to the general assembly and church 
of the firstborn, which are written in heaven ; 
and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits 
of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the 
Mediator of the new covenant." 
This city reveals its origin in our presenting 
its definition. 
It is not an emanation from the 
earth, but something deposited on it. 
It does 
not grow like a tree out of the earth ; it comes 
down like a divine thought, perfect in all its 
structure, radiant with glory, the creation of 
God, a thing of heaven to adorn the earth, a 
meeting place for God, and them that are his. 
It is a Holy City. 
This is the secret element 
of its perpetuity, and beauty, and excellence. 
Holiness is immortality, " Nothing that defileth 
can enter," and, therefore, nothing that can 
originate and feed decay can fasten on it. There 
is no weed, nor briar, nor thorn, nor upas-tree, 
in that regenerated soil, and therefore there is 
no root of bitterness, or bitter bud of woe. 
It 
is called also, by St. Paul, "The city of the 
living God." 
Athens was the city of Minerva, 
and Rome of Mars, and were the cities of dead 
gods; but this is the city of the living 
God, 
supported, sustained, and enriched by his pres-
ence, and pervaded throughout its universal 
structure by his living energy and love. 
It is 
also called in verse 10," that great city,"—great, 
not in its material, but moral grandeur,—great 
in the glory that hovers over and around it, 
like a rainbow round a fountain ; having all the 
elements of enduring greatness, because inhab-
ited by the " great King." 
It is described as 
Jerusalem, or, as this word means, the vision 
of peace. 
The first vision perished in the 
storms and clouds of war, and even in its noon-
day splendor it was an imperfect type of this 
new and glorious scene. 
Then the Sun of 
Righteousness had risen but a few degrees 
above the horizon, and Jerusalem, and all its 
towers, projected a long and cold shadow over 
the earth. 
But, in the days of the New Jeru-
salem, that sun has ceased to be horizontal, and 
has become vertical, and all shadow is sunk 
beneath the glory that streams down, uninter-
rupted by passing cloud, and yet neither scorch-
ing the earth, nor wearying its inhabitants. 
It is also called the New Jerusalem, not only 
as a contrast to the old, but as ever continuing 
to be new. 
It is like the " new song" which 
hovers perpetually round it, as musical and 
sweet, after it has been heard a thousand years, 
as when it first sounded in the sky. 
Infinite 
things alone never pall upon the taste, infinite 
beauty never grows old, and infinite excellence 
never wearies. 
Our homes on earth have but 
alloyed delights, and the fairest of them all are 
not attractive enough to render change unneces-
sary; but the scenes and beauties of the future 
city shall never lose their lustre, or diminish 
their attractions. 
At its commencement, and 
in all its after cycles, this song shall be sung: 
" We have a strong city. 
Salvation will God 
appoint for walls and for bulwarks." 
It is next described as having in it " the glory 
of God;" this is plainly the shechinah, or that 
bright glory that burned on the mercy-seat be-
tween the cherubim in the ancient temple, and 
was to the Jew the visible and standing evidence 
of the favor and presence of God. 
It shone 
on the pillar of fire in the wilderness, burned 
on Horeb in the bush, and was plainly a ray 
from Him who is the brightness of the Father's 
glory and the express image of his person. 
There is, therefore, no doubt that the Lord 
Jesus will be manifested in the New Jerusalem, 
in some such glorious manner, so that every 
eye shall see Him. 
This idea is still more fully brought out in 
verse 3. 
" And I heard a great voice out of 
heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and 
they shall be his people ; and God himself shall 
be with them, and be their God." 
This 
is 
plainly an allusive reference to Exod. 40:34 : 
" Then a cloud covered the tent of the congre-
gation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tab-
ernacle." 
This dwelling of God with us in glory in 
the New Jerusalem, is the fulfilment of a prom-
ise made 1490 years before the advent of Christ, 
in Leviticus 26:11, " And I will set my 
taber-
nacle among you ; and I will walk among you, 
and will be your God, and ye shall be my peo-
ple ;" and also of another, pronounced 
587 
years before the advent of Christ, in Ezek. 37: 
22, " Ye shall dwell 
in the land that I gave to 
your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I 
will be your God." 
" He will dwell with them," is, literally,—He 
will be the shechinah among them ;—the word 
meaning strictly to be a dwelling. 
Thus the 
declaration in the commencement of the Gos-
pel of St. John, for instance, is a clear allusion 
to the shechinah. " The Word was made flesh, 
and dwelt (or shechinaed) in the midst of us." 
" Go up to the mount, and I will be the glory ;" 
(i.e. 
the shechinah). (Haggai 1:8). 
"That 
the glory may dwell," i. e. that the 
shechinah 
may be "in our land." (Psalm 85:10). 
Just as the glory took up its residence in the 
tabernacle, so the Body, from which it was a 
reflected splendor, which is Christ, the un-
quenchable shechinah, will take up his resi-
dence in the New Jerusalem. 
This is " the 
glory to be revealed," to which the Apostle al-
ludes ; and "the King in his beauty," of whom 
the Prophet speaks ; and the fulfilment of the 
promise, or rather hope, " We shall see him as 
he is." 
"We have Christ in the midst of us 
now in his special and gracious presence, and 
we see him " through a veil darkly," as he is 
enjoyed by " two or three met in his name ;" 
" whom, having not seen, we love, and whom, 
though now we see him not, yet believing, we 
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." 
Some saw him as the " man of sorrows, and 
acquainted with grief;" others saw him in his 
resurrection body,—all beauty and perfection. 
Stephen saw him, " at the right hand of God," 
in his own essential glory. 
Some may be 
standing here who shall see him in his tri-
umphant procession from the skies. 
" He com-
eth with clouds." " To them that look for him 
he will come the second time without sin unto 
salvation." 
In verse 11th it is said, " Her light was like 
unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper 
stone, clear as crystal." 
The word used for light is not 
nor 
the ordinary expressions, but (par-rnp. 
This last word means a luminary, and involves 
the idea of rule. 
" The sun to rule the day," 
is an expression of its meaning. 
The word 
also applied to the Urim and Thummim, or ' 
precious stones on the breastplate of the Hi»h 
Priest, on which the impinging rays of the 
glory that dwelt between the cherubim disclosed 
the counsel of God in times of perplexity and 
doubt. 
The same word is likewise used in the seme I 
of a window; or means of transmitting light 
•So Christ is the medium of all the light and 
glory that rests on the New Jerusalem ; then 
as now, the only means of intercourse with 
God. 
Not one ray of everlasting joy, not one 
rivulet of living waters, not one blessing of the 
throne or of the footstool will reach us even 
there, save through the mediation of Him, who 
is the great and only.Mediator between heaven 
and earth. 
" A great and high wall " is declared to rise 
around the great city; a plain evidence that 
outside are foes, who require to be kept off the 
sacred enclosure which they would otherwise 
enter, as Satan entered Paradise. 
These ene-
mies are the same that are alluded to in chap i| 
20:8; and these walls are the literal accomplish-
ment of the promise,—" Salvation will God ' 
appoint for walls and for bulwarks." 
" I, saith 
the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round 
about, and the glory in the midst of her." 
Omnipresent love within, an omnipotent power 
without, are the prerogatives of the New Jeru-
salem. 
Psalm 48 is literally her glorious char-
ter. "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised 
in the city of our God, in the mountain of his 
holiness. 
Beautiful for situation, the joy of 
the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of 
the north, the city of the great King. 
God is 
known in her palaces for a refuge. 
For, lo, the 
kings were assembled, they passed by together. 
They saw it, and so they marvelled ; they were 
troubled, and hasted away. 
Fear took hold 
upon them there, and pain as of a womar) in 
travail. 
Thou breakest the ships of TaTshish 
with an east wind. 
As we have heard, so have 
we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in 
the city of our God : God will establish it for-
ever. 
We have thought of thy loving kind- ! 
ness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. 
Ac-
cording to thy name, O God, so is thy praise 
unto the ends of the earth : thy right hand is 
full of righteousness. 
Let mount Zion rejoice, 
let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of 
thy judgments. 
Walk about 
Zion, and go 
round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark 
ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; 
that ye may tell it lo the generations following. I 
For this God is our God forever and ever: he 
will be our guide even unto death." 
The twelve gates, or literally gate-houses, 
are the entrances by which the righteous enter 
—all for entrance, "but none for exit. 
And that 
it may be seen that there is abundant access for 
the representative number, 144,000, that is, for 
all the people of God, these gates are stated to 
be twelve in number. 
There is no element of 
exclusion anywhere but in man. 
There is 
room in the New Jerusalem—room 
in the 
twelve doors of access—room in the affections 
of God—in the atonement of Jesus—in the 
welcome of Calvary—in the offers of the Gos-
pel—and none are excluded save they that ex- 1 
elude by incapacitating themselves. 
There are also twelve sentinels. This alludes 
to the custom of planting sentinels at the gates 
of ancient cities. 
Thebes, with its hundred I 
gates, had a hundred sentinels to keep watch i| 
and ward. 
The temple of Jerusalem had its 
unceasing militia in its priests and 
Levites; 
and Paradise lost had over its approach the 
flaming cherubim to resist all reproach to its 
sacred enclosure. 
These angel sentinels are 
there to defend the inmates from all hostile 
elements without, and thus to fulfil, amid millen-
nial glory, the functions they now rejoice to dis-
charge at present,—of being ministering spirits 
to the heirs of salvation. 
These gates were so arranged, that three 
faced each point of the compass ; and thus they 
fulfil by their distribution the promise of our 
Lord,—" They shall come from the east and 
from the west, and from the north and from the 
south, and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, 
and Jacob;" and these constitute that sublime 
gathering which shall be " the manifestation of 
the sons of God." 
The city had " twelve foundations, and on jl 
them the names of the twelve apostles of the 
Lamb." 
The apostles laid the foundations of 
the Christian Church ministerially, that is, they 
proclaimed Christ alone the foundation. " Other 
foundation can no man lay ;" and they them-
selves were the first laid upon it in the super-
structure that commenced at the resurrection of 
the Lord. 
In former times he who laid the 
first stone identified himself with the fabric, 
and was covered with a portion of its glory. 
Thus Tacitus states, that when the 
Roman 
capital was built, all sorts of persons took part 
in laying the foundation, that it might be felt 
to be the protection and the pride of all. 
Yet 
the apostles are not described as the foundations, 
but only as having their names inscribed on the 
foundations ; and even these names, so justly 
venerated, are legible there, not in their own 
lio-ht, but in the light of the Lamb. 
This is, 
perhaps, a response to the Redeemer's prom-
is^—«In the regeneration, when the Son of 
of Man shall sit on the throne of his glory, 
they shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the 
twelve tribes of Israel." 
Peter, we here see, 
had no primacy in the first Jerusalem, and he 
has plainly none in the second.—(To be con-
tinued). 
Atonement—A Historical Reverie, 
BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER 8TOWE. 
It is now nearly noon, the business and most 
bustling hour of the day—yet the streets of the 
holy city seem deserted and silent as the grave. 
The artisan has left his bench, the merchant 
his merchandise; the throngs of returned wan-
derers which this great national festival has 
brought up from every land of the earth, and 
which have been for the last week carrying life 
and motion through every street, seem suddenly 
to have disappeared. 
Here and there solitary 
foot-falls, like the last pattering rain-drops after 
a shower, awaken the echoes of the streets— 
and here and there some lonely woman looks 
from the housetop with anxious and agitated 
face, as if she would discern something in the 
far distance. 
Alone, or almost alone, the few 
remaining priests move like white-winged soli-
tary birds over the gorgeous pavements of the 
temple ; and as they mechanically conduct the 
ministrations of the day, cast significant glances 
on each other, and pause here and there to con-
verse in anxious whispers. 
Ah! there is one 
voice which they have often heard beneath 
those arches—a voice which ever bore in it a 
mysterious and thrilling charm, which they 
know will be hushed to-day. 
Chief priest, 
scribe, and doctor, have all gone out in the 
death procession after him—and these few re-
maining ones, far from the excitement of the 
crowd, and busied in calm and sacred duties, 
find voices of anxious questioning rising from 
the depths of their own souls—" What if this 
indeed were the Christ?" 
But pass we on out of the city, and what a 
surging tide of life and motion meets the eye, 
as if all nations under heaven had dashed their 
waves of population on this Judean shore. 
A 
noisy, wrathful, tempestuous mob, billow on 
billow, waver and rally round some central ob-
ject which it conceals from view. 
Parthians, 
Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia and 
Egypt, strangers of Rome, Cretes and Arabians, 
Jew and Proselyte, convoked from the ends of 
the earth, throng in agitated concourse one on 
another—one theme in every face? on every 
tongue, one name in every variety of accent 
and dialect passing from lip to lip; "Jesus of 
Nazareth." 
Look on that man ! the centre and cause of 
all this outburst! 
He stands there alone ! the 
cross is ready! it lies beneath his feet. 
The 
rough hand of a brutal soldier has seized his 
robe to tear it from him. 
Another with stal-
wart arm is boring the nails, gazing upward the 
while, with a face of stupid unconcern. 
There 
on the ground lie the hammer and nails—the 
hour, the moment of doom is come! 
Look on 
this man, as upward, with deep sorrowing eyes 
he gazes towards heaven. 
Hears he the roar 
of ihe mob ? feels he the rough hand on his 
garment ? 
Nay, he sees not—feels not; from 
all the rage and tumult of the hour he is rapt 
away. 
A sorrow deeper, more absorbing, more 
unearthly, seems to possess him, as upward 
with long jjaze he looks to that heaven never 
before closed to his prayer—to that God, never 
before to him invisible. 
That mournful, heav-
en searching glance, in its lonely anguish, says 
but one thing ; " Lo, I come to do Thy will, 0 
God." 
Through a life of sorrow, the realized love 
°f his Father has shone like a precious and 
beautiful talisman in his bosom ; but now, when 
desolation and anguish have come upon him as 
a whirlwind, this last star has gone out in the 
darkness, and Jesus, deserted by man and God, 
stands there alone. 
Alone ! No—for undaunted by the cruel mob, 
fearless in the strength of mortal 
anguish— 
helpless, yet undismayed, stands the one blessed 
among women—the royal daughter of a noble 
i'ne—the priestess to whose care was entrusted 
this spotless sacrifice. 
She and her son, last 
of a race of kings, stand there despised, reject-
ed, and disavowed by their nation, to accomplish 
dread words of prophecy, which have swept 
down from far ages to this hour. 
Strange it is, in this dark scene, to see the 
likeness between mother and son, deepening in 
every line of those faces, as they stand thus 
thrown out by the dark background of rage and 
hate, which like a storm-cloud towers around. 
The same rapt, absorbed, calm intensity of an-
guish in both mother and son, save only that 
while he gazes upwards towards God, she, with 
like fervor, gazes on him. 
What to her is the 
deriding mob—the coarse taunt, the 
brutal 
abuse ? of it all, she hears, she feels nothing. 
She sinks not, faints not, weeps not—her whole 
being concentrates in the will to suffer by and 
with him to the last. 
Other hearts there are 
that beat for him—others that press into the 
doomed circle, and own him amid the scorn of 
thousands. 
There may you see the clasped 
hands and upraised eyes of a Magdalen, the 
pale and steady resolve of John, the weeping 
company of women who bewailed and lamented 
him ; but none dare press so near, or seem so 
identical with him in his sufferings, as this 
mother. 
