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TERMS. 
THE SIGNS. 
"The end of all things is at hand : be ye therefore 
sober, and watch unto prayer."-1 Pet. iv. 7. 
It travels onward, this old world of ours, 
Bending beneath the weight of years and hours ; 
Mark its gray hairs, and note its failing powers ! 
Vigilate ! 
Its infancy, and youth, and prime are gone ; 
Leaning upon its staff, it totters on, 
As one whose weary course is nearly done. 
Vigilate ! 
Its sinking suns their lean long shadows cast, 
Its noon-gay mirth and rosy smiles are past, 
Its fair,fresh firmament grows wan at last. 
Vigilate ! 
Like leaves from some unknown, mysterious tree 
Above our reach, its moments silently 
Are dropping from a far eternity. 
Vigilate ! 
The nations shrink and tremble, king and crowd ; 
God's lightnings leap and flash from yon red cloud, 
Answers each cliff, and peak, and vale aloud, 
Vigilate ! 
The people cower and flee, like frighten'd flock, 
Earth's stablest kingdoms to their centre rock, 
And the old crust seems heaving with the shock. 
Vigilate ! 
The gems upon the brow of kings grow dim, 
Like stars of mornit'
r in heaven's eastern rim, 
Faint and feebler float up song and hymn. 
Vigilate ! 
The world's old voice falls low,that once was strong, 
And echo can but faintly now prolong 
The "Nuns dirnittis" of its dying song, 
Vigilate ! 
BONAR. 
The Eagle's Swoop. 
An eagle will only carry off such objects as 
he can seize in sweeping by. He will not descend 
to any *spot of ground unless he can leave 
it again describing the same bold curve with 
which he came. He will not risk being hemmed 
in within narrow limits. An open field is indis-
pensable to him for his tactics. The object must 
be freely exposed, or he will hardly venture to 
attempt making it his own. As a swallow rushes 
downward in a curve to catch the insects hover-
ing over the pond, and upward again on high, in 
his flight describing an ellipse, so does the eagle, 
and thus only, sweep down to seize a lamb or 
other animal. It must be swept off the ground 
in full flight; it must be caught up at once,with-
out any hindrance ; there must be "ample room 
and verge enough" for him to continue his sweep-
ing flight, or the eagle will prefer not to break 
purpose well, but nothing exactly in the situa-
tion that makes it advisable for him to attempt 
to bear it off. There are lambs below in the 
meadow, but they have instinctively become 
aware of their impending danger, and have 
crowded together in one dense mass, with the 
ewes outside ; or they have all taken shelter be-
side a sloping bank, or beneath a tree, or along-
side of a hedge. None of these positions suit the 
eagle. In the mountains the chamois do the 
same, or they stand sideways, pressing close 
against the rock ; here the eagle cannot get near 
them, for fear of injuring his wings. Sometimes, 
too, they will take shelter around or under a 
large fragment of stone, determined to defend 
themselves to the last ; but into a warfare of this 
sort the eagle has no intention of entering. Among 
those stones and clefts may lurk a danger he can-
not see and had not calculated on ; so he leaves 
them, however unwillingly, to look elsewhere for 
a kid, in a situation so exposed that, without 
stop or stay, he may clutch it as he skims by 
within a foot of the ground. And so he often 
knows the pangs of hunger. It is only when 
driven to extremity that an eagle will descend 
upon the earth and battle with his prey. It is 
contrary to his instinct to do so. The air seems 
to be his peculiar element, and earth an uncon-
genial spot, and, moreover full of pitfalls; it is, 
too, rendered doubly dangerous by being the 
abode of man. Of him the eagle has, in com-
mon with all wild animals, an insurmountable 
dread.—Forest Creatures. 
Mount Tabor. 
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 
For more than sixteen centuries Tabor has 
been regarded as the veritable scene of that 
great event, and not till within a few years have 
its claims been called in question. The chief ar-
gument against this venerable tradition is drawn 
from the itineracy of the Evangelists, who men-
tion Cesarea Philippi as being the last place 
where Christ had been teaching previous to his 
transfiguration, and the scene of the event is said 
to be somewhere on the southern ridge of Her-
mon. If our Lord had been transfigured imme-
diately after his conversion with his discipies 
touching the opinions of men concerning himself, 
or the next day, there would he some force to 
this objection. But two of the Evangelists in-
form us that the event occurred six days after 
the conversation, and St. Luke assures us it took 
place "about eight days after these sayings." 
The distance between Cesarea Philippi and Ta- 
bor is less than eighteen hours, giving sufficient 
time for the journey between the two places. 
And immediately after our Lord had been glori-
fied, we find him in the vicinity of Tabor, at Ca-
pernaum, less than a day's journey distant ; then 
crossing the Jordan, at the head of the lake, "He 
departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts 
of Judea beyond Jordan." 
It has been objected that from the days 
of Joshua to the times of Antiochus the Great, 
Tabor has been an inhabited mountain, and there-
fore inappropriate to the retirement of Christ 
and his three apostles. History simply informs 
us that during eighteen centuries the Mount was 
the rendezvous of belligerent armies ; that in pro-
cess of time its summit was fortified, but in the 
time of Josephs the defences had fallen into 
decay, who caused them to be rebuilt, which was 
some thirty years after our Lord's ascension. If 
inhabited at all when he ascended its beautiful 
slopes, it was only by a few wretched villagers, 
such as may be seen in their mud-huts in any 
part of Palestine. Such is the peculiar configu-
ration of Tal?or, that though its summit might be 
inhabited, its high northern slopes are exceed-
ingly retired ; and it is a significant fact, though 
accustomed to withdraw from a sinful world to 
different mountains for meditation and prayer, 
yet Christ never chose a "howling wilderness," 
but always an inhabited mountain. Even the 
Mount of Olives, rendered doubly sacred by the 
frequency of his presence, was in his day, it is 
now, a populous mountain, but in some of its 
wooded dells was his bower of prayer. Like a 
great warrior sleeping in the midst of his camp, 
Christ was ever with his people. St. Luke more 
than intimates that the transfiguration occurred 
during the darkness of the night, and, owing to 
the custom of the people of the East to retire at 
an early hour, the time chosen for the august 
display of the divine majesty was singularly ap-
propriate. During the day he would have been 
subject to intrusion from wandering shepherds 
and strolling gatnestep on any mountain in Pal-
estine, but under the cover of night he would 
have been unmolested by the one or the other, 
as the former are stationary in the midst of their 
flocks, and the latter unable to pursue their vo-
cation. 
Whether considered for its natural beauty, or 
as the scene of many thrilling historic events, 
Tabor is second only to Olivet in interest to the 
traveller among the sacred mountains. Separ-
ated from the south-eastern hills of Galilee, it 
stands alone, its base swept by the magnificent 
plain of Esdraelon. Its graceful form is not 
easily defined, and its shape changes with the 
stand-point of the beholder. Having seen it 
from every point of the compass, I was impress-
ed with its variant forms, which add not a little 
to its impressive beauty. Viewed from the heights 
of Carmel, it resembled a truncated cone ; seen 
from the northern hills of Galilee, it reminded 
me of the pyramids of Egypt ; beholding it from 
the Mountains of Samaria, it appeared like the 
segment of a great circle ; while from the sum-
mit of Jehel-ek-Duhy, from the plain below, it 
seemed like a lovely terraced mound or a wood-
land park. More than two-thirds of its sides 
from base to summit, on the north and east, are 
covered with spreading oaks and beautiful tere-
binths ; not densely,like a forest, but with open , 
glades between oaken groves, covered with lux-
uriant grass and adorned with pheasant-eyes, ar-
maranths, and anemones. Its summit resem-
bles an oblong area, half a mile long by a quar-
ter of a mile wide, and is broken into charming 
vales and hillocks, enhancing the beauty of the 
spot. In ascending to the top,our path was not 
unlike the thread of a screw, winding gentle 
gradations to the highest peak. Now it led 
through groves of terebinths, now through flow-
ery beds, now verging on the edge of a bold pre-
cipice, now entering dells sombre with thick fbli-
age of stately oaks,and anon opening into glades 
where the grass was green and the flowers fra-
grant. Though the heat was intense, yet the 
path was so smooth and shady, that without in-
convenience we gained the highest point in less 
than an hour, when we were refreshed alike by 
the unbroken silence of the spot and a view of 
unrivalled magnificence. Rising to the height 
of two thousand feet above the level of the sea, 
the prospect from Tabor is one of extraordinary 
grandeur. The eye ranges over the mountains 
of Samaria, the hills of Galilee, Mount Carmel, 
the lofty peak of Safed, the "Horns of Hattin," 
the snow-capped heights of Hermon, the gray 
sides of Moab, the slopes of Gilboa, the valley 
of the Jordan on the east, with its dark line of 
verdure, the plain of Akka and the harbor of 
Aaipa on the west, and the glorlous plain of Es-
draelon, one unbroken sea of verdure, with its 
borders dotted with the little hamlets of Jezreel, 
Nain and Endor. And no less significant is the 
thrilling history of Tabor. It was the bounda-
ry line of the tribe of Issachar ; here the heroic 
Deborah and Barak assembled the children of 
Naphtali and Zebulon to fight against Sisera ; 
here was the rendezvous of the brothers of Gid-
eon, "each one resembling the chileren of a king," 
whom Zebah and Zalmunnah slew, and whose 
death Gideon terribly revenged, and in later 
years here was the scene of Israel's idolatry, 
whose priests Hosea denounces, for having "been 
a snare on Mizpan and a net spread on Tabor." 
In our own era it became the stronghold of Jo-
sephus and the headquarters of Antiochus the 
Great. But there is one historic honor which 
does not belong to Tabor, and if it did, would 
not enhance the glory of its associations. The 
French are proverbial for the application of real 
or fancied names to the scenes of the great events 
in their martial annals, and in many instances 
the name is chosen because it is high sounding. 
The "battle of Mount Tabor" is a misnomer, as 
El-Zuleh—"The Bean," situated some ten miles 
to the south-east of Tabor, was the village where 
Kleber met the advanced guards of the Turks, 
and which became the central point of the attack. 
With equal propriety it might be called the bat-
tle of Mount Carmel, and with greater consis-
tency the battle of Mount Gilboa. The simple 
fact of Napoleon's army coming from Nazareth, 
sweeping round the north-eastern base of Tabor, 
is not a sufficient fact to warrant the application 
of the name of this sacred of "Mounts," to a bat-
tle fought by a chieftan who had invaded the 
Holy Land on an ambitious crusade. 
But the glory of Tabor is the transfiguration 
of our Lord. How anxiously I sought to iden- 
tify the spot, that I might look up into the same 
serene heavens from which came the voice of ap-
proval, and in which appeared Moses and Elias. 
where he may get his talons entangled, and be 
held fast, or not have sufficient space for the 
movement of his wings. But for this fear of 
getting into difficulty,he would feast oftener and 
fast more rarely than he does. 
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154 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Psycheph. "All, all, I say, is lost !" 
vent. 
ended by the Great White Throne.
2. We found the present rest in heaven to be 
It will be a rest from toil, or, as the text ex- 
imperfect, inasmuch as it does not include the 
We find not a few other writers—such as Nomocr. "Then tell it out." 
presses it, a Sabbath-keeping,—the holy repose 
body. It is the perfect fulfillment of our Lord's 
Chytrwus, (who wrote "Explicatio Apocalypsis," Psycheph. "We are buried ! Yes, I say weer 
in 1571), whose system in some respects differed buried all !" 
promise, "Ye shall find rest unto your souls ;" of one whose work is finished. When he died 
on the cross, he said, "It is finished," for the 
but the beautiful body, which God created in his 
from this—all coming to the same result, viz., Nomocr. "What ?" 
the expectation of the sudden appearing of Christ. At this moment two more attendants appear, own likeness, is still the subject of fatigue, de- work of atonement was complete, and at his ad- 
This class of writers held that from A. D. 73 to viz.—Death and the Keeper of the gates of cay, and death. It would be wasting time to vent again he may say, "It is finished," for his 
1073, the thousand years ran their course, the Hades, Thanatus and Adopylos, i. e. 
point out how long living believers are deprived mediatorial work will then be perfected. We 
 
gospel being preached, and the Church compara. Thanatus exclaims as he enters— 
in the body of their rest. The labor for daily cannot fathom the deep mystery of God resting, 
 but we may gain some insight into the blessed 
tively unmolested by persecuting oppressors. But "He has destroy'd us all ! utterly bread, the sense of fatigue, the cares and pains character of that marvellous rest. All condi- 
in 1073,the power of Gregory VII., Hildebrand, ruin'd !" 
of sickness, and the irresistible approach of age, tions of the eternal covenant will then be fulfill- 
manifested itself, exercising such fierce tyranny Adopylus "He has slain us !" 
are all daily witnesses that the poor fallen body ed, and all the work to which he was annointed 
and opposition to the truth, that no one could _Warmer. "Who ? who has done it ?" 
is bereft of its rest. And the bodies of the de- amply performed. There will not remain one 
mistake the full development of "the Man of Adopyl. "He has uptorn us from the very root !" parted have only advanced one step further in of his elect ungathered, nor a single spot on the 
Sin" foretold in 2 Thess. ii. And inasmuch as Nomocr. "But who, who is it, that has wrought their ruin. With them the work is complete, 
the Turks were specially troublesome and formid- this woe ?" 
which with us is only in its progress. It is no garment of any one of them, when lie presents 
 
able to Christians at the same period, they con- Thanatus. "The very being whom I slew out- rest to be scattered to the winds in dust, no rest them spotless and unblameable before the throne. 
 
