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OPENING ADDRESS 
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BY THE PRESIDENT, J. PEARSON. 
[Continued.] 
There exists, it is said, two extremes in a man 
in all things. This proverb undoubtedly con-
tains a general truth, still, we should not for-
get that subjects of grave moment have been 
agitated concerning which the only position 
consonant with truth and justice, and soundly 
politic, has been censured, not unfrequently, by 
popular opinion as an ultraism. 
This question has its extremes and its golden 
mean. The principles and conduct involved 
are not left, like many other topics of import-
ance, to be decided by mere human judgment, 
they are unequivocally and imperatively deter-
mined by the infalliable rule of faith and prac-
tice, the word of God. It plainly condemns 
that indisposition of the mind which discourages 
all investigation of the time of Christ's coining, 
declares we can know nothing of the proximity 
of that event, and shows a desire, rather, to 
postpone it to ages indeterminate. For it is 
written, "when ye shall see these things come 
to pass, know that He is nigh, even at the doors." 
The other extreme is in assuming to know the 
exact time when Christ will make his second ad-
vent. 
That this is an extreme, is evident from the 
disagreements of the most learned Chronologists 
in their attempts to fix, with precision, the 
dates of not a few of the past events and tran-
sactions of Scripture history, and in determining 
the age of the world. 
But when the difficulties of this most perplex-
ing of all subjects are taken into a fair consid-
eration, we will not regard these disagreements 
otherwise than legitimate, neither be greatly sur-
prised to learn that no less than three hundred 
different systems of chronology have been pub-
lished to the world. Dr. Hales in his New 
Analysis of Chronology, has collected for the 
benefit of the student, and the curious, more 
than one hundred and twenty such calculations. 
Respecting the time of the creation, the three 
copies of the Bible materially differ, and in 
framing a chronological theory, one chronologist 
follows the Hebrew text, another the Septuagint 
version, while another may be influenced in his 
Opinions by the three; the Hebrew, Samaritan, 
and Septuagint, or Greek. 
I do not believe that an intelligent person can 
sit down and carefully and patiently read the 
arguments of standard chronologists, such as 
Bishop Usher, Dr. Hales, Sir Isaac Newton, 
Clinton, Greswell, Browne, and such like, and 
our own beloved, learned and lamented chronolo-
gists, Miller and Bliss, and not arise from the 
task impressed with the inseparable obstacles to 
a knowledge of the year in our Anno Domini 
when this globe shall number its age of 6000 
years—the deep, settled conviction will be that 
the great Creator for some wise purpose, has seen 
fit to place that fact beyond the reach of the 
human mind. The same may be said in rela-
tion to the shorter period, the 2300 years, in 
which is embraced the 1335 years. 
Mr. Miller, who possessed a mind peculiarly 
adapted to historic and chronological researches, 
said, after he had completed his system of Scripture 
dates : "If this chi onology is not correct,I shall de-
spair of ever getting from the Bible history, a true 
account of the age of the world." He compiled 
his table from a careful review of Bishop Ush-
er's, in which he detected an important error. 
Then he cheerfully submitted it to that severe 
criticism, sharpened by the most cruel prejudice, 
which he was conscious awaited its publication. 
Prof. Bush, in one of his prophetic lectures, 
having occasion to refer to Mr. Miller's system 
of chronology, spoke of his genius as a chronolo-
gist, as of the highest order, declaring also, that 
time alone could prove his calculations to be in-
correct. 
When the specificness of our chronology had 
been thus demonstrated to be unreliable, our or-
gan, the Advent Herald, ingenuously said: "We 
admit that we were mistaken in the definite 
time ; and that the time in which we expected 
our Lord has passed, without our witnessing the 
events for which we looked. And, as honest 
men, we will relinquish all that is thus dis-
proved. We admit that it is thus proved that 
we do not know the definite time, and we relin-
quish that part of our position." 
It again said, "It is now proved that those 
chronologists whom we have followed are not 
perfectly accurate; and while there is a varia-
tion from perfect accuracy, it cannot be shown 
whether that variation is one day, one year more 
or less ; nor can it be shown which of the sev-
eral chronologists within the disputed circle, who 
in any way vary from the ones we have followed, 
are the most accurate." 
It still more emphatically said : "While we be-
lieve as we have done, and as we hope to be-
lieve while we are in this world, that the Lord's 
advent may transpire at any time, we also 
repudiate any dogmatical attempt at a specific 
point of termination." 