And as we gaze on these two in human form, 
surrounded by other human forms, how strange 
the contrast! 
How is it possible that human 
features and human lineaments essentially alike, 
can be wrought into such heaven-wide contrast. 
MAN, is he who stands there, lofty and spotless, 
in bleeding patience ! Men also are those brutal 
soldiers, alike stupidly ready at the word of 
command, to drive the nail through 
quivering 
flesh or insensate wood. 
Men are those scowl-
ing priests and infuriate Pharisees. 
Men, also, 
the shifting figures of the careless rabble, who 
shout and curse without knowing why. 
No 
visible glory shines round that head ; yet how, 
spite of every defilement cast upon him by the 
vulgar rabble, seems that form to be glorified. 
What light is that in those eyes ! What mourn-
ful beauty in that face! 
What solemn, myste-
rious sacredness, investing the whole form, 
constraining from us the exclamation—" Surely 
this is the Son of 
God." 
Man's 
voice is 
breathing vulgar taunt and jeer :-»—" He saved 
others, himself he cannot save." 
" He trusted 
in God—let him deliver him if he will have 
him." 
And man's also, clear, sweet, unearthly, 
pierces that stormy mob, saying—" Father, 
forgive them, they know not what they do." 
But we draw the vail in reverence. 
It is not 
ours to picture what the sun refused to shine 
upon, and earth shook to behold. 
Little thought those weeping women, that 
stricken disciple, that 
heart-broken 
mother, 
how, on some future day, that cross—emblem 
to them of the deepest infamy—should blaze in 
the eye of all nations, symbol of triumph and 
hope, glittering on gorgeous fanes, embroidered 
on regal banners, associated with all that is 
revered and powerful on earth. 
The Roman 
ensign that waved on that mournful day, sym-
bol of highest earthly power, is a thing moul-
dered and forgotten, and over all the high places 
of old Rome herself, stands that mystical cross, 
no longer speaking of earthly anguish and des-
pair, but of heavenly glory, honor, and immor-
tality. 
Theologians have endlessly disputed 
and 
philosophized on this great fact of 
atonement. 
The Bible tells only that'this tragic event was 
the essential point, without which our salvation 
could never have been secured. 
But where 
lay the necessity,'they do not say. 
What was 
that dread strait that either the Divine One 
must thus suffer, or man be lost, who knoweth ? 
To this question answer a thousand voices, 
with each a different solution, urged with equal 
confidence—each solution to its framer as cer-
tain and sacred as the dread fact it explains— 
yet every one, perhaps, unsatisfactory to the 
deep questioning soul. The Bible, as it always 
does, gives on this point not definitions or dis-
tinct outlines, but images—images which lose 
all their glory and beauty, if seized by the 
harsh hands of metaphysical analysis; but in-
expressibly affecting to the unlettered human 
heart, which softens in gazing on their mourn-
ful and mysterious beauty. 
Christ is called 
our sacrifice, our passover, our atoning high 
priest; and he himself, while holding in his 
hand the emblem cup, says, " It is my blood, 
shed for many, for the remission of sins." 
Let 
us reason on it as we will, this story of the 
cross, presented without explanation in the sim-
ple metaphor of the,Bible, has produced an 
effect on human nature wholly unaccountable. 
In every age and clime—with every variety of 
habit, thought and feeling, from the cannibals 
of New-Zealand and Madagascar to the most 
enlightened and scientific minds in Christendom, 
one feeling, essentially homogeneous in its char-
acter and results, has arisen in view of thiscross. 
There is something in it that strikes one of the 
great nerves of simple, unsophisticated humani-
ty, and meets its wants as nothing else will.— 
Ages ago. Paul declared to philosophizing Greek 
and scornful Roman, that he was not ashamed 
of this gospel; and alleged for his reason this 
very adaptedness to humanity. 
A priori, 
ma-
ny would have said that Paul should have told 
of Christ living, Christ preaching, Christ work-
ing miracles, not omitting also the pathetic his-
tory of how he sealed all with his blood; but 
Paul declared that he determined to know no-
thing else but Christ crucified. 
He said it was 
a stumbling-block to the Jew, an absurdity to 
the Greek; yet he was none the less positive 
in his course. 
True, there were many then, 
as now, who looked on with the most philo-
sophic and cultivated indifference. The courtly 
Festus, as he settled his purple tunic, declared 
he could make nothing of the matter, only a 
dispute about one Jesus who was dead, and 
whom Paul affirmed to be alive ; and perchance 
some Athenian, as he reclined on his ivory 
couch at dinner, after the sermon on Mars Hill, 
may have disposed of the matter very summa-
rily, and passed on to criticisms on Samian 
wine and marble vases. 
Yet in spite of their 
disbelief, this story of Christ has outlived them, 
their age and nation, and is to this hoi* as fresh 
in human hearts as if it were just published. 
This "one Jesus which was dead, and whom 
Paul affirmed to be alive," is nominally at least 
the object of religious homage in all the more 
cultivated portions of the globe ; and to hearts 
scattered through all regions of the earth this 
same Jesus is now a sacred and living name, 
dearer than all household sounds, all ties of 
blood, all sweetest and nearest affections of hu-
manity. 
" I am ready not only to be bound, 
but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus," 
are words that have found an echo in the bosoms 
of thousands in every age since then; that 
would, if need were, find no less echo in thou-
sands now. 
Considering Christ as a man. and 
his death as a mere pathetic story—consider-
ing him as one of the great martyrs for truth, 
who sealed it with his blood, this result is whol-
ly unaccountable. 
Other martyrs have died, 
bravely and tenderly, in their last hours "bear-
ing witness of the godlike " that is in man ; but 
who so.remembers them, who so loves them, to 
whom are any one of them a living presence, a 
life, an all; yet so thousands look on Jesus at 
this hour. 
Nay, it is because this story strikes home to 
every human bosom as an individual concern. 
A thrilling voice speaks from this scene of an-
guish to every human bosom : This is thy Sa-
viour. 
Thy sin hath done this. 
It is the ap-
propriate words, thine and mine, which make 
this history different from any other history. 
This was for me, is the thought which has 
pierced the apathy of the Greenlander, and 
kindled the stolid clay of the Hottentot; and 
no human bosom has ever been found so low, 
so lost, so guilty, so despairing, that this truth, 
once received, has not had power to redeem, 
regenerate, and disinthrall. 
Christ so present-
ed, becomes to every human being a friend near-
er than the mother that bore him ; and the more 
degraded, the more hopeless and polluted is the 
nature, the stronger comes on the living re-ac-
tion, if this belief is really and vividly enkin-
dled with it. But take away this appropriate, 
individual element, and this legend of Jesus' 
death has no more power than any other. 
He 
is to us no more than Washington, or Socrates, 
or Howard. 
And where is there not a touch-y" 
stone, to try every theory of atonement ?— 
Whatever makes a man feel that he is only a 
spectator, an uninterested judge in this matter, 
is surely astray from the idea of the Bible.— 
Whatever makes him feel that his sins have 
done this deed, that he is bound soul and body 
to this Deliverer, though it may be in many 
points philosophically erroneous, cannot go far 
astray. 
If we could tell the number of the stars, and 
call them forth by name, then, perhaps, might 
we solve all the mystic symbols by which the 
Bible has shadowed forth the far-lying necessi-
ties and reachings-forth of this event " among 
principalities and powers," and in " ages to 
come." 
But he who knows nothing of all this, 
who shall so present the atonement as to bind 
and affiance human souls indissolubly to their 
Redeemer, does all that could be done by the 
highest and most perfect knowledge. 
The great object is accomplished, when the 
soul wrapt, inspired, feels the deep resolve 
" Remember Thee! 
Yea, from the table of my memory 
I'll wipe away all trivial, fond records ; 
All saws of books—all forms, all pressures past 
That youth and observation copied there, 
And Thy commandment all alone shall live 
Within the book and volume of my brain, 
Unmixed with baser matter " 
N. Y. 
Evangelist. 
The Pope Weeps! 
The following article, which appeared on the 
11th of August, in the eighty-third number of 
the democratic paper, 11 Popolano, 
has created 
a great sensation abroad, and will show how in 
Italy—Catholic Italy—the Head of the Romish 
Church is treated. 
It is, in truth, a curious 
document:— 
" THE POPE WEEPS !—' It is 
said 
that, 
on 
reading the news, Pius IX. burst into tears.'— 
Patria, No. 39. 
" The Pope weeps ! 
Weep, ill-advised Pon-
tiff—weep over thy lost crown of glory, so 
cheaply obtained, and redeemed with torrents 
of blood, by nations idolizing an empty name 
—an image of clay—the shadow of a man! 
" Weep, 0 
Pontiff! over the people thou 
hast betrayed—over the destinies of Italy thou 
hast so ill understood—and over thy timid and 
cowardly little 
soul, taking shelter under the 
sublime mantle of a religion which thou couldst 
have ' reduced ' to its pure fountain, 
but to 
which, on the contrary, following the old cus-
tom of thy predecessors, thou didst but contri-
bute thy share of shame and defilement! 
" Weep, 0 Pontiff! 
Thou sceptred and liv-
ing 
Antichrist 
— weep for thy 
well-beloved 
Germans, and hurl thy thunderbolts on the de-
voted heads of the contumacious masses, slaugh-
tering them at the gates of Bologna the uncon-
quered, and Milan the magnanimous: hurl 
them down, for they are henceforth without ei-
ther point or consistency. 
" The Pope weeps! Count Mastai—weeps 
because Providence, in the shape of an Aus-
trian host, has not by chance, or not, yet given 
to the destinies of Italy that direction which thou 
so ardently dost desire; since it is now quite 
evident, that that Providence to whom thou 
hast consigned the fate of thy people, assuming 
in thee and in those about thee the character of 
improvidence and short-sightedness, was noth-
ing else but thy ancient ally, the perfidious sup-
port of the Simoniacal Papacy—the 
Empire.' 
" Weep !—because that nefarious compact 
has not been fully consummated. 
Weep!— 
because Italy has still left to her free sons, free 
arms, and free senses. 
" In order that Rome might tranquilly sub-
mit to the double yoke of thy demoralizing 
policy and northern despotism, thou hast in 
vain appealed to all thy saints; and it was 
right it should be so. 
Hast thou not, in thy 
cowardly phrenzy, even resorted to blasphemy ? 
Hast thou not dethroned the Almighty, 
and 
placed in His stead the Virgin 
and the apostles 
as responsible 
ministers 
? 
Hast thou not i ather 
to them than to Him 
entrusted the defence of 
Rome, hoping, perhaps, in thy dread of a Pro-
visional Government on earth, that that 
Pro-
visional Government in heaven might be more 
impotent, and less clear-sighted, than that of 
the God of vengeance—the God of terror—the 
God of retribution—who is on the side of the 
people, just as thou art on the side of kings?* 
" Weep, weep ! Father, no longer holy, be-
cause thy iniquitous commands to cease from 
strife have formed in echo and proved a vain 
sound; together with thy injunctions to res-
pect blindly the treaties concluded by thee with 
the enemies of Italy, in the sinister and silent 
gloom of the Vatican ! 
" Weep ! 0, bosom friend of Loyola, since, 
should the followers of liberty fall as slaves by 
German hands, the followers of Ignatius will, 
nevertheless, win neither freedom norimmunity. 
"Weep, 0 Pontiff!—because it is in vain 
that thou removest from thee whatever is hon-
est and generous, and dismissest patriotic min-
isters ; whilst thy most dreadful enemy, Con-
science, will never quit thy side. 
" Weep, 0 Pope ! 
Weep scalding tears o'er 
the grave thou hast digged for thyself! Weep, 
because Italy is a glorious reality, whereas the 
Popedom is nothing but a contaminated name. 
Weep, because the first will rise more beautiful 
from the funereal pile thou hast erected for 
her; while the latter, through its old and pres-
ent rottenness, will crumble amidst the exulta-
tion of emancipated nations." 
The article, of which the above is a literal 
* " God . . . commits the direct protection of this 
city to the powerful guardians of Rome—the holy 
Virgin Mary, and to the principal apostles; and, 
though more than one sacrilege has lately afflicted 
the capital of the Catholic world, yet our confidence 
is not shaken on that account."—Papal Edict, of 
Aug. 2d. 
180 
translation, produced an extraordinary sensa-
tion ; fifteen thousand additional 
copies were 
sold of it, so great was the demand. 
The 
Archbishop of Florence launched a furious de-
nunciation against it in the " Florence Gazette,'' 
calling it a mischievous, scandalous, heretical 
performance — but all to no purpose. 
The 
" Popolano," nothing daunted, ventured to re-
ply to the Archbishop with great boldness-, and 
ironically concluded his rejoinder by saying-
" Well: as you find fault with our little essay, 
entitled,' The Pope Weeps,' we are most ready 
to please you, and say, instead, 4 He laughs 
in 
his sleeve;1" 
and so little did the prelatic wrath 
move the editor of that paper, that, on the 27th 
of August, the obnoxious article was re-pro-
duced, to satisfy the increased demand for it. 
IEHOLD! 
THE 
BRIDEGROOM 
COMETH! 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1849. 
ML BL Noah on the Jewa. 
(Concluded from- our last.) 
Is there any promise of the Jews' conversion and 
consequent restoration 1 
We have seen that the promises of GOD are of two 
kinds—conditional, and unconditional. The promises 
to ABRAHAM and his seed were of tbe former kind, 
and will doubtless be unconditionally fulfilled. These 
promises were to the effect, that ABRAHAM and his 
seed should possess the land of promise for an eternal 
inheritance. 
Said GOD, (Gen. 17:8,.) 
" I- will give 
unto thee, and' to- thy seed after thee, the land wherein 
thou art a stranger, alt the land of Canaan for an 
everlasting possession; and I will be their GOD." 
Tlie promise is absolute, and was several times on 
different occasions subsequently repeated to ABRAHAM, 
to ISAAC, and to JACOB. 
The promise was as abso-
lute in the case of ABRAHAM as in that of his seed : 
to both it was a promise of " EVERLASTING POSSES-
SION . " 
No mere sojourn in the land of promise could 
be a fulfilment of it. 
ABRAHAM abode in the land, 
but " had none inheritance in it," even ""so much as 
to set his foot on" of what GOD had promised to 
"•give him for a possession." (Acts 7:4,5). 
Be 
went into the land and sojourned in the land " which 
he should afterwards receive for an inheritance," 
residing there " as in a strange country, dwelling in 
tabernacles with ISAAC and JACOB, the heirs with 
hiia of the sauve promise." (Heb. 11:8—10). 
As 
tbe sojourn of the patriarchs in the land of promise 
did not constitute its possession by them; no more 
does the residence in the same land, of the natural 
posterity of ABRAHAM, make them in its possession. 
A long list of tbe most worthy of his line are speci-
fied by the apostle as having " all died in the faith, 
not having received the promises, bat having seen 
them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and em-
braced them, and confessed that they were strangers 
and pilgrims on the earth." (Heb. 11:12—16). 
The 
mere residence in that land by the Jewish nation 
could never have been designed by the MOST HIGH 
as tbe promised possession of it: it was a temporary 
and probationary occupation of it, 
Wlien the prom-
ise should be fulfilled the possession would be eternal; 
but when making provision for the probationary resi-
dence of the nation there, GOD-commanded that " the 
land SHALL not be sold forever ; for," sarth tlie LORD, 
" the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourn-
ers with me."—Lev. 25:23. 
