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THE ADVENT HERALD
I 
The gun-boat Benton (the flag ship) is the' ers---who is a Captain too. He says his brother 
Is published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up strongest craft—the largest and most formidable is a traitor and must suffer the consequences if 
stairs), Boston, Mr., by 
that floats in the western waters. So her Ca 
46 The American Millennial Association." 
p- met. 
tain told me himself. Her flooding-pipe, for put- 
 
These are good illustrations that the time has 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Business Agent, ting out fire, in case of accident, is a splendid come and is still coming, when---as stated by 
To whom remittances for the Association, and communi- 
 
cations for the Herald should be directed. arrangement—that being in 4 small room under Sacred writers---"Brothers shall fight against 
Letters, on business, simply, marked on envelope ("For key ; also the great faucet is locked ; and a cer- 
 
Office"), will receive prompt attention. 
 brothers." 
tain man has the key. Another thing is, they I Sincerely Yours, 
to make observations. 
The night before at 8 1-2 P. M. a high rocket 
was seen darting high in the air from Cairo ; 
and yet the "All is well" was sung out all night. 
In conversation with a gentleman from Cin-
cinnati. •I ventured to suggest that something 
was wrong. At 10 or 11 A. M. the long lines ercise of his will, the work must have been com-
of infantry began to move over the low lands Plete without fatigue ; and since ail is the fruit 
back of the town, and by twelve o'clock it was of Omnipotence, there could have been no ex- 
extremely difficult to cross the levee. haustion of his power. Yet even He "rested on 
Regiments of infantry and cavalry, batteries the seventh day from all his work which he had 
of artillery, caissons, baggage wagons with mill- made." It is no wonder, that rest is one of our 
tarp stores, all nearly to the hub in the stiff chief necessities. As created after God's image 
mud ; and the six mules which composed the mo- we must expect to resemble him in this ; and if 
tive power of the latter, sunk deep. This mass the law of rest was one of the characteristics of 
of men—with the fixtures—began embarking. I an omnipotent Creator, how much more of the 
had in the mean time secured a good position in feeble creature of his hand ! As fallen from that 
the pilot-house of a steamer lying in the midst likeness, we again static' in the need of it ; for in 
of the fleet of gunboats, transports, and other the day of our fall we were condemned to toil ; 
and as daily life was then made the fruit of dai-
vessels,when a rebel steamer came stemming the 
Mississippi tide--with all the boldness iinagina- ly labour, so there was a new and mournful val-
ble—and a white flag flying in the breezes of the I ue given to the sacred privilege of rest. And 
father of Western waters. 
as the servants of the Lord we require it ; for 
A shot from a signal gun across her bows we are called to joys and struggles of which the 
caused her to stop—but not before she was in full world knows nothing,---joys which should so fill 
 
view of the forces then assembled on the levee,of the heart with hope and interest,that the heaven-
which only about one third had got on board the born spirit should scarcely endure the hinder- 
ance, while it strives against the drawback of its 
steamers. I happened to be looking through a 
;present shell of flesh ; and struggles which might 
glass, just at this time, and saw the flash of our 
ed, all have their seasons appointed for repose. 
"Even the ocean has its time of rest." Nor does 
the privilege belong to creation only ; for even 
God himself is said to rest. It is impossible 
fully to understand the exact character of that 
expression, for since creation was the simple ex- 
daunt the courage even of the most mighty con-
queror,---for all the powers of hell are arrayed 
against the saint, and all is done that Satan can 
do to arrest and check his progress. There is 
indwelling sin,again,like a constant weight draw-
ing him downwards, while the kingdom of heav-
en is so high exalted, that to be won it must suf-
fer violence,and the violent must take it by force. 
We may well, therefore, long for rest ; we may 
justly inquire when the struggle shall be over, 
the victory won, and the whole church of Christ 
repose in tranquillity in the Lord. 
Now the chapter from which the text is taken 
contains a prod that there is such a rest in store 
for the people of the Lord, and the text itself is 
the summing up or conclusion of the argument. 
This argument is one of great importance, not 
merely because of the blessed conclusion to which 
it leads, but becaus of the example which it af-
fords of the use of the understanding in the in-
vestigation of the word. The understanding must 
never be permitted to sit in judgment on revela-
tion, or to call in question revealed truth, be-
cause our powers fail to fathom it ; but it should 
J. PEARSON, jr. Committee 
J. V. 
HIMES
, on 
can send six streams of boiling hot water, with 1 
J. S. Buss. 
LEMFEL OSLER, Publication, 
a force of one hundred and sixty five lbs. on 
TERMS, 
one and a quarter inches,pell mell into the teeth The Rest which remaineth for the 
$1, in advance, for six months, or $2 per year. of all who attempt to board her. 
People of God. 
$5, 4, ,, will pay for six copies, sent to one ad- 
dress, for six months. 
The Captain, whose kindness I shall never BY THE REV, E. HOARE, 3I.A., 
$10," " " " " thirteen " ,, 
_Incumbent of Christ church, Ramsgate. 
forget, said that that sixty-four pounder, (point- 
ing to it) he found spiked recently. 
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the peo- 
There was an incident, that occurred while I pie of God." Hebrews 4. 9. 
 
was in Cairo, which I will notice. As this was The whole of creation requires rest. The 
the movement for Fort Henry and Fort Donel- earth itself, the trees which cover it, and the 
son, it was a good time especially for the rebels countless beings by which its surface is inhabit- 
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to our agent, Richard Robertson, Esq., 89 Grange Road, 
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TOO LATE. 
There is a deep pathos in this lyric of Tennyson, 
which may apply more truly to those shut out from 
the marriage.supper of the Lamb, than to those in-
to whose lips he puts it. 
Late, late—so late—and dark and chill thenight ! 
Late, late—so late—but we can enter still. 
Too late, too late ye cannot enter now. 
No light had we, for that we do repent. 
And, learning this, the bridegroom will relent. 
Too late, too late ! ye cannot enter now. 
No light—so late—and dark and chill the night ! 
0 ! let us in, that we may find the light ! 
Tou late, too late ye cannot enter now. 
Rave we not heard the bridegroom is so sweet ? 
0 ! let us in, though late, to kiss his feet ! 
No, no—too late ! ye cannot enter now. 
For the Herald. 
Notes from the Seat of War. 
THE MISSISSIPPI DISTRICT. 
As we arrived in Cairo at four A. M. lights 
were seen moving up the stiff current of the 
Ohio, which proved to be three gunboats, and 
among them was the Essex, which, it will be re-
collected, suffered much by the explosion in the 
Fort Henry affair. 
As this was the time fixed upon for a forward 
movement, of all the available forces of Cairo, 
and its surroundings, it was extremely difficult 
to obtain passes to visit the different places of 
interest ; yet by the aid Of a Surgeon in the ar-
my, I was fortunate enough to secure one for a 
limited period—and one hour later would have 
%defeated this. I was obliged to present it with-
in twenty paces of my hotel door, the second 
time. None could be obtained for Fort Holt, 
Bird's Point, or Paducah. The same restric-
tions were in force in regard to the gun boats—
then in full commission at the dock—and it was 
only by employing considerable figuring, that 
I succeeded in getting on board of them. For 
this I will certainly express my gratitude to 
Capt. Scott of the Benton, who conferred with 
Commodore Foote, and he consented to let me 
follow Capt. Scott, who spared no pains or trou-
ble explaining the modus operandi, on board ; 
and I will say here, that it was astonishing to 
see how easy we could handle one of those heavy 
Dahlgrens, or Columbiads, by implements for 
the purpose. 
signal gun. 
The soldiers were in good spirits, and carried 
the little square boxes of fixed ammunition on 
board. I took occasion to ask some of them 
what they had in those boxes. They said they 
had "pills for the rebels ;" and I could not but 
help observing those dark, glossy, and shining 
ambulances that skirted the hurricane decks of 
the steamers which were to bear them from that 
wharf—never more to return—at least some of 
them. 
In my travels the past winter,I Was informed 
by good authority, that after a battle in Missou-
ri, when the union men were burying our dead, 
they came across a dead rebel ; and one of our 
Lieutenants ordered him buried ; — 
whereupon some one asked why he showed such 
regards to a Secesh. The Lieut. said, "he is an 
own brother of mine"—and cut a small lock of 
hair from his dead brother's head—then turned 
from the horrid scene. Their names were 
Brooks. 
A Mr. Foster, Capt. in the Yates Phalanx 
of Ills., has a brother also, in the Texan Rang- 
be employed as the handmaid of revelation, and 
be called into active exercise, both to establish 
its evidence and learn its meaning. To this lat-
ter purpose St. Paul employs it in the chapter. 
He is urging the disciples to take warning from 
the history of the Israelites in the wilderness. 
They had a promise of rest, but they enjoyed it 
not, for they fell through want of faith : we have 
a promise, too ; let us take heed lest any man 
fall through the same example of unbelief. This 
is the general scope of his appeal ; but as thus 
stated, there is one link clearly wanting in the 
chain, viz., some proof or evidence that there is 
a promise of rest given to us in like manner as 
there was to them. Upon the existence of such 
a promise the whole appeal depended, and the 
scriptural mind of the apostle would not assume 
it without adducing scriptural proof. This proof 
is drawn out from Psalm 95. 11: "Unto whom 
I sware in my wrath they should not enter into 
my rest ;" or according to the parallel expres-
sion in the Hebrews : "If they shall enter into 
my rest." Here, then, is the existence of a rest 
clearly revealed, a rest which God declares to be 
his own ; and the question which he proceeds to 
solve is this,—are we to regard this rest as past 
or future, as already possessed, or as still re-
maining for the people of God ? Does it look 
back to some rest enjoyed in former days by the 
Jews, or does it look onwards to the promise of 
the Gospel in Christ Jesus ? 
There were two remarkable rests enjoyed by 
the Jewish nation, to either of which it was far 
from improbable that the Psalmist. of Israel 
might refer ; the rest of the Sabbath, and the 
rest in Canaan. But he cannot speak, of the 
Sabbath, argues St. Paul, for it was appointed 
at the creation ; whereas the words of David rep-
resent the rest as future. In the Book of Gen • 
esis God says, "God did rest the seventh day 
from all his works," which describes the Sabbath 
rest as coeval with creation ; but now, in the 
Psalm he says again, "If they shall enter into 
ray rest,"—words which prove that the gift is 
future. The rest, therefore, of the text is 
something beyond the Sabbath, something re-
maining for the church. On the same principle 
it cannot refer to the rest in Canaan ; for in the 
seventh verse of that Psalm David distinctly 
speaks of "to-day." He limiteth a certain day, 
saying, "To-day," long after the entrance on the 
promised land ; as in the words, "To-day, if ye 
will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." 
Now, if the rest of the passage had been that to 
which Joshua, here called Jesus, had conducted 
them, David, after so long a time, could never 
have spoken of another day. The people would 
have then already entered on their rest, and 
ceased from their works, as God did from his. 
Again, therefore, the passage is proved to pre-
dict a rest still future, when the Psalms of Da-
vid were inspired. 
The outline, therefore, of' this proof is as fo) 
lows:—The existence of a rest is clearly proved 
by the language of the ninety-fifth Psalm, which 
says, "If theyeshall enter into my rest." This 
cannot be the rest of the Sabbath, for that had 
been ordained at the creation ; nor can it be the 
rest of Canaan, for David, writing four centuries 
after Joshua, still speaks of to-day. The words, 
therfore, must have a future reference, and there 
remaineth a rest for the people of God. 
(To be continued.) 
1ft 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
122 
Materials for Revising the Bible. 
Another rare and valuable book here, is a fac-
simile of an old Sclavic manuscript New Testa-
The Library of the American Bible Union is went, entitled the "Evangelic Sacra Sclavic." 
already exciting much interest in literary cir- It is magnificently illuminated throughout with 
cles. Its value for the work of revision is ines- colors and gold, in the highest style of this curi- 
- 
timable. The representatives of some of the on old art. 
journals of New York have recently visited the Another work, quaintly illustrated in colors, 
 
and richly illuminated, is a Bible printed in 
Rooms ; their astonishment and gratification 
finds utterance in the notices which they give. 1480---half a century before Luther's Bible---in 
We copy the following from the New York Sun, Lower Saxony. 
 