And in an address to the public we said, "Our 
position is one of continued and confident expecta-
tion, with no time which must necessarily intervene 
between the present and the time of the Lord's re-
turn—having run out all the prophetic periods, 
according to our chronology and date of their 
commencement, being at the terminus of all his-
toric prophecy ; and occupying that point of 
time, to which the primitive church and reform-
ers looked, and which is designated by the signs 
of the times ; we may daily and hourly look for 
the coming of our King,—not knowing the day 
or the hour, or when the definite time is ; and 
yet knowing it is at the very door, that it can-
not be long delayed, and may burst upon us at 
any moment. Thus we will continue to wait 
and watch, praying for, and loving his appearing; 
yet willing to tarry here God's time, until Sa-
lem's golden spires shall burst upon our vision, 
and we shall enter upon eternal realities." 
Such we deliberately announced to the church 
and the world to be "OUR POSITION.", It was in 
fact, a return to Mr. Miller's original position. 
He at first taught the coming of Christ about 
the year 1843 ; and it was not till a very large 
number were positive on the year, that he limit-
ed himself to that year." And the term about 
has been explained many times to signify "the 
disputed circle," to "look for the hope soon to 
be revealed,"—"the advent is now at the very 
door,"—"time not remote,"—"near to in time," 
and kindred expressions. 
This position iy very clearly taught in the il-
lustrations' which Christ has given of a porter 
bidden to watch at the gate for the return of his 
master from a journey—of men who wait for their 
lord's return from the wedding. To the former 
it was a command to sleepless vigilance, for he 
would not know when the master would come; 
at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, 
or in the morning—the latter were to hold them-
selves in .-enstant readiness, so that when he 
came and ..)!,acked they might "open unto him 
immediately." 
The lesso.n to his church is, "Wherefore be 
ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think 
not, the Son of Man cometh." 
On this point our sentiments were very clear-
ly and truthfully expressed by Elder limes, 
when he says, "We are placed in a waiting and 
watching position ; not knowing the true date, 
among the many, yet we know the time with 
sufficient exactness for all practical purposes. 
Besides, this position perfectly agrees with the 
entire teaching of the Savior, who assures us we 
may know when he is 'nigh, ev Ai at the doors.' 
This is the true and Scriptural position," And 
why is not the following cautton as applicable 
now as it was years since ? 
The only safe position is to be always looking, 
waiting, and in readiness for the event. Any 
theory that defers his coming to the future 
should be regarded with suspicion. It is in 
that the danger consists. To defer the Lord's 
coming two or three years, when he may come 
to-day, would render us liable to be overtaken 
as a thief. 'Watch ye therefore ! 
If it could be proved that the manner we for-
merly expounded those admonotory Scriptures, 
having reference to Christ's speedy coming, in 
order to conform them to the argument of defi-
nite time ; that the numerous subsequent apolo-
getic addresses and confessions made to the pub-
lic, and that the policy in relation to this sub-
ject, which has been defended and maintained 
against time advocates within, and opposers of 
our fail without, for nearly 20 years, were 
really unscriptural, then, undoubtedly, it would 
become our bounden duty to make an open, 
manly, Christian recantation, and thus ingenu-
ously, whatever may be the consequences to us 
personally or collectively, return to the position 
we so long ago abandoned as untenable. 
In order to this, one thing more would be-
come essential :—a system of Scripture chronol-
ogy, which in our opinion would bear the test of 
the most rigid examination, analytically and as 
a whole; possessinc, the rare merit of demonstra- 
A chronology of the Bible has been presented 
before the public, which, if the author's asser-
vations concerning it be true, it is all we can de-
sire as a basis for a new theory on the sub-
ject of specific time. He calls "upon all classes ; 
the clergy and the laity, the learned and the un-
learned, the rich and the poor, together with 
those who govern and those who are governed—
to ponder well the facts and arguments herein 
adduced to its support." 'More particularly," 
he says on the clergy, "will devolve the duty 
either to expose the fallacy, or admit the legiti-
macy of our corclusions." 
He claims to have "demonstrated the Cue 
period of the world's history fronr the creation 
and fall." "To show the exact proximinate po-
sition, as to time, of the world and the church 
to the 'Close of this dispensation." "That he 
has demonstrated, that the two chronological 
chains of Holy Scripture, the historic and the 
prophetic combined, neither fall short of, nor over-
leap, but exactly fill up that period of 6000 years 
to a faction." "That the current year, A. D.' 