And so responds the 
Psalmist when he saith, " we are strangers before 
thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our 
days on earth are as a shadow, and there is none 
abiding."—1 Cbron. 29:15. 
As no mere residence 
in that land, whether as a nation, or as individuals, 
was the promised possession, so the longer continu-
ance of the Jews, or another restoration of them 
there, under the same probationary conditions, would 
or can be no fulfilment of the promise. 
That evi-
dently looked forward to another state of Things,—to 
a state beyond the present transitory scenes—beyond 
the dark domain of the tomb,—to the " regeneration," 
when the silent graves shall have disgorged their 
prey, and the resurrected saints shall come from every 
land whither their dust has been scattered. 
The promise to Abraham and his seed did not em-
brace all his natural posterity ; it included only those 
of his descendants who did the works of Abraham. 
When the Jews boastingly said, " We have Abraham 
for our father," (John 8:39,) JESUS rebuked them 
with tbe reply, " If ye were Abraham's children, ye 
would do the works of Abraham." 
He denied their 
claim to be of Abraham's seed, and gave them a pa-
ternity of a far different character; for when they 
again claimed to have one Father, even GOD, the 
SAVIOUR said to them, " Ye are of your father the 
devil;* and the lusts of your father ye will do." 
On another occasion he said to them, "There shall 
be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall 
see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the 
prophets, in the kingdom of GOD, and you yourselves 
thrust out."—Luke 13:28. 
And again, he said to 
them, " Except your righteousness shall exceed that 
of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter 
into the kingdom of heaven."—Matt. 5:20. 
The 
condition on which the Jews could enter, was that 
they " be converted, and become as little children." 
—18:3. 
Saith the SAVIOUR, " Not every one lhat 
saith unto me LORD, LORD, shall enter into the king-
dom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my 
FATHER which is in heaven."—7:21. 
The whole of 
Israel were not to obtain what they sought for: Paul 
testifieth that " the election hath obtained it, and the 
rest were blinded." 
As had been foretold, GOD gave 
them " tlie spirit of slumber, eyes that they should 
not see, and ears that they should not hear."—Rom, 
11:8. 
The natural branches of the good Olive Tree 
that continued in unbelief were broken off, leaving 
only the " election" who should be final participants 
in Clod's saving mercy. 
As we have seen that not all the natural posterity 
of ABRAHAM were included in the promises to his 
seed; so do we also learn, that the promises were 
not limited to those of natural descent. 
The bless-
ing of GOD was promised to all' who should extend 
their blessing to ABRAHAM (Gen. 12:3); and we read 
that " all the nations of the earth " should " be 
blessed in him."—18:18. 
GOD not only made provi-
sion for the breaking off the unholy branches from 
the Good Olive Tree, but for the grafting in of the 
other branches from the olive tree which were wild 
by nature, so that they also might partake of the root 
and fatness of the good Olive-Tree. 
Under the Mo-
saic dispensation, provision was- made for the admis-
sion of'strangers to all tbe privileges and immunities 
of the seed of ABRAHAM. 
GOD commanded them 
saying, " One ordinance shall be both for you of the 
congregation, and also for the stranger that sojpurn-
eth with you, an ordinance forever in your genera-
tions : as ye arer so shall the stranger be before the 
LORD ; one law and one manner shall be for you, and 
for the stranger that sojourneth with you."—Num 
15 : 15, 16. 
The stranger from among the Gentiles, 
equally with the Jew, might thus come in and parti 
cipate in the blessings vouchsafed in the covenant of 
promise. 
It was an easy thing for GOD to raise up 
children to ABRAHAM even from the surrounding na 
lions. 
And wben JOHN on one occsien said to the 
Jews, " Think not to say within yourselves, We have 
ABRAHAM for our father;" he also added, that 
"GOD is able of these slones to raise up children 
unto ABRAHAM."—Matt. 3 : 9. 
Thus "GOD is no 
respecter of persfftis;" and " in every nation he that 
feareth him is accepted with him," and becomes in-
corporated among the literal seed of ABRAHAM. 
And thus we find the words of the apostle verified, 
that "they are not all [i. e., the whole of] Israel 
who are of Israel: neither because they are the seed 
of ABRAHAM are they all children."—Rom. 9:6, 7 
The foregoing brings us to ebserve, that the prom-
Thus we find that the promise to Abraham was 
confined to no particular nation. 
The Mosaic cove-
nant had respect to the Jews as a nation; but this 
covenant was entirely conditional. 
It was based, 
with all subsequent promises, on the principle, " Do 
this, and live ;" or, " Do that, and die." GOD placed 
the nation of Israel in the land of promise on proba-
tion. 
Had they been faithful to their covenant obli-
gations to their GOD, it would seem that they would 
have been blessed finally in a manner similar to the 
blessings promised in the new earth. 
This will be 
seen by the following parallel texts:— 
In Lev. 26:11,12, after 
enumerating various bless-
ings which should result to 
the Jews from their obedi-
dience, God said : " And I 
willselmy tabernacle among 
you : and my soul shall not 
abhor you. And I will walk 
among you, and will be 
your God, and ye shall be 
my people." 
ises to ABRAHAM and his seed were to come to them 
through CHRIST. 
Thus 
PAUL reasons, that when 
to Abraham and his seed were the promises made," 
GOD " saith not, And to seeds, as of many ; but as of 
one, And to thy Seed, which is CHRIST."—Gal. 3: 
16. 
Had there been no subsequent covenant with 
Moses on Mount Sinai, the opinion would not have 
so generally prevailed that the Jews, as such-, were 
the peculiar objects of Divine favor, and had a spe-
cial claim to the promises. For we read (Rom. 4:11-
13) that Abraham " received the sign of circumci-
sion, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he 
had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the 
father of all them that believe, though they be not 
circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed 
unto them also; and the father of circumcision to 
them who are not of the circumcision only, but who 
walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abra-
ham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. 
For 
the promise that he should be the heir of the world 
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law 
but through the righteousness of faith." 
* Those who claim descent from the fallen angels, might quote 
this as a proof text iu their favor. 
In the vision which 
John had of the new 
earth (Rev. 21 :3), he 
says: " And I heard a 
great voice out of hea-
ven, saying, Behold, 
the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he 
will dwell with them, 
and they shall be his 
people, and God him-
self shall be with them, 
and be their God.' 
From the above it would seem, that had the Jews 
been ob^ ient in all things, they would have finally 
attained unto tbe very state that is described in the 
closing chapters of revelation. 
The same state is 
also brought to view by the prophets when they de-
pict the glowing future of the righteous. 
By what 
successive steps that state would have been ushered 
in, we have not now the means to determine. 
All 
that we know is, that GOD would have effected it. 
GOD gave that nation every opportunity to know 
and serve him. 
They were blessed above all the na-
tions of the earth. 
For there was no nation so great 
that had GOD SO nigh unto- them, as the LORD our 
GOD was in all things that the Jews called upon Hin 
for ; or that had statutes and judgments so righteous 
as the law which Moses set before them.—Deut. 4:7. 
And they had only to take heed to themselves, to not 
forget the Most High, to have obtained possession of 
the promise. 
The Mosaic covenant was a new covenant, and not 
made with Abraham : for Moses says, " The LORD 
made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, 
even us, who are all of us here alive this day." 
Deut. 5:3. 
And the consequence of breaking the 
conditions of lhat covenant would be,-that they shall 
perish ; for said Moses, " And it shall be, if thou do 
at all forget the LORD thy GOD, and walk after other 
gods,, and serve them, and worship them, I testify 
against you this day, that ye shall surely perish. 
As 
the nations which the LORD destroyelh before your 
face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be 
obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God."— 
Deut. 8:19, 20. 
On the other ha.id, if they should 
lay up the words of the LORD in their heart and in 
their soul, binding them for a sign upon their hand 
that they might be as frontlets between their eyes 
teaching them to their children, speaking of them 
when they were sitting in the house, walking by the 
way, when they lay down and when they arose, and 
writing them on the door-posts of their houses, and 
on their gates,'—if they would do all those, the LORD 
promised to multiply their days, and the days of their 
children in the land which the LORD sware unto their 
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the 
earth."—Ib. 11 : 18-21. 
Therefore thus said the 
LORD, " Behold I set ljefore you this day a blessing 
and a curse: a blessing, if ye obey the command-
ments of the LORD your God which I command you 
this day y and a curse, if ye will not obey the com 
mandments of the LORD your God."—vs. $6-28 
Thus it will be seen that this second covenant was 
purely conditional. 
If they were obedient to all the 
requirements of JEHOVAH, they were to abide in that 
land forever: but if disobedient, they were to be ut-
terly destroyed, and perish like the surrounding na-
tions. 
All subsequent promises to the Jews as a na-
tion, whether conditionally or absolutely expressed, 
must have been made wilh a full recognition of the 
^conditions on which their national existence depended. 
The unqualified conditions having been previously 
fully expressed, it was not necessary that afterwards 
they should be invariably connected with each subse-
quent promise to them, or prediction respecting them. 
All such predictions and promises are made on the 
divinely-revealed principle expressed by GOD when 
he says (Jer. 18:7-10) : " At what instant I shall 
speak concerning a nation, and concerning a king-
dom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it: 
if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn 
from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought 
to do unto them. 
And at what instant I shall speak 
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to 
build and to plant it, if it do evil in my sight, that it 
obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, 
wherewith I said I would benefit them." 
WTe need i 
not enumerate how frequently the Jews sinned, how 
they departed from GOD'S ordinances, how He pun-
ished them, dispersed them, and on their repentance 
restored them again and again to their land. 
The 
LORD did not subject them to the full consequences of 
their disobedience after a single trial. 
They had re-
newed and multiplied opportunities to regain the lost 
favor of the Most High. 
" The LORD GOD of their 
fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up be-
times and^sending; because he had compassion on his 
people, and on his dwelling-place." (2 Chron. 36: 
15.) 
Even after they had been subjected to the cap-
tivity of Babylon, their beautiful house had been 
burned with fire, and the wall of their city had been 
broken down, the compassion of the LORD did not 
forsake them. 
Ho gave them another trial in their 
own land, permitted the rS-building of the Temple, 
and the restoration of the city. 
Even then, had ihey 
turned to the LORD, with their whole heart, and served 
him in sincerity and truth, He was ready to remit 
the forfeiture due for past transgressions, and renew 
the promises on the same conditions. 
In vision GOD 
showed to EZEKIEL the glory which even then he 
would bestow on them. 
He gave the prophet a sym-
bolical representation of the city and Temple, then 
lying in ruins, to he re-builded, wilh the pattern for 
its re-construciion. 
As the closing act of this scenic 
representation, the prophet says (Ezek. 43.4, 7, 9) ; 
" And the glory of the LORD came into the house by 
the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the 
east ... and behold the glory of the 
LORD filled 
the house. . . . And he said unto me, Son of man, 
the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of 
my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the chil-
dren of Israel forever, and my holy name shall the 
house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their 
kings in their high places. . . . Now, let them put 
away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their 
kings far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of 
them forever." 
Thus thorough repentance, and continuance in obe-
dience, would have again secured to them the prom-
ise of the state which the saints will attain lo in the 
new earth—the ultimate state promised lo, and for-
feited by their fathers. 
The succeeding portions of 
EZEKIEL'S prophecy shows that this< ultimate state, 
when " the name of the city from that day shall be, 
THE LORD is THERE"—(Ezek. 48:35)—was to be 
secured and ushered in by a strict observance of the 
Levitical ritual, the types and shadows of which pre-
figured the coming of the Messiah, to bear away the 
sins of the people in his own body. 
Consequently, 
those predictions, with their sacrificial ceremonies, 
could give no assurance of promise, beyond the first 
advent, if the Jews should not then prove worthy. It 
is evident lhat MOSES regarded the law as binding on 
the Jews only to that epoch ; for he distinctly recog-
nizes the right of the future Prophet, whom the 
LORD their GOD should raise up unto tbe Jeys, like 
unto him, (Deut. 18:15,) to alter, amend, or do away 
the law then enacted according lo his good pleasure. 
When He should come, the Jews were commanded 
to" hearken unto him," and PETER adds, "in all 
things whatsoever He shall say unto you. 
And it 
shall come to pass, that every soul which will not 
hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the 
people."—Acts 3:22, 23. 
PAUL also shows us that 
the law was only preparatory and introductory to 
CHRIST'S coming, which he calls the coming of 
faith. 
He says (Gal. 3:23. 24.) ; " But before faith 
came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the 
faith which should afterwards Ce revealed. 
Where-
fore the law was our school-master to bring us unto 
[the coming ofj CHRIST " When CHRIST came, the 
purpose designed to be served by the law was ac-
complished : consequently He " blotted out the hand-
writing of ordinances that was against us, which was 
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it 
to his cross."—Col. 2:14. 
Thus terminated the Mosaic covenant, leaving the 
Abraliamic covenant in full force,—" they which are 
of faith " being reckoned as " the children of ABBA-
HAM."—Gal. 3:7. 
As the promises 
under the law 
no longer exist, so neither does the curse : " CHRIST 
hath redeemed us from the curse, being made a curse 
for us • . . that the blessing of ABRAHAM might 
come on the Gentiles through JESUS CHRIST." 
The 
passing away of this additional and conditional cove-
nant cannot affect the validity of the previous and un-
conditional one : thus PAUL reasons (Gal. 3:17-19) : 
that " the covenant that was confirmed before of 
CHRIST, the law, which was four hundred and thirty 
years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the 
promise of none effect; for if the inheritance be of 
the law, it is no more of promise ; but GOD gave it 
to ABRAHAM by promise. 
Wherefore, then, serveth 
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the law? 
It was added because of transgressions, 
till the SEED should come, to whom the promise was 
made.' 
By slighting the conditions of the law, the prom-
ises vouchsafed under it were not only forfeited, but 
the nation to whom it was committed became liable 
for disregarding it. 
The interests of the cause of 
GOD had been committed, in a peculiar manner, to 
the keeping of the Jews. 
They were instituted as it 
were the husbandmen of the LORD'S vineyard. 
To 
them were committed the oracles of GOD. " To 
them pertained the adoption and the glory, and the 
covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service 
of GOD, and the promises."—Rom. 9:4. 
They had 
every inducement to be faithful to the interests in-
trusted to them. 
But when the LORE of the vine-
yard " looked that it should bring forth grapes ... it 
brought forth wild grapes."-Isa. 5:2. 
When He 
sent servants to these husbandmen to receive" of the 
fruit of the vineyard," they beat, evil entreated, 
wounded, and sent them away empty. 
And when 
He sent his " beloved Son," instead of rendering him 
the reverence due to the Heir, they " cast him out 
of the vineyard and killed him."—Luke 20:15. 
When the Saviour spake this parable, its application 
was so apparent that even " the chief priests and the 
scribes" perceived that it was spoken against them. 
What should be a fitting punishment for such un-
faithful stewards 1 The Saviour said that the LORD 
of the vineyard should " destroy thpse husbandmen, 
and give the vineyard to others."—V. 16. 
He also 
told them that there should " be great distress in the 
land and wrath 
upon that people. 