eluded that in that ferocious avdersary they had right." 
to be the prey of worms ; it is the curse of God Throughout the world will there be foftnd no re- 
discovered "Gog and Magog." Nothing, there. Nomocr. "What mean you ? Who ?" 
which has taken all present rest from the flesh. bel thoughts, for the "new heavens and the new 
fore, in their theory remained to be fulfilled but Thanat. "Christ !" 
But in the midst of all this ruin we are taught earth" shall be filled with righteousness ; there 
 
the sudden Appearing of the Lord, who was to Nomocr. "Xylonieus ! who hung upon the cross ? by David, Psalm 16. 9, that "the flesh itself shall be no support of sin, no strife and backbit- 
"consume the Man of Sin with the Spirit of His He whom I sentenced to a thorough shall rest in hope," i. e., that even the very limbs ings ; "nation shall not lift up sword against na- 
mouth, and destroy him with the brightness death ?" 
shall submit peacefully to their ruin, in the bless- tion, neither shall they learn war any snore." 
of His Coming." Although, therefore, they were Thanat. "But he has risen ?" 
ed expectation that they too shall have their rest There shall be no more blood-stained battle-fields, 
one with us in interposing no millennium between Nomocr. "Risen !" 
at the resurrection. Then death will be swal- nor any broken-hearted widows, for the whole 
their day and the Coming of Christ, it was not Psycheph. "Ay, he has risen !" 
lowed up in victory ; then the Lord will fulfill world shall rest under the holy 'sovereignty of 
for the same reason as we. It was, we believe, Nomocr. "Can I believe my ears ?" 
his promise, "I will ransom them from the power the Prince of Peace. 
with this idea before him, that Luther so often Adopyl. "Not only risen, but to our realms yet of the grave ; I will redeem them from death : 
To be continued. 
spoke to this effect :. "The last day is not far off." more"— 
0 death, I will be thy plagues ; 0 grave I will [There are some sentiments in the above peen- 
And Latimer : "Antichrist is known throughout Nomocr. "What more ? What more ?" be thy destruction." It will not matter then at liar to the author ; but the general treatment of 
all the world, therefore the day is not far off ; Psycheph. "Wrought havoc. He has robb'd which period of the body's ruin we are found. the rest at the advent is so admirable, that we 
, so that it may come in my days, old as I am." them of their prey." 
If dead, we shall be raised, and if living,we shall transfer it to our columns. 
En.] 
1,., _ 
k. 
 
4Ps-, 
High up o the northern slopes, far away from These explanations may aid us in understanding It turned out, among other things,that Nomo- be changed : the martyr's ashes will be gather. 
the ruins of the ancient villages, is a lovely glade, the attitude of parties in this sacred drama, and crates has been rifled of his 'handwriting that ed, and the wearied frame of the living believer 
inclosed with oaks and adorned with flowers. some of their allusions and expressions. Let us was against us." It has been nailed to the cross. will be transformed ; so that all together shall 
Shut in from the world, all nature breathes a meanwhile proceed to Act II. The first scene Then, in another scene, Dioctes, Anabasius, and rest in an incorruptible immortality : "He that 
sense of repose, and a holy quiet reigns undis- of it introduces to our attention the angel Raph- Pornapolis join in one grand conspiracy. Dut is feeble among them at that day shall be as 
turbed within. The view of the blue sky is un- ael thus soliloquizing :— 
ever and anon they are alarmed by rumours of David, and the house of David shall be as God, 
obstructed, and here, in still night, watched only "A captive, and fast bound a thousand years, what Christ is soon to do for their destruction. as the angel of the Lord before them." There 
by the mute stars, the Son of God conversed Satan, so irresistable till now, 
Act IV., Scene 1, brings before us the fear of will be a total rest from all those ills that flesh 
with Moses and Elias touching "His decease, Lies in his prison-house ; for so our Prince, Ecclesia at the report that Satan is soon to be is heir to, for the' promise is, "There shall be 
which He should accomplish at Jerusalem," and, The King of kings, was pleased to command. loosed again, which well-founded dread is soon no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, nei- 
as a preintimation of his glorified body after He that bound others is now bound in chains ! realized by Satan himself appearing on the stage. they shall there be any more pain ;" and there 
his ascension, "the fashion of his body was al- Yet is he to be loosed again and to go forth But we need not give his utterances further than will be a total rest from all toil of weariness ; for 
tered, and his raiment was white and glister- From his dark cell to work ill for a season, to state that he is introduced as resolving to try if there be work, it will be without fatigue, for 
ing."—Rev. J. P. Newman. 
And to deceive the world and all its tribes. the Church with every temptation with which he "he shall change our vile body that it may be 
has assailed the Lord Jesus. In pursuance of fashioned like unto his glorious body," and then 
That is the hour when sad calamity 
John Fox's "Christ Triumphant." 
Shall furiously assail the Church of Christ. 
his plan, he raises up in Babylon, or Pornapolis, will the ancient promise have its complete fulfil- 
And then Pornapolis (the whorish city). 
 
 the formidable imitation of Christ in Pseudam- ment :—"They shall mount up with wings as 
n 
(From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy.) Shall borrow from the dragon all his power, us, the pseudo-Lamb of God alluding evidently eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they 
 
And act as his vicegerent far and wide. to Rev. xii. 11. And now deceit, imposture,al- shall walk and not faint." 
Continued from our last. 
Alas! disaster and distress not small 
lurements, fascination, threats,promises, are each (3.) But the crowning joy of this rest will be 
Our readers cannot fail to notice the singular Too surely she shall work, when forth she sends tried in turn, in order to deceive and ruin souls. that the Redeemr's kingdom will be then com-
We have many allusions to the times of persecu- complete. 
view entertained by Fox regarding the thousand Her cruel agent, her Dioctes stern. 
tion and the arts and practies of Rome in Fox's Accordingly, the language both of the Psalm 
years. Along with not a few in his time, he fan- Yet nothing but the body shall he hurt ; 
tied that the first thousand years after our Lord's The souls are ours, and have a place with us own day, down to the prison "Bohardo." But and chapter speaks of it not merely as his peo- 
resurrection formed the period foretold in Rev. In heaven, for so the Lamb of God 
there in nothing very interesting,neither is there pie's rest, but as his own : "It they shall enter 
much of poetry or spirit in it; and for that rea- into my rest ;" and again, v. 1, "a promise is 
xx. 1-4. It was a singular belief, no doubt,but Has by His blood made sure. To Him be thanks, 
yet it was not rare. They fancied that Christ, Eternal thanks, for He has won it all son we pass on to the closing scenes. left us of entering into his rest ;" the idea of 
In Act V., Scene 4, Ecclesia (the Church) which words appears that it is a rest which he 
during those years when the gospel gained so 
Then follow the samples of persecution, some speaks as if things were not come to their last not merely provides, but enjoys, admitting his 
many triumphs,had won His millennial victories ; of them curiously neglectful of all chronology. stage— 
people to enjoy it with him. The rest on the 
for they had heard not only of the martyrs no- In Scene 4, a messenger from hell, Anabasius, 
'Tis theirs to wrong us, ours to bear the wrong ; Sabbath is the share which God has given us of 
ble testimonies, but of the Roman empire at appears, carrying letters to Pornapolis,the whore This is thepart and triumph of the saints, (Rev. the rest which he himself enjoyed after creation ; 
length professing the faith of Jesus. It was this, of Babylon, from Satan still bound, urging her 
xii. 14.) 
and our rest in the Lord will be in like manner 
in part, that misled them ; and partly, too, the to carry on her cruel work busily and unrelent- 
circumstance that it was not till the first thou- 
This monster nought can quell but Chrit's ap- our fellowship in the rest which he himself shall 
ingly— 
enjoy after redemption. Thus it is impossible 
sand years after the death of Christ that Popery 
pearing. 
'Until that, loosed from the Tatarean chain, 
And we will leave the victory to His hands. to enter on the fulness of the rest until the corn- 
began to wield the sceptre so irresistibly over the He once again appear upon the scene, 
world. 
Most gladly do I Lear, for Christ's dear sake, ing, for till then the Lord's kingdom will not be 
When the thousand years have run their course." All I have borne, and greater ills than these perfected. It is not yet perfect even in his elect, 
When Popery had begun to develop itself, 
At the opening of Act III. we find Ecclesia To bear I'm ready—none can conquer Him ? much less in the world. There may be thou. 
then (they concluded) the time foretold in Rev. 
lamenting her oppressed state ; and then, in the We bear His marks, let Him avenge His cause, sands, and tens of thousands of chosen saints not 
xx. 1-4 was completed, and Satan had been let 
loose for a little season. We find Fox in his Second Scene, Nomocrates (the law-power in the Long have we suffer'd, but ere long at last yet called to his kingdom ; and even in those 
soul) alarming her by his demands. But in the He shall appear to end our many trials. that are called, how many and how grievous are 
"Acts and Monuments of the Church," vol. i., p. 
next scene we find (that this is one of the ana- Meanwhile to pray and watch, let that be ours— the defects ! He is working a daily work in the 
139, calculating that about the year 324, when chronisms of the piece) this tyrant suddenly get- What means the cracking of those opening ingathering of souls, and carrying on a daily con- 
the persecution under Licinius ended, and Con- tinsnews of Christ's resurrection. and all its doors ? " 
test with the great enemy on our behalf. But 
stantine openly used all his influence for Chris- blessed results. We find Psychephonus, one of Africus. "Virigns with lamps, and torches if this is the case with his chosen, 
his attendants, appearing on the stage in great' 
how much 
tianity, the millennium began. "After which 
year," says he, "according to a preordinate coun- 
 
 
flaring high ? What mean they issuing forth at more is his kingdom resisted in the world ! The 
trepidation and excitement : 
such at time ?" 
world lieth in wickedness, and Satan is permit- 
sel of God, when His severity had been suffici- 
ently declared upon His own house, it pleased Psycheph. "Fear meets me everywhere, nor do I Ecclesia. "These are my friends ! I know ed to retain such a power, that he had the dar- 
Him to show mercy again, and to bind up Satan, see an end of fleeing" 
them ! They will wait the arrival of the Bride- ing boldness to presume to tempt the Saviour,by 
— 
the old serpent, according to the twentieth chap. Nomocr. "What's this ? What' s happened ? groom, till He come. 
the specious offer of a willing surrender of his 
 
ter of the Revelation,for the space of a thousand What's all this confusion ?" 
(To be continued.) 
sovereignty. Hence we are to look forward to 
 
years, that is, from the time of Licinius to the Psycheph. "Evil, Nomocrates, nothing but evil The Rest whi 
a time when the Saviour himself shall rest ; 
time of John Wycliffe, of Huss, and others." now !" 
ch remaineth for the when as God rested on the seventh day at the 
Many in Fox's day, as well as Fox him- Nomocr. "Speak out—speak plainly! What is 
People of God. close of a finished creation, the Redeemer shall 
self, were in the fullest sense men who wait for this you mean ?" 
BY THE REV. E. HOARE, M.A., rest in full satisfaction in the enjoyment of a 
the Second Coming of Christ, not because they Psycheph. "Willing or unwilling, all is lost to Incumbent of Christ church, Ramsgate. perfected redemption ; when, according to the 
were premillennialists, but because they believed me!" 
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the peo- language of the prophet, "he shall see of the tra- 
that were entered upon " the short time" during Nomocr. "What is it ? Can't you tell at once ple of God." Hebrews 4. 9, 
vail of his soul, and shall be satisfied." 
 