of February 14: 
A Bible of still more ancient date is also 
The American Bible Union have just coin- here---Gunther Zainer's Augsburg edition---prin. 
pleted, for the sake of its aid in their work of ted in 1473. Both these old Bibles are in an ex- 
revising the Scriptures, a library which, in its cellent state of preservation. 
peculiar line, excels any other collection in the The most curious work in the collection is a 
 
world. The work of its collection was commenc_ photographed copy of the manuscript of the third 
ed in 1850, since which time copies of rare man- century, entitled the "Codex Sinaiticus," which 
uscripts and valuable works, inaccessible to the was discovered by Tischendorf in the monastery 
o 
ordinary scholar, have been gathered from all of St. Catherine, on Mount Sinai, in 1844. At 
 
that time, only a portion was to be found, and it 
parts of the world. The catalogue comprises 
is this portion which adorns this collection ; but 
photographs, lithographed fac-similes of some of 
the most ancient manuscripts of the Bible now in in 1859 Tischendorf succeeded in bringing to 
 
existence, copies of every edition of the Bible light the remaining portions, constituting the en-
ever issued which are of any antiquarian value, tire manuscript of the Bible, at the same monas-
and the works of the great scholars in different tery, and is now engaged, editing a fac-simile ed-
languages who have ever directed their atten- ition of it, under the patronage of the Emperor 
tion to this subject. 
of Russia. 
The first room is devoted to a classification of Some of the rarest and most valuable of these 
 
the ancient works and manuscripts, according to manuscripts and other works have been obtain-
their dates, and also to the complete writings of ed under circumstances which would seem to in-
the ancient fathers of the church, in which are dicate the peculiar favor of Providence ; and 
found large quotations from the Scriptures. Here the collection as it now stands, embraces works 
 
are also translations from the original Hebrew which cannot usually be procured for any amount 
and Greek into the Arabic, Chaldaic, Ethiopic, of money, and, in case they were lost, could 
 
scarcely by any exertions be replaced. 
and Syriac languages. 
period has been rendered more familiar to the nearly eleven years, the cardinal was delivered 
English public. 
up to the Pope, after which he escapes the no. 
It was the maxim of Louis—insidious, abso- tice of historians. Perhaps an act of more ec-
lute, tyrannical—that he who did not know how centric cruelty has been rarely perpetrated than 
to dissemble did not know how to reign. If that of confining a man close prisoner in a cage 
this were to be accepted as the legitimate stan- for eleven years. It was a malicious freak,shock-
dard of royal ability, Louis was an incompara- ingly characteristic of King Louis and of his 
ble king ; no crowned king ever dissembled more worthy compeers, Oliver, the barber, and Tris-
than he, was more treacherous, nor more deceit- tran l'Ermite,sworn "cronies" of his sacred ma-
ful—"a dove-feathered raven," mocking even jesty. 
himself with self-deception, and dying, as we all 
know, at last, one of the most horrible pictures The Motive to Duty in the Prospect 
which the imagination can conceive, exhausting of the Lord's Coming, 
every power of medicine, artifice, and devotion 
to prolong his miserable and worthless exist- The certainty and the nearness of the Lord's 
ence, 
coming and the duty of waiting for it, are now, 
Ie. 
n Gerome's famous picture—the huge iron- blessed be God, much more generally acknowl- 
bound box on which the two figures are so stead- edged and realized. I trust that the hearts of 
lastly gazing, might be supposed to contain a fe- Christians are becoming more and more establish-
rocious beast. But the figure of the gaoler stand- ed, in this solemn reality. That it is not a mere 
ing at the half-opened door, and the well-known careless repetition of words when they say, "We 
profile of Louis XI., with its sinister expression, believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge ; 
suggests a more lugubrious mystery. We are and when they say in the ere?), He sitteth on 
reminded of the terrible stories of Plessia-lez- the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; 
Tours, that fortified stronghold of royalty,where from thence he shall come to judge both the quick 
the courtiers walked as in a cemetery, knowing and the dead. Doubt not of the fact at all. Be 
full well that beneath its pavements there rotted expecting it, and be waiting for it ; earnestly de-
in imprisonment many a one whose sudden dis- sire to be ready and prepare for it. Lord, we 
appearance had never been explained. The believe ; help thou our unbelief. Oh, may we 
dungeons of Plessis-lez-Tours bore unenviable no- live more and more in the light of this coming 
toriety. There Louis exercised supreme sway, judgment, and accustom ourselves to view every 
and in darkness and silence profound as that of thing with constant reference to it. The bring-
the grave, many a wretched captive who had ing near of the final judgment, and the realizing 
once flaunted in his treacherous smile, lingered of the wrath then to descend on the wicked, 
away his life, and longed for death as an angel and the promised glory then to be bestowed on 
of consolation. 
the righteous, are full of weighty influence on all 
It was a cruel age, that of Louis XI., and our duties. The solemnities and infinite rnagni-
Louis himself was as the incarnation of the spir- tude of the judgment, its irreversible issue, and 
it of that age ; he never hesitated DOr faltered its eternal decision of our future state, as inhab-
when an act of treachery or violence offered to itants of hell or of heaven,and the assurance that 
make him more powerful or more secure. The the Judge now standeth at the door, cannot fail 
dagger, the dungeon, the poisoned peach, were to quicken every one who receives God's testi-
the crafty tools he knew too well how to employ, 
and yet, never was a man more superstitiously 
devoted to the religion he professed. It was a 
singular combination of elements, that of this 
Louis nature, turning earth into hell, and still 
hoping for heaven ! 
Inside the iron-bound box on which the king 
looks down with so much interest, so bitter a 
glance of gratified malice,and at which two hounds 
are smelling curiously,there is a man—a church-
man, a statesman—Cardinal Balue, of whom we 
have now something to say. 
John Balue was born at Poitu, in 1421. He 
was devoted to the church from his youth, and 
became the minister of a small parish near Tours. 
There he was thrown into association with the 
court, and rose rapidly in favor. In 1478 he 
was presented to the bishopric of Angers, and 
subsequently made cardinal and minister ofstate. 
The rapidity of this man's rise is only compara-
ble to that of our own Wolsey, in the court of 
Henry VIII. And like Wolsey, he fell ; and,like 
him, he might have exclaimed— 
"This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; 
The third day comes a frost, a ki'ling frost ; 
And, when he thinks, good easy man,full surely 
His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, 
And then he falls,as I do. I have ventured, 
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 
This many summers in a sea of glory, 
Far beyond my depth ; my high-flown pride and enduring. God give us as individuals, and 
At length broke under me ; and now has left me i as a nation, this character and this glory. 
. . • to the mercy 
A powerful appeal is thus made to our fear. 
Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. 
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye." The descriptions in God's Word as to the judg- 
ments that shall then descend on the wicked are 
But Balue brought his fate—a worse fate than some of the most awful and awakening parts of 
Wolsey's—upon himself by conduct worse than Scripture. Terrible is the doom pronounced on 
that of our famous cardinal. Treacherous as rebellious and ungodly nations. A large part of 
his master, he leagued with foes—was betrayed the Scripture records it. I will quote a passage 
—for where can traitors hope for confidence? from the Old, and another from the New Testa- 
-and so shut up within an iron-bound box, his ment. God thus speaks by Isaiah xxxvi. 1, 
property all confiscated, and himself blotted out "Come near, ye nations,to hear ; and hearken,ye 
from the land of the living. His fate gave oc- people : let the earth hear, and all that is there- 
casion for the lines :.___ 
in : the world, and all things that come forth of 
"Master John Balue 
it. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all 
Is lost to view, 
nations, and his fury upon all their armies : he 
Of his many palaces, 
Monsieur de Verdun 
hath utterly destroyed them. he hath delivered 
Has only one : 
them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be 
And so end all his fallacies." 
Passing into the second room, we find arrang- 
ed on tables convenient for consultation,transla-
"Come, Lord Jesus." 
tions of the Sacred Scriptures in the more mod- 
 
ern languages, yet still of a very ancient date, The Bride answers this entreaty of her Lord 
some of them dating back several centuries. by asking him to come quickly. "Make haste, 
Here also are ancient polyglots, containing the my beloved,and be thou like to a roe or a young 
Scriptures as then written, and translations into hart" (literally, a fawn of the gazelles) "on the 
several languages, all in parallel columns on the mountain of spices." (Song v. 14.) 
 
same page. Other great tomes on the groaning He had told her before that he would go to 
shelves are translations of the Bible into the the "mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankin-
modern languages of Europe, and the copies of cense" till the day should break. She now en-
the different editions of the English Bible from treats him to.hasten to her as fleetly as the young 
Wickliffe's down to the present time. Here, roe. And surely it should be the instant and 
close to the revisers' hands, are also the produc- earnest desire of every Christian that his Lord 
tions of the most eminent scholars of Europe and would hasten his coming. The apostles contin-
this country, such as Tischendorf, who is, under ually remind their hearers of this. "To wait 
the patronage of the Emperor of Russia, engag- for his Son from heaven ;" (1 Thess. 1. 10 ;) 
ed in labors upon the original text of the Scrip- "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the 
tures, and who has given to the world much val- Lord" (2 Pet. 3. 12.) 
 
uable information on this subject ; Myer, the em- And the very last words of the New Testa. 
inent German scholar ; Rodiger, of the Royal ment contain what should be the Christian's 
University of Halle ; and Tregelles, of England. heartfelt petition— 
 
In fact, there are no works of value on the sub- "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." 
ject matter in hand which are not here to be Are we waiting for and loving his appearing ? 
found. Among the great variety of interesting Are we ready for his coming—our loins girded 
works here, we can not avoid the temptation of and our lights burning ? 
noticing a few of particular value. 
How seldom are we ready, like the bride, to 
One of these rare works is the Complutensian confess him before all men, and to forget our-
Polyglot, in six volumes, containing the Scrip- selves in looking at him ! But blessed be God, 
tures in Hebrew, Greek, Chaldaic, and Latin. i the remedy is at hand. Let us look up at him, 
It was printed 1513 ; only six hundred copies and the very look will heal us. It is by gazing 
were struck off, and it has now become very on him we must grow like him : and may the 
rare. It is one of the most valuable books in Spirit of God enable us to gaze more and more 
the library, 
constantly on him, seeking more and more en- 
Another work, to which a very curious histo- tirely to be conformed to the mind that is in 
ry is attached, is the Codex Ephraemi Syri Re- him, so that, "with open (or unvailed) face, be- 
scriptus. This manuscript of the Scriptures was holding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord," 
written in the beginning of the fifth century, at we may be changed "into the same image, from 
Alexandria, whence it was carried to Constanti- glory to glory,even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 
nople. In the eleventh or twelfth centuries the Then, when he comes, we shall see and rejoice 
writing was erased from the manuscript, and the in the glorious day when "the marriage of the 
pages were again covered with the writings of Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself 
the monk Ephraim. In this condition they were ready." •(Rev. 19. 9.) Then his bride will ap-
carried, at the time of the fall of Constantinople pear with him, "clothed in fine linen, clean and 
to Florence, where it found a place in the libra- white," (Rev. 19. 8, 21. 2 ;) and then, and not 
ry of Catharine de Medicis, and from here it was till then, it will be fully known and understood, 
in time transferred to the Royal Library of Par- witnessed by men and angels, how blessed is the 
is, where it now remains. About the end of the portion of those who are united by a lively faith 
sixteenth century, traces of the original writing, to him, whom he will "present faultless before 
under the writings of Ephraim, were discovered, the presence of his glory with exceeding joy."—
but it was not until 1835 that,by the application The Bride of Christ. 
of a tincture of nntgalls,the disclosure was made 
that the resurrected manuscript was a complete 
copy of' the Yew Testamentone of the most valua- 
Louis XI. and Cardinal Balue. 
ble in existence. The copy of this wcrk,which has 
One of the most interesting periods of' French 
been procured for the library of the Bible Un- history is the reign of Louis XI., and with the 
ion, is edited by Tischendorf, and perfectly reli- 
exception of the revolutionary era, perhaps no 
able. 
mony in simple faith. 
The speedy coming and kingdom of our Lord 
Jesus Christ speak powerfully in various ways. 
1. Fresh light is afforded to theeconscience. 
Let us but set the light of that day before us, 
and how many delusions it will banish. How 
vain the pleas for national Atheism when the 
King of nations returns to judgment !• How 
wicked will national indifference to the word of 
God be seen to be,when he who in tender mercy 
gave us as a nation that light from heaven,gath-
ers us among all nations to give account, accord- 
ing to that word,of all our privileges and -advan- 
tages, of the way we received them, and the use 
which we made of them. How dreadfully infatua- 
ted will be found to be the neglect of the poor, 
when the Judge before whom all stand shall ac-
count it as neglect of himself according to his 
own fore-warning ; and the rich and the poor 
meet together before the judgment-seat, and the 
Lord the Maker of them all,gives sentence upon 
both without respect of persons. Place all things 
in the presence of the judgment to come. Thus 
a new light will be thrown on our duties, as we 
think of rulers and subjects,lawgivers and judges, 
princes and people, all standing together before 
the one great Judge, and rendering account to 
him of all they have done. All policy short of 
reference to this is the policy of short sightedness 
and folly. This alone will lead to what is truly 
disinterestedness, noble, generous, upright, wise, 
cast out, and their stink shall come up out of 
At length, after a brief period of captivity--- their carcases, and the mountains shall be melt 
 