And they 
shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led 
away captive among all nations : and Jerusalem shall 
be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of 
the Gentiles are fulfilled."—Luke 21:24. 
These 
predictions were all literally fulfilled. 
Thus the Jews were deposed from the station to 
which GOD had elevated them. 
They were no long-
er to be the recipients of GOD'S special favor. 
The 
middle wall of partition " between Jew and Gentile 
1' had been broken down, by the abolition of " the law 
of commandments." 
Isaiah had predicted, (65:15,) 
that the Jews should leave their name for a curse 
unto his chosen ; for, said the prophet, " the LORD 
GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another 
name." 
In fulfilment of this " the disciples were 
called Christians first at Antioch."—Acts 11:26.— 
From that time the conditions of the new covenant 
came in force, which GOD had promised—a covenant 
established upon better promises." Jer. 31:31: "Be-
hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make 
a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with 
the house of Judah." 
And Paul declares, (Heb. 8: 
6,) that this is the covenant of which CHRIST is " the 
Mediator." 
Under this, " he is not a Jew who is 
one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is 
outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew who is one in-
wardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the 
spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not ol 
men, but of GOD."—Rom. 2:29, 29, 
Under this 
covenant, we see not how the Jews can claim the fu-
ture fulfilment of any unfulfilled promises which were 
made under a covenant, the conditions of which they 
had violated,—the promises being consequently for-
feited. The only promises of which there is any 
hope of a fulfilment, are those connected with the 
promised resurrection, when all who died in faith will 
be raised from their dusty beds and placed in posses-
sion of the promised inheritance. And this was their 
hope : they were all striving to " obtain a better res-
urrection," 
And thus has GOD promised to restore 
Israel (Ezek. 37:12-14): "Thus saith the 
LORD 
GOD ; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, 
and cause you to come up out of your graves, and 
bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know 
that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, 
0 my people, and brought you out of your graves, 
and shall put my Spirit in you, aud ye shall live, and 
1 shall placc you in your own land: then shall ye 
know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed 
it, saith the LORD." 
In view of GOD'S dealing with the Jews, we find 
no pre-eminence vouchsafed to them in the future. 
And Consequently we see no evidence of their resto-
ration to national or spiritual privileges, in the loosen-
ing of the chains by which they have been bound ; 
but in these movements we see indications of the 
downfall of Satan's kingdom, when the LORD shall 
take to himself his great power, and shall reign. 
The Yellow, or Golden Fever. 
We suppose that all our readers are acquainted 
with the reports respecting the late discoveries of yast 
deposites of gold in western California. Capt. J. L. 
Folsom, of the United States army, in a letter to 
Gen. Jessup, writing from San Francisco, Sept. 18th 
last, says:— 
On the lower portions of the streams it is found itt 
thin flat particles, resembling small golden fish scales. 
Higher in the mountains it is found varying in size, 
from the finest particles to pieces of five or six ounces 
in weight, and of all conceivable forms. 
Many ol 
the largest pieces contain small portions of quartz and 
other granite rock imbedded in them. 
The coarse 
gold is dug out of the crevices among the rocks, in 
the dry beds of mountain torrents, with pickaxes, 
small iron bars, spades, butchers-knives, sticks, &c. 
In many places the streams flow over strata of coarse 
slate, or shale, standing vertically, and between the 
diflerent layers the gold is deposited by the water. 
As no one has yet found the gold in its native ma-
trix, a question often suggests itself as to its origin. 
I believe the coarse gold is found near the spots where 
it originally lay in its native bed, and much of the 
fine gold has been swept down from the mountains 
by torrents of water. 
Almost all the rocks in Upper 
California are imperfectly organized, being soft and 
friable, and incapable of resisting the action of the 
weather. 
In the process of time, the mountains have 
gradually crumbled away into fine dust, and the gold 
has been liberated. 
The coarse gold, from its mas-
siveness and great specific gravity, was not removed 
from the mountain sides, whereas the fine gold was 
swept off to the plains below. 
The extent of these golden deposites it is impossi-
ble to conjecture. 
Gold has been found one hundred 
and forty miles above Sutter's fort. 
It is.dugin 
great quantities almost all points along Feather, Ju-
ba, and Bear rivers, and upon the American Fork 
and all its tributaries, upon the Cosuinnes and Stan-
islaus rivers, and upon both sides of the San Joaquitn 
river. 
It has been found at Bodega, on theseacoast, 
and at various points in the chain of mountains which 
separates the waters flowing into the San Joaquim 
from those which enter the Pacific, as far as Ciudad 
de los Angeles. 
It has also been found in considera-
ble quantities in the earth of the plains near the mis-
sion of Santa Clara. 
It is thus known to exist 
throughout a region of country of more than six hun-
dred miles in extent, and probably extends into Ore-
gon. 
The first discovery of these golden deposites was 
made as late as last February. 
It is, however, be-
lieved that the Indians knew of the existence of gold 
in that region. 
As soon as the reports of the dis-
covery were believed at San Francisco and vicinity, 
a change almost magical in its nature pervaded the 
whole population. 
Lawyers, doctors, clergymen, 
farmers, mechanics, merchants, sailors, and soldiers, 
left their legitimate occupations, to embark on a busi-
ness where fortunes were to be made in a few weeks. 
Villages and districts, where all had been bustle, in-
dustry, and improvement, were soon left without 
male population 
Mechanics, merchants, and mag-
istrates, were all alike off to the mines, and all kinds 
of useful occupation, except gold-digging, was at an 
end. 
By the first of last July, Capt. F. says, there 
were more than 3000 persons at the mines : and that 
number was being daily augmented. Says Capt. F.: 
There were daily accessions from all parts of Cali-
fornia, from Oregon and Sonora, and from the Sand-
wich Islands. 
There has been such a drain from the 
Islands that there is scarcely a mechanic left at Hono-
lulu. 
The same is likely to be the case in Oregon, 
as every vessel comes in trom there crowded, and we 
hear of a large overland emigration. 
Among the 
people engaged in the mines, however, there are ma-
ny runaway "sailors, deserters from the army, tTap-
pers and mountaineers, who are naturally idle, dissi-
pated, and dissolute; in short, taken in the aggregate, 
the miners are the worst kind of laboring population. 
Another writer says: " Almost all California to a 
mat;—men, women, and children, editors, mercharfts, 
lawyers, farmers, smiths, school-masters, alcades, 
shoe-makers, speculators, millers, ministers, volun-
teers, loafers, blacklegs, &c., all with pick, shovel, 
and bowl, digging and washing in the earth ; as busy « 
as BUNYAN'S man, with the muck-rake, scraping to-
gether the sticks and straws! 
Wo to the morals of 
the country, and wo to the mouths that some months 
hence will want food." 
This, remember, was the state of things half a year 
ago, before the reports had reached and been respond-
ed to from this countiy. 
More expeditions are being 
fitted out in all our principal sea ports; and adven-
turers of all classes are flocking to this Er Dorado by 
thousands. 
And, if time should continue, the pros-
pect is, that by another June there will be on the 
mining grounds a papulation of some hundred thou-
sand. 
The climate is thus described by Capt. F.:— 
I was in the mines about the 1st July; at that time 
the weather there was insufferably hot. 
I think it by 
far the most oppressive climate I ever was in. 
It is 
much more uncomfortable than the climate of Brazil 
at the warmest season of the year, and everything 
was literally parched up after a drought which had 
then continued for nearly three months, and which 
had five months more to run to the rainy season. 
The sea breezes, which extend up the valley of the 
Sacramento, never psss the Sierra Nevada, and sel-
dom penetrate even the lateral valleys and ravines of 
those mountains, aud there was not a breath of air 
moving among the mines. 
The sun was blazing 
down with more than tropical fervor, while his rays 
were reflected in ten thousand directions from tbe 
sides of the hills, until the atmosphere glowed and 
glimmered like the air in a furnace. 1 then foresaw 
(what has since happened) that there would be much 
sickness among the miners. 
These people had de-
serted their regular occupation ; and a complete 
change of life, and an unnatural climate, could not 
fail to act unfavorably upon health. 
Their diet was 
bad, their labors were severe, and they were exposed 
completely without shelter, in the day-time, to a 
burning sun, and at night to the chilly atmosphere of 
the mountains. 
Many of them worked with their 
feet in the water, and'inflamed their blood in a fever-
ish climate by a free use of ardent spirits. The natu-
ral consequence followed. 
Many are now sick with 
bilious and intermittent fevers, dysenteries, camp fe-
vers, &c. 
He thus describes the morals of the people thus 
collected : 
It is impossible to foretell what will be the ultimate 
result of this sudden development of wealth. 
It is 
sufficiently obvious, however, that the country will be 
prematurely filled by a restless, excitable, adventurous, 
and reckless population, and that extended agricultural 
or mechanical improvements are at an end for some 
years to come. 
Gambling, and all sorts of thought-
less profusion begin to prevail. 
The present excite-
ment will attract vast numbers of the idle, vicious 
and dissolute. 
Refugees from justice from the United 
States, as well as other countries, will flock to Cali-
fornia among the bettei disposed population, and will 
find shelter among the almost inaccessible fastnesses 
of the mountains, where such mines of wealth are 
now opened. 
These regions are of vast extent, and 
are remote from the regular settlements, and from the 
operation of the laws. 
In the solitary recesses of the 
Sierra Nevada are little clusters of men, with nothing 
but the trees for their covering, and no protection but 
their own vigilance and strength. 
Many of these 
people are known to possess very large amounts of 
gold (sometimes as much as $20,000) wrapped in 
their blankets, where there is no eye to see and no 
agent to pursue the guilty. 
Is it strange, when 
the temptation is so great, that the robber and assassin 
should be abroad among the mountains 1 Many rob-
beries and some murders are known already to have 
occurred ; but little attention is excited by these events, 
where all are in the eager pursuit of wealth. 
No 
one can conjecture the extent of these outrages, for 
living witnesses are not at hand, and " dead men tell 
no tales." 
The strong and firm hand of Government 
must be promptly extended to save the country from 
the most revolting acts of violence. 
Since then the state of the country has become 
much worse. 
Private letters received here from the 
gold mines of California are rather discouraging to 
those about starting for that region. 
They confirm 
the former reports as to the abundance of gold, but 
at the same time state that those who are in posses-
sion of the precious ore in any quantities, are marked, 
and often soon after disappear. 
Even some that have 
attached themselves to trains leaving the mines have 
been robbed, and trains on their way there have been 
plundered. 
The slate of things is not likely to be improved by 
the rush of thousands of reckless characters who are 
fast flocking to that country. 
It will be so much 
easier to murder and rob the one who has picked his 
thousands from the sands, than to gradually accumu-
late at the rate of five d liars an hour, that many will 
be tempted lo enrich themselves in the shortest way. 
Add ta this the want of food which there must be 
for such a mass of people, and the -distress which 
must follow from famine, the intensity of the climate, 
and the degraded morals of thousands there, can be 
better conceived than described. 
We fully believe 
that multitudes on multitudes will go there only to 
•die. 
For the sake of a little paltry gain, they will 
peril their lives and eternal all. 
We hope that none 
of our leaders will be humbugged by these visions 
of sudden gain. 
Dr. HUMPHREY, in tbe N. 
Y. 
Evangelist, 
has the following judicious remarks re-
specting the gold fever : 
In sober earnest, this gold fever is becoming a very 
sweeping, a very alarming epidemic. 
Thousands of 
our young men are rushing to the sea-board, eager 
at any expense to find the shortest passage to the 
land of promise, while thousands more are panting 
to reach it, through the wildernesses and deserts of 
interior routes. 
Vessels loaded with adventurers, 
goods, and provisions, are fitting out with all possible 
dispatch—some for the Isthmus ; some by way of 
the stormy Cape ; and each man straining every nerve 
to realize his 
golden dreams in advance of his 
neighbors. 
The object of this extraordinary rush for Califor 
nia is, to dig up gold, or purchase it with merchan 
dize and provisions, at enormous profits. 
Thousands 
and thousands will go, who are well off, and doing 
good business, and enjoying all the blessings and 
privileges of social and religious life at home. 
All 
these they are leaving behind them. 
And what will 
be the history of this unparalleled scramble for gold 1 
There is no presumption in predicting that it wall be 
a melancholy and admonitory one. A large proportion 
of the adventurers will die there. 
During a part o 
the year, the mineral region is very unhealthy ; and 
though a majority of the gold diggers may retire du-
ring the rainy season, many will linger and dig then-
own graves. 
Intoxicating drinks will be poured in 
like a flood, as soon as wind and steam can convey 
them there, and will inevitably make the most fright-
ful ravages, both among the whites and their Indian 
auxiliaries. 
In the absence of all religious restraints 
and privileges, not only will the bad wax worse and 
worse, but those who have been religiously educated, 
will be exposed to temptations which, it is to be 
feared, but few will have the firmness to resist.— 
Drunkenness and revelling will reel and slaver and 
vociferate, without shame and without restraint. By 
hundreds, if not thousands, all the golden findings of 
the day will be gambled away in the night, 
Feuds 
will break out, and blood will flow. In short, that 
great Bible truth, that the love of money is the root 
of all evil, will be most fearfully illustrated. 
Some, 
no doubt, will scrape together " more than heart could 
wish " of the yellow dust. 
A few may return and 
bring it home ; but will it prove a blessing to them 
or a curse? 
Who does not know that large fortunes, 
suddenly acquired, far oftener than otherwise, drown 
men in destruction and perdition. 
Whatever a few-
may gain, it requires no spirit of prophecy to foretel, 
that, taking an equal number from the same classes 
of those who go to seek their fortunes in the new El 
Dorado, those who stay at home, and content them-
selves with the gradual earnings of sober industry, 
will in the end be infinitely better off. The safest re-
gions to dig for gold, are those, where turning up the 
soil fills the hand of the reaper with the " finest of 
the wheat " and other precious grains. 
By the foregoing we would not wish to be understood 
as opposing our readers seeking a goklen country.— 
There is a land the "placers" of which are more 
richly stocked with gold than are the sands of Cali-
fornia. 
The capital of that country is paved with 
gold. 
Its gates are of pearls, and its walls of pre-
cious stones. 
The climate of that country is free 
from all miasma. 
No chilling winds, burning heat, 
or poisonous breath, will pollute the atmosphere: so 
that the inhabitant shall never say, I am sick. Those 
who go thither will be all righteous. Thieves, mur-
derers, gamblers, &c., will gain no admittance there: 
so that those who lay up treasure in that world, need 
never fear that it will be wrongfully wrested from 
them. 
Death will get no entrance there, to snatch 
us from t'he prize just as we are prepared to enjoy it. 
In that country GOD will "wipe all tears from their 
eyes, and then shall be no more death, neither sor-
row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain." 
And "there shall in no wise enter into it 
anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh 
abomination, ormakelha lie." There will be no fam-
ine there ; for in the midst of the city, on either side 
of the river, will be the tree of life, bearing twelve 
manner of fruits, and yielding its fruits every month." 
That is a goldeR country to which all may safely 
look—to which all are justified in eagerly desiring to 
go, and to which none will repent of having gone when 
they shall have once reached its happy shores. 
To 
CORRESPONDENTS.—GEO. 