which Satan was loosed, and which was to be what it is ?" 
(Continued from our last.) 
Now this is the rest in store for us at the Ad- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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155 
they shall be blotted out, they shall be all for-
given,and you shall be white as the driven snow, 
and clean as the well-washed wool. And even if 
my reader be a desperate sinner, one of the foul-
est transgressors, one of the basest of Adam's 
race ; yea,if you are the vilest that ever breathed 
God's air, or blasphemed God's holy name, or 
injured your fellow-men'; if you deserve the low-
est and hottest sheol, yet to you, to you at this 
moment, to you,after all that you have done,God 
speaks, not in a voice of thunder---speaks not in 
wrath, but in mercy---speaks as if he were not 
willing that any should perish,but that all should 
come to repentance---and what,think you, are his 
words ? "Wonder, 0 heavens ! Be astonished, 0 
earth !" God the infiintely holy ! God, the inflex-
ibly righteous ! God says to the vilest out of 
hell, "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found ; 
call ye upon him while he is near ; let the wick-
ed," the desperately wicked, "forsake his ways, 
and the unrighteous man his thoughts ;" the man 
of no character, the most depraved, "and let him 
return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy ;" 
yea, he will have mercy,for he delights to do so, 
He will have mercy upon him ; "and to our God, 
for he will abundantly pardon." Abundantly par-
don ! Yes, he will pardon all sin, all sin com-
pletely. Pardon with his whole heart, and with 
his whole soul. Pardon so as to cover sin, so as 
to annihilate the charge of sin, so as to free from 
all the penal consequences of sin, and from the 
consequences of sin for ever. He will forgive all; 
not only forgive, but forget. Hear his own pre-
cious words, "I will be merciful to their unrighte- 
ousness, and their sins, and their iniquities will 
I. remember no more." 0, blessed assurance,that 
God will not only blot our sins out of his book, 
but out of his memory, so that they shall be re-
membered no more.---British Workman. 
unrelenting oppressors of a subject population 
whose human rights they would not acknowledge, 
and whose presence among them, though it seem-
ed to enrich them with the truits of unrewarded 
labor, fostered their indolence and their pride, 
and made them weak while it made them rapa-
cious. God's justice, ruling in his providence, 
could not permit such a nation to go unpunished. 
Having trained themselves to an incapacity of 
any higher sentiment than a narrow state-rights 
patriotism, they suffered by mutual violence in 
the perpetual conflicts of confederate but ever 
disunited states, till, by a natural fall, they be-
came the subjects of a royal filibuster who led 
them forth to conquer the world. Greek dynas-
ties reigned in Egypt, in Syria,and in Babylon ; 
and the Greek became, for a while, the almost 
universal language of literature, of commerce, 
and of dominion. But all the history of those 
dynasties, and of the people which God has rais-
ed up for so great an influence on the world, is 
a constant illustration of the great truth that 
there is a divine providence over nations ever 
testifying against iniquity. All may be sum-
med up in that prophetic word of God, "I will 
overturn, overturn, overturn." All illustrates 
what sovereign monarchs and sovereign nations, 
the founders of polities and the architects of em-
pire, are so prone to forget—that nothing can 
be stable which is not established in righteous-
ness." 
Let it be remembered then, (for the thought 
is pertinent to the present condition of our public 
affairs,) that, under the holy providence of God, 
the world is governed from age to age in the 
interest of righteousness and against all forms of 
iniquity and evil doing ; and that though there 
may be times when it seems to a doubting mind 
as if this world were given to the wicked, when 
unbelief scoffs at the humbled majesty of right, 
and when faith is constrained to cry,O Lord,how 
long,—God is always working in his own meth-
ods, and by his own instruments, to "overturn, 
overturn, overturn," till every mighty wrong 
shall be subverted and removed—till justice, su-
preme over all power and priviiege, shall be the 
inspiration of all law—and till his own anointed 
Son shall reign throughout the earth. This is an 
element of Christian faith—this the constant ex-
pectation of the living church through all the 
ages of' her testimony, whether in action or in 
suffering. This is the burthen of all prophecy 
this the light that shines along the track of' 
time, growing brighter as the world advances 
and God's plan unfolds itself in history. God 
"overturns, overturns, overturns ;" one power 
after another,one nation after another,one migh-
ty iniquity after another, falls and is no more ; 
while earth and heaven are waiting till He shall 
come whose right it is to reign. 
We are in the midst of such an overturning. 
N. Y. independent. 
The Effect of Pardon. 
In die garrison town of Woolwich, a few years 
ago, a soldier was about to be brought before the 
commanding officer of his regiment,for some mis-
demeanor. The officer entering the soldier's 
name said, "Here is—, again, what can we do 
with him ; he has gone through almost every or-
deal ?" The sergeant major, M. B., apologized for 
intruding, and said, "There is one thing which 
has never been done with him yet, sir." "What 
is that, sergeant-major ?" "Well, sir, he has nev-
er been forgiven." "Forgiven !" said the Col. 
"Here is his case entered." "Yes, but the man is 
now before you, and you' can cancel it." After 
the colonel had reflected for a few minutes, he 
ordered the man to be brought in,when he asked 
him what he had to say relative to the oharge 
brought against him. "Nothing sir," was the re-
ply, "only that I am sorry for what I have done." 
After making some remarks, the colonel said, 
"Well, we have resolved to forgive you." The 
soldier was struck with astonishment, the tears 
started from his eyes—he wept. The colonel, 
with the adjutant and others present, felt deeply 
when they saw the man so humbled. He thank-
ed the colonel for his kindness and retired. The 
narrator had the soldier under his notice for two 
years and a half after this,and never during that 
Deus Eversor. 
There is a prophetic phrase which, though it 
was first used in a particlar application, describ- 
es a general truth in relation to God's providence 
over nations : "I will overturn, overturn, over-
turn it ; and it shall be no more, until He shall 
come whose right it is ; and I will give it him." 
The political dynasty founded by David and 
perpetuated through so many generations of his 
descendants, was to terminate with the reign of 
Zedekiah, and the Babylonian conquest was to 
be followed by revolution after revolution in the 
condition and government of the chosen people. 
The throne of David should be no more till the 
coming of the promised Christ to reign in a new 
kingdom of God. But as is often the case in 
prophecy, the language used on a particular oc-
casion and for a particular purpose, announces a 
comprehensive principle. All prophecy, in re-
gard to the powers and dominions of this world, 
represents God as the great revolutionizer, sub-
verting thrones, breaking down empires, and so 
helping on the 'progress of a new a better king-
dom in which his own Anointed reigns. All 
history,interpreted in the light of prophecy, is a 
revelation of' God overturning,overturning, and 
still overturning among the nations. One power 
after another comes into view ; extends itself by 
conquest or by peaceful growth and acquisition ; 
makes some contribution perhaps, willingly or 
unwillingly, to the general progress of the hu-
man race ; and then falls,because God has over-
turned it in his inevitable displeasure against 
some great wickedness that would not be re-
formed. 
For example : Those earliest of empires—
the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Babylonian, the 
Persian—had each its day of progress and of 
military and commercial ascendency, making the 
wealth of many lands and of distant climes sub-
sidiary to its splendor ; each in its turn contrib-
uted something, under God's all-arranging prov-
idence, to the advancement or extension of mate-
rial civilization ; and each in :its turn, weighed 
down by some wickedness that could no longer 
be endured, fell into ruin under the visitation of 
God's justice. Philosophical history, analyzing 
the facts which it records, and tracing out the 
causes of Rational decay and death in successive 
eras, is compelled to teach the same lessons 
which the Bible teaches. Little as it can learn 
concerning the institution, the laws, the culture, 
and the manners of empires that rose and fell so 
long ago, it is sure of this,—that each of those 
empires in its turn contributed something to the 
world's progress, or had the opportunity and 
means of doing so,—and that each in its turn fell 
and perished because there is a divine nemesis 
that may wait, and wait, but cannot be evaded, 
and does not fail to smite in its own time the 
wickedness of nations. 
In proportion as the records of history become 
more ample and authentic, the principle which 
we have indicated as essential to the philosophy 
of history is more fully exhibited and illustrat-
ed. While the old empires were successively 
rising and falling in the valley of the Nile and 
in regions beyond the Euphrates,there was grow-
ing up, on the opposite side of the Mediteranean, 
far from the rivalries of Egypt and Assyria, a 
people whose influence on the destinies of the 
world will never cease to be recognized. Their 
quick intelligence, their exquisite sense of beau-
ty, their creative art, their genius in literature, 
their curious inquiries after speculative truth, 
their shrewdness in commerce, their prowess in 
arms, and their passion for liberty, gave to the 
Greeks a marked pre-eminence among nations. 
But the ineradicable vices of the Greek civiliza-
tion were fatal to the race. Their democratic 
energy, and their patriotic heroism, withstood 
the shock of Persian invasion, and turned back 
the wave of Oriental conquest from Europe ; but 
with all their passion for liberty they could not 
maintain their own self-government—Still less 
could they become the apostles of liberty for the 
world. Their love of liberty was not the love 
of justice ; its aspiration was "Liberty for the 
Greek, and slavery for the barbarian—liberty 
for us, and slavery for all the world beside !" 
With all their passion for liberty, they were the 
time was there a charge brought against him, or 
a fault found with him. Mercy triumphed!! 
Kindness conquered ! The man was won ! 
This is just the method God adopts with us in 
the everlasting gospel. We are guilty. The 
charges are brought against us. The case is en- 
tered. But the Lord delighteth in mercy. He 
seeks to melt us by his love. He is ready to for- 
give ; saying, "Only acknowledge thine iniqui- 
ties." And then offers us a pardon—a pardon, 
not of one sin, but of all our sins. A pardon that 
will bring peace to the conscience on earth, and 
entitle us to eternal rest in heaven. The soldier, 
in the case before us, gladly accepted the par-
don,was melted down by the kindness of his col-
onel, and wept like a child would weep. But sin-
ners too often hear of God's forgiving love with-
out emotion, and instead of humbly confessing 
their sins, and gladly embracing the pardon of-
fered, they treat it with neglect or contempt. 
What can be the reason of this ? The reason is, 
they do not realize their criminality, or the dan-
ger which they are exposed—they do not believe 
in the punishment which their sins deserve, and 
therefore they treat the gospel as if it were a 
fable, or a subject of no importance. 
Reader, have you felt that you are guilty be-
fore God? Guilty of breaking his law, which 
is holy, just and good. Guilty, not of breaking 
the law once, but ten thousand times—not in one 
form,but in a multitude of ways—so that if God 
were to punish you according to your desert, he 
must sentence you to perdition. Have you un-
derstood the gospel, which tells you that God 
is loth to punish you, that he hath no pleasure 
in the death of a sinner ; to prove which he 
spared not his Son, but delivered him up, the 
just for the unjust ; to bear our sins,to atone for 
our guilt ; and so God may be just, and yet par-
don and justify every sinner that believes on him ? 
Do you see that God offers to pardon you,invites 
you to come to his throne of grace,that you may 
obtain mercy—and has long been, and is now, 
waiting to be gracious unto you ? What would 
you have said if the soldier referred to had insult-
ed his colonel when he told him he made up his 
mind to forgive him,and had told him he did not 
want his pardon,—but that he was a most hard-
ened and ungrateful wretch ? Yet if you refuse, 
or neglect to humble yourself before God, and 
ask for the pardon promised in his word,you are 
acting just such a part before God. 0, the folly, 
the consumate folly of the man who trifles with 
eternal punishment---who rejects the Savior of 
sinners---who refuses to come to God by him,that 
he may be pardoned, sanctified, and saved ! 
Grace teaches good works. The pardoned sol-
dier became a changed man---mercy did what 
punishment could not,for it thoroughly reformed 
him. So, if we believe the love that God has to 
us, it we receive the message of his mercy, the 
promise of his grace, and come to him for par-
don and obtain it, we shall find that the grace of 
God, that bringeth salvation to us, will teach us 
to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to 
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this pres-
ent evil world. Nothing softens the heart like 
kindness, and therefore in the gospel the kind-
ness of God our Savior is set before us. Noth-
ing inspires the soul with gratitude like love,nor 
will anything make us desire to walk as to please 
God like gratitude ; and therefore the gospel 
minister cries, "Herein is love,not that we loved 
God, but that he loved us, and gave his Son to 
be the propitiation for our sins ?" If the grace 
that presents a free, full, and everlasting pardon 
of all sin, will not melt our hard hearts, and re-
form our vicious lives, nothing will. The law 
with its rigid requirements and terrible threat-
enings only hardens the sinner's heart, and ren-
ders him obdurate and sullen ; but the gospel 
with its sweet invitations, gracious provision,and 
glorious promises, melts, humbles, and remodels 
every heart; it consequently reforms, regulates, 
and consecrates the life to God's glory and praise. 
Once more, reader, that gospel speaks to you. 
Once more, the God of all grace addresses you. 
After living so long in sin, after hardening your-
self against him so often, after treating him with 
criminal contempt, he says, "Come now, and let 
us reason together : though your sins be as scar-
let, they shall be white as snow ; though they be 
red as crimson, they shall be as wool." That is, 
In Noah's time life was protracted to centu-
ries, and God warned 120 years. He forbore 
with those he brought out of Egypt 40 years ; 
again he was forebearing 40 years at the close 
of that dispensation ; and he is as long suffering 
to us now. It would not seem to comport with 
the ways of God to warn a generation as this 
has been, and permit it to pass away utterly mis-
taken and disappointed. It would require great 
evidence, indeed, to arouse a people for two or 
three generations to come, having a history of 
our disappointed calculations before them. You 
rightly request short communications. I might 
say much more, but if' the above be anything to 
the purpose it is sufficient. Nay we fill up the 
narrow share allotted to us to the glory of God, 
and meet in the kingdom. 
S. A. CHAPLIN.. 
For the Herald. 
This Generation. 
Our Lord, after enumerating in order a se-
ries of events to take place ere his second Ad-
vent, spoke of a "generation" that should not 
pass away without witnessing this wonderful 
spectacle. Passing over the varied opinions re-
specting the application of this term,I will briefly 
give my own conclusion, which is, that it is the 
generation of whom the prophetical teachings 
and signs of the times convince a certain portion 
termed "virgins," to expect the Lord's return. 
This as a period of time is forty years, being the 
same length of time that was given to the Jew-
ish nation for repentance, after the commence-
ment of our Lord's ministry. The darkening of 
the sun, the bloody appearance of the moon, and 
the falling of' the stars, were ' fulfilled literally 
before its commencement, being in a discourse 
of the Saviour where symbols were not employ-
ed,the more to impress the common people. It 
commenced with the proclamation of the advent 
message, about 1837-1840, and terminates 
about 1877-1880 ; and the fulfillment of our 
Lord's prophecy on Olivet is to be completed 
ere its termination. Consequently, it gives prob-
ability to the theory of the close of the great 
prophetic periods at a point in the immediate 
future. If correct in this supposition, those now 
living are truly living : 
" In a grand and awful time, 
In an age on ages telling ; 
To be living is sublime." 
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Primary Significance of Words. -• 
Bro. B. If Gen. 2:7 don't give the primary id( 
of soul, where shall we find it ? Thinking primal 
meant first, I supposed the passage gave the primal 
meaning and sense of the word. Do you deny it ' 
D. T. T. 
The "primary sense" of a word is that which 
signified in its original current language. 
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The word "soul" is an English term, the 
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iginal current English usage. 
As used by our translators of the Hebrew at 
Greek Scriptures, the first time they employ it is 
more determinate of its radical significance, thi 
are all the other instances of its use in the sat 
translation—each instance in which any word 
thus rendered being of importance in determini 
its usus-luquendi. 
' There are three Hebrew and one Greek words r, 
; dered "soul" in Our Scriptures ; and we supp( 
that our correspondent designs his criticism to 
ply, not so much to the English word, as to 
Hebrew, neh-phesh, translated "soul" in Gen. 2: 
Judging this to be the point in his mind, we re 
that we have no means of knowing what that 
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)tess" as shown by his general use of it. And as we 
those not find it used differently in the writings of M 
pray- than in other scriptures, dictated by the same 
Spirit, we need to consider all the places of it 
true currence, in deciding its primary and other use 
red to Its primary significance is judged to be th 
breath, as a life preserving principle, or "the br 
ay re- of life," and "life," as in (Job. 41: 21,) • 
breath kindleth coals ; " (Gen. 1: 20), "the mo 
creature that hath life ; " and (v. 30), "everyt 
!quire . . . . wherein there is life." God speaks of " 
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Who is like unto thee, 0 Lord, even among 
the gods ? Who is similar to thee ? Glorious in 
holiness, terrible as well as laudable, doing won-
ders ? Late have I known thee, the true light, 
late have I known thee ; but great and dark was 
the cloud before the eyes of my vanity, so that I 
could not see the Sun of Righteousness and the 
luminary of truth. I was involved in darkness ; 
a son of darkness, I loved my darkness because 
I did not know the light. I was blind, and lov-
ed blindness, and walked towards darkness 
through darkness. Who lead me out thence, 
when I was a blind man, sitting in darkness an 
in the shadow of death ? 
Who took my hand that he might lead m 
out ? Who is he, my illuminator ? For I di 
not seek, and he sought me ; I called not him 
and he called me. Who is he ? Thou art he, 
Lord, my God, compassionate and compassiona 
tor, a father of mercies and God of all consola 
tion. It is thou, 0 holy Lord, my God, who 
I confess with all my heart, giving thanks to th 
name. 
The remembrance of Christ's wounds is an effi 
cascious remedy against all adversities. 
Great is the sin I have sinned, and I am co 
scions of many offences. And yet I do n 
despair, since when offences have abounded,grac 
 