 
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123 
The following earnest exhortation was penned 
by John Janeway, a Puritan divine, who flour-
ished about the middle of the seventeenth century. 
It is as applicable to the reader as it was to 
those to whom it was originally addressed. 
"There is such a thing as being almost a chris-
tian ; as looking back unto perdition ; as being 
not far from the kingdom of heaven, and falling 
short at last. Beware, lest thou lose the reward. 
The, promise is made to him that holdeth out to 
the end and overcometh. Labor to forget the 
things which are behind, and reach unto the 
things which are before. He who is contented 
with just enough grace to escape hell and to get 
to heaven, and desires no more, may be sure he 
bath none at all, and is far from the kingdom of 
God. Labor to enjoy converse with God. Strive 
to do everything as in his presence, and for His 
glory. Act as in the sight of the grave and eter-
nity. Let us awake and fall to work in good 
earnest. Heaven and hell are before us. Why do 
we sleep ? Dulness in the service of God is very 
uncomfortable, and at best will cost us dear ; 
but to be contented in such a frame is the cer-
tain sign of a hypocrite. Oh ! how will such 
tremble when God shall call them to give an ac-
count of their stewardship, and tell them they 
may be no longer stewards ! Oh ! live more up-
on the the invisible realities of heaven, and let 
a sense of their excellencies put a life into your 
performances ! For your precisenessness and 
singularity you must be content to be laughed at 
A christian's walk is not with men, but with 
God. He hath great cause to suspect his love 
to God, who does not delight more in conversing 
with God and being conformed to Him, than in 
conversing with men and being conformed to the 
world. How can the love of God dwell in that 
man who liveth without God in the world ?" 
In a quiet, humble dwelling in the ancient 
town of P—, lies a remarkable invalid, il-
lustrating, with a singular excellence, "the faith 
and patience of the saints." When eleven years 
old, she gave herself to Christ. A few years 
later, she was weakened by disease, and soon 
laid aside from active life. During twenty years, 
she has not left the house, and for fourteeen of 
that number has not been able to sit up. Four 
years she was blind, and a part of that period 
dumb also. Every possible form of suffering, it 
A Twenty Years Sufferer. 
Be in Earnest. 
N. Y. Obs. 
"Yes I do, sometimes," I answered, "and I 
think I read it more than you do, if you think 
the megrims are mentioned in it. Where does 
the word occur ?" 
"Well," said he, "you will find it in the ac-
count of the Savior's agony ;the men that mock-
ed him were struck with megrims." 
"You are certainly mistaken, my good friend, 
there is no such word in that place nor in the 
New. Testament." 
"Then it is in the Old Testament," he persis-
ted, and I had to let him have his own way 
about it, while I asked him to tell me what it 
was. 
"It's a twitching of the face arid hands ; they 
can't help it ; that man keeps his hands still,but 
he can't hold his jaw to save his life. Up back 
of Portchester, near the Connecticut line, there 
is a whole neighborhood of people that have the 
megrims ; when they are young they don't show 
it, but after they grow up they begin to jerk and 
twitch ; they all do it ; it's very curious, but 
they can't help it, and there is no cure for it. " 
We kept up the conversation till I left the 
cars, assuring my stranger-friend that the me-
grims are not mentioned in the Bible,and I would 
soon find what the dictionaries have to say on 
the subject. It was only the work of a minute 
on taking up the big Worcester, to find, 
"Megrim ; plural, Megrims—A violent inter-
mitting pain affecting one side of the head." 
It comes from two Greek words, meaning half 
and the skull. Hence I infer that the old man 
in the car did not have the megrims, and that 
my neighbor did not know as much of the Bible 
as he thought he did. 
ed with their blood. And all the host of heaven 
shall be dissolved, and the heaven shall be roll-
ed together as a -scroll." God also thus speaks 
by the Apostle John, in the New Testament : I 
saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse ; 
and he that sat upon him was called faithful and 
true, and in righteousness he doth judge and 
make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire and 
on his head were many crowns, and he had a 
name writen that no man knew but he himself. 
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in 
blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 
And the armies which were in heaven followed 
him upon white horses,clothed in fine linen white 
and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp 
sword, that with it he should smite the 
nations ; and he shall rule them with a rod of 
iron ; and he treadeth the wine-press of the fierce-
ness and wrath of Almighty God. We have,then, 
an account of the fearful supper of the great God 
for all the fowls of heaven. God has revealed in 
his word these tremendous scenes of judgment 
on the wicked at the return of our Lord from 
heaven. The wised, by a hard and impenitent 
heart, treasure up to themselves wrath against 
the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous 
judgment of God. Oh, that this revelation of 
coming wrath may fill our hearts with godly 
fear ; may lead us all to flee from the wrath to 
come,and to bring forth fruit meet for repentance 
by pursuing the conduct which Daniel (iv. 27.) 
has pointed out. 
The preciousness of the time becomes manifest 
as we realize the coming and the kingdom of 
Christ. As it was in the case of Nineveh, when 
Jonah preached, Yet forty days and Nineveh 
shall be destroyed ; as it is now ; there is but 
a very short seam of grace left. There is a 
pressing need to urge upon our country the 
duty of national repentance,that if possible God's 
judgments may be averted from our country. 
There is urgent need that all should be exhorted 
to press into the kingdom of heaven, lest they 
finally be found among those who seek to enter 
in and shall not be able. The time is at hand. 
Prophetical dates, given us in the Word of God 
for our instructions, are closing. We dare not, 
indeed, fix precise times ; but a waiting, watch-
ing spirit, is ever to be cultivated. The gather-
ing clouds in increasing blackncss are suspended 
over us. Oh, let us at last turn to the Lord our 
God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to an-
ger, and of great kindness. Who knoweth if he 
will return, and leave a blessing behind him ? 
Oh, how precious is the present time ! What 
would those who neglect this season give for the 
presenth ours hereafter ! And if it be impossible 
to save our country from Divine judgments, yet 
by protesting against evil and promoting the 
truth with all our power,we shall unquestionably 
help to save many, as well as to deliver our own 
souls. 
To be continued. 
"The Megrims." 
I left my office to go up town, jaded with care 
and company, for any man who tries to study in 
'an editor's study,finds that he must put his work 
in his pocket and go home to do it,after the day 
had been spent in attending to other people's 
business, and worrying to no purpose about his 
own. 
Taking a seat in one of the city cars,and in no 
very amiable mood, I saw in front of me an el-
derly man of large frame, and respectable ,ap-
peavance,who had a singular habit of every min-
ute opening his mouth and throwing upward and 
outward his lower jaw,with three or four formid-
able teeth, as if he was trying to bite an invisi-
ble enemy. The man and the motion fixed my 
attention, and a stranger sitting next to me, and 
seeing me watching the man across the way,said 
softly-- 
"He's got the megrims." 
"The what ? ' said I. 
"The megrims :" he answered very decidedly. 
"What's the megrims," I asked. 
"Don't you know the megrims?" he inquired. 
"No, I never heard the word before," I re-
plied. 
"Then you don't read the Bible !" he said ,very 
promptly,as if I must be an infidel or a heathen. 
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would seem, distorting her frail body, has been 
hers; and yet, with a strange tenacity of life,she 
has survived to see the father die, and hear of 
the death of four brothers in distant lands, who 
left her in the bloom of perfect health,—the sup-
port of herself and her mother nearly fourscore 
years of age. 
The details of this story of Divine discipline 
would surpass belief. Still is she the happiest 
person in our acquaintance ; the smile wreath-
ing her thin lips, and a celestial light filling the 
depths of her dark, expressive eyes,—"I would 
not have a single event in my history otherwise 
if I could ; it is all but for a moment, and then 
the weary are at rest." We talked and prayed 
and parted, both feeling that the little room was 
"the gate of heaven." 
What a lesson of patience and 'joy in tribula-
tion, putting to shame the mournful, complain-
ing soul of the professed disciple of Jesus because 
a cloud passes over his path ? And what can the 
skeptic say of such a victory of that woman's 
heart, smiling on the work of painful disease,and 
calmly, gladly waiting, amid the wreck of all 
earthly hopes, "till her change come !"—Tract 
Journal. 
For the Herald. 
Duty. 
"Duty is a prickly shrub, but its blossom will 
be happiness and glory." 
Thus saith the proverb, and daily we find it 
verified. 
We may roam through halls of pleasure, we 
may gain ancestral pride—may be wreathed 
with the glory of battle dearly won—may float 
careless down the stream of time, drinking in 
Lethean waters sweet forgetfulness—may wildly 
dream in mad Ambition's vagaries ; but the 
awaking must come with sorrow, tears and bit 
terness. 
The Fountain of youth was sought in vain ; 
the laurel wreath was found to wither, and per-
ennial bays to fade. But an antidote is found ! 
The nettle grasped with a firm hand is despoiled 
of its sting, and duty firmly, trustingly perform-
ed, gives gladness to the heart, and to the eye 
a loving lustre. Life has its Thermopyles, and 
the student's trials are many ! But let each nar-
row,pass be faithfully guarded,and there's no such 
word as fail. 
There are many tempters that whisper in 
dreamy softness, saying: "One failure is little 
matter ; I will trespass but this once ; not now, 
but in some future time, I will attend to every 
duty !" 
Aye! One traitor in the camp will do mischief 
that many faithful can ill repair. Procrastina-
tion is a sly old thief—trust him not with a 
thought. Let your aim be high, and tread your 
way firmly, conquering warily, step by step, and 
remember the happy heart's reward for those 
who persevere in well doing. 
T. 
Believers in the Advent in Russia. 
[We copy the following article from the Chris-
tian News published in Glasgow,Eng., June 5th, 
1848.] 
Shores of the Baltic, May 1848.—I have re-
cently obtained some intelligence respecting a 
Russian colony, of considerable extent, singular 
origin,and very uncommon attainments ; of which 
though prevented by reasons affecting its politi-
cal security from quoting all the sources of my 
information I may convey to our readers some 
very interesting particulars. 
Although doubtless the name of Temperance 
Societies was never heard of in the wide Steppes 
of Russia, the thing itself is not unknown to a 
simple and true-hearted community of dissenters 
from the Russian Greek Church, whose contin-
ued existence, and even increase, during many 
years of persecution, seems to have borne some 
resemblance to Israel's experience in Egypt ; 
while their present comparative tranquillity in 
the land of their banishment equally displays the 
power of Divine grace, and the truth of the de-
claration, "that when a man's ways please the 
Lord, he will make even his enemies to be at 
peace with him." The first detailed account 
which I saw of the Molokaners, or Milk-eaters, 
was contained in a letter from the Rev.Mr. Roth, 
one of the Bastle Missionaries, whose station, 
Helenendorf, may well be described as situated 
on the utmost verge of Christendom. 
In the course of a missionary tour to Scha-
machi and its environs—a journey in which the 
gospel messenger is exposed to dangers similar 
to those rehearsed by St. Paul 2 Cor. 11: 26—
Mr. Roth met with a venerable member of this 
singular community,and he details the interview 
in the following words :—"It was in the middle 
of October, that in one of those nearly impossi- 
ble and wholly indescribable roads, with which 
nothing in Germany can be compared, that I 
again fell in with one of those Molokaners of 
whom I have before made mention. With this 
aged and highly interesting disciple I was happi- 
ly enabled to converse for some considerable 
time, as our several roads lay in the same direc-
tion, and one of my companions was capable of 
acting as interpreter between us. Before, how-
ever, entering on the chief subject of our dis-
course, it may be well to give a short account of 
the rise, past history, and present extent, of this 
long despised and severely tried people. 
"The Milk-eaters separate themselves from the 
Greek communion, avowedly, on account of the 
invocation of saints, the various masses, the wor- 
ship of pictures and relics, the prescribed use of 
the sign of the cross, and similar superstitious 
observances, insisted on by the Greek Church. 
In short, they took conscientious exception 
against every part of the public worship of that 
Church, excepting the sermon, whiCh, however, 
(more especially in the country parishes,) is al-
most always omitted as superfluous. After en- 
during in their birth-place, which was situated 
in the interior of Russia, unspeakable hardships 
and oppressions, and seeing,year after year,many 
of their leaders exiled to Siberia, as obstinate 
heretics, it was matter of thankfulness to them 
when the Russian government came to the deter- 
mination, some eight or nine years since, to ban- 
ish the whole of this pestilent sect to the Scham-
achian district in the province of Grusia. This 
punitive measure was no doubt meant for their 
hurt, but God turned it to good, as, like Israel 
of old, the more they were oppressed, the more 
they multiplied and grew. The Russian govern- 
ment may well have felt surprise at the amount 
of immigration to which this sentence of banish- 
ment gave rise ; and there now exists in that 
wild region, from sixty to eighty villages, con-
taining many thousand families. The norm of 
their faith is simply the Scriptures of the Old 
and New Testaments ; their hymns are the Psalms 
of David, and the Bible knowledge possessed by 
both men and women among them may be justly 
termed extraordinary. Their public worship 
commences with the singing of a psalm ; .then 
follows an extempore prayer of one of the elders, 
who afterwards reads and expounds a chapter of 
the Bible, much in the manner, it would seem,of 
our Wirtenberg scripture readers. . . . The 
children of both sexes are generally speaking,in-
structed by their own parents, although, where 
a person fitted for the task can be found in 
a village, a regular school is maintained. But 
however accomplished, the result is a most hap- 
py one, since not one child above twelve years 
of age can be found among this people who does 
not possess a complete knowledge of reading and 
writing, as well as a rich store of Scripture pas- 
sages committed to memory. In respect of mor-
als, they are so exemplary, that few denomina-
tions of German Christians may bear comparison 
with them. When, for example, a dispute arises 
between two Molokaners (which is said to be a 
very rare occurrence), they feel bound in consci- 
ence to so literal a fulfilment of the apostolic ad-
monition, 'let not the sun go down upon your 
wrath,' that they make a rule Of seeking out each 
other and shaking hands before sunset. A liar 
or a drunkard is unknown among them ; indeed, 
the majority of them drink no species of fermen- 
ted liquor (although the use of such is not for-
bidden),and hence the application of Milk-eaters, 
by which they are now generally known. Wheth-
er this name was at first assumed by themselves, 
or given in derision by others, I am unable to 
determine. Such being the character given of 
this singular and estimable sect by persons on 
whose testimony I feel warranted to depend, I. 
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Is this law made known by revelation ? If so is it 
not positive, rather than moral ? Is a moral law 
self-evident ? Can a self-evident truth be proved ? 
7. What do you understand by the "images" 
that Rachel stole from her father ? Genesis 31:19. 
They are called in verses 30,and 32, "gods," house-
hold stuff," in verse 37. Please read Num. 33:52, 
and Deut. 4:16 ; 23,25. Now, then, with these 
texts in the mind, I wish to enquire if the first of 
the ten commandments (Dent. 5: 7: 8 ; 9.) does not 
contain these prohibitions, viz. 1 "Thou shalt have 
no other gods before me." 2. "Thou shalt not 
make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any-
thing..." 3. "Thou shalt not bow down thyself 
unto them, nor serve them." The point I am at is 
this,-How can those who believe the ten command-
ments are still binding, allow the making of an "im-
age," or taking "the likeness of male or female ?" 
(Dent. 4:16.) Is not this nation sowing the seeds 
of idolatry in this art of picture or likeness-taking? 
T. W. 
Waterburg Center, V. March 31, 1862. 
ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE INQUIRIES. 
1. The term rendered "heathen," in Matt. 6:7. 
is ethnikos, which is from ethnos, signifying, na-
tions, heathen, people, gentiles, &c. The term it-
self does not express the religious condition or char-
acter of those to whom it is applied, any more than 
would the term people or nations. Where the Jews 
used it in the plural, they meant nations other than 
their own. When used in the singular, they might 
mean their own, or any other particular nation. 
Ethnos is the word our Lord applies to the saints 
when he says: "The kingdom of God shall be taken 
from you and given to a nation bringing forth the 
fruits thereof." The nations other than the Jews 
were idolatrous ; and our Lord, we think, made ref-
erence to the surrounding idolators who abounded 
in vain repetitions, when he said, "do not as the 
heathen," when ye pray. 
2. According to Josephus, (Ant. lib. 1. cap. 8.) 
"Two hundred shekels make five mince ;" and in 
lib. 14, cap. 12. he says, "A minor with us (i. e. 
the Jews] weighs two pounds and a half." This 
calculation makes two hundred shekels amount to 
twelve and a half pounds. But according to Epi-
phanius, a shekel was the fourth part of an ounce ; 
which would make two hundred amount to fifty 
ounces,-four pounds two ounces Troy, or three 
pounds two, Avoirdupois. 
 