PHILIPS.—In 
con-
demning " the prevailing spirit and practice of war," 
we by no means understand that it calls in question 
the v isdom and justness of those wars which the 
Most High directed Israel to wage against the pro-
scribed nations, that had filled to the full the mea-
sure of their iniquity ; nor that it reflects at all on the 
justness of the war of the Lamb at the final battle, 
when the Lamb shall overcome the hosts of the 
wicked. 
The resolution wa3 expressly designed to 
bear against the modern prevailing sentiment in favor 
of such abominable waTS as those of modern times. 
Bishop POTTER, of Pennsylvania, thus justly speaks 
of these:— 
And what, in principle, is war? 
It is the duel be-
tween nations, differing ir. no respect from the duel 
between individuals, except that the successful com-
batant is allowed to carry off as spoil, the effects of 
hie vanquished antagonist. 
It is an adjournment of 
great questions of international right or courtesy from 
the bar of temperate discussion and peaceful arbitra-
tion before seers, to the bar of chance or mere force. 
It is an appeal from the reason and conscience of the 
parties themselves—from large views of their true 
interest, and from the moral judgments of mankind, 
to the exploded trial by combat of the middle ages. 
Alas! alas! that eighteen hundred years after the 
coming of the Prince of Peace, this relic of barba-
rism should still be clung to by nations calling thern-
srfves Christians ; and God grant that the penalty 
which they are now suffering, and which lias been 
treasuring itself up for ages, may deter us from fol-
lowing their dazzling, bait dangerous example. 
IT is nearly a month since we sent bills to more 
than 800 persons; yet we have since heard from only 
one fourth of those to whom we sent—leaving more 
than 600 still to be heard from. There are also more 
lhan that number to whom we have not sent bills, 
who are indebted for the present volume of the Her-
ald. 
Will all let us hear from them as soon as prac-
ticable ? 
We are indebted to those from whom we 
have heard, for their prompt attention to our request. 
At the close of the volume, we shall discontinue 
from a large number that we do not previously hear 
from. 
We hope to hear from all. 
Those who are 
unable to pay, have only thus to inform us. 
182 
THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
Dope. 
Jesus, we look for thee—hasten the year 
When thou wilt with angela in glory appear; 
When the cr jwn of the earth shall be laid at thy feet, 
And the white-robed with rapture thy presence shall 
greet. 
Jesns, we wait for thee—hasten the day 
When thou shalt creation in beauty array; 
When from dust and from ashes the sleepers shall 
rise, 
And the Bridegroom and Bride shall meet in the skies. 
Jesus, we watch for thee—hasten the hour -
Of release from the foe and from death's dark power; 
When the holy visions of Faith shall blend 
With the victor's song that knows no end. 
Jesus, we long for the moment to come 
When we'll joyously greet our heavenly home, 
On those peaceful shores which never will be 
Kissed by one billow of Time's troubled sea. 
Thus looking, and waiting, and watching, we pray 
Thy kingdom to come.—O take us away ! 
And if there is aught of joy or of bliss, 
Or hope in the Christian's heart, it is this. 
In that tearless, painless, deathless world. 
The banner of love will be ever unfurled ; 
We will never go back, but will hurry along, 
And hasten to join with the blood- washed throng. 
O, that beautiful land is fair and bright 
As the mystic pomp of the starry night; 
When the throne 3nd the brilliant crown are given, 
We shall revel amid the splendors of heaven. 
D. T. T. JR. 
" Let Brotherly Love Continue." 
It is highly necessary that we give heed to this ad-
monition of the apostle Paul (Heb. 13:1) at the pres-
ent time, when we are surrounded by the perils ot the 
last days; for if we go on recklessly with regard to 
this command—one of the most important for the 
prosperity of the church—we show to all that we 
are seeking onr own emolument and prosperity, in-
stead of the good of the cause of God. 
Let us 
inquire— 
I. What is "brotherly love?" 
II. What are the evils by which it is discontinued ? 
III. How to remedy those evils. 
I. What is brotherly love? 
It is the three-fold 
cord that binds the saints together in one heavenly 
"brotherhood," 
It is the first ripe fruit on the 
" branch" " grafted " into the " good olive tree," 
which increases in beauty and loveliness, and sheds 
its heavenly and benign influence upon all that comes 
in contact with it. 
Its sweetness and mildness are 
manifest even to its bitterest enemies. It originated— 
Where? 
Who can tell? 
0, heavenly attribute of 
Deity J "God is love." 
Brotherly love is mani-
fested to all the household of faith without dissimula-
tion. 
It has no relation with that vile, subtle de-
ceiver—hypocrisy. 
It does not wear the cloak of 
false charity before your face, and say, " dear bro-
ther," &c., and at tho same time have secreted the 
dagger of hatred. 
No, HO. It aftaay& appears in 
its true colors, reaching forth the helping hand in ad-
versity, as well as in prosperity—in gloom and in 
glory ;> it remembers those that are in " bonds, as 
bound with them ;" its interests are the interests of 
the cause ; its fruits are manifest to all who are not 
blind. 
II. The evils by which it is discontinued are many 
and strong. 
We shall not attempt to name them all 
here, only a few. 
1. Pride of opinion is one of the destroying evils 
of brotherly love. 
There always have been, and 
still are, some individuals who have distin°uished 
themselves at the expense of the cause and " weight-
ier matteis," and thus bring themselves into notoriety, 
at least with a certain class—those that are begotten 
to their likeness—for like begets like, and, " like 
priest like people." They make some wonderful dis-
covery, or get up some extraneous question, and make 
a " hobby " of it, ride Jehu-like, scattering in their 
train murmurings, envyings, strifes, seditions, &c., 
until they have ridden it to death, and then endeavor 
to breathe into its nostrils the breath of life, by the 
aid of the sympathy of the people. 
Should any one 
advance an opinion opposed to theirs, he is set flpon 
as aa apostate, a heathen, o-r, to say the least, as a 
fool, or the veriest hypocrite; and thus by strife 
about words to no profit, brotherly love is severed by 
the sword of contention, and discontinued, 
2. Sectarianism 
is a fruit of pride of opinion, or 
an evil that grows out of it. 
A paralyzing influence 
is felt when this hydra-headed monster is found pan-
dering ; it separates very friends, and makes them 
bitter enemies, and destroys that heavenly union 
which preserves the church militant from the abyss 
of ruin. 
It was manifested in apostolic times by 
some saying, " I am of Paul," " I of Cephas," &c. 
Paul told such that they were carnal; and the carnal 
mind is not subject to the law of God. 
The fruit of 
its labor is carnality, and that is death. 
(Rom. 8:8.) 
It is like the poison of the serpent distilling through 
the system, producing death, unless some powerful 
antidote can be taken to counteract its influence. 
3. Evil surmising, 
which creates jealousy, is ano-
ther of those destroying evils. Jealous that some 
one beside themselves will be considered greatest, or 
a leader or commander among the people, they will 
be watching for something to confirm their surmis-
ings, and when they suppose they get it, they pro-
claim it upon the house-tops; but, it is the mote in 
their own eye, or their gieen glasses, which makes-
everything look like a beam, or greenish. 
Thus, by 
destroying the influence of others, they think they 
make themselves out to be great. 
All this serves to 
cut the three-fold cord, and to scatter the flock of 
Christ to the mercy, of a merciless set of wolves.— 
Let them remember the doom of Korah, Dathan, 
and Abiram. 
III. How to remedy those evils. 
1. Are we proud of our opinions, and striving to 
exalt ourselves above all, so as to be, like Saul, a 
head and shoulders above the common people? 
We 
should remember that we have forsaken our first love, 
repent, and humble ourselves under the mighty hand 
of God. 
2. Has sectarianism blinded our eyes, so that we 
think those who disagree with us in sentiments (of 
minor importance) are selfish in their motives? or 
has it prejudiced our minds in favor of those who 
agree with us, and think it is Christian-like to con-
tend with those who do not see with our glasses, 
speaking words of bitterness, and writing with pens 
dipped in gall ? 
We should remember, that we ought 
to stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving to-
gether (not against each other) for the faith of the 
gospel; in this way we shall not be terrified by our 
adversaries 
We should build each othei up (not 
pull down) on our most holy faith, and, above all, 
keep the commandment, " Let brotherly love con-
tinue." 
3. Has evil surmising, or jealousy, caused us to 
stain or blacken the character of a brother? 
We 
should repent and ask his forgiveness, and make re-
paration, and thus restore fellowship. 
Finally, break your allegiance to the devil, and be 
a servant to Jesus Christ, the freest being in the uni-
verse. 
Show to all men that you are Christ's disci-
ple. Love the brethren out of a pure heart fervently, 
and if we are not mistaken, brotherly love will con-
tinue. 
Amen. 
S. I. RONEY. 
Letter from Bro. S. Chapman. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—After writing you from South 
Kingston, R. I., Oct. 10th, I remained in that State 
a few days only, during which we visited the friends 
in Coventry, Providence, and North Scituate. 
In 
Coventry there remain Bro. R. Madison and family, 
and a few other precious souls, holding on to the 
faith, expecting redemption soon. 
The church in Providence, under the care of Bro. 
Fassett, seemed to be in a prosperous state. 
So did 
the church in North Scituaie, which, for several 
years, has been favored with the counsel and occa-
sional labors of Bro. Bellows. 
From North Scituate we commenced a zig-zag 
course for this place, but stopped on the way, and 
performed labor, more or less, in the following places. 
Spent a Sabbath with the church in Abington, 
Ct., where Bro. Huntington has had the charge, and 
has so faithfully defended the cause of God against 
Shakerism, " shut-door," feet-washing, and other 
similar evils, for the past few years. 
That church is 
now in a comparatively healthy state. 
The brethren 
from Williamsville, South Killingly, Brooklyn, and 
Hampton, were present, and the season was truly de-
lightful. 
That being one of my old fields of labor, 
we spent several days there in visiting from house 
to house, and found it mutually pleasant and profita-
ble to do so. 
Spent a night in Bro. Northrop's family in Chap-
lin (the only Adventists in C.), all of whom are in 
the faith. 
Of that little church and its location, it 
may be said, in a limited sense, " Ye are the light of 
the world," &c. 
The Bible and " Advent Herald " 
are its constant companions, both of which are duly 
appreciated. 
Visited the scattered brethren in Ashford, Maish-
field, Willington, and Tolland, and weVe enabled to 
" strengthen the things which remained." 
Our in-
terview with Sister Lathrop, in the latter place, was 
mutually refreshing, while she informed us of the 
goodness of God in the recent conversion of her sons, 
for whose spiritual welfare she had for several years 
agonized much in prayer. 
Met with the church at Square Pond one evening, 
and had a precious season. 
They highly appreciate 
the society and occasional labors of Bro. Adrian. 
Spent a Sabbatii with the church in Enfield (Jaw-
buck). 
The season was reviving. 
They have re-
cently erected a commodious little tabernacle, in 
which to worship; and the Lord has abundantly 
blessed them in so doing. 
Bro. Roney, lately from 
St. Lawrence Co., resides there, and preaches to 
them occasionally, whereby they are strengthened. 
On our way from Enfield to Hartford, we called on 
a few friends at Warehouse Point, who, amidst op-
pression and severe trials, are determined to press 
their way into the kingdom. 
We then visited the church and family connections 
in Hartford, and found it pleasant once more to min-
gle with old acquaintances, especially brethren and 
sisters whom I love, and who embraced the 
blessed 
hope" at the same time, and underthe same preach-
ing. 
By request, I addressed thern one evening, 
touching the " burdens " of the prophets. 
The sea-
son was pleasant, and I should think mutually profita-
ble, notwithstanding it is intimated by the best au-
thority (Matt. 13:57) that a prophet (and on the same 
principle a preacher) " is without honor in his own 
country, and in his own house." 
Spent one Sabbath with the church in Wallingford, 
and found them steadfast in the faith, notwithstand-
ing they have occasionally listened to teachers, " who 
concerning the truth have erred, saying that the res-
urrection is past already.". (See 2 Tim. 2:18.) That 
is, the " first resurrection," in which all who have a 
part must escape the second death. (See Rom. 20:6.) 
Although this " saying " in other places has "over-
thrown the faith of some," I am truly thankful that 
the evil has not prevailed very extensively in my na-
tive State. 
Seasonable notice being given, we met the Bristol 
and Plymouth brethren one evening, at the house of 
Bro. Atwater, in P. 
The attendance was good, the 
word was effectual, and the interview was protracted 
to a late hour, during which we were forcibly re-
minded ofthe joyous and successful seasons in which 
we mutually participated in the year '42. 
Those 
brethren lie very near my heart. 
Returned to Hartford, and took our leave of the 
brethren and my own children, considering it very 
doubtful whether we met them again in time. 
Then, to close our labors in Connecticut, we vis-
ited the brethren in Windsor, East Hartford, Wap-
ing, and Suffield. Found them generally abiding in 
the faith. 
Spent a Sabbath in the latter place, and 
were pained to find some at this late hour, even of 
my own children in the gospel, who had fallen into a 
lukewarm state, and become unprepared to meet the 
Lord at his coming. 
But we were cheered to see 
others in that place steadfast in the faith, having made 
advances in the divine life. 
Such received the word 
with joy, and were profited thereby. 
The Lord re-
claim the backslider, and preserve the faithful to the 
day of his coming, is my sincere prayer. 
From S. we came to Blandford, Mass., and spent 
a night. 
On short notice the friends—say twenty-five 
to thirty in number—collected in the evening at the 
house of Bro. Hastings for social worship. 
The 
word was well received. 
The interview continued 
without interruption till near midnight, and was at-
tended by the Spirit of the Lord in such a manner, 
that it will doubtless be remembered by us mutually 
till he comes. 
That is truly a devoted people. 
Spent the next night at a Bro. Allen's, in Chester. 
The " Advent Herald" being patronized by him, the 
whole family seemed at once to be acquainted with 
me and my course since I entered the missionary field, 
a few years since. 
From my inmost soul I do thank 
God that he has in almost every place, or section, in 
the five States where I have labored, brought into the 
faith such warm-heated, benevolent brethren and sis-
ters, who consider it a privilege, rather than a bur-
den, to entertain strangers and pilgrims, whom they 
esteem as the true servants of the Lord. 
To such I 
would say, in the language of Jesus, " Thou shalt 
be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." 
We then came to Cheshire and Adams, where we 
remained several days. 
Respectable and attentive 
congregations collected evenings and on the Sabbath, 
to hear us proclaim, with unshaken confidence, the 
immediate coming of the Lord. 
Bro. Zenas Camp-
bell , a late convert from Infidelity, (whose name was 
mentioned in my last, but through mistake published 
R. Campbell,) and others of like precious faith, at-
tended our meetings in each town, and became ex-
ceedingly revived in spirit. 
In their sphere, they 
contributed much in confirming the word. 
To say 
the least, it may be added, that much prejudice was 
removed from the minds of that community. 
Had it 
not been so late in the season, we should have re-
mained there, and performed much more labor in that 
section. 
1 ardently wish that some brother, who is 
sound in the faith, who may be at liberty, would step 
in and complete the work, and receive "souls for his 
hire, which is, by far, the best salary a man can have. 
See Matt. 24 : 45, 46. 
If no one should heed the 
call soon, I will return, if possible, and do the work 
myself, provided the brethren there should think it 
best, and write me to that effect. 
I hope, however, 
that some good brother, who is more at leisure, will 
see to that. 