has also superabounded. He who despairs 
the pardon of his sins, denies that God is mere 
ful. He who distrusts concerning his mere 
does great injury to God. As much as in hi 
is, he denies that God has love, truth and po 
er, in which things all my hope stands, to wi 
in the charity of adoption, in the truth of pro 
ise and in the power of redemption. Let n 
no foolish cogitation murmur as much as it wi 
saying, for who art thou ? and how great tb 
glory is, or by what merits dost thou hope to 
tain it ? And I will fiducially reply : "I kn 
in whom I have believed ; with what charity 
too great he has adopted me for a soul ; beta 
he is veracious in promise, powerful in appli 
tion, and it is lawful for him to do what he w 
I cannot be terrified by the multitude of my si 
when the death of my Lord has come into 
mind, since my sins cannot overcome him, i 
have loved him.—N. Y. Observer. 
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The Object of Prayer, 
The philosophy is false which flies in the f 
of Inspiration. Let God be true, and every 
a liar who contradicts the Holy Scriptures. 
view which they give of prayer is everyw 
one and the same. It is asking and receivi 
nothing less. To affirm, then, that its sole 
ject it to medicate the human soul, and brin 
into harmony with the divine mind and wil 
to darken counsel by words without knowle 
"Ask, and ye shall receive," is Christ's prom 
not "ask, and ye shall be prepared to recei 
It is very true,that prayer does exert a very 
portant and happy influence upon the state o 
own hearts, and prepares us to receive in a 
spirit the blessing which God gives in answ 
prayer. But to make this the principal obje 
prayer is to neutralize this very effect, an 
make prayer nothing but a form. Imagine a 
son saying to hiniself,as he enters into his cl 
and shuts the door, "Now I am going to 
God to give certain blessings, not with any 
that He will be any more likely to give the 
my asking, but because my asking will mak 
 