3. We do nst think that precise distinction was 
made-neither class being limited to the kind speci-
fied. It was, however, as we suppose, true that the 
herbiferous animals would get their chief support 
from grasses, though not excluding seeds : whilett 
man would subsist mainly on seed and fruits, not 
excluding all other vegetable growths. 
 
4. We do not doubt that God could so create a 
universe that when once constituted it would thus 
continue forever ; but we think the Scriptures teach 
that in God we live and move and have our being, 
and that he upholdeth all things by the word of his 
power-not a sparrow falling to the ground with-
out our Father. And this, instead of being a deni-
al of the personal and independent existence of God, 
appears to our view to require that there should ev-
en be just such a personal and independent Sover-
eign of the Universe, as the Bible teaches our heav- 
enly Father, oar Creator and constant Preserver, to 
be. 
5. We think it very clear that man, our first pa-
rents, whose disobedience brought this globe of ours, 
with all that pertains to it, into a condition of van-
ity, is the one referred to by "him" in that pas-
sage. 
6. In using the expression, "All of God's moral 
law is eternal," in the place referred to, we had re-
spect to whatever God had specified as right or 
wrong in the Sacred Scriptures. Tile moral law is 
embodied in the command that we should love,serve, 
and obey God supremely ; and what we designed to 
express, was that we do not think that acts, intrin-
sically wrong under all circumstances, could ever 
have been right under any circumstances : and also 
the converse of that proposition. It was the same 
God under the old, as under the new ditpensation ; 
and he delighted then in the same conditions of heart 
towards, and the same love for him,that he delights 
in now ; and he demands the same implicit obedi-
enee to his requirements. The moral law is reveal-
ed in all the precepts of both Testaments. It would 
Inot always be self-evident, for men sometimes think 
al they ought to do what God had commanded, or to 
r. do what he has forbidden. And therefore they oft-
en need a revelation to enlighten them in respect the 
right and wrong of that in which they might other-
wise err. 
A self evident truth needs no proof ; and the pro-
y'
wl cese of proof may be so ver simple as hardly to con- 
8 tain the successive steps of a demonstration ; but in-
stead of saying it could not be proved, we should 
return to my old fellow traveller and the con-
versation which passed between us. You may 
imagine my surprise when,after some general re-
marks on religious topics, he addressed me as 
follows should feel greatly obliged if you 
will give me your opinion, whether we Moloka-
ners are right in thinking that the coming of the 
Lord Jesus cannot be far distant`? 
"After stating to him my conviction that, ac-
cording to Scripture,we were bound to mark the 
movements of the nations,and especially the pro-
gress of the gospel proclamation, as the finger-
posts, which should guide our judgment as to 
'times and seasons ;' but that, notwithstanding 
this, the prophecies of Scripture could only be 
safely pronounced upon after their fulfilment,and 
that, therefore, in my mind, no mortal man was 
empowered or entitled to decide, with authorita-
tive certainty, when the coming of the Son of 
Man would take place ;-I proceeded to impress 
upon, to the best of my ability, the present duty 
to which we were all called, that of watchfulness 
with prayer, since our Lord himself compared 
his coming to that of a thief in the night, or to 
a flash of lightning, which may at any moment 
dazzle our astonished vision from the most unex-
pected quarter. The old man seemed satisfied 
with my answer, saying that was his own opin-
ion too,and that it afforded him great pleasure to 
find their views on this question were shared by 
other Christians. I then observed, that in Ger-
many several very pious men had given much 
diligence to the examination of all that could 
throw light on the interesting questions connec-
ted with the twelve hundred and sixty years,and 
 