From A. and C. we came to Esperance, N. Y., 
27 miles west of Albany, where we spent two or 
three days, and preached evenings to attentive con-
gregations. 
The inheritance of the saints was an-
nounced as the subject for the last evening. 
A com-
modious school-house was well filled, and all were 
gratified to see the minister of the Congregational 
church present, and to observe the attention he paid 
to the word, while we read the Scriptures, from Ge-
nesis to Revelation, occupying at least two hours, 
showing that the final abode of the saints will be this 
old earth renewed, agreeable to "the promise made 
of God unto our fathers." 
The brethren were 
greatly comforted, and we hope (rather confidently 
believe) the minister and others were instructed from 
the 
sure word of prophecy." 
We then came to Cooperstown, where we spent 
the Sabbath. 
During the day Mrs. C. and I separ-
ated ; she, by request, attended the Christian church 
a few miles from the village, in company with a Sis-
ter Wood, where, after preaching, Mrs. C. had op-
portunity to talk out her faith, and persuade the peo-
ple to make speedy preparation to meet the burning 
day. 
It apppears the word was well received, as an 
invitation was given her to repeat the visit in com-
pany with her husband. 
The same day 1 met a company of Lutherans in 
another direction, who gave candid attention to an ex-
position of Malt. 24th, and I trust it was not labor 
spent in vain. 
At evening we met the friends in the 
village, and endeavored to impart unto them " meal 
in due season." We hope the effort was not entirely 
lost, as some few appeared to receive the word with 
From C. we came to Nprwich, much fatigued, 
where we stopped with a sister of mine, and rested 
a few days. She being in the faith, and her husband, 
though professedly allniversalist, being very kind 
and friendly, their neighbors were called in, and we 
had an interesting season in conversing on the sub-
ject of the blessed hope. 
Spent a few hours only as 
we passed in calling on the brethren in the village. 
We intend to visit them soon. 
On Saturday, the 28th ult., we came to this place. 
Notice being given, the friends came together for 
worship on the Sabbath, not only from this neighbor-
hood, but from Gorman, McDonough, and Lincklaen. 
After preaching, theLord's Supper was administered; 
the season was very solemn, and, indeed, the whole 
day was one of more than ordinary interest. 
Since 
that time, we have remained in this section, holding 
meeeings here and in McDonough on the Sabbath, 
and evenings during the week in all the towns ;ii„ v 
named. 
Considerable interest is being awaken^ 
several neighborhoods. 
Next week, on Fridavh 
consent of the minister, Rev. Mr. Pool I have' 
gaged to commence holding a series of 'meeting 
the Congregational church in Lincklaen, which In 
continue at least over the Sabbath. 
I am told thl 
Mr. P. is a constant reader of the " Advent Herald» 
f 
Probably accounts for such an unexpected oben 
door to us in L. 
What may be the result, we can 
not now determine, but shall trust in the Lord as Z 
have hitherto done, and would humbly repeat our 
quest, that the brethren remember us at the throne 
of grace. 
Considering the present state of things 
we have decided to remain in this section a while' 
and perhaps for the winter. 
Our Post-office address' 
therefore, till I write again, will be Pitcher Sprincs 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Yours, my dear brother still 
waiting, " knowing that the kingdom of God is'ninl, 
at hand." 
6 
Pitcher Springs (N. Y.), Dec. 20th, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. J. P. Weethee. 
DEAR BROTHER HIMES:—I have at length arrived 
at home, after an absence of nearly four months. Mv 
labors from the 1st of November to the 13th of De-
cember were very arduous, being scattered over an 
extensive region difficult of access. 
I preached at 
Shelley's Island, and was introduced to Brother and 
Sister Shelley. 
I found them an interesting couple 
I delivered one discourse in Middletown to a smali 
audience. 
There is in that place, much prejudice 
against the doctrines of the Advent ; yet there is still 
a small company of noble Bereans. 
Friends to the 
Advent still find an excellent home at Sister Thomp-
son's. 
I spent two days in Shiremanstown. 
With 
the brethren in thai place I was well entertained 
There is found a company of w arm-hearted believers! 
I put up with brother J. Adams, formerly a minister 
of the " Church of God." 
He now preaches to the 
Advent Church at Shiremanstown. 
He is a man of 
intelligence, and possesses ardent piety. 
Pleasing in 
his manners, and animated in his address, he has the 
necessary elements of a popular speaker. 
Could he 
be called out, so as to devote his undivided attention 
lo the ministry, he would become in a high degree 
useful. 1 visiled a few of the brethren in Harrisburgh; 
I found them still holding fast to the " blessed hope/' 
On the 4th of November 1 arrived in Centre county. 
In that region we continued over two Sabbaths 
laboring in connection with brethren Boyer and Lan-
ning. 
The first Sabbath was spent at Bellefonte, the 
county seat of Centre county. The day being stormy, 
and the appointment not generally known, but little' 
impression.was left on the people. 
The way was 
opened for a good hearing hereafter. 
My next Sab-
bath appointment was at a Union meeting house on 
" Bald-eagle," about eight miles from Bellefonte. 
The location of that series of meetings had to be 
changed, in consequence of the illiberal spirit of the 
United Brethren. 
Though the edifice was erected 
for all denominations ; and it had been decided that 
all should give way to strangers passing through the 
country, yet they persisted in holding a meeting over 
two Sabbaths, and thus shutting the door against us. 
When such spirits are in authority, the land must 
mourn. 
In those neighborhoods 1 delivered twelve 
discourses. 
The weather was gloomy, au.d I had but 
little opportunity of making any lasting impression. 
My principal object was to learn the slate of the cause 
in that field, where brother Boyer commenced bis 
public labors in one of the final proclamations. 
The 
efforts of that brother have not been in vain. He 
has toiled through many deprivations, until, in the 
providence of God, he has erected the standard of 
our coming King triumphantly—amid the most deadly 
opposition. 
I s, eak in praise of brother Buyer's 
efforts, as they are certainly deserving of high com-
mendation. 
His labors, in some places, have changed 
the entire face of society. 
One instance is ihe fol-
lowing : On Mash Creek, at ihe foot of the Allegheny 
mountains, dwells a society of industrious, active-
minded, and warm-hearted believers. 
In former days 
their almost weekly entertainments were balls and 
social parties. 
They heard the common preaching of 
Ihe day, without any other effect than to harden 
ihern in their wickedness. 
A stranger entered their 
community ! he introduced the subject of a coming 
Saviour! they heard— BELIEVED—REPENTED— 
were PARDONED. 
More than sixty persons be-
came converts. 
Now their dansing and revelry are 
turned into holy aspirations for the establishment of 
the kingdom of our God. 
Brother Boyer has formed 
six societies, containing nearly two hundred members. 
They are preparing two church edifices, one in Miles-
burgh, the other on Mash Creek. 
In that region the 
cause is rising, and 
flourishing. 
Brother Boyer lias 
a valuable assistant in brother Lanning. 
That brother 
is devoted to the cause, and is very studious, and has 
zeal, tempered with knowledge. 
From Centre Co., 
I went to Clearfield, by invitation of brother Frank, 
of that town. 
The churches of that place were 
closed against us, and the only place where we could 
hold a meeting was the Court house. 
And from it 
two ministers had resolved to exclude us, so that we 
might find no resting place in the town. 
The Lu-
therans had resolved to commence a protracted 
meeting at the same time and place with ours. A 
number of citizens, not considering this fair play* 
petitioned the Lutheran minister to hold his meeting 
in the Methodist meetinghouse, as it had been offered 
him. 
This he refused, and commenced his meeting 
in the Court house on Friday evening, when mine 
was to commence. 
As soon as hi3 appointments w ere 
over, each evening, the officers of the Court gave 
us the use of the house, and I preached after him 
until Monday evening, when he gave way, and I con-
tinued over the following Sabbath. 
On the last Sab-
bath I baptised lour persons, three of whom were 
converts under brother Boyer's preaching, about five 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
183 
weeks previous. 
The impressions left in that place, 
I think, were good. 
I then learned for the first time, 
lliat we held to doctrines that we kept back from the 
people, (secret doctrines). 
This had been reported 
by a Methodist minister. 
By request, I stopped in 
Wheeling and spent one day in the family of brother 
Jl. Jackson. 
I found him and his companion firm be-
lievers in the near Advent, but moments of social 
converse passed sweetly. 
There are a few Advent 
believers in Wheeling, who desire lectures on the 
subject of our coming King. 
I passed through the 
old (ield of my labors, on the Muskingum. 
I found 
the cause still sustained, under the labors of brother 
|{uit. lie is highly esteemed, and is doing service 
to the general interests of the Redeemer's kingdom. 
I arrived in Cincinnati on the 13th. /Found the con-
gregation in as good a state as circumstances would 
allow. I am now at home, and with a mind full of 
reflections upon the scenes of the past four months. 
Starting from the borders of the grave, with a body 
weakened by protracted illness, under the rule of the 
dog star, I commenced my journey alone, and among 
strangers. 
During my trip I have travelled over three 
thousand miles, in all kinds of ways, preached over 
one hundred times, formed many tender associations 
among new friends, and returned with renewed health 
and with far more exalted ideas of the nature of our 
calling. I feel thankful to God for his protection 
and for the many seasons of past enjoyment, being 
resolved to spend the strength he thus gives me 
furthering his blessed and glorious cause. 
Amen. 
Cincinnati, Dec. 21st, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. R, R. Walking. 
DEAR BRO. :—I believe we have arrived at a peri 
nd in our history, the most solemn, the most moment-
ous. When I read the Word of God, and reflect on 
the condition of all nations, I am convinced that we 
are upon the threshold of the immortal state—that 
soon, very soon, the tremendous battle will be fought 
which will result in the entire subversion of all earth 
ly kingdoms, and the establishment of that Kingdom 
which " will be given to the people of the saints of 
the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting king-
dom, and all dominions shall serve him." 
In view 
of this, I am prompted to " give all diligence, to add 
to my faith virtue ; and to virtue knowledge; and to 
knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience 
and to patience, godliness ; and to godliness, broth 
erly-kindness; and to brotherly-kindness, charity.' 
To have heard the glad tidings of the near prox-
imity of the kingdom of God, is to me a sourec 
ot' unspeakable consolation; and no earthly consid 
eration could 
induce me to forego the bright 
prospects of tbe future, or dissolve my connexion 
willi a people of "like precious faith." 
I look 
upon the position we occupy in the moral world, 
as a lofty one ; I view it as a high honor heaven has 
conferred upon us.r-The world, I know, think differ 
ently; they look upon us with an air of derision ; but 
this does not derogate from our exalted position ; for 
"those things which are highly esteemed among 
men, are an abomination in the sight of the Lord " 
It is the aim of the church in Baltimore to " hold fast 
lite profession of their faith without 
waveringand 
though some few of the brethren have alienated them-
selves from us, yet I think there are indications that 
their places will soon be filled. 
Bro. Mills recently labored with us a few months, 
with a zeal commendable ; he left us, temporarily, to 
preach in Pennsylvania, but was taken sick, and he 
will be under the necessity of returning home. Bro. 
nrewer came among us a few weeks ago, at the so-
licitation of Bro. Mills, for which we" with united 
voices praise the Lord; his labors have been very 
acceptable. The burden of his preaching has been, 
holiness of heart in view of impending judgments. 
He has created quite an interest here ; our meetings 
are attended much better than they had been for some 
hme past, and we are favoied with the presence of 
H»n who has said, " I will never leave you. nor for-
sake you." 
. As Bro. Brewer has other engagements, and as 
we are without a pastor, we have written to Bro. 
Uch> hoping to secure his labors tor a short time : 
we want an efficient laborer, one deeply imbued with 
f»e spirit of Christ; the crisis demands'it; the cause 
In which we are engaged is the cause of God, and it 
mu« be sustained. 
We derive great benefit from reading your valua-
Paper: we cannot but think it is one of the best 
religious periodicals in the land. 
We rejoice that in 
oaoucting it you have manifested none other than a 
-'«ri3tiau spirit, and that you have not diverted the 
j e,Ul"n ()t your readers to irrelevant subjects, un-
thei'1 
ame abs°lutely necessary in the defence of 
what" 
We 
trust 3")Ur PaPer wi" continue to be 
svin ULUl,e purports—the " Advent Herald." 
We 
min i?' 
? vvilh y°u in your trials, and are deter-
js . 10 do what we can to sustain ypu : our prayer 
of G h >ru 
raay 
be d0thed with the " whole armor 
a»ai t' 
S° that 
you 
n,ay successfully " wrestle 
rule« 
Principalities, against powers, against the 
uaUv' I , e darkneSi> of this world, against spirit-
redness in high places." 
Yours, in hope. 
XMimore (Md.), Dec. 25th, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. J. W. Blake. 
your-* Br0- Himes :~We feel thankful to you for 
a|s We ueSS10n of empathy concerning our late tri-
desolaii 
* tru,y 
been 
brought 
10 n'ourn over the 
that all 
°Ur liUle 
Zion- 
11 seemed 
for a time 
thp Z*S gm&1 
the cunning craft of Clayton 
c"lleaff,,i 
t °a proPhet and P^y-actor, Adams, his 
ed for a tk-'i 
WaS truly a dark tiine> 
Thev succeed-
lhRlr op)v 
h 
" is past" 1 mnst si<K5erely think 
8piritQaii, 
leet
L
 was t0 proselyte, not to improve the 
vent chur h 
echurch- 
1 would say 
t0 the Ad-
cnes, (and I say it in love and as a warning 
to the friends, without prejudice,) Dear brethren eve-
rywhere, beware of them—we have tried them.— 
May God in mercy convince them of the error of 
their way, is my prayer. I charge Adams with being 
a Mormon, and T. G. Clayton with abetting him. 
The above state of things was brought aboutduring 
the absence of Bro. Mills, our pastor. 
But in the 
providence of our heavenly Father, Bro. and Sister 
Brewer came among us, they found us discouraged 
and almost scattered, and our meetings dwindled down 
to not more than a dozen. 
When they commenced 
their labors at first, our congregations were small, 
but they visited from house to house, praving with 
and urging tbe friends to attend our meetings, and 
their labors have been blessed. 
Our brother has not 
only brought out of the treasury things new and old, 
but presented the evidences of the end of all things 
in such a manner, that many have been awakened to 
see the truth as they never saw it before. One in-
stance was, a young man, a member of one of the 
churches, came in to listen to a discourse on entire 
consecration, and was so much impressed with the 
necessity of it, that he has since attended our prayer 
meetings; and in one of them he arose, and stated, 
to the encouragement of us all, that his mind bad 
been prejudiced against the Adventists, and by what 
he had heard of us we had been set forth as fanatics; 
" but," said he, " I never heard such sermons on ho-
liness, and on the Scriptures. 
If this is Adventism, 
from this time forth lam an Adventist!" and he has 
since, by his conduct and faithful attendance, given 
evidence of his sincerity. 
The doctrine of entire 
consecration, without which no man can serve the 
Lord, begins to interest the brethren more and still 
more. 
We never had it so clearly set forth, nor felt 
the absolute necessity of it before, as we do at pres-
ent; and we feel determined, by God's assistance, 
not to rest short of it. 
May (iod help us to " follow 
peace with all men, and holiness, without which no 
man can see the Lord." 