1868, completes the six thousandth year of the 
world's history, from the creation and fall of 
man" 
But this chronolgy of the Bible, agreeably to 
the ea:nest request of its compiler, and because 
the occasion made it a duty, has been carefully 
reviewed ; and the result of the examination has 
been published in a manner so plain, and simple 
that its defects could be easily understood, by 
even a mere child, in the science of figures. 
Those mistakes so palpable, and fatal to its 
claims to accuracy, it is strange should have 
escaped the notice of the compiler ; for the strong 
faith he cherished in its inerrability, as express-
ed in the term "demonstrated," co aid only have 
been the result of much time and labor expended 
in making up the details of his chronological 
table. 
Gratitude to God demands an humble ac-
knowledgement of his kind interpositions in our 
temporal affairs. We cannot soon forget the 
dfficulties, for they were peculiarly trying, 
which attended the inaugurating of our present 
pecuniary policy, and the subsequent, oft re-
peated assistance so signally extended by the 
Divine providence, in meeting our pressing 
necessities. 
The American Millennial Association was 
formed for the purpose of owning and managing 
a publication office, and it was organized and 
put into operation with not a dollar in its trea-
sury. When negotiation was pending for the 
purchase of the office of the Herald, the ques- 
tion was asked, more than once, "in what way was 
it expected to meet the liabilities of the debt ?" 
and the query was a very natural one, for the for- 
mer proprieter said, that the office was not self- 
sustaining by about $400 per year. If the As-
sociathn was poor, and if the prospect, in a 
mere business point of view was rather unprom- 
ising, still, there was no lack of faith in the im-
mutable word of Him who hath said, "I will 
nearer leave thee, nor forsake thee." Now we 
have only to contrast the present with the past 
to know that the Master has most graciously 
blest this branch of our work. The burden of 
debt has been, in its details, promptly removed ; 
i some of them before they were legally due, not- 
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currency through which the country has passed. 
and the extravagant rise in the price of every 
kind of printing material, the full size and reg-
ular issue of our periodical has been preserved ; 
the secular advertisements, which were a neces-
sity, have by vote of the Association, been dis-
continued, in order that the entire paper may 
be devoted to its legitimate, original, appropri-
ate mission. And the practical sympathy which 
has been so generally manifested by the brethren 
and sisters, whenever the wants of the office 
have been made known to them, is not only an 
assurance that the manner of conducting our 
temporal department meets their approval, but it 
proves that there exists a deep, permanent, reli-
able devotion to the great interests of this cause, 
which gives much hope in reference to the 
maintainance and propagation of the glorious 
doctrines we cherish for time to come. 
Temporal prosperity, however, should not al-
ways be taken as a sure evidence of God's spe-
cial favor. 
Christ made no promise of a majority of num-
bers, neither of affluency to his church, but 
rather a condition of poverty in worldly things; 
"Not many wise men after the flesh, not many 
mighty, not many noble are called." God hath 
generally fixed his love upon the unlettered, 
those destitute of power and influence ; James 
says, "the poor of this world," are "chosen." 
Such was to be the external state of the church, 
while inwardly, it would be rich— "rich in 
faith"—this she has ever found to be a never-
failing source of supply for every real want. 
Nevertheless, if as a people, we place all our 
trust in Jesus, and purpose from the heart, to 
"earnestly contend for the faith which was once 
delivered to the saints"—to maintain, defend, 
and promulgate, with zeal and diligence, fervent 
and untiring, actuated by no selfish or mere sec-
tarian motive, but out of zeal and love for truth 
and its Author, and in order to save perishing 
sinners, then it may be expected with all con-
fidence that Christ will furnish the means nec-
cessary to the vigorous prosecution of the work 
he has given us to do, and we may with good 
reason, regard a prosperous state of our finances 
as an indication of the Divine blessing attending 
our labor. 
I think we may have reason for encourage-
ment in the general disposition now so apparent 
among both ministers and lay members, to as-
sume high ground in reference to all the funda-
mentals of the Christian faith. TJ not only 
keep, in all their purity and importance, our de-
nominational tenets distinctly before the world, 
such as the speedy, personal and visible advent 
of Christ to judge mankind; the literal resurrec-
tion of the dead, the translation of the saints, 
. the general conflagration, and the personal and 
eternal reign of the Messiah on the renewed 
earth, but also to give that attention to, and 
defend and press home upon the hearts of the 
unregenerate, every essential in the Divine 
method of giving pardon, and of bringing re-
demption to our lost race. 