yet had never been able to satisfy even thei 
minds so fully upon it as to fix the time of ou 
Lord's second coming. 'Among others,' contin 
ued I, 'a very thorough search was made int 
this matter many years ago, by a distinguishe 
man named Bengel ; even he has found it to 
high for him to reach, and its depth too grey 
for him to fathom.' On the mention of Bengel' 
name, the old man's countenance lighted up, an 
he exclaimed with animation, '0 ! I know him 
I know him well !' and farther converse prove 
him indeed no stranger to Bengel's sentiments 
You may imagine my astonishment. Can it in 
deed be possible that Bengel's Apocalpyse,or hi 
Sixty Discourses have been translated int 
Russ? And yet,how else could this Russian be 
come acquainted with his name and writings 
Luther,too,appears to be a familiar name amon 
the Molokaners, who sometimes, indeed, cal 
themselves simply Lutherans,in opposition to th 
Russian Greek Church. But what a gloriou 
hope does this excite as to the disclosures whit 
the great day shall make ! What extensive goo 
may we not then find has been accomplished b 
believing authors and preachers, compared wit 
what either they or we ever dreamed of ! An 
how large may be the accession to the 'whit 
robed multitude,' which shall then stand at th 
right hand of the Judge,from places of the cart 
deemed by us as dark, only because they wer 
to us unknown! Lastly," concluded Mr. Rot 
"my old friend informed me that, but a ver 
few weeks since, a fresh detachment comprisin 
several hundred families, had just joined the 
from Russia, now no longer exiled by gover 
ment, but coming of their own free will to enjo 
the liberty of faith, and worship,granted to the 
co-religionists in their far, but now not dese 
home." 
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SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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Questions and Answers. 
Boo. Bliss :-If convenient please answer the fol 
e lowing questions in the Herald : 
I, 1. Is the Jewish church called heathen in Matt 
Y 6: 7? 
g 2. How much (in our weight) is "two hundre 
n shekels after the king's weight ?" 2 Sam. 14:26. 
is 3. Is it true that granivorous and herbaceous sub 
Y stances were given to beasts for food, while onl 
it the seed of fruit, perhaps of the same substancee 
rt were given to man ? or does it appear that one clue 
of vegetables were given to beasts, and the seed c 
fruit of another class were given to man ? 
Do you think Dr. Hitchcock has the true ide 
sr in his Religion of Geology p. 293, where he says 
18 "Take away God from the universe,or let him ceat 
to act mentally upon it, and every movement woul 
Id
, as instantly and certainly cease, as would eves 
movement of the human frame, were the mind to 
ly withdrawn, or cease to will ?" 
r- 
If the above sentiment is true, then the poet he 
Y, it right,- 
s. 
"All are but parts of one stupenduous whol 
g/ Whose body nature is, and God the soul." 
lg I cannot see why this is not a denial of the person 
cy and iudependent existence of God. Is this D 
r'S Ilitehcocls's view ? 
to 
The word "him,- in Rom. 8:20, I have a 
he ways referred to man, or our first parents, and n 
al to God ; what is your opinion ? 
.e" 6. What do you understand by "God's mor 
re law" ?-an expression used by yourself on page
1. 
1 
'- of a late Herald. When and where was it given 
i 
rather say the reverseg that it conld not be disprov-
ed. 
A self evident truth is proved by showing that its 
opposite involves an absurdity 
7. The Vulgate renders the word "images" idols, 
in those connections, and we think, with much rea-
son. We do not think it were resemblances in the 
abstract that the Jews were prohibited from making 
but likeness for special uses; e. for idolatrous wor-
ship, or such objects as were designed to be used for 
purposes. We have given all those passages a care-
ful reading, but are not able to disconnect the mak-
ing from the use designed for the things made. Any 
endeavor to represent God, would be gross impiety ; 
and any making of any object to be worshipped,ador-
ed, or supplicated, would be to rebel against God 
as much as the worshiping of it; but we do not think 
the keepsake likenesses of our friends come under 
this prohibition. 
The images of Rachel were evidently idols ; but 
there were flowers, knobs, cherubim and other like-
nesses not prohibited in the construction of the tab-
ernacle and temple. 
Bro. Bliss :-In the last issue of the Herald, a 
communication headed "Reply," over the signature 
J. M. 0. in the last paragraph acknowledges him-
self "a firm believer in 'the sleep of the dead, and 
destruction of the wicked,but not in the unconscious 
state of the dead and extinction of the being of the 
wicked.' " Will you please define what he means 
by "sleep and destruction of the wicked, but not 
unconscious state and extinction of the being of the 
wicked." As this is somewhat dark to us, and we 
cannot "see eye to eye" will you or the brother 
please communicate a little more light and oblige, 
W. T. 
Philad. March 31, '62. 
By "the sleep of the dead" we suppose the corres-
pondent refered to means their death. That is what 
we always mean by the use of the term, and we 
have no reason to suppose that Bro. 0. means any 
thing different. When Lazarus the friend of Jesus 
died our Lord announced it to his disciples by say-
ing, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ; but I go that I 
may wake him out of sleep." Although "Jesus 
spoke of his death," the disciples "thought that he 
had spoken of taking rest in sleep ;" so that he had to 
tell "them plainly,Lazarus is dead," John 11: 11- 
14. And Paul speaks of departed saints,as those who 
"sleep in Jesus." The application of the term 
"sleep" to the condition of deattnobtains among all 
nations ; and this is undoubtedly owing to the out-
ward resemblance of a person in death to a condi-
tion of sleep. 
By not believing "in the unconsciousness of the 
dead, our correspondent, holding with us,must have 
meant to say that he believed the dead to be In a 
state of conscious existence-not passed out, of being, 
but existing in another condition of being. 
Ey the "destruction of the wicked," he must have 
designed to say, as we think he did very cleary,that 
all the predictions in the scriptures respecting their 
destruction will be fulfilled. By destruction he could 
not, however, mean a cessation of existence, but a 
change in the condition of existence involving utter 
ruin and misery. And this also answers the last en-
quiry respecting the extinction of the being of the 
wicked,who he supposes will "go away into everlast-
ing punishment." 
.National Thanksgiving. 
On receipt of intelligence of the recent victories, 
the Secretary of War issued the following order on 
Wednesday of last week, in respect to the Sabbath 
now past: "That meridian of the Sunday next after 
the receipt of this order, at the head of every regi-
ment in the armies of the United States, there shall 
be offered by its chaplain a prayer giving thanks to 
the Lord of Hosts for the recent manifestations of 
his power in the overthrow of the rebels and trai-
tors, and invoking the continuance of his aid in de-
livering this nation, by the arms of patriot soldiers, 
from the horrors of treason, rebellion, and civil 
war.". 
The President of the U. States has issued his pro-
clamation, to the same effect, saying : 
"It has pleased the Almighty Gud to vouchsafe sig-
nal victories to the land and naval forces engaged in 
suppressing an internal rebellion, and at the same 
time to avert from our country the dangers of for-
eign intervention and invasion. It is therefore re-
commended to the people of the United States that 
at their next weekly assemblages in their accustom-
ed places of public worship, which shall occur after 
the notice of this proclamation shall have been re-
ceived, they especially acknowledge and render 
thanks to our Heavenly Father for these inestimable 
blessings ; that they then and there implore spiritu-
al consolatisn in behalf of all those who have been 
brought into affliction by the casualities and calam-
ities of civil war ; and that they revently invoke the 
Divine guidance for our national counsels to the end ' 
3 
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THE ADVEN r HERALD. 
sirnulaneously by General Nelson's division on the 
left and Major General Wallace's division on the 
right. General Nelson's force opened up a most gall-
ing fire on the rebels and advanced rapidly as they fell 
back. 
The fire soon became general along the whole line, 
and began to tell with terrible effect on the enemy 
Generals McClernand, Sherman and Hurlburt's 
men through terribly jaded from the previous day's 
fighting, still maintaiued their honors won at Fort 
Donelson ; but the resistance of the rebels at all 
points of attack was terrible and worthy of a better 
cause. 
But they were not enough for our undaunted 
that they may speedily result in the restoration of 
peace, harmony and unity throughout our borders, 
and hasten the establishment of fraternal relations 
among all the countries of the earth." 
We have no reason to suppose that this recommen• 
dation was not generally complied with. 
"In the Morning." 
"Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; death 
shall feed on them ; and the upright shall have do-
minion over them in the morning ; and their beau-
ty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the 
grave ; for he shall receive me," Pea. 49:14, 15. 
The morning to the Psalmist, was clearly the 
morning of the resurrection—the glorious epoch to 
which he referred when he said, "As for me, I will 
behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied 
when I awake in thy likeness," (Pea. 17 : 15) ; for 
"we know that when He shall appear, we shall be 
like him ; for we shall see him as he is," (1 John 
3: 2) : "Who shall change our vile body, that it 
may be fashioned like unto his glorious body," Phil. 
3:21. And as it was the anticipated morning to the 
Psalmist, so should it be to all who pr ofess the 
Psalmist's faith. 
We find in "The Methodist" of April: 12th "a 
conference memoir of Rev. J. S. Porter D. D.".who 
was a chaplain in the U. States Navy, and came to 
his death on the 8-th of March 1862, when the ship 
Cumderland was sunk in Hampton Roads, Va., by 
the iron-clad Merrimac ; and who is believed to have 
been the first ministerial victim of the war waged 
against our government by this unnatural rebellion. 
The Methodist says : 
Just before the fatal attack of the Merrimac,writ. 
ing to a friend, and alluding to the danger of their 
situation, he comforted himself by saying : "It is 
just as near my heavenly home from the old Cum-
berland as from any other place." He was permit-
ted by the authorities to leave the ship and return 
home on account of bad health, but he preferred to 
remain, that he might share with those on board the 
perils of the situation. Writing to his Presiding 
Elder a short time before his decease, he said : "I 
indulge the hope that I may be able to meet you at 
the session of Conference. Should I not be permit-
ted the privilege, tell the preachers I love them, and 
love the work. Should I not be permitted to meet 
them again on earth, tell them I hope to meet them 
'in the morning.' Death to the Christian is a sleep. 
'They that sleep, sleep in the night.' The glorious 
resurrection morning wilt bring us together soul 
and body." 
The particular circumstances attending his death, 
so far as can be ascertained, are the following:—
When the officer in command of the ship saw that 
she must soon go down, he ordered all the dicers in 
charge of the wounded to come on deck, and bring 
with them such of the wounded as there might be 
some hope of saving, which order was obeyed by the 
surgeons and others. The chaplain, instead of 
coming on deck, went into his room, and shut the 
door, where in a few moments he met his fate, the 
ship going speedily down. 
The War. 
The past week has been an eventful one in the 
history of the present rebellion. Scarcely had our 
paper gone to press when we had intelligence, too 
late to give our readers, of the surrender of Island 
No 10. 
This Island is located in a bend of the Mississippi 
river,shaped much like the letter S, where it afford- 
ed a natural defense against the descent of the river 
by the northen navy ; and, immediately after their 
abandonment of Columbus, the enemy had resorted 
to this locality and entrenched themselves in great 
force and with masterly skill. On the 16th of March 
our government began its bombardment, and owing 
to a misunderstanding of Gen. Hallock's words,that 
"the island is ours"—he meaning that we should 
eventually take it—the report became current that 
it had surrendered early in the attack upon it. Soon, 
however, it was perceived that the Confederates had 
taken up a position of signal advantage for defense, 
and they had a formidable armament. Having bat- 
teries on the Kentucky shore as well as on the is-
land, they could cross fire on our gun-boats, which 
being only scarcely plated on the bows, could not 
engage at short ranges. The mortar fleet of gener-
al Foote worked finely, but there was very little of 
the enemy's works exposed to their destructive fir-
ing. 
Ths enemy brought only a part of their batteries 
to bare on our fleet, evidently designing to entrap 
Corn. Foote into some imprudent position. But the 
commodore knew better. Ile who was found by a visi-
tor at night, after the first days battle at Fort Donel- 
son,quietly seated in his cabin and reading Baxter's 
Saints Rest, was too cautious and wary to be thus 
beguiled. He kept up a steady firing day and 
night to prevent the enemy, as much as possible, 
from strengthening their works, while he arranged 
fur other matters. Gen. Pope had marched an army 
down the Missouri bank and taken New Madrid, 
just below the island and commanding the river 
there, and having let several of the enemy's gun 
boats pass by up to the island, it was the intention 
to prevent their return down the river, and as the 
term is, to "bag" them. Reinforcements were sent 
around to General Pope, whose plan was then to 
cross the river to the rear of the rebels. Then the 
hedn in the river wac cut off, a distance of twelve 
miles, by digging a canal from the river above to a 
series of lagoons which connected with the river be-
low ; but to make this available, as the enemy were 
watching its outlet, it was necessary that one or 
more of our gnn boats should run the gauntlet be-
tween the enemy's batteries, and pass the island in 
the main channel of the river. Accordingly a boat ex-
pedition organized by Commodore Foote, selecting a 
dark night,ran boldly up with muffled oars in front 
of a rebel battery, put the sentinels to flight, and 
jumping into the battery, spiked effectually every 
oae of its guns, six in number, one of them a splen-
did nine-inch pivot rifled gun, supposed te be that 
known as the "Lady Davis," and retuned in safety. 
On the night of April 4, bold Capt. Waugh of the 
Canondelet ran his gun-boat, protected by a barge 
next the rebels, close under the batteries of the is-
land,without firing a gun or receiving a shot,though 
all the batteries opened on hirn,floating batteries and 
all. A few days afterward, another gun-boat ran 
the gauntlet, and Bissell's Engineer Regiment suc-
ceeded in carrying tour steamers and some other 
craft through the bayous, so that Gen. Pope on 
Monday, the 7th,threw a force across the river,with 
the help of the gun-boats silenced the rebel batter-
ies opposite him, and instantly crossed over with a 
great force, established himself in safety on the east-
ern bank,and at once moved upwards toward the re-
bels,who seeing themselves surrounded,instantly lost 
heart, and sent a flag to Commodore Foote to ask 
leave to capitulate. The Commodore however re-
quired an unconditional surrender,which was accord-
ingly made, a little after midnight, Tuesday morn-
ing, the 8th, most of the rebels having attemped to 
run off by land. But Gen. Pope's troops met them, 
and made them prisoners, apparently without any 
opposition. Thus this enormously strong position 
has been secured without a battle. The fruit of the 
victory,as far as computed,not to mention the open-
ing of the road down the river, are three generals, 
six thousand prisoners,a hundred siege guns,a num-
ber of field batteries,and an enormous mass of small 
arms, camp equipage, ammunition, horses and pro-
visions. 
the comphte rout of the enemy who attacked as at 
day break Sunday morning. 
The battle lasted without intermission during the 
entire day, and was renewed on Monday morning, 
and continued undecided until 4 o'clock in the after-
noon, when the enemy commenced their retreat, and 
'ere still flying towards Corinth, pursued by a large 
force of our cavalry. 
The slaughter on both sides is immense. We have 
lost in killed and wounded and missing from 18,000 
to 20,000 men. That of the enemy is estimated at 
from 35,000 to 40,000. 
It is impossible in the present confused state of 