We would be glad if we 
could keep Bro. and Sister Brewer with us for some 
time ; but his engagements are such that he cannot 
stay with us much longer. 
We have, however, pre-
vailed on him to remain with us, until we can be sup-
plied with a pastor. 
Bro. Mills, our former pastor, 
is sick in Philadelphia; and in all probability will not 
be able to lecture again this winter. 
Yours, in hope. 
Baltimore (Md.), Dec. 22d, 1848. 
live and be with Christ when this mortal shall have 
put on immortality, and death be swallowed up in 
victory, 
Surely tbe present time is big with interest and 
events, which should cause us to examine our hearts, 
and see if we have any hatred or malice there. 
Let 
us love as brethren, and esteem others better than 
ourselves. 
Let our conversation be in heaven, from 
whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may 
be fashioned like unto bis glorious body. 
He will 
then render to every man according to his works, and 
save those who by patient continuance in well doing, 
seek for glory, honor, and immortality, eternal life. 
Let our moderation be known unto all men—the 
Lord is at hand. 
Praise the Lord for this hope. 
The brethren and sisters here are steadfast in the 
faith of ihe kingdom being near at hand. 
Pray for 
us, for we are few in number. 
Dear brother, the " Herald " has been read by me 
in days gone by with much delight; but of late have 
not felt that interest in it, in consequence of its con-
troversy with the two papers; nor do I believe that 
it is for the interest of the Advent cause. 
I shall re-
joice when it stops, so that the paper may be filled 
with food that will lead us to God, and fit souls for 
the kingdom. 
I am aware that you stand in a tried 
position; may God give you grace and wisdom, and 
give you strength to blow' the gospel trump, that sin-
ners may be ready to hail that day with joy, and not 
with grief. 
D. 
SMITH. 
[We thank Bro. Smith for his rich epistle. 
We 
had much rather fill our columns with such than with 
unprofitable controversy. 
We hope others, whose 
souls are filled with the blessed spirit of our coming 
Saviour, will follow his example.] 
Letter from Bro. I. R. Gates. 
BRO. HIMES :—My course of lectures in Lynn, un-
der God, accomplished good to some extent. 
I had 
to encounter an abundance of prejudice, and consid-
erable bad weather. 
But still there " cleaved to us 
some honorable men and women." 
Elder Osier, of 
Salem, closed the series of lectures to general satis-
faction. 
Lust week I spoke three times in Bro. Elam Burn-
ham's neighborhood, and enjoyed a very pleasant sea-
son with his family. 
Sunday I spoke twice in a pri-
vate house in Essex, in the afternoon attended a fu-
neral with Bro. B.,and in tbe evening a prayer-meet-
ing, which was truly refreshing. On Monday evening 
the basement of the Congregational meeting-bouse 
was obtained, the committee stating that they thought 
it quite probable that we could have it until Thurs-
day night. 
But at the close of my second discourse, 
there came a message that we could have the house 
no longer. 
The report had gone over town, that I 
believed the saints would be taken up, and would re-
main with Jesus until the world should melt, and 
come back to its Eden beauty and glory. 
But God 
opened another place. 
The Universa'list house in 
the village was offered, but I did not feel able to give 
the price asked. 
But the minister, Mr. Baker, was 
so goaded by the two discourses that I delivered in 
the Congregational house, lhat he offered his house 
free if 1 would discuss with him the subject of 
Christ's personal coming and the end of the world. I 
readily acceded to this proposition. 
We chose three 
moderators, and they announced that the discussion 
would continue two evenings. 
I gave Mr. Baker the 
privilege of opening and closing the discussion. We 
spoke alternately, each occupying half an hour at a 
time. 
At the close of tbe first evening, the commit-
tee of the house refused to let us have it for the next 
evening 
Thus we were again disappointed, and 
when we were on the eve ofa most signal triumph over 
all the errors of Essex. 
But thank the Lord, I bad 
the privilege of addressing upwards of five hundred 
people, who paid the best of attention to the evi-
dences of our blessed hope. 
Our little company heie are prospering under the 
labors of Brn. Elam a..d Eustis Burnham, who are 
much beloved by tbe people. 
Their meetings are 
well attended. 
Bro. E. Burnham has drawn" up a 
plan by which the whole community have joined to-
gether to build a free meeting-house on the spot 
where stood the second Congregational church. 
I 
design To return and speak one week in their iiouse, 
should time last for them to erect one in the spring.' 
I design to spend six or eight weeks in Troy and 
Burnt Hills, N. Y. 
Should any wish me to visit 
them in that section, they will please write me, to the 
care of Dr. T. G. Bucklin, West Troy, or J. Knight, 
Charlton, N. Y. 
Essex, Dec. 28th, 1848. 
From Watson (N. Y.), Dec. 2Gth, 1844. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I approve, with all my heart, 
of the course, you have taken with regard to the 
" Advent " question and " conferences." 
I awfully 
fear that the influence ot contending about the term 
" annual conferences," for I cannot see much else in-
volved in the subject, will prove very injurious, by 
prejudicing those who have not perused both sides of 
the question. 
Trust in the Lord, dear brother, and 
he will strengthen and sustain you ; and in the com-
ing day of gathering, you will be gathered in the 
garner of the Lord, with all bis faithful ones, " to 
love and sing as angels do." 
I am alone in this section, and the only preacher I 
have to sympathize with are the Advent papers and 
books I peruse. 
My heart is made to rejoice while 
I read the communications from the laboring brethren 
scattered over the land ; I long to meet with them in 
the renewed earth, where there will be no more part-
ing, and where the wicked will cease from troubling, 
and the weary will be forever at rest. I am still look-
ing for " this same Jesus," who was taken up into 
heaven, in like manner to return, heralded by a holy 
retinue of angels and glorified saints, to receive his 
weary bride, and crown with everlasting rejoicing all 
who are looking for and loving his appearing. Then 
let us all be instant in season, and out of season, for 
the day of the Lord cometh, yea, it hasteth greatly 
H. 
ROBINSON. 
From Squnre Pond (Ct.), Dec. 23d, 
1R4& 
DEAR BRO. HIMES:—I am yet toiling on, endea-
voring to keep the light before this last generation of 
rny fellow-men. 
I have been wading through severe 
trials of late, the cause of which may be learned in 
Bro. Jones'last letter. 
1 have been identified with 
this cause from the first, and I have attended most all 
the conferences. 
I have grieved over the misrepre-
sentations concerning them, and hoped they would 
cease, but hoped in vain. 
And now I am glad to 
see the truth come out. 
Bro. Jones has told it, and 
all the brethren will see it plainly. 
In relation to 
yourself, your trials must be severe indeed. 
I sym-
pathize with you, and hope you will be sustained, 
I. 
ADRIAN. 
Soon, however, she said, " 0 I ran see." 
She was 
asked what she could see. 
She answered, with a 
voice full of heavenly sweetness, " I can see angels. ' 
And the next moment, she was with them. 
I felt 
and who would not, that a convoy of the heavenly 
hosts were sent to take her to that home she had so 
much longed for, and for which she appeared to be 
so eminently prepared. 
I could state many other 
things concerning her, of much the same nature, were 
it advisable. 
My son died far from me, in a strange land; but 
though so young and favored with bright prospects iri 
this world, yet I am comforted with the assurance 
that he died cheerfully, gave up all, and resigned to 
the will of the Lord. 
He, too, has fallen asleep in 
Jesus. 
Well death has robbed me of my children 
for a while, but I trust in God that they shall soon 
come again from the enemy's land, and I shall be 
permitted to rejoin them where parting will come no 
more forever. 
c< 
BuLL0CK. 
Extracts from Letters. 
From Addison, Dec. 12th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO, HIMES :—I can truly say, that I have 
never seen the time since I embraced the doctrine of 
the Advent of Christ being near, that it appears so 
dear to me as it does at the present time. 
It is like 
water to a thirsty soul in a desert. 
As the children 
of Israel fed on manna in the wilderness, so I expect, 
by the grace of God, to live on bis word until Christ 
shall come to take his kingdom, and sit on the throne 
of his father David. 
Then we all shall see eye to 
eye; then there will be no more death. 
We shall 
Obituary. 
DIED, at Bloomington, 111., of Typhoid fever, after 
a sickness of about six weeks, on the 24th day of 
August last, in the 20th year of his age, C. F. BUL-
LOCK. He left the world with " an assurance of a 
happy home in heaven." 
When about 13 years old 
he lost a pious mother, and about 17 he was called to 
part with his favorite sister, about 22 years old, who 
was his guiding star, and a very angel of purity. She 
could not leave him until he had promised her that he 
would prepare to meet her, or rather join her in the 
world to come, for she was a strong Millerite. 
They 
were both attentive readers of your papers, tracts, 
&c., as well as their mother before them, until their 
death. 
Never, I trust, will be forgotten the scene of 
my dying daughter, for they were my children. 
She 
had suffered long and most severely, and often wished 
most anxiously to be at rest. Oa the morning that 
ghe died I had gone some two miles from home. She 
thought herself dying and wished me sent for, which 
of course was done. 
When I returned and entered 
her room, she said, ** Well, father, I sent for you, 
but it has seemed as though you would never come. 
I have suffered terribly this morning, but I feel better 
now." 
I said to her, Well, Emily, for that was her 
name, you have often expressed a wish to go home 
and be at rest, the Lord is calling for you, and you will 
soon be with him. 
She said, "Do you think sot" 
I answered, Yes, I am sore of it. 
She lay silent a 
moment, and then said, with an emphasis, "Thank 
the Lord." 
She examined her own pulse, her hands 
and fingers, and was satisfied that she had but a few 
moments to stay with us. 
She then took a most 
solemn and affecting leave of us, Immediately after, 
she said, " My sight is gone. I cannot see." " I said, 
Cannot you see me, or the window ? 
She said, No. 
Miscellaneous, 
FOLLY OF 
INFIDELITY. 
The London " Times " of Wednesday, Oct. 11th 
has the following remarks, which are of a character 
not often found in that journal :— 
" Man has for the most part misconceived the use 
of the great facts which have been graciously placed 
within his reach through the instrumentality of sci-
ence and research. In his fond conceit he would throw 
aside his allegiance to God, and, arrogating to him-
self the command of the very elements, would, from 
having learned to use, fool himself into the vain inv-
agination that he could create the world afresh, and 
fashion it more in accordance with his finite under-
standing. 
To this end does the Age of Reason in-
sidiously urge its victims ; nor are they few, for the 
plant is of rapid growth. 
Deadly ihough tbe poison 
is, which lies concealed within the captivating exte-
rior of this plant, we fear that there are few of its 
cultivators who have taken the trouble to analyze it 
and to test its properties with patient assiduity and 
an earnest desire to elicit ihe truth. 
Captivated by 
the perfumed atmosphere which ever floats around 
the object of their admiration, they are'dead to all its 
inherent defects; and pluming themselves on their 
own fancied superiority over those who acknowledge 
the trammels of loyalty, subjection, faith, and alle-
giance to the Supreme, they on all sides spread their 
toils for the waverer and wanderer from the folds of 
the true Shepherd. Of these there is never any lack, 
and many there be who fall into the net thus laid for 
them, for the creed of the Freethinkers is, to minds 
untutored by education and moral culture, a most in-
viting study ; it can lie shuffled off or on, as the hu-
mor suits, with the slightest exertion of the wearer ; 
and, if it hold out no prospect of reward, it at least is 
silent as to punishment. 
Little matter of wonder is 
it, then, that during the excitement of pursuit, and 
at a period when the life-blood courses through man's 
veins and arteries with healthy rapidity, such notions 
as were professed by a Bolingbroke, a Volney, or a 
Shelley, appear in their holiday attire. 
If, however, 
we trace these men in their hiding-places, and sift 
their secret thoughts in that fearful moment when 
the pulse flags, an<i the limbs refuse their office, 
while the restless soul, hanging between heaven and' 
hell, can find no city of refuge, and compare their last 
hours with those of the meek but steadfast believer 
and ihe practical Christian, the tinsel will soon drop 
from off the worthless theory, and thedoubting disci-
ple of a creed which begins and ends in nothing will 
be rudely awakened to his danger, and fly for succor 
and protection from his own devices to the foot of his 
Saviour's cross." 
THE 
RIGHTS OF WOMAN. 
" The rights of woman "—what are they ? 
The right to labor and to pray, 
The right to watch while others sleep, 
The right o'er others' woes to weep ; 
The light while others curse to bless; 
The right to cheer the comfortless; 
The right to comfort all that mourn; 
Tbe right to love whom others seorn ; 
The right to shed new joys on earth, 
The right to feel the soul's high worth, 
The right to lead the soul to God 
Along the path the Saviour trod— 
• 
The path of meekness and of love, 
The path of faith that leads above; 
Tlje path of patience under wrong, 
The path in which the weak grow strong; 
Such woman's right, and God will bless 
And crown their champions with success. 
Mrs. B. 
Littk, 
ON 
PRAYER, 
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of 
our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat 
of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our 
tempers ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of nn 
troubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity and 
the sister of meekness; and be that prays to God 
with an angry, that is, with a troubled or discomposed 
spirit, is like him that retires in a battle to meditate 
and sets up his closet in the out quarters of an army! 
Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer ^ 
and therefore is contrary to tbat attention which pre-
sents our prayers in a right line to God. 
For so 
have I seen a lark rising from his bed ot grass, and 
soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes 1o 
get to heaven, and climb over the clouds; but the 
poor bird was beaten back by tbe food sighings of an 
eastern wind, and bis motion made irregular and in-
constant, descending more at every breath of the 
tempest, than it could recover by the libration and 
frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature 
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THE ADYENT 
HERALD. 
was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the 
storm was over, and then it made a prosperous flight, 
and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and 
motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through 
the air about his ministries here below; so is the 
prayer of a good man. 
Prayers are but the body of the bird ; desires are 
its angel's wings.—Bishop Taylor. 
Foreign News, 
The British steamship Europa, Capt. LOTT, ar-
rived at Boston last Sunday, the 31st ult., bringing 
news two weeks later from Europe. 
On the 7th ult. various parts of the coast were vis-
ited by a heavy gale from the westward. 
The election for President of France took place on 
Sunday, Dec. 10th, according to previous announce-
ment, and terminated on Monday evening, without the 
slightest disturbance- 
On Friday and Saturday some 
rioting took place, but it does not seem to have been 
beyond a street row. 
The contest lay between Gen. 
Cavaignac and Louis Napoleon, the number of votes 
tendered for Lamartime, Eollin, and Raspail, being so 
comparatively insignificant, that they may be left out 
of the consideration of the result.N 
In the Chamber, all parties are literally thunder-
struck, the partizans of Bonaparte scarcely less so 
than those of Cavaignac. 
A majority was expected, 
but none expected such a universal acclaim as that 
which has burst upon Paris from every quarter of the 
country. 
It is said that Louis Napoleon will proba-
bly have six-sevenths of the whole vote cast. 
The 
danger now is, that in the " entrainement" by which 
the "people aTe now affected, the cry of" Vive l'Em-
pereur " may be seriously raised, and if so, the most 
sagacious would find it difficult to say what would be 
the result. 
It is said that the newly-elecled President proposes 
to raise Gen. Cavaignac to the rank of Marshal of 
France. 
Spain 
—The Carlist bands are everywhere pursu-
ing their triumphs and depredations throughout the 
northern provinces. 