Here permit me to say, that nothing has con-
duced so much to bring about this prevailing de-
sire for doctrinal soundness, and to make us sen-
sible of the duty of giving prominence in our 
preaching and writings to all cardinal truths 
which their infinite merit really demands, as the 
dissemination of the most startling and perni-
cious errors, eminently calculated to undermine 
the foundation of the true faith, under the guise 
of Adventism. Expose and repel these here-
esies, we will, God being our helper. 
[To be continued.] 
-Rome or Death." 
proudly and profanely called, Eternal City, the 
heaven on earth ! Is the coveted desideratum 
to be realized? Shall the "Great City" which 
once reigned over the kings of the earth become 
the metropolis of a united Italy, and by-and-by 
increase in wealth, and grandeur, and power ? 
We shall see. Whilst all eyes were turned 
towards Rome, and thousands of hearts throbbed 
with earnest desire and hope that such would be 
consummated, the writer of this article asserted 
(basing his views on the unerring Word of God) 
that there would be no united Italy, having Rome 
for its centre, and no amalgamation of races un-
der the fostering care of Victor Emmanuel. 
No. "We would have healed Babylon, but she 
is not healed, forsake her." What means the 
crafty, wily fox, who builds up with one hand 
and throws down with the other ? 
What are the intentions of the "Protector ?" 
Doubtless to aggrandize himself and to glorify 
"La Belle France." He, however, is compelled 
to act cautiously ; and, with consummate hypoc-
risy, is the declared friend of liberty, whilst his 
actions give the lie to his professions. There 
has appeared on the field of action, Garibaldi, 
the brave and true, the man of the people, whose 
heart is if t to free his beloved Italy from the 
terrible incubus which has for ages burdened her, 
and has well-nigh deprived her of all vitality. 
The question arises, will he succeed? He will 
doubtless continue to play an important part in 
the affairs of his country, but to liberate her will 
be the work of a higher power after that she has 
been baptized in blood. Rome can never become 
the capital of Italy. She is to be destroyed, 
and ere long men's ears will tingle with the 
dreadful news "Babylon is fallen, is fallen." 
The programme of the future of Italy seems to 
be, that Garibaldi's movements will create a 
civil war in the Peninsula, which will call forth 
the strenuous interference of the "Protector," 
who, in all probability, will for the ostensible 
purpose of conciliating the various races of Italy, 
form them into a confederation of States over 
which he will place Viceroys, subject to his own 
dictation ; and thus appearing as the ten (un-
crowned) horned beast of Rev. [7, at which 
time the Papacy will resume pro •irpnt., an arro-
gant position, and become so intolerant as to in-
cur the indignation of the ten horns, and the 
"Protector" who will unhorse her, hate her, 
make her desolate, and naked, eat her flesh, and 
burn her with fire (Rev. 17 : 16.) Another 
act in the great drama will be the mustering of 
the troops of various nations in the "States of 
the Church," for the purpose of checkmating 
the assumption of the "Protector," and thus will 
be enacted the "treading of the wine-press with-
out the city," (Rev. 14 : 20,) after which signal 
d
.0 gment of the Papacy, together with the wick-
ed nations of the earth, mutt drink of the "cup 
of the fierceness of his wrath," until the "Prince 
of Peace" returns to make wars cease unto the 
end of the earth, to break the bow, to cut the 
spear in sunder, and to burn the chariot in the 
fire. (Psa. 46: 9.) 
I would refer the reader to a work published 
by the celebrated Mr. Faber, a short time before 
his decease, entitled "The Revival of the French 
Emperorship," in which work he shows that the 
Septimo octavo head of the Beast of Rev. 17, 
has appeared. It' so, then the scarlet colored 
beast with ten uncrowned horns will be easily 
recognized ; especially since the so called infal-
lible church has declared that she is supported 
by thousands of French bayonets, and by the 
Emperor who asserted a short time ago in his 
proclamation, that "France is still, as she ever 
has been, the supporter and protector of the Holy 
Faith." 
his subordinate clergy, were the instruments 
used in the bloody persecution of the martyrs 
of Jesus, still the murderous edicts were issued 
by Justinian, the Greco-Romano Emperor from 
Rome on the Bosphorus. If, therefore, the uni- 
ty of the two cities, (both, by the way, built on 
seven hills,) be observed, and their consequent 
identity maintained, then will the city of the 
eighteenth chapter of Revelations be easily rec-
ognized, and as both places have been guilty of 
the blood of God's saints, so will they suffer a 
like and fearful overthrow. 