feel more humble, more dependent, and 
grateful when the blessings comes." Would 
prayer as that be likely to have a very sal 
effect in preparing his mind to receive the 
ings ? But why should he not have just 
thoughts,if that is "the principal object of 
er." 
Certainly, the better one understands th 
doctrine of prayer, the better he is preps 
pray. If prayer is nothing but shooting 0 
titions against a brazen heaven,that they m 
bound with as much force as possible upon o 
hearts, then let us know it, that we may a 
skill by practice, and learn to take a sur 
strong aim in this intellectual exercise. It 
evident, that the moment such a theory of 
17: 11) ; and again, "the life of all flesh is the 
blood," (v. 14). Here the neh-phesh or soul being 
affirmed in one text to be in the blood, it can he af-
firmed to be the blood in the other only by a me-
tonymy, in which the container is denominated by 
that which it contains. By a synecdoche, also, it is 
used for persons, as in Gen. 14: 21, "give me the 
persons," where the same word is thus rendered—a 
part being denominative of the whole ; but no one 
would therefore think of arguing that the persons 
are in the blood, or that the person is the blood of a 
man. 
As will be seen by the above, our view of its use 
in the text referred to, is that it is there put, by a 
metonymy, for man's immaterial nature—that which 
survives the dissolution of the body, and may be de-
stroyed by eternal consignment to Gehenna. 
We suppose the brother respecting whom you en-
quire has modified his views somewhat ; but we do 
not feel authorized to say to what extent, for the 
reason that he has never communicated to us, and 
we know not that he has to the public, the extent 
of the charge. We suppose that he has given up 
the unconsciousness of those who sleep ; but do not 
know how he stands in relation to the. future pun-
ishment. The fact that "Anti-eternal-torment," 
"is still advertized" "is not decisive on that point ; 
for lie may have no control over such advertise-
ment. 
The Blessing to all Nations, Promised in 
Abraham's Seed. 
"Thy Seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 
and in thy Seed shall all the nations of the earth be 
"soul" was given in full in the Herald in our Cate,- blessed." Gen. 22: 17, 18. 
logue of "Scriptural tropes," in 1858, under the How the nations were to be blessed in Abraham's 
word soul, as follows : 
seed would be a mystery,without the Apostolic assur- 
Son, a. (Hebrew, Nephesh ; Greek, Psuche.) ante that our Savior was crucified : "That the bless- 
Lit., the animating principle, that which endows ing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through 
animals with life and instinct, and allies the mate- Jesus Christ ; that we might receive the promise of 
ial of man's nature with his intellectual and moral the Spirit through faith"—the Apostle giving as a 
faculties : "I pray God your whole spirit and soul reason, that : "To Abraham and his seed were the 
rand body be preserved blameless unto the coming of promises made : he saith not, And to seeds, as of 
the Lord Jesus," 1 Thess. 5: 23 ; "The word of God many ; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is 
is quick. . . . even to the dividing asunder of the Christ." Gal. 3 : 14-16. 
soul and spirit," Heb. 5: 12 ; "Hainan stood up to The same form of the word rendered "seed" being 
make request for his life," (nephesh) Est. 7: 7; used for the plural as well as for the singular,it has 
"To every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of been claimed by sceptics that Paul's argument, 
the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the that it was spoken as of one, is sophistical and un-
earth, wherein there is life," (Ib.) Gen. 1: 30 ; tenable,—on the ground that it was never used in 
"Whosoever shall save his life (psuche) shall lose the plural form by the Hebrews, except to denote 
it," Matt. 16: 25—thus used about 100 times. the seeds of vegetation (Dan.1: 12); and some Chris- 
-A Metaphor, applicable to any refreshing in- tians have consequently fallen into the error of sup-
fluence. The Hebrew verb is thus used three times. posing that Paul was here mistaken, and did not 
"The stranger may be refreshed," Ex. 23: 12. See reason logically ! Even Jerome, who is followed by 
also 31: 17, and 1 Sam. 16: 14. 
Le Clerc, allegeth,according to Dr. Macknight,that 
 A Metonymy, 1, for the body with which it "the apostle by an argument of this kind meant to 
is, or has been connected, "If any of you shall be impose on the simplicity of the Gallatians." It has 
unclean by a dead body," (nephesh,)Num. 9: 10 :— been claimed that Paul founds his argument on the 
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for presumption that "seed" cannot signify a plurality 
the dead," (lb.) Lev. 19: 28. "There were certain of persons ;" which it often does. But which claim 
men who were,defiled by the dead body (Ib.) of a shows a very superficial acquaintance with the basis 
man," Num. 9: 6—thus used 11 times. Also, of Paul's argument. 
2. For the bodily appeties and sensations, "Our In reply to such objections, it may be remarked, 
soul luatheth this light bread," Num. 21: 5. "The first, however ambiguous the prediction might be, 
idle sou/shall suffer hunger," Prov. 19 : 15 ; "Yea that Paul, as an inspired interpreter, spoke author-
a sword shall pierce through thine own soul," Lu. itively, as to its application to one or more persons ; 
2: 23—thus used 40 times. 
and that whatever he has affirmed in respect to it, 
. 3. For the intellectual and moral emottiens and must be received as its inspired significance. 
affections, "My soul trusteth in thee," Pea. 5: 7. In the secondiplace,it is noticable that independent 
"My soul is full of troubles," lb. 88: 3 ; "The soul of any claim to inspiration, the apostle is abundant-
of the wicked desireth evil," Prov. 21: 10 ; "He ly sustained in his argument ; for the singular num-
that is of a proud heart," [nephesh] Ib. 28: 25 ;— ber of the word in tiiis connection is clearly 
"Confirming the souls of the disciples," Acts 14: proved by the context—the words proceeding being, 
22 ; "The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of "Thy Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies." 
David," 1 Sam. 18: 1—thus used about 100 times. However ambiguous the number of the word might 
4. For the immaterial part of man, "Fear not be, as sometimes used, there is no room to question 
them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the that in this connection the word seed is spoken of 
soul : but rather fear him which is able to destroy as of one and not of many. It is therefore here as 
both soul and body in hell," Matt. 10: 28 ; "Thou clearly in the singular, as it is in Gen. 13: 15:" 1 
wilt not leave my soul in Hades, neither wilt thou will put enmity between thy seed and her Seed : It 
suffer thy Holy One to see corruption," Acts 1: 27. shall bruise thy head,and thou shalt bruise His heel;" 
 A Synecdoche, 1. For the entire animal,— or as in Gen. 4: 25, when Eve, speaking of the 
"Whatsoever Adam called any living creature (ne- birth of Seth, says "God bath appointed me iinotb-
phesh) that was the name thereof," Gen. 2: 19 ;— er seed, instead of Abel whom Cain slew." 
"This is the law of beasts, and of the fowl, and of Paul, however, is not the only apostle who ap- 
every living creature (lb.) that moveth in the wa- plies this prediction to Christ. Peter, before Paul 
tern," Lev. 11: 46—thus used 8 times. 
was converted, gave the same interpretation. Speak- 
2. For the entire man, "The Lord God formed to the Jews he says : "Ye are the children of the 
man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into prophets, and of the covenant which God made with 
his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed 
living soul," or person, Gen. 2 : 7 ; "Abraham shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto 
took the souls they had gotten in Horan," Gen. 12: you first, God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent 
5 ; "If the sword come and take away any person him to bless you, in turning away every one of you 
[nepesh] from among them," 33: 6 ; "Give me the from his iniquities." Acts. 3: 25, 26. 
persons," [lb.] Gen. 14:21 ; "If a soul shall sin Dr. Whitby also remarks : "This interpretation 
through ignorance," Lev. 4: 2 ; "Fear came upon is owned by the Jews (Moses Haddarson ad Gen. 
every soul," Acts 2: 43 ; "There were added unto 19: 34) who observes, that, 'It is not written here 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The Soul. 
Dear Bro. Bliss : One of the bete Heralds cdn-
tains an article from your pen in reply to questions 
of J. M. O. explanatory of the term "life." 
You explain the Greek word "Psuche" to meat 
the life of the body, or, in other words, the animal, 
or blood life, which dies with the body. 
If such is the absolute meaning of the term, I am 
at a loss to know what our Saviour means when he 
says, Matt. 10: 28, "Fear not them which kill the 
body, but are not able to kill the soul," (Psuche.) 
Light on the above text will be thankfully received 
by a lover of truth. 
March 23n. 1862. 
W. P. 
REMARKS. What we said, from which the above 
impression is derived was that "Our present life in 
the flesh is a Psuche or soul life ; and its continu-
ance is dependant on the action of the blood, con-
stantly supplied with fresh nutriment and purified 
by constant inhalations of oxygen." We also spoke 
of the "life of the body" becoming extinct, and of 
the "soul-life of the body," as dependent on the 
blood. It was not, however, our intention to con-
found the soul, as an animating essence, with the 
soul-life of' the body, which is the result of the 
soul's animating influence. Our idea of the term 
them 3000 souls," Acts 2: 41. Thus used 46 times. 
It is also used in the sense of one's self in 85 in-
stances,—in 17 of which it is applied to God,—
"The Lord bath sworn by Himself [Heb. his soul] 
Amos 6: 8 ; "My soul chooseth strangling"—i. e., 
I choose it, Job. 7: 15. 
NOTE.—The word rendered soul in Job. 30: 15, 
nowhere else occurs in the Bible ; and that render-
ed "souls" in Isa. 57 : 16 is found in 25 texts, and 
is nowhere else thus rendered, but ordinarily breath 
—as in Gen. 2: 7, "Breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life." See Breath. It is, twice only,ren-
dered spirit, in Job. 26: 4, and in Prov. 20: 27. 
There is no other word rendered soul ; and the only 
other rendered spirit, except those noticed below, is 
that which is thus rendered in Matt. 14: 26, and 
Mark 6: 27, and that nowhere else occurs. 
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THE ADVEN r HERALD. 
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THE MERRIMAC DESTROYED ! 
Fortress Monroe, May 11. 
To Hon. J. H. Watson, Assistant Secretary of 
War. 
The Merrimac was blown up by the rebels at two 
minutes before five o'clock this morning. She was 
set fire to about three o'clock. The explosion took 
place at the time stated. 
It is stated to'be a grand sight by those who saw 
that ever existed, has been looked to as the great ce-
menter of the world's peace ; on which expectation 
our unprecedented civil war is a sad, though strik-
ing commentary. But the manner in which states-
men have been startled from that dream by this 
great insurrection can bear no comparison to the 
startling awakening, that will arouse those who 
dream of a reign of peace before the end, when the 
Prince of Peace shall appear in person for the estab-
lishment of Ilis everlasting kingdom. 
Particular Notice. 
Our readers have perceived that their papers now 
come to them by a printed, instead of a written di-
rection as before. It is not improbable that many 
names have been misspelled, in being transferred to 
blocks, or something omitted. We will therefore be 
obliged to any,who notice any inaccuracy,for prompt 
information that we may correct the same. We 
wauld like always, where there is room to put it on 
the block, to give the first name in full, and also to 
have "Mrs." or "Miss," as the case may be, pre-
cede the name of all our female subscribers. We 
would therefore request those whose names now 
come only a first initial, to give us their name in 
full ; and we would like information in respect to 
any prefix or affix, proper in any instance, that is 
now omitted. Money for the Herald might be sent 
at the same time ? In transfering to blocks we may 
also have omitted or misplaced some name, and 
therefore we would like prompt notice of any irregu-
larity in the receipt of the Herald. The following 
is a case in point : 
BRO. BLISS.—Dear sir : I wish to know, if pia] 
have stricken my name, from your subscription list? 
I have not received the Herald for the last two 
weeks, and I am quite unwilling to lose one num-
ber. I suppose you know I am not delinquent, as 
my subscription is paid to July next ; and I wish 
to be considered a subscriber for life. Yours in haste, 
J. A. WINCHESTER. 
Claremont, N. H. May, 9, 1862. 
In arranging our list alphabetically, the block 
with your name had slipped into the East Kingston 
list. That mistake, we trust, will not again hap-
pen. You are credited to July next, and may your 
life continue while the Herald is needed. 
The War. 
The war news this week, as well as last is of great 