affairs to ascertain any details. I therefore give you 
the best account possible from observation, having 
passed through the storm of action during the twc 
days that it raged. 
The fight was brought on by a body of 300 of the 
25th Missouri regiment of General Prentiss's divis-
ion attacking the advance guard of the rebels,which 
were supposed to be the pickets of the enemy in 
front of our camps. 
The rebels immediately advanced on General Pren-
tiss' division on the left wing pouring in volley after 
volley of musketry and riddling our camp with 
grape, canister and shot. 
Our forces soon formed in line of battle and re-
turned the fire vigorously. 
By the time we were prepared to receive them 
they had turned their heaviest fire on the left centre 
of Sherman's division and drove our men back from 
their camps,and bringing up a fresh force opened fire 
on our left wing, under General MeClernand. 
This fire was returned with terrible effect, and de-
termined spirit by both infantry and artillery, along 
the whole line, for a distance of' four miles. 
General HurIburt's division was thrown forward 
to support the centre, when a desperate conflict en-
sued. The rebels were driven back with terrible 
slaughter, but soon rallied, and drove back our men 
in turn. 
The most desperate fighting took place in the af-
ternoon. The rebels knew that if they did not suc-
ceed in whipping us then, that their chance for suc-
cess would be extremely doubtful, as a portion of 
Gen. Buell's forces had by this time arrived on the 
opposite side of the river and another portion was 
coming up the river from Savannah. 
They became aware that we were being reinforced 
as they could see Gen. Buell's troops from the river 
bank a short distance above us on the left, to which 
point they had forced their way. 
At 5 o'clock the rebels had forced our left wing 
back, so as to occupy fully two thirds of our camp, 
and were fighting their way forward with a despe-
rate degree of confidence in their efforts to drive us 
into the river, and at the same time heavily engage 
our right. 
We were contending against fearful odds, our 
force not exceeding 38,000 men, while that of the 
enemy was upwards of 60,000. 
Our condition at this moment was extremely crit-
ical, as large numbers of our men were panic struck, 
while others were worn out by hard fighting, with 
the average per tentage of skulkers, who had strag-
gled towards the river, and could not be rallied. 
Gen. Grant and staff, who had been recklessly 
riding along the lines during the entire day, amid 
an unceasing storm of bullets, grape and shell, now 
rode from right to left,inciting the men to stand firm 
until our reinforcements could cross the river. 
Col. Webster, chief of staff, immediately got into 
position the heaviest pieces of artillery, pointing on 
the enemy's right, while a large number of batteries 
were planted along the entire line from the river 
bank North West to our extreme right, some two 
and a half miles distant. 
About an hour before dusk a general cannonading 
was opened upon the enemy from along our whole 
line, with a perpetual crack of muskery. Such a 
roar of artillery was never head on this continent. 
For a short time the rebels replied with vigor and 
effect, but their return shots grew less frequent and 
destructive, while ours grew more rapid and terri-
ble. 
Gunboats Lexington and Tyler, which lay a short 
distant off, kept raining shell on the rebel hordes. 
This last effort was too much for the enemy, and 
ere dusk had set in, the firing had nearly ceased ; 
when night coming on, all combatants rested from 
the awful work of blood and carnage. 
Our men rested on their arms,in the position they 
had at the close of the night, until the forces under 
Major General Wallace arrived and took a position 
on the right, and Gen. Buell's forces from the oppo-
site side of the Savannah were snow being conveyed 
to the battle ground. 
The entire right of Gen. Nelson's division was or-
dered to form on the right,and the forces under Gen. 
Crittenden were ordered to his support early in the 
morning. Gen. Buell having arrived the previous 
evening. 
In the morning the ball was opendd at daylight 
bravery, and the dreadful desolation produced by 
our artillery, which was sweeping them away like 
chaff before the wind. 
But knowing that a defeat here would be the 
death-blow to their hopes,and that all depended up- 
on this great struggle,their Generals still urged them 
on in the face of destruction ; hoping, by flanking 
us on the right, to turn the tide of battle. 
Their success was again fur a time cheering as 
they began to gain ground on us, appearing to have 
been reinforced ; but our left,under General Nelson, 
was driving them with wonderful rapidity, and by 
11 o'clock Gen. Buell's foeces had succeeded in 
flanking them and capturing their batteries of artil-
lery. 
They, however, again railled on the left and re-
crossed, and the right forced themselves forward in 
another desperate effort, but reinforcements from 
Gen. Wood and Gen. Thomas were coming in, regi-
ment after regiment, which was sent to Gen. Buell, 
who had again commenced to drive the enemy. 
About 3 o'elok in the afternoon General Grant 
rode to the left, where fresh regiments had been or- 
dered, and finding the rebels wavering, he sent a 
portion of his body guard to the head of each of the 
five regiments, and then ordered a charge across the 
field, himself leading as he brandished his sword,and 
waved them on to victory, while the cannon balls 
were falling like hail around him. 
The men followed with a shout that sounded above 
the roar and din of artillery, and the rebels fled in 
dismay as from a destroying avalanche, and never 
made another stand. 
Gen. Buell followed the retreating rebels, driving 
them in splendid style, and by half past five o'clock 
the whole rebel army was in full retreat to C orinth, 
with.our cavalry in hot pursuit, with what further 
result is not known, not having returned up to this 
hour. 
We have taken a large amount of artillery and al-
so a number of prisoners. We lost a number of our 
forces prisoners yesterday, among whom is General 
Prentiss. The number of our forces taken had not 
beerf ascertained yet. It is reported at several hun-
dred. 
General Prentiss was reported as being wounded. 
Among the killed on the rebel side was their Gener- 
al-in-Chief,Albert Sydney Johnson, who was struck 
by a cannon ball on the afternoon of Sunday. Of 
this there is no doubt, as the report is corrobarated 
by several rebel officers taken to-day. It is further 
reported that Gen.Beauregard had his arm shot off. 
LATER RESPECTING THE BATTLE AT PITTSBERY 
LANDING. 
Cincinnati, April 12. The Gazette's Pittsburg, 
Tenn., correspondent says the sum and substance of 
the battle on Sunday—we were pushed from disas-
ter to disaster till we lost every division camp we 
had,and were driven within half a mile of the land-
ing,when the approach of night,the timely aid of the 
gunboats and the tremendous effort of our artillerists 
and Buell's approach, saved us. 
On Monday, after nine hours hard fighting, we 
simply regained what we had lost on Sunday. Not 
a division advanced half a mile beyond our old 
camps on Monday, except Gen. Lew Wallace's. 
The lowest estimate placed in our loss killed and 
wounded is at 3300 and in prisoners from 3000 to 
4000. The rebel loss in killed and wounded is prob-
ablp 1000 heavier. The rebels, in their retreat, left 
acres covered with their dead, whom they had carri-
ed in their rear, and destroyed the heavy supplies 
they had brought up. 
Woodstock, Va., April 13. To Hon. E M. Stan-
ton, Secretary of War, We learn from Jackson's 
camp this murnihg that Gen. Beauregard is dead. 
The report comes direct from rebel sources near 
Mount Jackson. 
N. P. Banks Maj-Gen. 
ISLAND No 10,is the tenth island in the Mississip-
pi below the mouth of the Ohio. Above the mouth 
of that river the islands are all named, but below 
they are numbered, beginning with the one first be-
low Cairo, and continuing south in numerical order 
to No. 125,at or near Tunico Bend, Louiaiana,about 
120 miles above New Orleans. From that point to 
its mouth the river is clear of islands. 
Last-Day Scoffers. 
The apostle Peter in the 3d chapter of his 2d epis-
tle,—the chapter in which he describes; the melting 
of this earth, with the burning up all the works 
therein., and makes mention of the promise of "new 
heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righ-
Ieosuness"—in bidding us to "be mindful of the 
works which were spoken before by the holy proph-
ets and of the commandment of us the apostles of 
the Lord and Savior ; "prefaces his reference to the 
glorious future by requiring us to know "this first, 
that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walk-
ing after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the 
promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell 
asleep, all things continue as they were from the be-
ginning of the creation"—being "willingly igno-
rant," &e. 
This prediction of scoffers in the days preceeding 
Christ's coining, must include all the various kinds 
of levity or sarcastic utterances made in reference to 
predicted events. Such utterances were frequently 
met with a few years since ; but even now we find 
an occasional squib, like the following from Punch : 
"A Pleasant Prospect.—The Prophetic Doctor has 
published another of his catchpenny apocalyptic vol-
umes, entitled the Millennial Rest ; or, The World 
as it will be. No doubt this is 'The good time 
Cumming,' of which we have heard so much." 
We were sorry to find this in The Methodist—one 
of our valuable exchanges which is usually very cor-
rect in its allusions to those who differ—unaccom-
nied with a word of rebuke. There certainly re-
maineth a rest to the people of God ; and though the 
ungodly may make merry over it,Christians should 
not circulate, without reproof, their stale jokes, 
pointless puns, and silly witticisms. 
 41111111111116M, 
This new work of Dr. Cumming is being publish-
ed in New York city (for $ 1, as we suppose) aad 
we shall be happy to receive and fill any orders for 
it. 
THE GREAT BATTLE NEAR CORINTH. 
New York, April 9.—A special dispatch to the 
Herald, dated Pittsburg via Fort IIenry, April,8th, 
3.20 A. M. says one of the greatest and bloodiest 
battles of modern days has just closed, resulting in 
126 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
cannot be many generations. Hence it is yet future, 
and as near as I can calculate in about 7 1-2 mos. 
after the covenant is made with them they burn the 
first sacrifice at Jerusalem, and this will he the be-
ginning of the 2300 days. " How long shall be 
the vision concerning the daily sacrifice? And he 
said unto me, Unto 2300 days, then shall the sanc-
tuary be cleansed." This was the answer to the 
first question, and the rest of the verse is included 
in the same answer. But this will be an abomina-
tion unto the Lord. Isa. 66:3. " He that killeth 
an ox is as if he slew a man ; he that sacrificeth a 
lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck ; he that offer-
eth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood ; he 
that burneth incense as if he blessed an idol. Yea, 
they have chosen their own ways, and their soul de-
lighteth in their abominations. I also will choose 
their delusions, and will bring their fears upon 
them." Their fathers were afraid that Christ was 
an impostor, so they rejected him, and put him to 
death. God now chooses their delusions, and deliv-
ers them up to believe that Napoleon is the Deliv-
erer that is to come out of Zion, and shall turn 
away ungodliness from Jacob. V.27, "And in the 
midst of the week, he (Napoleon) shall cause the 
sacrifice and the oblation to cease." This is the 
taking away of the daily sacrifice of cha. 8 and H. 
Hence when the covenant is made with the Jews, 
we know then it will be just 3 1-2 years until the 
daily sacrifice is taken away, and the very day it is 
taken away, is the day to begin the great tribula-
tion of Matt. 24:15-22, Dan. 12:1, and will con-
tinue 3 1-2 years, or the rest of the one week of 7 
years. This is the restored week, and the Jews are 
also restored to their ancient possessions, as I shall 
show you directly. From the middle of this co-
week begins time, times and an half, or 3 1-2 years, 
the 1290 days, and the 1335 days. This last num-
ber ends with the 2300 days, at time Daniel stands 
in his lot, blessed with his people. The 1290 days 
brings the coming of our Lord, 30 days after the 
tribulation ends, and 45 days before the conversion 
of the Jews, when they are brought into the bond 
of the covenant, Ezek. 20:37, when he makes a new 
covenant with the house of Israel and the house of 
Judah. Jer. 31:31, Heb. 8:8. "And for the over-
spreading of abominations he shall make it (the 
temple and altar) desolate." This is equivalent to 
placing the abomination in the holy place. "Then 
let them which be in Judea flee into the moun-
tains." It will be observed that the Jews are now 
in Judea, and all through Palestine,when this time 
comes. 
To you ? My heart is bursting at the thought, 
Yet I must say, farewell ! Friends and protectors 
So good, other such I shall never find ! 
April 1, 1862. 
From Sister Gorham. 
Dear Brother :—I now write a few lines for the 
Herald, that it may be known how we prosper.—
Bro. George W. Burnham has been laboring with 
us the last three months. The people have been 
out to hear more than ever they did before. He has 
been instrumental in removing prejudice from the 
minds of the people, and preparing a way for the 
blessed truth in Wellfleet. He left this morning for 
home. We who love the Lord and his word, feel 
something like those whom Paul left when they ac-
companied him unto the ship. We love him for the 
truth's sake, and as an earthly shepherd he has 
brought out of God's word things new and old ; —
and we will pray our Father to set home the truth 
to the hearts of his hearers, that it may spring up 
and bear fruit to the glory of God. 
The last year has been one of deep affliction. My 
beloved husband sleeps in Jesus ; and also a sister. 
Thanks be to God for a blessed hope beyond the 
grave. I believe that a glorious morning is soon to 
dawn upon the children of God, when we shall be 
gathered into that rest that remaineth for the peo-
ple of God Dear brethren and sisters, if we believe 
what we profess, let us try, with the grace of God 
assisting us, to do what we can for his cause ; and 
may we be prepared to meet him in peace. 
From your sister in Christ, 
PRISCILLA C. GORHAM. 
Wellfleet, March 31, 1862. 
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and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
The Little Horn and Wilful King, Man of Sin, 
Antichrist, Leopard Beast, Two-Horned Beast, 
and Scarlet-colored Beast, all concentrated in one 
Person, viz. L. Napoleon HI. 
Continued from our last. 
The marriage dinner, Matt. 22:2. " The king-
dom of heaven is like unto a certain king which 
made a marriage fur his son ; and sent forth his ser-
vants to call them that were bidden to the wedding; 
but they would not come. Again, he sent forth 
other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, 
Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and 
my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready :—
come unto the marriage. But they made light of 
it. . . . But when the king heard thereof he was 
wroth : and he sent f, rth his armies (the Roman 
soldiers) and destroyed those murderers, and burn-
ed up their city (Jerusalem)." The wedding now 
is deferred until supper time and a new set of guests. 
is invited. " So those servants went out into the 
highways (of the gentiles) and gathered together 
(into churches) all, as many as they found, both 
bad and good : and the wedding was furnished with 
guests." See Luke 14:15-24. Hear the Psalmist as 
he prophetically speaks of this time, 81:13-16,"Oh 
that my people liad hearkened unto me, and Israel 
had walked in my ways ? I should soon have sub-
dued their enemies, and turned my hand against 
their adversaries. The haters of the Lord should 
have submitted themselves unto him: but their time 
should have endured for ever. He should have fed 
them also with the finest of the wheat : and with 
honey out of the rock should I have satisfied them." 
Dan. 9:26. "And after threescore and two weeks 
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself." Al-
though Jesus was not crucified until seven years af-
ter, or in other words until the close of the seventy 
weeks, yet he was rejected, as well as John, from 
the beginning , hence he was " cut off"—therewas 
no alternative—he must suffer. Hear him pray unto 
his Father, " 0 my Father, if it be possible, let this 
cup pass from me : nevertheless, not as I will, but 
as thou wilt." Again the second time he prayed, 
saying, " 0 my Father, if this cup may not pass 
away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done." 
And again the third time he went away and pray-