Commentators have been perplexed whilst 
striving to make Rome on the Tiber answer to 
the city described in the eighteenth chapter of 
Revelations, not taking the Rome on the Bos-
phorus into the account, and seeing that a mar- 
itime and commercial city is presented, they have 
supposed that the merchandise spoken of, con-
sisted of dispensations, indulgences, and prayers 
for release out of purgatory, &c. But this evi- 
dently is a mistake, for it is not her merchan-
dise which is spoken of, but their, viz., the mer- 
chants, who traffic in her markets, This will 
appear the more apparent, if the reader will re-
member that the Rome on the Bosphorus was 
for many centuries the grand mart of the na-
tions in whose bazaars were sold, (as at this day,) 
all the things enumerated in the above named 
chapter. 
Gibbon, in the 53d chapter of his "Decline 
and Fall of the Roman Empire," describes the 
stores of riches with which Constantinople 
abounded, and speaks of the stores of gold and 
silver, precious stones, pearls, her clothing of! 
purple and scarlet. silk and fine linen. Mark 
the expression "fine linen." Gibbon states that 
the linen brought into the Constantinople ba- 
zaars was so fine, that "an entire piece might be 
rolled into the hollow of a cane." He tells us 
also that a Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tude- 
la, who visited her last in the twelfth century, 
was lost in his admiration of the Byzantine rich- 
es. "It is here," he says, "in the Queen of Cities, 
that the tributes of the Greek empire are annu- 
ly deposited, and the lofty towers are filled with 
precious magazines of silks, purple, and gold," 
and he speaks of the merchants of Persia, Egypt, 
Russia, Hungary, Italy, and Spain, who traded 
in her markets, And need I remind the reader 
that there is no city in the world of more com-
mercial importance than is Constantinople, and 
where so many nationalities congregate ; (in 
whose "Golden Horn" and neighboring sea, so 
many vessels of different nations float.) 
Then, when this section of the great city is 
fired, and becomes a heap of smouldering ruins, 
how very natural for the merchants of the earth, 
and shipmasters, and sailors to lament over her 
commercially ; for no man buys their merchan- 
dise any more. Thus, whilst she is mourned 
over politically and commercially, Heaven, and 
holy apostles and prophets rejoice, for God 
avenges them on her. Thus, when Rome entire 
is destroyed, there shall ascend to Heaven a 
shout of triumph, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen." 
God is crying now "Conic out of her my people, 
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye 
receive not of her plagues, for her sins have 
reached unto Heaven, and God hath remembered 
her iniquities," And ere Rome on the Tiber 
falls, the Jews will be induced by some means 
to leave her ; for as God could not destroy the 
cities of the Plain until Lot had escaped, so will 
he not de-troy this place until the remnant of 
the children of the captivity be delivered. Thus, 
we perceive that the Most High will mingle the 
wicked and their dwellings in one common ruin, 
as in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, Jerusa-
lem, &c. 
In conclusion, allow me to direct the prayer-
ful attention of my brethren to the pouring out 
of the seven vials, which is an answer to the 
prayers of the martyrs of Jesus, for we are told 
that one of the four beasts or living creatures, 
gives unto the seven angels the seven vials con- 
taining the filling up of the wrath of God : and 
as these living creatures are the church of God, 
so it would appear that the one spoken of is, 
that portion of the church (or martyr section,) 
which cries under the altar, "How long, 0 Lord, 
holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge 
our blood on them that dwell on the earth ?" 
Rev. 6 : 19. The pouring out of the vials, ing • 
eludes the destruction of the Papal and Mahon]. 
medan powers, and he must be near sighted, in-
deed, who cannot perceive, in the events which 
are crowding upon us, a literal fulfilment of the 
just and terrible retributions with which the 
Most High threatens the nations, as the fore-
runners of the glorious day so long expected and 
so ardently desired. It is the writer's earnest 
prayer, that the Lord's people may be stirred up 
to diligence and watchfulness, for "Behold he 
cometh as a thief !" The unconverted are warned 
to "turn from their idols, to serve the living and 
true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, 
even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath 
to come." 