Portugal.—The 
advices from this country are 
mostly occupied with details of intrigues at the palace 
Saldanha is fulfilling the anticipations formed respect-
ing him, and instead of adopting conciliatory measures 
is endeavoring by any means to get rid of his oppo 
nents. 
There is no doubt, a correspondent states, but some 
great political movement is approaching. 
Germany.—The 
fears which were entertained lest 
a serious breach should 'occur between the German 
central power and the Swiss confederation, in conse 
quence of the attempts of German republican refu 
gees in Switzerland to excite disturbances in Ger-
many. have been allayed by a promise of the Swiss 
federal council to remove all obnoxious political 
refugees. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 6, 1849. 
Another New Year. 
Since our last, we have entered on the duties and 
trials of another year of life's limited 
duration 
When threescore years and ten mark the little span 
of human life on earth, the passing of each year is 
serious draft on man's probationary state : but in view 
of waiting for the LORD from heaven, the passing tf 
\ that period is more serious still, and reduces the re-
maining portion to a more narrow space by each suc-
cessive substraction. 
It is always profitable to contemplate the past; and 
never more so than on the recurrence of these great 
landmarks in chronology, when the sun has again re-
turned to the point in the heavens from which a 
twelve-month ago it departed on its annual circuit. 
The past year has been one memorable for the 
occurrence of great events. 
If time were to continue 
for ages, it would form an epoch in modern history. 
The London British 
Banner thus glances at the 
scenes which have transpired during the past most 
eventful and remarkable year : 
" A dread uncertainty hangs over the future of the 
nations of Europe. 
The form they may ultimately 
take, and the spirit of which that form will become 
the body, none can tell. 
No inference from any ex-
isting data, at all approaching probability, can yet be 
drawn ; but it seems beyond doubt that these king-
doms can never become what they were, and that, in 
the end, the cause of true religion will be the gainer. 
No year, in European history, has been so signalized 
by political convulsion and constitutional change. 
The year 184& had scarcely dawned, when the work 
of overturning began—opening with the insurrection 
of Sicily, on the 12th of January, and on the 29th the 
new Constitution was proclaimed ; on the 20th, the 
King of Denmark expired, and the 29th announced 
the granting of a new Constitution; and the 7th ot 
February proclaimed a like blessing for Sardinia.— 
From the 7th to the 12th, the subject of Reform was 
fiercely debated in the French Chambers; on the 22d 
the people of Paris rose against the constituted au-
thorities ; on the 24th the Monarchy fell, and a Re-
publican Government was set np in its place! 
On 
the 8th of March, the freedom of the press was pro-
claimed in Saxony, and the censorship abolished ; on 
the 13th, the spirit of Revolution broke out in Vien-
the chains of the Empire, in a moment, were 
snapped asunder; Metternich, the patriarchal High 
Priest of the temple of Austriau despotism, fled, and 
the Imperial Deity did homage to the throne of con-
stitutional freedom! 
Five days after, the rhyming 
king of Bavaria cast away the crown he had so un-
worthily worn, and made way lor another. 
On the 
same day, the flame of revolution burst forth in Ber-
lin. 
It were long to recount the series of smaller 
changes,—suffice it to say, all the minor powers of 
the Continent have been, more ar less, revolutionized. 
From the Atlantic to the Vistula, every throne has 
been shaken. 
The shores of the Baltic and the 
mountains of Sicily, have alike been swept by the 
mighty whirlwind ! 
The laws, governments, and 
armies of fifteen centuries, departed like a scroll— 
they are gone! At eventide they existed in full pow-
er, and, in man's esteem, in more than pristine glo 
ry, and on the morrow they were not ! 
The regal 
master of a million of soldiers in the morning, in the 
afternoon found himself abandoned, helpless, alone, 
on the brink of destruction, and fled for Ins life ! The 
question, then, for Christian philosophy is the bearing 
of these unparalleled events on the kingdom of God 
upon earth. 
Viewed in this relation, the subject is 
vast and grand. 
The inhabitants of the chief Con-
tinent on the globe—the home of knowledge and 
wealth, of wisdom and power—while buried in deep 
sleep and in chains, as if roused by-the Archangel's 
trump, awoke, lifted up their heads, felt the burden 
of their chains, and but frowned on their oppressors, 
who, overwhelmed with fear, either fled or fell before 
them!" 
Says the Neiu York 
Evangelist: 
" The Revolution in France which elevated Louis 
Phillippe, was the first outbreak of popular thought 
and power; and yet that movement was only prepar-
atory to another. 
Within the past year, France has 
annulled her last experiment with the Bourbons, and 
at this moment she may have a Republican President 
under the name of Napoleon. 
What of convulsion, 
conflict, and bloodshed may yet be before her, we 
know not; but the chaiacter of the movement—the 
title it bears, the end to which it is tending, and its 
connection with the destinies of Europe and mankind, 
are not doubtful. 
We see Italy and the whole of 
Germany shaken. 
Metternich is down, and his 
master, the representative of the Caesars, terrified by 
the people. 
The King of Prussia is like a tempest-
tost bark, not knowing where to lay his course. 
The 
States of Germany are striving to confederate for 
their fatherland. 
In Italy an attempt has been made to collect its 
scattered fragments into a nationality. 
Even the 
Pope has been compelled to act a faree of liberality 
and freedom. 
His subjects did not at first suspect 
the comic mask and the mock scenes of a painted 
drama, and shouted as if the Vatican had become 
the temple of liberty. 
Discovering the deception, 
they have stormed the sacred palace, and His Holi-
ness at this moment may be a fugitive. 
We believe that in this year we have seen the be-
ginning of the end. Had the present state of Europe 
been prophesied fifty years ago, would any have 
credited the prophecy ! 
Tire movements of Provi-
dence are made so consecutively, and appear so ob-
viously the development of great laws, that we are 
brought forward to points of progress whose grandeur 
we can estimate only by contrasting them with the 
past." 
The foregoing are facts alike true and marvellous 
No believer in revelation, no student of the Scriptures 
can for a moment doubt that the hand of GOD is in 
this wonderful shaking of the nations ; and, whatever 
may be the individual views respecting the interpre-
tation of prophecy, all must admit these events are 
strikingly indicative of the speedy destruction of the 
kingdom of ANTICHRIST, and the establishment ot 
the empire of the MESSIAH. The student of prophecy, 
in view of the past, may indulge glorious hopes oi 
the future. Our hopes, unlike those of some of our 
contemporaries, are not strengthened by these events 
in man's moral improvement. 
The events of the past 
year have developed the depravity of the human race, 
as much as it has the instability of all human institu-
tions. 
All human sehemes will prove insufficient for 
the regeneration of the race. 
We see no grounds 
for hope of permanent improvement only as it is ac-
complished by the personal coming again to earth of 
the Second ADAM, and the removal by Him of the 
physical and moral disabilities of the curse from under 
the whole heaven. 
Summary. 
Jerome B., son of D. Mowry, of Clarksburg, Mass., was kicked 
by a horse on the 20th inst., by which his skull was broken. He ex-
pired the next night. 
On Thursday morning, the 28lh ult., a man named Thomas Lee, 
residing in Stanton-street, near Willet, was instantly killed bv the 
bursting of a gun, which he was in the act of discharging ; a piece 
cutercd his head just above the eye, penetrating the brain, and caus-
ing iuslant death. The deceased, who had been here but a short 
i ime, has left a family in Ireland.—N. Y. 
Courier. 
Gerrit Smith having thrown his lands in New York open to the 
Iree occupation of colored men, they have commenced a settlement 
and town, or village, at Florence. By the first of January they will 
have a building to hold seventy families. They will soon have grist 
and saw mills. They are aided by their white neighbors. 
Seveutv-tiine new cases of cholera have occurred at the Charity 
Hospital. New Orleans, since the 20th ult., and new ones are hourly 
brought in. Three merchants have died. The community has been 
sjreally excited in consequence of the Board of Health having em-
phatically proclaimed the disease epidemic. The weather is much 
cooler. There have been three cases at Lafayette. 
The bird that soars on highest wing, 
Builds ou the ground her lowly nest; 
Aud she that doth most sweellv sing, 
Sings in the shade when all things rest -, 
In lark and nightingale we see 
W hat honor hath immortality. 
The saint that wears Heaven's brightest crown, 
lu deepest adoration bends -, 
The weight of glory bends him down 
The most when high his soul ascends ; 
Nearest the throne itself must be 
The footstool of humility. 
Montgomery. 
James McKenr.a, of Embden, was killed by the fall of timbers at 
a frame raising. 
In Farmington, Mr. Handen had the main artery of his thigh sev-
ered by an axe that glanced in the hands of a fellow woodchopper, 
and bled to death in two minutes. 
In L'anaan, Me., a girl named Joy committed suicide 
In jumping from his sleigh, to avoid a train of cars at the Worces-
ter Railroad depot, Or. Yorke, of South Boston, injured himself so 
that there was some fear of his bleeding to death. He was not 
aware that he was hurt at all till he discovered the blood filling his 
boot. 
Bartee, a white man, has been arrested in Augusta, Ga., for shoot-
ing dead a negro, with whom he had been playing cards. 
William J. Snelling, editor of the Boston Herald, died suddenly at 
his residence in Chelsea ou Sunday morning. Ilis age was 44. Soon 
sifter, his father-in-law, Simon Jordan, suddenly expired, in the same 
house, while consoling his daughter on the death of her husband-
Ilis age was 65. 
A visit to Ihe tomb of the late Mrs. Maftit, has led to the horrible 
conception, that she was prematurely buried ! The body, according 
to the New York Sun, was found turned on its face, and the shroud 
and Hair disordered. 
Ithiel Lombard, of Ludlow, a man about 50 years of age, hung 
himself by a woollen comforter to the limb of a tree in the woods 
where he had been chopping. 
Mary A., wife of Mr. Albert Harrington, of Providence, commit 
led suicide on Friday morning, by drowning herself in Providence 
river. She had been subject to derangement. 
A six horse team,.crossing the railroad in Tewksbury, Mass., was 
struck by the train, and three of the horses killed. 
The heavy fall of snow on Thursday night and during Friday, last 
week, so chilled the water in Pocha Popil, Chabequidic, thatan im 
mense number of bass were frozen to death. It is estimated that 
(ill,000 lbs. have been taken from the pond, most of which have been 
sent to New York. 
We learn from Tisbury, that about 120,000lbs. 
of bass were taken from Newton Pond, chilled in like manner, 
Mrs. Rowe, of Roxbury, Ct., was burnt in the most shocking 
manner a few days since, while preparing to bake, and died in a lew 
hours. 
CONFERENCES.—We expect to attend Advent conferences iri 
l lie places mentioned below, in the following order:—' 
Troy, Jan. 12,13, and 14. 
Sandy Hill, Jan. 16, in the evening. 
Fort Ann, Jan. 17, in the evening. 
Low Hampton, Jan. 19, 20, and 21. 
Addison, Vt., Jan 23, in the evening. 
Bristol, 24th, evening. 
Panton, 26 , 27, and 28. Burlington, 29th 
evening. 
Waterbury, Feb. 1,2,3, and 1 
Brethren in the surrounding towns will come in and help us. Let 
us make a strong and united effort for the sacred cause of our com 
ing Lord. 
ENGLISH BIBLES.—We have received a few copies, with mar-
ginal references. Price, $2 50. Also some at $1 50. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Bro. Hale may be expected at Providence next Sabbath, Jan. 7ih 
The Lord willing, I will be at South Reading from Jnn lsi i,. ,i 
llltli, aud at 1'ortiaud from the l-,th to the 24m. 
1. R.'(ii-its 
The Lord williug, I will preach iu Mount Holly, Vt., MOIKIMV 
evening, Jan. ljth ; Shrewsbury ihe 16th, evening, and Un- i-,ii, J. 
day ; Bristol, Vt., Sabbath, the 21st. 
A. SHABWIN. 
II the Lord will, 1 will preach in North Scituate; R. I , nle 
and fourth Sabbaths iu January, and ill Hopeville the first Sabba-
February. 
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I will preach at Ashfield, Mass. Sunday, Jan. 7tli, where Bro l'ul 
civer may appoint, and three or four evenings following, HS th!" 
brethren may think best. Also at Bristol, Ct., Jan. 14th • HtHu! 
mouth, iBro. Alwaler'sj, evening of the 15th. 
L. S. LCDINGION 
The Lord willing, I will preach in the following places :-ln ft,.,,. 
_ ork city, Sundays, Jan. 7 and 14 ; Bridgeport, Ct., evenings ol 1'ih 
and 16 ; Bethel, lti-il; New Miilord, zz-cj ; Kent, a>-aj; Litchfield 
Centre, Sunday, leb. 4: Ellsworth, 6-b; Sharon, 9-11 ; iViuuIe-
town, Saratoga Co., N. Y., 14-16 -, Wen Troy, Sunday, 10; Confa-
ence in Esperance, six days, 20-ZJ. Letters may be directed lo New 
' ork tillJau. 15, and to Albany till Feb. 19. 
H. 11. GROSS. 
The Lord willing, 1 will preach at Manchester the first Sabbaih in 
Jan., and at Lawrence thesecond. 
i». HAWKES. 
I will preach thefirst Sabbath in Jan. at Marlboro', Mass.; the 2d 
iu Nashua; tile ;Sd in Concord, N. 11.; aud the ilh in Abington, Ms 
N. BILLINGS. 
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appointments, prav Uiat God's Spirit may be with us. 
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D. CAMPBELL. 
The Lord willing, 1 will preach in Springfield Sabbaih, Jan. 7(11, 
aud at JawbucK evening ol Uie 9tli. 
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ADVENT meetings are held in Brooklyn, N. Y., in Grand Hall, 
Myrtle Avenue, near Bridge-street. Preaching threeumes on Lord's 
d.-iv, and on Thursday evening, by Elder 1. E. JONES. Prayer 
meeting on Tuesday evening. 
The Lord willing, there will be a conference at North Scrtuate, R. 
I., to commence Friday evening before the second Sabbath in Feb-
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I. Small, 417 ; D. Libbe, 4U>; 8. Dalaff, 408; Ede Lee, 2d,,430, 
Flanders, 460 ; E. Eaton, 400-, J. WhvmHn, 404; M. 
each SI—-N. French, 450; F. Smith, '430 ; O. Robbins, 404, « 
Swinburne, <04 ; M. Phazou, 430 ; H. S, l.arkin, 4U4 ; J-°pV
Rice, 
411; M. Reynolds, 404 ;-J. CaUis, 4o4 ; A. Towne, 404 ; J- 
£ 
T 
43(J ; B. W. l'rescott, 404 ; 8. Wood, 430; Thos. Well*, WV 
Morrill, 456 ; I. Ives, 421; R. Reed, jr., 430 ; W ni, Auenbiirgn, 
H. B. Baldwin, 401; J. D. Botslord, 456; N. Grant. 4 t«M» • 
Smith, 404 ; L.H. Cole, 404 ; J. M. Hobart, 416 ; S. W. W*' J^. 
R. T. liar man, 404; W. Cook, 412; W. 6. Miller <10 copw 
. 
1). 8. Chamberlain, 456 j J. Elkins, 430; H. Graves ( with boo..^ 
w 
A. Clapp toil acc't)—®12.