moment in the direction of a speedy crushing of the 
rebellion. The Union forces are victorious on both 
the sea-board and Mississippi,—the stories of which 
are told in few words by dispatches to government, 
copied in our columns. The surrender of Norfolk, 
the repossession of the Navy yard opposite Ports-
mouth, the self destruction of the Merrimac, the re-
treat of the rebels from Yorktown,their fight,defeat, 
and flight from Williamstown, their defeat at West 
Point, rapid retreat to Richmond, and their persuit 
by our army, are all events of great importance in 
the present crisis. The capture of New Orleans with 
its defenses, and the defeat of the rebel navy in the 
eastern and western waters, also have an important 
bearing in the same direction. We may not learn 
before going to press of the capture of Richmond,the. 
rebel capitol ; hut we are expecting any hour to hear 
of that achievement. The rebel congress fled that 
city more than a week since, and it is now clear as 
a sunbeam that rebeldom is doomed. There appears 
to be nothing particularly in the way of the speedy 
capture of Charleston and Savannah on the Atlantic 
coast, of Pensacola and Mobile on the gulf, and of 
Memphis and Fort Wright on the Mississippi ; 
which are all the important points now in possession 
of the rebels. Their armies at Corinth and Rich-
mond cannot but be greatly disheartened and demor-
alized by such a succession of fatal disasters as their 
cause has encountered; and we do not anticipate the 
rebels making a stand in great force anywhere for 
any length of time. It is not unlikely, however,that 
large bands of marauders may rove about the south, 
preventing important sections of it from returning 
to their allegiance; but should this be so, it would 
only hasten the conviction, now fast ripening, that 
the cause of this rebellion must be placed in a con-
dition where it can never again produce a like re- 
sult. It may be that God will never permit peace, 
until the bands of the oppressor be broken and the 
oppressed go free ; or at any rate, until the condi-
tion of the oppressed be greatly ameliorated. 
The successes of the Government forces, during 
the past week, as before, have gradually contracted 
the rebellion into much narrower limits than it at 
one time possessed. The present condition is thus 
described in the last "Independent" by Horace Gree-
ley : 
"Of Tennessee and Virginia, at least half are 
again under the sway of the Stars and Stripes. The 
Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia are firm-
ly held by the Union forces, while the fall of Fort 
Pulaski has sealed the port of Savannah, rendering 
that city of no commercial importance. Florida, di- 
thy ion, but thy seed : that is the King Messiah.' 
And Theodoret observes, The words are capable of 
no other sense ; for by Christ only was the promise 
fulfilled.", 
Other writers have fallen into the opposite error, 
and have claimed that Paul's application of the term, 
requires us to understand that reference is only 
made to Christ, whenever there is mention of the 
seed 01 Abraham. A little observation, however,will 
show that the phrase is used in more than one or 
two meanings; and it is expressive, 
1st. Of the whole multitude of Abraham's poster. 
ity : "I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth ; 
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, 
then shall thy seed also be numbered." Gen. 13: 16. 
Of Abraham's descendants in the line of Isaac 
and Jacob : "Thy seed shall be a stranger in a land 
that is not theirs . . but in the fourth generation 
they shall come hither again." lb. 13-16. 
Of the godly of Abraham's posterity : "All the 
land which thou seest, to thee will 1 give it, and to 
thy seed for ever," 13: 15. 
Of all who are of the faith of Abraham, what-
ever may be their pedigree : "If ye are Christ's then 
are ye Abrahams's seed, and heirs according to the 
promises." Gal. 3: 25. And 
Of Christ, individually : "In thy seed shall all 
the nations of the earth be blessed." Gen. 22 : 18. 
It is clear, therefore, that those who question 
Paul's logic, or think him mistaken in his interpre-
tation, have given only a superficial examination to 
the question—though competent, in their own esti-
mation, to sit in judgment on the competency of an 
inspired apostle. The time, however, when all na-
tions will be fully blessed in Christ, it is evident 
from the context, will be when He shall possess the 
gate of His enemies—that is, when he shall put all 
things under His feet, and shall be the only recog-
nized Sovereign of this earth ; which will be when 
He "shall judge the quick and the dead, at His ap-
pearing and His kingdom." 2 Tim. 4: 1. Till that 
epoch, the nations are blessed in Christ only to the 
extent in which they receive him ; but when He shall 
destroy His enemies and possess their gate,there will 
be no nations remaining except those blessed in 
Christ. 
"My Hopes." 
The Rev. Mr. Drake, for twenty three years the 
pastor of the Baptist church in Plainfield, N. Y., 
who died Tuesday, April 15, 1862,preached his last 
sermon on the Sunday previous, from the text, 
"The peace of God which passeth all underestand-
ing," &c. Ile had partly written his text for his 
next discourse, "My ways are not your ways, nei-
ther are my thoughts"—here it ended, as did his 
life. His last rational words were— 
"Jesus, my all, to heaven has gone, 
He whom I fix my hopes upon." 
"Yes, my hopes upon, yes my hopes," he added 
with emphasis. He then was flighty—an audience 
was in the room—he was speaking to the impeni-
tent and with the call—"Now is the acceptable 
time, now is the day of salvation," his spirit pass-
ed away. 
Peace, when there is no Peace. 
We did believe in peace ; fondly, credulously be-
lieved that, cemented by the mild umpirage of the 
Federal Union, it might dwell forever beneath the 
folds of the Star-Spangled Banner and the sacred 
shield of a common nationality. That was the great 
arcanum of policy ; that was the state mystery into 
which men and angels desired to look ; hidden from 
ages"; but revealed to us : 
Which kings and prophets waited for, 
And sought, but never found. 
There was no limits to the possible extension of 
such a system. It had already comprehended half 
North America, and it might, in the course of time, 
have folded the continent in its peaceful, beneficent 
embrace. We fondly dreamed that, in the lapse of 
ages,it would have been extended till half the West-
ern hemisphere had realized the vision of universal, 
perpetual peace. From that dream we have been 
rudely startled by the array of ten thousand armed 
men in Charleston Ilarbor, and the glare of eleven 
batteries bursting on the torn sky of the Union,like 
that comet which, at this very moment, burns "in 
the Artic sky, and from his horrid hair shakes pes-
tilence and war."—Edward Everett. 
The world has been beguilded by the cry of peace, 
peace; and the church has not been backward in 
predicting a reign of peace on earth during our pres-
ent probationary state—forgetting that our Saviour 
said, "Think not that I am to come to send peace 
on the earth : I am not come to send peace, but a 
sword," Matt. 10: 34. And an inspired Apostle 
predicted the prevalent expectation of a reign of 
peace, as a precursor of the end, "For when they 
shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction 
corneth upon them." 1 Th. 5: 3. 
True, "the Federal Union," the best government 
vested of Rebel troops, might be completely regain-
ed to the Rebublic by 5,000 men, in the course of a 
month ; while the capture of New Orleans, by Gen. 
Butler's expedition,has bereft the Slaveholders' Re-
bellion of by far it greatest and most important 
mart, and nearly stopped the clandestine trade be-
tween the West Indies and the Gulf coast. North 
Carolina and Virgina have no remaining seaport, 
Wilmington perhaps excepted, into which a cargo 
of arms or military stores can be run for the use of it. 
Jefferson Davis & Company ; so that Charleston re-
mains practically the only available Rebel port, and 
that can only be run into by swift vessels in very 
dark nights, when they can pass within musket-shot 
of the blockading fleet without being perceived. The 
rebels must therefore speedily assume the offensive 
and win decisive victories, or their last hope will be 
stifled. They cannot stand still ; 'they have lost too 
much ground ; they carrot maintain their armies on 
what is left to them ; they may tear every white 
youth from his home by conscription, but they can 
not clothe, arm, equip, and provision the number 
they already have in the field for over three months 
longer. Four months of unbroken disaster have 
brought them to the brink of ruin : nothing short of 
overwhelming triumphs, promptly achieved, can 
save them from going over. Who believes it proba-
ble that they are about to achieve such triumphs ? 
The first official account of the fall of New Orleans 
was telegraphed to Washington from Fortress Mon-
roe, ,,where the bearer of dispatches first arrived, in 
the following clear and comprehensive manner. 
Fortress Monroe, May 8. 
To lion. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy : 
I have the honor to announce that, by the provi- 
dence of God, which smiles upon a just cause, the 
squadron under Flag Officer Farragut has been vouch 
safed a glorious victory and triumph in the capture 
of the city of New Orleans,Forts Jackson,St.Phillip, 
Livingston and Pike, the batteries above and below 
New Orleans, as well as the total destruction of the 
enemy's gunboats. steam rams,iron-clad floating bat-
teries, fire rafts and obstructions, booms and chains' 
The enemy with their own hands destroyed from 
eight to ten millions worth of cotton and shipping. 
Our loss is 36 killed and 123 wounded. The enemy 
lost from 1000 to 1500, besides several hundred pris-
oners. The way is clear and the rebel defenses are 
destroyed from the Gulf to Baton Rouge, and prob-
ably to Menphie. Our flag waves triumphantly over 
them all. I am bearer of dispatches. 
(Signed) 
THEODORE BAILEY. 
Captain and Second in Command 
of the attacking force of the 
Gunboat Cayuga. 
NORFOLK SURRENDERED. 
Not a blow was struck in its defense by the re-
bels. The navy yard was saved. Five thousand fed-
eral troops are in possession. The rebel steamer 
Yorktown was sunk and the Jamestown captured by 
the Galena. 
Washington, May 11. The following was receiv-
ed at the War Department this morning : 
Fortress Monroe, May 10-12 o'clock, midnight. 
Norfolk is ours, and also Portmouth and the Navy 
Yard. 
General Wool, having completed the landing of 
his forces at Willoughby Point about 9 o'clock this 
morning, commenced his march on Norfolk with 
5000 men. Secretary Chase accompanied the Gen-
eral. 
About five miles from the landing place a rebel 
battery was found on the opposite side of the bridge 
over Tanner's Creek ; and after firing a few discharg-
es upon two companies of infantry that were in the 
advance, the rebels burned the bridge. This com-
pelled our forces to march around five miles fur-
ther. 
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon our forces were 
within a short distance of Norfolk, and were met 
by a delegation of citizens. 
The city was formerly surrendered. 
Our troops were marched in, and now have pos-
session. 
Gen. Viele is in command as Military Governor. 
The city and Navy'Vard were not burned. The 
fires which had been seen for some hours proved to 
be woods on fire. 
Gen. Wool,with Secretary Chase, returned about 
11 o'clock to-night. 
Gen. linger withdrew his forces without a bat-
tle. 
The Merrimac is still off Sewell's Point. 
Commander {lodgers' expedition was heard from 
this afternoon ascending James river. 
The iron-clad steamer Galena had sunk the rebel 
steamer Yorktown and captured the Jamestown. 
Reports from Gen. McClellan are favorable. 
(Signed) EDWIN M. STANTON. 
Secretary of War. 
Later reports say the Navy Yard was destroyed. 
The Monitor, Eli. Stevens (Naugatuck) and 
the gunboats have gone up toward Norfolk. 
ANOTHER NAVAL VICTORY. 
Washington, May 11. The following has been re-
ceived : 
Flag Ship Benton, above Fort Pillow, Mississippi. 
River, May 10, via Cairo, 11th. 
To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: 
The naval engagement for which the rebels have 
been preparing took place this morning. The rebel 
fleet, consisting of eight iron-clad gunboats, four of 
which were fitted with rams, came up handsomely. 
The action lasted one hour. Two of the rebel gun-
boats were blown up and one sunk, when the ene-
my retired precipitately under the gnus of the fort. 
Only six vessels of my squadron were engaged. The 
Cincinnati sustained some injury from the rams,but 
will be in fighting condition to-morrow. Capt. 
Stemble distinguished himself, and he is seriously 
wounded. The Benton is uninjured. Mortar boat 
No. 1*, in charge of Second Master Gregory, behav-
ed with great spirit. The rebel squadron is sup-
posed to be commanded by Commodore Hollins. 
[Signed] 
C. H. Davis, 
Captain Commanding Western Flotilla,Mississip-
pi River, pro tern. 
The Papal Power. 
Late foreign 'intelligence announces that a peti-
tion, signedby one hundred and sixty priests,has been 
sent to the Pope, requesting that he will surrender 
his claim to temporal sovereignty, that it may con- 
duce to the peace of Italy. We suppose this must 