ed, "saying the same words." Matt. 26:36. " He 
came unto his own, and his own received him not." 
Hence they were rejected from the wedding " din-
ner," a new set of guests were invited, and the 
wedding adjourned until supper-time,or close of the 
times of the gentiles. " And the people of the 
prince that shall come (in some future day) shall 
destroy the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary." 
As the sanctuary is noticed separately from the city, 
and temple, that being in the city, we are led to the 
conclusion that the sanctuary is the same that Da-
vid referred to in Psa. 78:54, 5. "And he brought 
them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this 
mountain, which his own right hand had purchas-
ed. He cast out the heathen also before them, and 
divided them an inheritance by line, and made the 
tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents." The peo-
ple were the Roman soldiers, who destroyed the 
Jews, and burned up their city. " The prince that 
shall come" is Napoleon III., as you will see in the 
next verse : we think that we have shown sufficient 
proof already, that the little horn was a king. 
And the " king of fierce countenance." " And 
he (the prince that shall come, who claims to be 
the successor of the Caesars) shall confirm the cov-
enant with many for one week." That is, he shall 
covenant to place the Jews, or help them to return 
unto their own land, Palestine, and protect them 
there from their enemies for the term of seven years 
—just one week. This is the rejected, or the last 
week of the 70 weeks, now restored to the Jews 
again. They immediately return to Palestine, in 
vast bodies, and the country is filled again. See Is.lgan Rome. " The third part of the stars and cast 
61:4. "And they shall build the old wastes, they 
shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall 
repair the waste cities, the desolations of many gen-
erations." This cannot be at any former captivity, 
beeause the longest period was 70 years, And that 
He is Paul's man of sin, 2 Thess. 2:4. " Who 
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is call-
ed God, or that is worshipped : so that he as God, 
sitteth in the temple of God, (that the Jews have. 
rebuilt) showing himself that he is God." Hence 
he claims divine honors, and doubtless it is at the 
time of the commencement of the great tribulation 
of 3 1-2 years. V. 8. " And then shall that wick-
ed be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with 
the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the 
brightness of his coming." He is St. John's Anti-
christ, 1 John 2:22. " He is antichrist, that deni-
eth the Father and the Son." Papacy has never 
denied the Father or the Son, but the Pope claims 
to be God's Vicegerent on earth. Rev. 12:2, "And 
the holy city shall they tread under foot 42 months. 
This agrees with the great tribulation of 3 1-2 yrs. 
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses.. . 
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before 
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the 
Lord." The first advent was a babe in the manger, 
and this could not be called "the great and dreadful 
day of the Lord." Hence it will doubtless be Eli-
jah and some other prophet, and will be entirely lit-
eral, just as it reads. "And when they shall have 
finished their testimony the beast that ascendeth out 
of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, 
and overcome them and kill them." V. 15. "And 
the 7th angel sounded (at the end of the 3 1.2 yrs) 
and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The 
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of 
our Lord and his Christ. and he shall reign forever 
and ever." Hence this transaction is during the 
last half of the coy-week, or 3 1-2 years' tribula-
tion, and terminates with the " kingdoms of this 
world becoming our Lord's and his Christ's," and 
the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit is 
the scarlet-colored beast of ch. 17:8. 
Let us examine ch. 12 by this new light. The 
woman was the Jewish church : "clothed with the 
sun" was the true light of the world that shone 
through Jesus Christ. John 8:12, "I am the light 
of the world," or sun. "A crown of twelve stars" 
—the twelve apostles. "A great red dragon"—pa- 
them to the earth" were the martyrs that fell be-
neath that power. The man-child was Jesus Christ 
who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, but 
he being rejected, deferred setting up his kingdom 
until a new set of guests were invited. Hence he 
"was caught up unto God, and to his throne."— 
BY THEO. D. C. MILLER. 
These lines to thee, dear childhood's home, no 
Preface need ; sufficient, that longer to 
Dwell in thee, other claim permits not. Yes, 
Other and fitter sphere now hinds me. Yet 
Thoughts of that dear home I've left—of friends I 
Never more may see—except long intervals 
Between—with saddening force press on my mind, 
And weigh my spirits down. Farewell, dear 
Childhood's home ! Brother, sister, parents dear ; 
All, all that in early years I held most 
Dear, farewell ! Other home on earth ne'er 'llseem 
Like thee : no flowers like those I gathered there ; 
No song of bird so sweet, nor even sun 
Can shine so clear as seen from that dear spot. 
Each coursing sun some memory brings of scenes 
Joyous, past, that I shall share no more—of 
Tender care from those I learned to love, ere I could 
Lisp their names. 
But, parents dear ! my best of 
Earthly guides—in childhood whose loved hand I 
Joyed so much to clasp to stay my tottering 
Steps, and greet thee when returned—in 
Middle youth to do thy wish ; and now am 
Proud to call thee parents : what shall I say 
Hark ! what mean those distant sounds ? 
'Tis the angry nations' maddening roar ; 
Each is preparing for the coming strife, 
Soon to extend from shore to shore. 
See, their angry passions rise, 
Inflamed by Satan's subtle power ; 
He leads them on, both quick and sure, 
To torments dire, in God's vengeful hour. 
This world's Prince has been cast out 
And rules his followers by his nod ; 
Legions infernal compose his train, 
With guilty nations, apostate from their God 
Midst all the turmoil and the strife 
Of wicked men, methinks I hear the cry 
To you; ye followers of the Lamb, 
Lift up your heads—redemption's nigh. 
Ye weary saints, whose aching hearts 
Oft heave a groan and breathe a sigh, 
You soon shall see your Saviour's face, 
With saints descending from the sky. 
Your lamps then trim, your loins gird, 
I quickly come, the Lord hath said, 
The world to judge, the throne to take, 
To change the living, raise the dead. 
Oh quickly come, our hearts respond, 
And rule and reign on David's throne ; 
Ten thousand thousands then shall sing, 
Joy to the world—the Lord has come. 
J.W.M. 
Carbondale, Pa., March 1. 
A Daughter's Farewell to Home. 
Lines. 
From Bro. Moses S. Perkins. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I have greatly feared that I 
should be obliged to discontinue the Herald ; but 
whets I reflect a moment, I cannot do so, if it be 
possible for me to pay for it. That would seem like 
putting my hand to the plough and looking back ; 
and such will pot be " fit for the kingdom of heav-
en." I cannot dispense with the light which it re-
flects, on the sacred pages of the best of all books. 
I cannot get along without the spiritual food which 
it contains for me. I need its salutary influence on 
this wayward heart of mine, as a constant monitor 
in the way of life. In short, it contains all of the 
second advent preaching we have been favored with,. 
since our much loved brother S. Chapman was with 
us some five or six years since, whom we remember 
with Christian tenderness and due regards. We 
have often prayed for him to return ; or that the 
Lord would direct the feet of some other itinerant 
brother this way, that our hearts may again rejoice, 
others be led in the way of life, and be fitted for the 
enjoyment of the glories of the coming kingdom ; 
and that when He who is our Life shall appear, we 
may be enabled to " lay hold on eternal life"—that 
life which is hid with Christ in God. Christ Jesus 
our blessed Saviour declares himself to be that Life. 
We feel that we have chosen Him as our portion ; 
and myself and wife, in our lonely isolation from 
brethren and sisters of like precious faith, have rea-
son to hope in his mercies, and that we " shall not 
be put to shame, nor confounded, world without 
end." We will continue to read the Herald, altho' 
our ministers and friends pass it by as not worthy of 
notice. We can but say, Lord, " forgive them, fur 
they know not what they do." 
M. S. PERKINS. 
Cortland, Ill., March 28, 1862. 
From Sister E. Johnson. 
Bro. Bliss :—As I would not like to be without 
the Herald, I wish to contribute a mite to the Asso-
ciation, besides paying for it. The $2 within is for 
the American Millennial Association. 
ELIZA JOHNSON. 
Council Blijs, March 28, 1862. 
From Bro. Charles N. Ford. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—The Herald still comes, cheer-
ing us with its weekly visits,bringing us intelligence 
from brethren scattered abroad of like precious faith 
—of whom I humbly trust through his grace I am 
one. I have felt some anxiety fur its welfare of late, 
and feared I should lose my old friend ; which, for 
20 years back, I have been conversant with. I feel 
grateful that I am able to enclose my mite. I wish 
it was more. May the Lord add his blessing, and 
through his rich grace prepare us for his kingdom, 
which I believe is very near. 
Yours truly, 
CHARLES N. FORD. 
Fisherollle, Apr. 5, 1862. 
From Sister E. Stickney. 
Bro. Bliss :—Enclosed you will find five dollars, 
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I wrote to you in January I was in hopes that they 
And the woman fled into the wilderness. This cor-
responds with the restored week, when she is again 
brought into full requisition at the last end of this 
dispensation (i.e. the last 7 years.) The 1260 days 
correspond again with 3 1-2 years of tribulation. 
" And there was war in heaven." This heaven is 
the same that Jesus speaks of. " The kingdom of 
heaven is likened unte," &c " Michael and his 
angels," is Christ and his followers. And the drag-
on was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil 
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He 
was cast out of the church or churches, where he 
could no longer wear the sacerdotal robes. This 
battle is after the Lord comes ; for it is fought by 
Michael, who is our prince. A prince is one that 
is heir to the throne, and Jesus Christ is the only 
heir to the throne of David—see Micah 4:8, " And 
thou 0 tower of the flock, the stronghold of the 
daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the 
first dominion : the kingdom shall come to the 
daughter of Jerusalem." Hear this loud anthem 
that is sung in heaven. " Now is come salvation 
and strength (to the church) and the kingdom of 
our God (is come), and the power of his Christ (is 
now established], for the accuser of our brethren is 
cast down." This epoch is just before the binding 
of Satan, v. 11. The eye of the evangelist now 
catches back 3 1-2 years, and he speaks of the con-
duct of the martyrs, — " And they loved not their 
lives unto the death." A warning is now given 
unto men of the world. " Wo to the inhabiters of 
the earth ; for the devil is come down unto you, 
having great wrath, because he knoweth that he 
bath but a short time" before he will be bound and 
cast into the bottomless pit. The woman which 
brought forth the manchild was the Jewish church, 
for it was before the call of the gentiles that Christ 
was born. What the "two wings of a great eagle" 
are, I know not. But it may be two ships, to car-
ry the Jews from Palestine to a place of safety, du-
ring the 3 1-2 years of the great tribulation.—
" The earth helped the woman"—doubtless earth is 
put by metonymy for some political power that 
stops the persecution of the Jews. "And the drag-
on was wroth with the woman, and went to make 
war with the remnant of her seed." The question 
arises, who are the remnant of her seed ? It must 
be some body that " keep the commandments of 
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ," and 
the Jews do not believe in Christ. Hence it must 
be the gentiles. 
(To be continued.) 
THE ADVEN T HERALD 
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DIED, of consumption, at Fitch Bay, in Stanstead, 
C. E.. March 20th, 1862, Bro. SAMUEL DOLLOFF, in 
the 70th year of his age. 
Bro. Dolloff gave his heart to the Lord when 
about thirty-five years of age, united with the Free-
will Baptists and remained in that connection until 
the doctrine of the speedy coming of Christ was 
proclaimed by Father Miller and others about 1836 
and onward, when he became interested in the soul-
cheering truths, investigated and embraced them, 
and ever after identified himself with this truth, 
and remained firm and unshaken in his faith to the 
end. His house, has been open for the entertain-
ment of strangers and pilgi ims for many years, and 
no doubt many will remember his kindness during 
the days of his pilgrimage. But his work and suf-
fering are done. His spirit waits-his flesh rests in 
hope till the Life-giver shall return in glory to re-
ward his saints and give a crown of righteousness 
to all who love his appearing. Who can be so far 
fallen as to wish this state of things to continue, 
where death is breaking up the circle of families ? 
Who would not wish the great solar clock to strike 
the final hour, when six thousand years shall end, 
n1 the prayer of the gaol of all ages be answered, 
DIED, in Dunham, C. E., Jan. 3d, at the resi-
dence of Bro. Jonas Laraway, in the 65th year of 
her age, Sister PEREES BRADFORD, of a lingering dis-
ease of nervous debility. 
The subject of this notice professed faith in the 
Saviour quite a number of years since, and united 
with the Methodist church, of which she remained 
a member for some years. But in consequence of 
the trials and temptations that surrounded her, she 
lost her confidence and became discouraged. But in 
the fall of 1855 a protracted meeting was held in 
the vicinity where she resided by Elder Sornberger 
and the writer. When sister B.'s attention was 
called to the cry, " Behold, the Bridegroom coin-
eth," she, with some fifty other backsliders and al-
iens, started to meet him, and was brought nigh by 
the blood of Christ, to become a fellow citizen with 
the saints. Her trials were many, she having poor 
health. But she departed in strong faith of soon 
seeing the King in his beauty on the throne of his 
father David, and the kingdom given to the saints 
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The funeral was attended with a full house, and the 
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words of consolation to the bereaved friends. 
P. V. WEST. 
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Yours in hope, 
E. STICKNEY. 
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Ilis labors done, securely laid 
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Unheeded o'er his silent dust 
The storms of life may beat. 
His ashes, too-his sleeping dust- 
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Till the archangel rise and break 
The short and dreary sleep. 
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power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an 
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ate friend, and a man of great moral and social 
worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin-
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-to present him as he appeared in his daily walk 
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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-
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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 
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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-
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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 coining. 
A Volume for the Times. 
"THE TIME OF THE END." 
This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the 
present editor of the Advent Herald and published 
in 1856,treats "the time of the end," (Dan. 12: 9,) 
as a prophetic period preceding the end ; during 
which there was predicted to be a wonderful in-
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periods that fill up the future of this world's dura-
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It presents various computations of the times of 
Daniel and John ; copies Rev E, B. Elliott's view 
of "our present position in the prophetic calen-
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gives three dissertations on the new heavens and the 
new earth, by Dre. Chalmers, Hitchcock, and Wes 
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search and untiring labor."-Religious Intelligencer. 
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ability in the treatment of subjects of so much in-