How solemnly impressive are the present 
times ! How important it is that we should 
have in possession the necessary preparation for 
coming events and our returning Lord; the par. 
don of our manifold sins through faith in the 
atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and the renew-
ing of' our hearts by the agency and operation of 
the Holy Spirit, for the Redeemer bath declared 
that "Except a man be born again, he cannot see 
the kingdom of God ;" and that "God so loved 
the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 
that whosoever believeth in him should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life." May the reader 
and the writer be among the "saved of the Lord 
in the day of his coming." Amen.—Tracts for 
the Times. 
A Modern quaker Apostle. 
Stephen Grellet was born in Limoges, France, 
in 1773 ; his father having an extensive por-
celain manufactory, and numbering Louis XVI 
among his friends. The family were Roman 
Catholics, one of Stephen's sisters having be-
come a nun. When the terrible days of the 
French revolution came, the father's property 
was lost, and the children scattered. Stephen 
sought refuge in Holland, and afterwards in 
America ; and having fallen away from his 
father's faith, he joined the Quakers. Making 
his home in Philadelphia, he was very useful 
during the severe ravages of the yellow fever, 
and narrowly escaped from death, in conse-
quence of exposure and fatigue. Feeling that 
the Lord had work for him to do as a preacher, 
he gave up his mercantile pursuits, and travelled 
through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and 
North Carolina—enduring many hardships, and 
creating much religions interest in those who 
heard his exhortations. Although he married, 
in 1804, our Quaker missionary did not remain 
at home—but crossing the ocean, extended his 
labors to his native land. So simple were his 
manners and habits, and so blameless his life, 
that "be attracted to his confidence nuns and 
priests, Bishops of the Greek church, and even 
its Patriarch ; and he did not deem that time 
was at all lost, while he was wending his way 
to scattered and unknown outcasts like the Mala-
kans and Mennonites, and the Duhobortzi of 
Russia." He went through Great Britian, do-
ing his work in his own way, and that with 
many encouraging tokens of success. While in 
London, he sought after the Jews, and preached 
to pickpockets, and housebreakers, and abandon-
ed women. In 1819, he visited Pope Pius VII. 
—the interview lasting more than an hour—
and his holiness being very much impressed by 
the simple earnestness of the Quaker. 
To the last hour of his active life, Grellet 
manifested the same tender concern for the 
whole human family—and spared no pains to 
make them better. He died at his own home, 
in 1855, at the age of eighty-two. 
Many men have been more talked of; but 
there are few who have shown greater evidences 
of sincerity of heart. 
The Missionary Hymn. 
The late Dr. Raffles in a letter to Dr. Lowell 
Mason, gives the following account of the origin 
of the Missionary Hymn which is now sung the 
world over :—"From Greenland's icy moun-
tains." 
"Heber, then Rector of Flodnet, married the 
daughter of Dean Shipley, Rector or Vicar of 
Wrexham, in North Wales. On a certain Sat-
urday, he came to the house of his father-in-
law, who resided at the rectory or vicarage, to 
"Rome or death !" The rallying war-cry of I have upon a former occasion (1854,) shown 
the man of Marsala, has gone forth with light- that Rome embraces more than the city on the 
ning speed and thunder tones throughout the Tiber, it includes Rome on the Bosphorus, called 
length and breadth of Italy, and has found an Constantinople, (but not so intended by its found-
echo in ten thousand hearts. The response of er,) who entitled it "New Rome." Indeed every 
the spirit-arousing and significant motto has re- scholar knows that the city of Rome was coex-
verberated around the coasts of Europe, and tensive with the Roman dominions ; but these 
will shortly be heard throughout the entire civ- two localities were, par excellence, the great cen- 
ilized world. 
tre of unity, Rome on the Tiber being the sacer- 
Rome or death ! Rome, the burdensome stone dotal section, and Rome on the Bosphorus, the 
of Europe, the goal of Garibaldi's hopes, the an- secular section of the great Imperial City. And 
ticipated centre of a United Italy. Rome, the although the Bishop of the elder Rome, with 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Total, $530 19 
OUR LIABILITIES. 