be the same fact that is refered to in the following 
statement by a correspondent of the London Daily 
News, who wrote from Malta, Feb. 8th, though here 
it is multiplied to " thousands." 
"There is to-day handed about Malta a very long 
and well written protest to the Pope, printed at Na-
ples, and signed by about sixty thousand of the Ro- 
man Catholic priests. Several chapters have affixed 
their official seal to it, and it looks very like Protes- 
tantism, but they call it pure Roman Catholicism. 
It urges the Pope to abandon his temporal power,to 
restore the church to its primitive state, and to re- 
member that a great majority of his clergy are from 
his people." 
Orestes A. Bronson, the ablest Roman Catholic 
writer in America, also urges the surrender of this 
claim. Having been censured for so doing, he thus 
writes in justification to the Catholic Herald and 
Visitor : 
"I have never opposed the temporal sovereignty 
of the Pope in his Ecclesiastical States,nor urged its 
surrender, save on the hypothesis that it is already 
virtually gone, and cannot be effectively sustained. 
Its loss, when I wrote, I looked upon as an accomp-
lished fact, or likely to be so, in a near future. As- 
suming this, I suggested, argued, if you will, that 
the voluntary surrender, by the Holy Father, of his 
temporal principality, on the best terms then practi-
able, would contribute more to the political and so-
cial interests of the Peninsula, and to the interests 
of Catholicity, both in Italy and elsewhere, than a 
prolonged and, unavailing struggle to maintain it 
against the almost universal popular sentiment." 
In this hour of extremity, we should naturally 
expect that a Christian church would look up to the 
Creator for guidance and protection ; hut instead of 
this, we find the Pope having recourse to a creature 
—the following being from his late Allocution deliv-
ered in the Minerva church : 
"May the most Holy Virgin,under whose all-pow-
erful auspices we have been kept safe and sound up 
to this hour,deign to continue to us her protection ; 
and may she inspire us with a perfect resignation to 
the Divine will." 
"The Catholic" an American Papal Journal, also 
gives utterance to similar sentiments, as follows : 
"The beautiful devotion of the month of May 
commences this week If at all times the faithful 
Christian should implore the aid of the Mother of 
God, at this eventful period, when so many impor-
tant interests both in Church and State are to be 
decided, we should turn to Mary with more than 
usual fervor, imploring of her to continue to protect 
and defend the Sovereign Pontiff, to interpose her 
prayers in favor of the Bishops who are soon to be 
gathered around the Chair of the of the Chief Pas-
tor, and to obtain for our country the termination 
of the present strife between brothers,and the return 
of a permanent peace." 
Those who thus speak and write must have for-
gotten that it is said of Jesus Christ : "There is none 
other name under heaven given among men,whereby 
we must be saved," Acts 4 : 12. Also they cannot 
have remembered that our Lord himself said : "I 
am the door : by me if any man enter in he shall be 
saved," John 10:9; and that, "He that entereth not 
by the door into the sheepfold,but climbeth up some 
other way, the same is a thief and a robber," v 1. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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if this objection were all these men had against theland confidence of those with whom we are associated 
Miller doctrine,' they would as soon complain of is one of the most trying things we have to meet in 
the believers in 1866 as of Miller, and others, who social and religious relations. Those who are asso- 
believe in any earlier dates. But this is not the elated with Churches which oppose the Advent dec-
ease ; it is only used as a subterfuge to parry off the trine, and whose leading members hold the doctrine 
force of the argument of the time itself. They know of the world's conversion, very rarely do their duty 
in their consciences that time is revealed, and they in an aggressive way ; what they do is done nega-
are not able to confute it. Therefore, what cannot lively, and they defend themselves when attacked (as 
be put down by fair means, must be by ridicule or they will be when known to have tendencies to the 
persecution ; for they are not willing to have it Advent faith) on the points most popular, giving 
true. The professed ministers of Christ know, if it the least offense and producing the least result. 
is true, they are under the most serious, solemn, And many such oppose the agitation of the question 
and awful obligation to preach it, and warn and en- in their Churches, or even in the towns where they 
treat the people to be ready for the event. But not reside, and hence they do nothing themselves and do 
possessing faith enough to risk their character on not suffer others to do what they neglect or refuse to 
the word of God, or courage enough to meet the op- do. The good opinion of those who are not favor-
position this doctrine would of necessity raise, they able to the truth stands in the way. 
will, as a matter of course, do all they can to keep In Advent societies, where the preachers oppose 
the people ignorant, and cry out against excitements, the defininite time, the principle wotks the same on 
even after they have been for years trying to elite most of the members. It is unpleasant to come out 
their people to support the popular institutions of in opposition to those we esteem ; and in this way 
the day. No wonder then, brethren, you meet with the evidence of the time is shut out, just as it was 
so much opposition from this source. Yet we ought formerly shut out of other Churches. Now, as 
to be thankful that there are, even at this time, then, only the few independent thinkers stand up 
many of the ministers of Christ who are willing to for free discussion and the whole truth. But this 
be called fools for Christ's sake, and are examining is one of the most difficult things to do, for in so 
this important subject ; a great number of whom doing a person loses caste, and is often bitterly as-
are satisfied that their former views of a temporal sailed by his former associates, even though he 
or spiritual millennium was but a tradition of men, becomes a better man by so doing. Hence, many 
and are preaching the kingdom of God at hand. are slow to make any change in this direction. 
Numbers of these are now satisfied that it is at the We are slow to learn the lesson, " cease ye from 
door, and a few of these believe in the time, 1843. man," respecting religious opinions. Man at his 
Thus far, then, my dear brethren, we have reason best estate, even as a religious teacher, is altogether 
to be thankful to God, and take courage. We vanity, as compared with Christ ; yet, whatever is 
ought to do all we can to get our ministers to look lovely in character or brilliant in talent gives an 
at this subject." 
interest to his opinions, whether true or false. The 
Were Father Miller now living, to see and weigh only safety lies in following the mind of God with 
the evidence of the calculation of 1867-8, he would our best judgment. An English divine of the 17th 
be as happy as good old Simeon was in the first ad- century* observes : " Where Scripture speaks, or 
vent, although he would not, like him, desire to seems to speak, in consonance with the opinions of 
die, but live to see his Saviour come in his king- the system-mongers, well and good ; where it does 
dom. 
not, all sorts of critical discipline and violence are 
Well, I intend to be " faithful to the end." employed to break its refractory spirit, or bend it to 
Nothing shall stand in my way, or neutralize my compliance. The most forced and unnatural mean-
labor or influence in this work, by my consent or ing of words, the most wildly congeatural emenda-
means. I stand free in the truth, and shall pro- tions of the text, the most improbable reasonings, 
claim it with all my might, expecting God's bless- the most slender authorities, are all eagerly resorted 
ing to attend my efforts. 
to for this unhallowed purpose ; and the Bible is 
I stand now, as always, on the great truths we made the most ridiculous book in the world, just to 
proclaimed at the Albany Conference, in April, maintain the systems inviolate, and to render theo-
1845, seventeen years since, and mean to carry logians self-consistent." 
them all out (especially the following very import- The celebrated and pious DR. OWEN observed to 
ant article on the time of the Advent), in good some one who taunted him with having changed 
faith. 
his views upon one point t "He that can glory that 
" That the second coming, or appearing, is indi- in fourteen years he has not altered in his concep-
cated to be now emphatically nigh, even at the doors, tion of some things, shall not have me for a rival." 
(Matt. 24 : 33,) by the chronology of the prophetic And, MR. ORME remarks in his life of this great 
periods, (Dan. 7 : 25 ; 8 : 14 ; 9 : 24 ; 12 : 7, 11, man,-"Every change of religious sentiment is im-
12 ; Rev. 9 : 10, 15 ; 11 : 2, 3 ; 12 : 6, 14 ; 13 : portant to the person who makes it,and ought to be 
5,) the fulfillment of prophecy, (Dan. 2d, 7th, 8th, gone into with caution and deliberation. To he giv-
9th, 11th, and 12th ; Rev. 9th, 11th, 12th 13th, en to change is a great evil, and indicates a weak 
14th, and 17th,) and the signs of the times, (Matt. and unsettled mind. On the other hand, to be 
24 : 29 ; Luke 21 : 25, 26.) And that this truth afraid of change, is frequently the result of indiffer-
should be preached to both saints and sinners, that ence, or sinful apprehensions of consequences. It 
the first may rejoice, knowing their redemption is the duty of every Christian to follow the leadings 
draweth nigh, (Luke 21 : 28 ; 1 Thess. 4 : 18,) and of the Spirit in the word of revelation, and to recol-
the last be warned to flee from the wrath to come, lect that for his convictions he must be accountable 
(2 Cor. 5 : 11,) before the master of the house shall at last." The eloquent SAURIN once said, "Let each 
rise up and shut to the door, (Luke 13 ; 24, 25.) of us say when truth requires it, I have erred, I 
It will be seen, that if, " by the chronology of consecrate the remainder of my life to publish that 
the prophetic periods," we are to understand or truth which I have hitherto misunderstood, and 
have the proof " indicated " that Christ is nigh, which I opposed only because I had the misfortune 
even at the doors, that we must have some under- to misunderstand it. The learned and devoted TOP-
standing of these periods to " indicate " this fact. LADY said, "I am resolved in the strength of grace, 
Their termination in 1843 will not " indicate " very to preach all the truths of the gospel, as far as I 
distinctly a future coming nigh ! ! It was only know them, and leave God to take care of the con-
on the ground that we were living in the age when sequences." 
" many were running to and fro," and knowledge It is a difficult thing for one to speak out on sub- 
was increasing, that we could have said the pro- jects that will be rejected by friends, and be likely 
phetic periods would " indicate" the nearness of to subject us to censure, and perhaps persecution. 
redemption ; except we refer to them in so general Many an honest mind has been kept in bondage by 
a sense as to make them of no practical use. But the fear of such results,and have for the want of your-
light has increased, and we now understand these age been kept in darkness. But this should not be 
periods and signs, and preach them to both saints so. It would be more wise and safe to follow such 
and sinners ; that the first may rejoice, knowing that distinguished men as 0 UTON, SAURIN, and TOPLADY. 
their redemption is nigh,- and the last be warned Believe and speak the truth, and leave consequences 
to flee from the wrath to come, before the Master to God. And if a belief of the time of the Advent, 
shall rise up and shut to the door. Luke 13 : or any other truth we believe to be revealed in and 
24-25. 
by the word of G, d, is likely to subject us to re- 
That this course of conduct should subject me to proach, we are not by our course to "savor the 
reproach, scorn, and misrepresentation, is nothing things that be of men, " but "of God." Many 
strange nor unexpected. It was threatened, and has are convinced of the personal reign of Christ who do 
been very cleverly carried out. 1 have not thought not believe,lest they share the fate of the Jews, who 
proper to pay any attention to my accusers, although on believing in Christ, at his first Advent, were 
I have to meet their ungrateful conduct in many "turned out of the synagogue." Others do not 
places. Of this I am sure, that no true Adventist avow their faith in the time of his coining for the 
will sanction such treatment of one that has a clean same reason. They have no moral courage to make 
record, and is faithful to the cause for which he the sacrifice. 
has toiled and suffered from the very first without I know how difficult it was,by personal experience 
change. 
to give up the spiritual millennium and embrace the 
Our Saviour once said, How can ye believe who unpopular views of the personal coining of Christ. 
receive honor one of another, and not that which 
 