terest to the church and world."-New York Chron-
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our readers."-Niagara Democrat. 
"A condensed view is presented of the entire his-
tory of prophetic interpretation, and of the compu-
tations of the prophetic periods."-Missouri Repub. 
lican. 
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gage his attention."-Due West Telescope. 
"He quotes from most of the authors, who have 
written and fixed dates for the expected event, dur-
ing the past two hundred years."-Christian Secre-
tors'. 
"We have been pleased with its spirit, interested 
in its statements, and have received valuable in-
formation ; and we commend it to all who feel an 
interest in this subject."-Richmond Religious Her-
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"It cannot but awaken in the church a new inter-
est in the predictions relative to which she now dis-
plays so great and alarming indifference."-Albany 
Spectator. 
"We can cheerfully recommend it to all who de-
sire to know what has been said, and can be said 
on a subject which will never cease to possess inter-
est, while the prophecies of Daniel and John shall 
be reverenced as Canons in the Christian Church." 
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of such distinguished writers, this work will com-
mand atteution."-Providence Daily Journal. 
"The index of authors referred to is large and 
shows that the writer has intended to give a thorough 
treatment of the subject."-Star of the West. 
"A compendious collection of Second Advent es-
says."-N. Y. Evangelist. 
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Journal. 
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sued on the subject of the Second Advent."-Bos-
ton Daily Traveler. 
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testing the indefatigable investigation and research-
es of its compiler."-Boston Daily .Atlas. 
"This book is of real value, as a history of opin-
ions, as a chronological instructer, and as a compil-
ation of able articles on prophecy."-Hartford Re-
ligious Herald. 
"It contains a great number of opinions, by va-
rious divines, bearing on the time of the end. "-
Chris. lntelligencer. 
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trints so ably advocated in the Advent Herald."-
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tion of the study of prophecy."-Port. Chris. Mir-
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it."-Boston Evening Telegraph. 
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this subject somewhat concisely presented, we know 
of no single volume in which he will find it so well 
done, as in this."-Portland Transcript. 
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THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
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ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
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The Restitution 
Osler's Prefigurations 
The End, by Dr. Cumming 
Letter to Dr. Baffles 
Whiting's Prophetic View 
Stewart on Prayer and Watchfulness 
Brock on the Lord's Coming a Practical Doctrine 
Brock on the Glorification of the Saints 
Liteh's Dialogue on the Nature of Man 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Special Proposition. 
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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMDS."-.John 21:15. 
BOSTON. APRIL 19. 1802. 
The Love of Jesus. 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
Albany, N. Y......... Wm. Nichols, 85 Lydius-street 
Burlington, Iowa. ..... .. James S. Brandeburg 
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six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
that purpose. 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
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 .5.00 
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Mill. Aid Society in Providence, R.I. 
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Church in Newburyport. 
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Church in Stanstead, C. E 
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NEARING RICHMOND. 
In addition to the other points of interest, there is 
a large Federal army under Gen. McClellan, now 
nelr Yorktown Va. with the design of driving the 
rebels from Richmond. 
Near Yorktown, April 9-1.20 P. M., 
The weather still continues unfavorable for mili-
tary operations. It has been raining for nearly two 
days. The creeks are very much swollen and the 
low grounds are covered with water, making the 
roads almost impassabie for supply wagons. 
Information received shows that the the rebels 
have a force of 60,000 men, which if rapidly being 
added to by troops from the neighboehood of Rich-
mond, which is one day from Yorktown by railroad 
and river. They have four steamers and sixteen 
transports in use, and by the time the roads are in 
condition for the Union men to move,the rebels may 
he able to meet them with 100,000 men. The flow-
er of their army with their best arms are in a strong-
ly intrenched position. 
Previous to our troops occupying the present po-
sition, the military authorities had no means of as-
certaining the extent of the rebel works. Informa-
tion obtained through deserting contrabands and 
other sources show at the enemy have nearly 500 
guns, some of them of the largest calibre. The re-
bel General Johnson with some of his forces has ar-
rived, and taken command in person, showing that 
they intend making a desperate resistance to the ad-
vance of our troops at every point. Their entrench-
ments extend entirely across the peninsula, from the 
James to the York rivers. 
Cabot, (Lower Branch),) Vt 
Cordova, Rock Island Co., Ill 
Cincinnati, 0 
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Do Kalb Centre, Ill.. .... ........ Charles E. Needham 
Dunham, C. E 
L W. Sornberger 
Durham, C. E. 
. J. M. Orroek 
Derby Line, Vt. 
.S. Foster 
Eddington, Me. 
 Thomas Smith 
Fairhaven, Vt 
 Robbins Miller 
Homer, N. Y .......................J. L. Clapp 
Haverhill, Mass 
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Lockport, N. Y..... .... ..... ... ..... ...R. W. Beck 
Johnson's Creek, N. F..- ........ Hiram Russell 
Kincardine, C. W 
Joseph Barker 
Loudon Mills, N. 11 
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Morrisville, Pa 
. Wm. Kitson 
Newburyport, Mass 
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New York City .... .J. B. Huse, No. 6 Horatio st 
Philadelphia, Pa J Litch, No. 27 North th st 
Portland, Me.... 
Alexander Edmund 
Providence, R. I 
Anthony Pearce 
Princess Anne, Md ..... 
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Rochester, N. Y 
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Richmond, Me..... 
I. C Wellcome 
Salem, Mass 
. Chas. H. Berry 
Springwater, N. Y.. 
S. H. Withington 
Shabbonas Grove, De Kalb county, W. Spencer 
Somonauk, De Kalb Co., Ill.......Wells A. Fay 
St. Albans, Hancock Co., Ill ..... ...Elder Larkin Scott 
Stanbridge, C. E 
.John Gilbreth 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis . William Trowbridge 
Toronto, C. W 
Daniel Campbell 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. . R. Hutchinson, M .D 
Waterbury, Vt 
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Worcester, Mass.... 
„Benjamin Emerson 
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any other part of the United States. If not pre-paid, it 
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of it. 
THE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER. -- Gen. Shields' 
official report of the battle of Winchester, dated 
March 29, states the -Union loss at 103 killed, 441 
wounded, and 24 missing. It had not been possi-
ble then, however, to obtain an accurate list of our 
losses, owing to the continued activity of our forces. 
The enemy's loss is more difficult to ascertain than 
our own. Two hundred and seventy were found 
dead on the battle field. Forty were buried by the 
inhabitants of the adjacent village, and, by a calcu-
lation made by the number of graves found on both 
sides of the valley road between Winchester and 
Strasburg, their loss in killed must have been about 
500, and in wounded 1000. Their force must have 
exceeded 11,000, with 36 pieces of artillery, while 
ours did not exceed 7000, with 26 pieces of artillery. 
Prisoners were taken from eleven, rebel regiments 
and one battallion. 
Work of Grace in Lake Village. 
Bro. I. II. Shipman writes that, 
"God in his mercy has been pleased to revive his 
work in Lake village, N. H. About thirty have been 
converted. I left there on Thursday, March 3d. af-
ter labouring with him nearly two weeks. There 
was then no dimunition of the work. The meetings 
are marked with great solemnity, and all present 
were impressed with the evidence that God is in the 
work. 
"I received a lettter from there last evening, say-
ing that the work was still progressing, and that 
Bro. Couch was with them. May God prosper his 
labours, and carry forward the work until a multi-
tude are brought to Christ. 
May all especially our ministering brethren, and 
all to the interests of Zion in labouring for the revi-
val of God's work. 
Yours in hope, 
APPOINTMENTS. 
I. H. SHIPMAN. 
The annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Conference 
of Adventists will be held in Amboy, Lee Co., Ill., com-
mencing Wednesday, May 28th, at two o'clock P. M., to 
continue over the Sabbath. To all we say, Come and help 
build the wall, though it be in troublous times. 
H. G. McCunocn, 
Sec. of Conference. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
John Reynolds. Your diagram would have to be en-
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an engraved block to print from, we should not object to 
giving it, though we fail fully to comprehend it. 
David Wiley. You were credited $3, received March 
25th, which paid from No. 1049 to 1101. 
C. West. We Cr. S. M. W. Cary $1.13, to No. 1101 ; 
sent you Book, 75 etc., with postage, and Cr. you $2.12 on 
Herald, to No. 1124. 
CHANGE OF FOREMAN. - 
About a month 
since our foreman, Mr. John G. L. Rimes, 
informed us of his intention to leave his 
position, his health demanding it; and 
having found a young man for his success-
or, that change takes place with the pres-
ent number of the Herald. it may take a 
new hand some little while to become fa-
milia r with the details of the office, sT) that 
our readers must be lenient in respect to 
any inaccuracies noticeable. 
The mechanical execution of the paper 
has been due to the taste of our late fore-
man, Mr. Himes, who- has held this posi-
tion since July of 1855. He seeks health 
this summer in rural employment, at a 
friend's in the country ; and we trust that 
his hopes will be realized. His Post Office 
address will be Kingston, N. H. 
Those sending money should remember that we have 
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the same name in different States, and in some States there 
is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
address - the name of the town and state, and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is d:rected. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it,without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
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immediately. 
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respecting, and to song money himself, for his own paper 
than to send by an agent, or any third person, unless such 
one is more likely to get his own name and post-offi-e right, 
than another person would be ; that money sent in small 
sums, is less likely to be lost than when sent in larger ones, 
and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
to accommodate the one who sends. 
The Church Missionary instructor tells 
a touching story on this point, illustrating 
how the love of Jesus exerts its mighty 
power over the human heart : 
There lived in a mining district in Eng-
land a poor miner, who had an only and 
loving son. It was generally the custom 
of this miner, when he went down daily 
into the bowels of the earth to quarry out 
there the valuable metals for his employ-
ers, to take with him his child. And then 
at evening, after the day's work was end-
ed, they were both drawn up to the sur-
face by a bucket and rope, and returned 
to their happy home. 
One evening, as they were drawn up 
from the mine as usual, the father heard a 
crackling noise above them. He looked 
up and saw that the rope was breaking, 
and that now only three or four strands of 
it held him and his darling child from de-
struction. 
What was to be done ? Not a moment 
was to be lost; for manifestly the rope was 
not strong enough to bring them botli to 
the surface, and therefore either one of 
them or both, must perish. Immediately 
the fond parental instincts of the father's 
heart determined upon what he would do. 
He resolved to sacrifice his own life for 
that of his dearly-beloved son ; he placed 
him in the bottom of the basket, and said 
to him : "There, my child, there, lie quiet 
for a few moments, and you will be safe at 
the top." And then he threw himself over, 
and was dashed to pieces. 
0 how great, how very great was the 
love of that parent for his son ! And yet 
it was even small as compared with the 
love of that blessed Saviour who died for 
us on ,.Calvary, and who said, "Greater 
love hath no man than this, that a. man 
lay down his life for his friend." 
The above story was told some time 
since to a little girl. She was then a Ro-
man Catholic. At once she saw its point 
and felt its power, for her soul was moved 
within her, and she said, as the tears trick-
led down her cheeks : 
" 0 what love ! How Jesus must have 
loved me !" 
Some weeks afterward this dear little 
girl was laid upon a bed of illness ; it was 
her death-bed. And just before she died 
she called her mother to her and said : 
" Dearest mother, I am going to leave 
you." 
" Leave me, my child ?" 
"Yes, dear mother. 1 love you much, 
but I love Jesus very much, too, and I am 
going to Him. And you know, mamma, 
that it is far better than to live here, since 
He is willing to take me to Himself. Rut 
before I go I want you to do me one thing." 
" Wall, my child," said the weeping 
mother, what is it? " 
" I want you, mamma, to go there at the 
foot of my bed, and you will find a little 
bag. In it there are eleven shillings. Will 
you take it, dear mamma, to Mr. D., the 
minister, and ask him to give it to the 
Church Missionary Society? For 0, 1 love 
Jesus ! who so loved me that he died fur 
me, and I would like that His command 
to go and preach the Gospel to every crea-
ture should be fulfilled." 
A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
The "American Millennial Association," located in Bos-
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1858, under 
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le-
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
expended in the publication of,Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a 
report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
due notice should be at once given to 
JYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
Washington Free Territory. 
A bill has passed both houses of Con-
gress abolishing slavery in the District of 
Columbia. Should it receive the Presi-
dent's signature it would become a law. 
It has been hinted, however, that the bill 
A. Fullen, 1083 ; Mrs. E. Weaver, 1114 ; Thos. G. 
Stetson, 1108; L. S. Phares, 1114 ; Guy Loomis, 1101 ; 
Mrs. Annaretta, Collins 1115 ; M. A. Graham, sent book 
the 12th ; L. Conkey, 1112 ; Mrs. E. A. Perkins, 1101 - 
eac $1.00. 
L. A. Crowingshield, 1127 ; J. J. Crafts, 1136 ; J. J. 
Teetzell, 1129 ; John Johnson, 1136 ; A. Miller, 1132 ; 
A. Banning, 1109 ; Mrs. Lucia Robinson, 1101- each 
$2.00 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, APR. 8, 1862. 
DONATIONS RECEIVED SINCE Nov. 1ST - $400 Needed 
Januirry 1. 
Amount of previous payments .... ........ ..304.70 
Louisa S. Phares, Hamilton, 0 
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$505.70 
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same in sixty days after my decease to the person who, 
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American Millennial Association, Boston, Mass., to be ap-
plied under the direction of the Standing Committee of 
that Association, to its charitable uses and purposes. 
REMOVAL. The Messiah's church in New York city 
will hereafter worship in the meeting-house of the Seventh 
day Baptist church on 11th street, between 3d and 4th 
avenues. Preaching three times each Sabbath, and week-
ly lecture on Wednesday evening. The prayerful support 
and co-operation of all Christians is solicited. 
SICKNESS.-Sickness should teach us what a vain 
thing the world is ; what a vile thing sin is ; what 
a poor thing man is ;'and what a precious thing an 
interest in Christ is. - Mrs. Savage. 
RECEIPTS, 
UP TO TUESDAY, APR. 8. 
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