cometh from God only." To lose the good opinion * John House, D. D. 
 
 
 
 
the happiness to know that many souls have been 
soundly converted to God ; not only changed in 
their religious sympathies, but in moral and physi-
cal habits, as to their manner of living -- total ab-
stinence from all intoxicating drinks and foods, that 
excite the passions, which war against the soul ; 
also abstinence from narcotics, - so that they liter-
ally eat and drink " to the glory of God," bringing 
the body into subjection, keeping it pure, as a 
 
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In this department, articles are solicited, on the general " temple of the Holy Spirit." It is my earnest de- 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over sire that they will not be led away by the error of 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented the wicked ; but henceforth " glorify God in their 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
MY JOURNAL. 
SICETCH OF EIGHT MONTHS' LABOR. 
March, 1862. My last No. was dated August 
12, 1861, in which I gave a brief account of my 
sickness and recovery in the Health Institution, or 
" Our Home," in Dansville, N. Y. Since that 
time I have enjoyed perfect health, so that I have 
not lost a single appointment ; every day has been 
attended with health to my body and good cheer to 
my soul. Praise the Lord for his loving kindness 
and his tender mercies to me, a sinner saved by 
grace. I have written much that the timithas not 
come to publish ; but the constant importunity of 
kind friends to hear from me again, induces me to 
give expression to a few thoughts, that may be of 
some practical use to those who are looking for the 
speedy coming of Christ. 
In the last eight months I have endeavored to fol-
low the leadings of Providence, and have divided my 
labors between the Advent Church in Boston and 
the cause abroad, as duty seemed to indicate. 
In. August and September I visited and preached 
in Lowell, Mass. ; Portsmouth, N. H. ; Portland 
and Yarmouth, Me. In the latter place I attended 
the Maine State Conference of Adventists, where 1 
was received with Christian kindness, and treated 
as one whose labors and sufferings in the Advent 
cause were worthy of their consideration. I was 
mach cheered and comforted in beholding their unity 
and prosperity. May God continue his blessing to 
them. 
In October I visited Richmond and Whitefield, 
Me. ; Lowell and Lawrence, Mass. ; Waterbury and 
Cabot, Vt. ; Champlain, Perry's Mills and Rouse's 
Point, N. Y. ; and Poultney, Vt. In November, 
Worcester, Mass. ; Hartford and Warehouse Point, 
Ct. ; and Springfield, Mass. In December, Kings-
ton, N. H:, at the dedication of the Advent Chapel, 
gave lectures in East Kingston, N. H., and attended 
protracted meetings in Rutland and Poultney, Vt. 
Also Castleton, Vt., and attended the funerals of 
Bro. John Graham's three children,- who died of 
the diptheria, - 
already noticed. 
January 1, 1862. Conference and protracted 
meeting, of two weeks, in Richford, Vt. A glorious 
time, and many converted. Lowell and Lawrence, 
Mass. February, Lowell ; a protracted meeting 
three full weeks. A glorious gathering of the peo-
ple of God and the Church, in a new place of wor-
ship. New York City, February 21st to March 9th, 
in a protracted effort with the Church, with a view 
to build them up. Did what I could under the cir-
cumstances (in connexion with Bro. J. I. Lanning, 
the preacher in charge) for this object. 
During my stay in the City, by request, I went 
out to Newark, N. J., and spoke twice and set 
things in order in the new Advent Church. Bro. 
George Libbey was set apart as an Elder in the 
Church, on Saturday, March 7th, and the organiza-
tion of the Church perfected. Their prospects are 
good. The Lord be with them. 
March 11, preached in. Dansville, N. Y., and vis-
ited. " Our Home." 12th, preached in Springwater, 
N. Y. Had a good season. Here met and had an 
interview with Elder Samuel Chapman, who had 
been laboring here for some time, with signal suc-
cess. He received me with warm and cordial greet. 
ings. His health is good ; looks young and vigor 
one, and is laboring with zeal and success. God is 
with him. He does not deal in elaborated milk and 
water, on the importance, or the time of Christ's 
coming and kingdom. Everywhere he leaves his 
mark for good, in the conversion of souls and the es 
tablishment of Churches. God bless Bro. Chap-
man. 
March 13. Preached in Lewiston, N. Y., on the 
time of the Lord's coming. 
In the last eight months I have proclaimed " the 
gospel of the kingdom " to good audiences, and with 
various success, in the above places. My full Jour-
nal of the state of things in all the above cities and 
towns, and the results of the presentation of the 
whole truth, would be too voluminous for publica-
tion at this time. It may suffice to say, that I have 
body and spirit, which are his," and so be ready for 
the coming and kingdom of Christ. 
I have also had the pleasure to see many profess- 
ors of religion, who were living in a state of luke-
warmness, quickened into a new life, by a change of 
their habits of living, both physically and spirit-
ually. 0, it has given me great joy to see so many 
sickly, weakly ones rise to a state of moral health, 
and triumph over all the miseries of their former 
state. 
Everywhere I have found the great doctrine of 
Adventism, the time, loosely held and lightly es-
teemed by many. Only the few, among the mass, 
holding to the definite time, as taught in the Bible, 
and that it is, in the language of a learned divine, 
now understood, by " the wisest of scriptural expos-
itors, and of the almost universal consent of those 
who study the Lord's testimonies with seriousness 
and discrimination, having concurred in the time 
of their fulfilment,"* in or about the year 1867-8. 
Many have turned their attention to the subject 
afresh, and find satisfactory reasons to look for the 
coming of Jesus about that time. It is a cheering 
fact that light is increasing ; and while some are 
growing more dark, under its influence, others are 
walking and rejoicing in it - so that in this respect 
also my labor has not been in vain in the Lord. 
In this special department of truth the Adventists 
have yet a great work to perform. Our work is 
not yet done, although we have done well in giving 
a wide circulation to all the truth within our reach, 
in former years ; yet the vast increase of knowledge 
is not to be" hid under a bushel," nor to be per-
verted by those to whom it is unwelcome. If those 
who have been enlightened shall for any cause re-
ject it, God in his infinite wisdom can raise up other 
and more effective instrumentalities. God's will 
will be done in this matter of the " gospel of the 
kingdom," and the Church and world will have a 
full and fair warning of the " time of their visita-
tion." 
When God, in his providence, brought me into 
connection with Father Miller, in 1839, I was but 
a child in the understanding of the prophetic word ; 
and especially of the " times and seasons." I only 
understood the great commentators, and followed 
their views of the fulfillment of the prophecies re-
lating to the Jews' return to Palestine, and the 
conversion of the world and Millennium in 1866. 
Father Miller threw me from this position, and I 
embraced his views. But in my conversation with 
him he said, " I believe I am right in my calcula-
tion ; but still I may fail. Of this I am certain, it 
will not go beyond their time of 1866. It is either 
my time or theirs. You," said he, " are a young 
man, and may, if I fail, live to see it ; I shall not. 
And," he added, " be faithful, Bro. Rimes, to the 
end." 
The following extract of a letter, dated Oct. 12, 
1841, from Fatal. Miller, which I read to the Ad-
vent Conferenceiin Portland, Me., Oct. 1841, will 
corroborate the truth of the above difference of twen-
ty-three years: - 
" THE TIME OF HIS COMING. 
" On this part of our subject, many are willing 
to admit that it is near, yet not willing to tell how 
near. A few are of the opinion that the year is de-
fined in Scripture, and those who believe in the time 
vary only about twenty-three years. The writer of 
this letter, in common with a large majority of those 
who believe in time, in America, has been forced by 
the Scriptures to fix on the year 1843. As a matter 
of course, nearly all the calumny of the scoffers has 
been thrown upon them. Those who have fixed on 
the year 1847 have received less abuse from the 
clergy, editors, and scoffers, than their brethren who 
believe in the earlier date ; while those writers who 
have fixed the time as late as 1866 have received lit-
tle or no obloquy or notice from these babblers and 
complainers. Why is this so? you may inquire; 
for each class of these writers tries to prove one im-
portant point in the theory, that ie, that the time is 
actually revealed zn the Bible; for this must be estab-
lished before either class of these expositors could be 
credited a moment by a well balanced mind. And 
* See Dr. Tyng's Letter, in the Voice of the 
Prophets for Jan. 1862. Dr. T. has been a student 
of prophecy for about forty years. But till very 
lately lie has not come out on the time. And but 
for the clearest and strongest evidence he would not 
have taken this position now. - .r. v. u. 
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Also to give up the popular notion of going to heav-
en at death, and embracing the true doctrine of the 
saint's inheritance - that they will inherit the New 
heavens and earth forever, as their home,at the res-
urrection of the just. But my conviction becoming 
clear on these and other great truths, with the near-
ness of the consummation,I was by Divine grace en-
abled to sacrifice all for the truth. And should 
any further light break on my mind on any import-
ant question, I hope, without the fear of man before 
my eyes, I shall be able to act faithfully to God and 
the light he shall give me ; so that I may follow the 
noble example of SAtaisr,and consecrate the remain-
der of my days to publish that truth which I had 
hitherto misunderstood, and which I opposed only 
because I had the misfortune to misunderstand it. 
In conclusion, I wish to, assure the friends and 
supporters of the Advent cause everywhere, with 
whom I have stood and laboured for twenty years, 
that I stand firm and faithful on the old platform, 
and abide in the old ship, having confidence in her 
ability to bring us into port, without change of 
principles, policy, or name. We have the truth, and 
need only to live it out. We have the light, and 
have only to live up to it, and "let it shine." God 
is leading us ; do not be afraid of his guidance. 
Knowledge is increasing ; let us receive it and re-
joice in it, live up to it and be ready for the king-
dom. I do not know what I may be left to do in 
the future, but at present I feel the love of Christ 
shed abroad in my heart, and have the witness that 
I am the Lird's. I am full of joy and peace by day 
and night. 
My health was never so good as at present. I feel 
young and jubilant, in the prospect of the kingdom 
soon to come. I preach twice a day with ease every 
week day, and three times on the sabbath, with 
a baptism and the Lord's Supper added. I feel 
refreshed by these labors, rather than broken down, 
as formerly. I eat two meals a day,plain and simple, 
take no medicine, or stimulants of any kind. And 
the best of all is, God is with me. Blessed be His 
Holy Name. In about six years our work will be 
done, and then for the kingdom. 
JOSHUA V. RIMES. 
Laban in Search of his Idols. 
BY DEXTER HOYT WILLEY. 
Bright was the morn that melted away 
The darkness that hung over earth, 
When the shepherd of Haran sped on his way, 
To the land of his home and his birth. 
The prizes he'd won by toil-spent years, 
The companions he'd chosen for life, 
Walked fast by his side ; while often their tears 
Tuld their father in anger was rife. 
For the gods that he worshipped were taken away ; 
To none others would he offer his prayers ; 
So, swiftly, he followed the track where they 
Had gone with his idolized lares. 
But when night came on, and he sought to rest, 
And when sleep his spirit embraced, 
A voice spake forth : " Thy son be blessed-
Thy heart shall his folly erase." 
And when morn awoke on Gilead's mount, 
His children in the distance espied, 
He hailed them afar, to give an account, 
Why no longer in a father confide. 
They halted, they met, and a greeting went round, 
While Laban in friendly disguise 
For his Teraphim sought,they were not to be found, 
They were hid from the hypocrite's eyes. 
Then they questioned why he'd followed thus,-
What trespass, or sin they had done ; 
What he'd found of all his house-hold stuff ; 
What dishonor in daughters or son. 
Then the old man saw all his folly unveiled, 
He begged a covenant be made ; 
And while the smoke of the altar floated off on the 
gale, 
His prayer to Jehovah was made. 
And when another morn dispersed night's shade, 
He bade farewell to his daughters, and son ; 
And,when Jacob's prayer of thanksgiving was made, 
Peacefully their father returned to his home. 
New Lyme, Ohio. 
From Bro. J. S. Borne. 
BRO. Brass :-Although a stranger,' take my pen 
to communicate to you a few lines. I have now 
been a reader of the Herald three months. It holds 
forth to the world the doctrine of the second advent 
of our Saviour in its true light ; which is joy and 
consolation to my soul.- For quite a number of years 
it had been good news to me to hear the servants of 
God proclaim to a dying world the second coming 
of Christ. I long to be delivered from this world of 
sin, when the wicked will cease from troubling and 
the weary soul will be forever at rest in that heavenly 
land, to go no more out forever. There I shall sing 
the song of Moses and the Lamb, with Abraham, 
Isaac, and Jacob, and all the holy prophets. 0, it 
will be blessed to meet with the saints of God, to 
part no more forever. 
Yours truly, J. S. HORNE, 
From P. W. Stratton. 
BRO. BLISS :-I believe it to be my duty to say to 
brethren, through the Herald, that one Dr. Frost 
has been in Manchester, and, I understand, has ta-
ken considerable money from the brethren here. I 
bought some medicine for the headache, as he pro-
fessed to do great cures ; and if he helped them as 
much as he did me, I shall pronounce it a humbug. 
My head has been worse since than it was before. 
I think it to he a sin to deceive people in this way, 
under the cloak of religion. Perhaps you know 
more about him than I can tell you. 
Yours, WILLARD P. STRATTON. 
Manchester, April 1, 1862. 
From Bro. J. A. Heagy. 
DEAR BRO.BLISS:-1 am thisevening stopping with 
our much loved brother and sister Prior,with whom 
you stopped last May, while attending our Confer-
ence. They are well, and still remember the "good 
time" we had last May. Sister Prior talks of going 
to Shiremanstown to attend the conference this com-
ing May. Should all be happy to have Bro. Bliss 
there. 
J. A HEAcv, for Samuel Prior. 
Yardleyville, Bucks Co., Pa. 
It would give us much pleasure to be present at 
your conference, and to meet those whose acquaint-
ance we made a year since ; but the way dues not 
seem to open. • 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
By the author of the Time of the End-excepting 
the first three chapters, which were by the pen of 
another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, 75 cts. 
Few men have been more diversely regarded than 
William Miller. While those who knew him, es-
teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental 
power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an 
humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection-
ate friend, and a man of great moral and social 
worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin-
ions of him anything but complimentary to his in-
telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design 
of this volume to show him to the world as he was 
-to present him as he appeared in his daily walk 
and conversation, to trace the manner in which he 
arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his 
closet and places of retirement, to unfold the work-
ings of his mind through a long series of years, and 
scan closely his motives. These things are shown of 
him by large extracts from his unstudied private 
correspondence, by his published writings, by nar-
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lic labors in the various places he visited, a full 
presentation of his views, with the manner of their 
conception, and various reminiscences of interest in 
connection with his life. 
The revivals of religion which attended his labors, 
are here testified to by those who participated in 
them ; and hundreds of souls, it is helieved,will ever 
regard him as a means, under God, of their conver-
sion. The attention given to his arguments caused 
many minds, in all denominations, to change their 
views of the millennial state ; and as the christian 
public learn to discriminate between the actual po-
sition of Mr. Miller, and that which prejudice has 
conceived that he occupied, his memory will be 
much more justly estimated. The following notice 
of this volume is from the "Theological and Liter 
ary Journal." 
This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who 
ake an interest in the great purposes God has re-
vealed respecting the future government of the 
world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of 
incidents that are of little moment, and betray a 
disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main 
portion of the memoir, which is occupied with the 
history of his religious life, is not chargeable with 
that fault, and presents an interesting account of 
his studies, his opinions, his lectures, his disap 
pointments, and his death, and frees him from many 
of the injurious imputations with which he was as-
sailed during his last years. He was a man of vig-
orous sense, ardent, resolute, and upright ; he had 
the fullest faith in the Scriptures as the word of 
God, and gave the most decided evidence that he 
understood and felt the power of their great truths. 
Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema-
gogue, he was disinterested ; his great aim in his 
advent 
 His de- 
meanor, on the confutation of his calculations re-
specting the advent, was such as might be expected 
from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub-
terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
his error, and while he lost faith in himself, retain-
ed his trust undiminished in God, and endeavored 
to guard hie followers from the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
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Jan. 4, 1562. 
and was fully satisfied of his ability. Ar-
rangements were made with his father, 
and it was determined he should join the 
Grand Duke's choir. 
There he excelled the whole choir, and 
soon his name became so well known that 
he was invited to sing in the great St. Ste-
phen's Church in Vienna. He then took 
instructions every day of the greatest pro-
fessor in the city. He was two hours with 
his teacher, and every other part of the 
day he filled up with hard labor. He was 
studying all the time. 
For some reason or other he was dis-
charged from the choir of St. Stephen's 
Church. Soon his money was exhausted; 
but he kept up his spirits, and hoped for 
better times. He never believed for a mo-
ment that God would forsake him. He 
lived alone in a little garret-room. In the 
summer time the rain would stream down 
through the holes in the roof; and in the 
winter the cold snow would fall down on 
his hard straw bed. Many a time he smiled 
as he woke up in the morning and brushed 
the snow and ice from his hair and his 
scanty bed-clothes. He lived on crackers 
and water. He washed his own clothes, 
and mended them whenever they got rag-
ged. At his morning and evening prayers 
he played on his instrument, and thanked 
God from his very soul that he had some-
thing to eat and somewhere to sleep. He 
called that little room his Olympus. 
A Great Man. 
Years passed by, and Haydn suffered 
bitterly. He composed pieces of music, 
and many critics made light of them. He 
could get but little money, and no more 
than was actually necessary to keep body 
and soul together. He was very delicate, 
and had no more strength than a child. 
But nothing discouraged him. Whatever 
difficulty stood in his way did not destroy 
his hope. 
By and by fortune and honor came in 
upon him; and as old age dawned on him 
he found himself the greatest musician in 
Europe. He wrote a great many remark-
able pieces of music. They flowed from 
his pen as easily as a running brook glides 
over the pebbles. Night and day new 
melodies were sounding in his ears. They 
came faster than he could write them 
down. 
But when little Joseph Haydn became 
the great musician whom kings and em- 
perors spoke about with pleasure, did he 
forget the good Providence that. had led 
him through his trials to great success and 
honor 
Not for a single day did he forget his 
Heavenly Father. Every one of his pieces 
of music he commenced with these remark-
able words: " IN THE NAME OF GOD ! " 
When he had eaten his breakfast he 
never went to his writing-desk before ask-
ing God to help him in his arduous labors. 
Sometimes the thoughts came slow, as was 
the case occasionally when he was com-
posing his "Creation," and " Seasons ; " 
but then he would kneel down and implore 
the Lord to give him good thoughts. No 
wonder that little Joseph became a great 
musican ; for the Lord had said many 
years before his day : "Ask and ye shall 
receive ; seek and ye shall find; knock 
and it shall be opened unto you." 
(To be continued.) 
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Father Haydn, the Great Musician. 
Adapted from the German of Stiehlen 
(Continued from our last.) 
The time came for the boy to go to the 
high school. The old man led him up to 
the principal teacher, and told him that he 
had brought his boy to him to be instruct-
ed, so as to become a useful man. 
" What do you want him to learn ?" 
asked the superintendent. 
" Whatever you think is best," replied 
the old man. 
" That is not my way of teaching. I 
want to find out first what my scholars 
would like to be, and then I can tell better 
what to teach them. What does your lit-
tle Joseph want to become ? He certainly 
has a preference." 
" He seems to like music. I have otten 
heard him say he would like to be a great 
musician. But he is only a boy, and does 
not know what is to his best interest." 
"You can leave him with me and come 
again this time next week. 
The superintendent took him to a musical 
school near by, and related to the teacher 
the conversation he had just had with his 
father. Then little Joseph was left there 
to be examined and to be tried, so as to 
find out whether he would ever make a 
musician. 
That night, when everybody happened 
to be out of the room, he saw in the corner 
a basket of flour. immediately he put it 
up on two pieces of wood, which he lifted 
out of the wood box, and with a beautiful 
cane, which he took down from a hook, he 
commenced to draw it across the basket-
handle, as if he were playing a violin. 
And so he continued for at least twenty 
minutes, when the teacher came into the 
room. What was his surprise to find 
about half the flour had fallen through the 
basket on the floor ! 
But the music teacher did not get offend-
ed. Next day he gave him a fair trial, 
and said : " Joseph, if you will only per-
severe, l will make you a great musician." 
Joseph staid at the music school two 
years, and improved all the time. He be-
came the best scholar there. One day the 
chorister of the church in a certain town 
not far from the great city of Vienna came 
to visit the school. He informed the teach-
er that he would like one of his scholars 
for his choir. They sang in the Grand 
Duke's church, and he must have an ex-
cellent musician to take the vacant place. 
immediately Joseph Haydn was men-
tioned. Then the chorister examined him, 
I WAS THERE TO SEE MYSELF. A boy 
whose principles were correctly established, 
was pressed by others to take some pears, 
as nobody was there to see. 
" Yes there was," said he, "I was there 
to see myself; and I don't intend ever to 
sLe myself do a dishonest thing." 
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