Due the treasury on former account, $42 59 
" Eld. York for one year's labor, 300 00 
" Eld. Leverton for seven months, 72 39 
" Eld. Smith for three months, 32 80 
Eld. York's travelling and incidental 
expenses, 
73 21 
Eld. Leverton's travelling expenses, 31 33 
Total, $100 00 
There are subscriptions for the last two years 
yet unpaid ; some of which we expect to collect, 
which will nearly or quite balance our debt. 
But our financial prosperity is of much less 
consequence in its details, than the results it ac-
complishes in Gospel labor, which are cheering, 
indeed, as far as known ; but of course, they 
cannot be fully seen in time. Eld. York has la-
bored in about fifty towns, and held about three 
hundred meetings ; attended seven or eight fu-
nerals ; baptized over twenty-five converts ; and 
many others have been converted under his la-
bors, whom he has not baptized, while many 
have been reclaimed. Eld. Leverton has la-
bored in some twenty towns, in which some 
twelve to fifteen have been converted, and others 
reclaimed, and many revived. Eld. Smith 
preached in many towns with good results, until 
taken sick,—numbers not given. 
Thus this "gospel of the kingdom" has been 
preached, by the mission, in nearly a hundred 
towns the past year, with blessed results, many 
of' them entirely new fields, where the truth is 
now planted, and new societies are springing up 
to sound out the word of the Lord in regions be-
yond. In many old fields and destitute places, 
the cause has been greatly revived and converts 
multiplied. The missionaries have also scat-
tered books and tracts to preach when they can-
not : 
Total amount scattered, $117 52 
This we regard an important part of mission 
work, by which very great good is accomplished, 
as well as by the preaching of the word. 
Before closing this report, we think it advisa-
ble to call the attention of this conference to con-
sider whether some better mode of mission labor 
may not be adopted. Although the present 
mode has proved a great benefit in advancing the 
cause, yet it leaves the way open for dissatisfac-
tion and complaint, which dampens the zeal and 
energies of some of the membership. At the 
beginning of this enterprise, it was freely dis-
cussed in conference, and generally admitted to 
be important for the mission, that all our minis-
ters should interest themselves to solicit sub-
scriptions in their various field of labor for this 
work. Yet, for some reason, this has not been 
done at all, except by two of the ministry, as far 
as we have learned. It was also agreed that it 
was best that the missionaries should generally 
attend the Quarterly Conferences, and there 
make known the nature and claims of the mis-
sion, and obtain such aid as might be given by 
its friends ; and counsel from the ministry, 
and others, in regard to new and important 
fields of' labor. But during the last year, our 
missionaries have visited and la'bored with sev-
eral such conferences, receiving no aid whatever, 
and but little manifest sympathy for the mission. 
There are also various places, where our mis-
sionary has labored, and brethren, either through 
Paid out for books and tracts now on 
hand, 
18 87 
MISSION PROPERTY ON HAND. 
One horse, valued at 
One sleigh, harness and robes, 
Books and tracts on hand, 
Due the treasury, 
$40 97 
The amount sold is $102 62 
Given away, 
15 00 
Total, $552 20 
$70 00 
11 13 
18 87 
22 10 
already paid, enough to pay the outstanding 
debt of $42 59, and nearly all our liabilities for 
the year; when we consider this progress, we 
have great reason for gratitude to God for his 
aid, and much encouragement to continue this 
good work ; although there be conflicting ele-
ments to meet, where we should expect encour-
agement and united effort. 
Our receipts from all sources, the last year, 
are as follows : 
Collected on previous subscriptioRs, $24 00 
" the present year, myself, 60 00 
" by Elder R. R. York, 290 88 
" Thomas Sulith, 32 80 
On hand in books and tracts, 20 12 
Collected by Elder C. 11. Leverton, 102 30 
remain over Sunday, and preach in the morning 
the first sermon ever preached in that church 
for the Church Missionary Society. As they 
sat conversing after dinner in the evening, the 
Dean said to Heber, 'Now as you are a poet, 
suppose you write a hymn for the service to-
morrow morning.' Immediately he took pen, 
ink, and paper, and wrote that hymn, which, 
bad he written nothing else, would have immor-
talized him. He read it to the Dean, and said 
'will that do ?"Ay e,' he replied, 'and we will 
have it printed and distributed in the pews, 
that the people may sing it after the sermon.' 
'But,' said Heber, 'to what tune does it go ?' 
'0,' he added, 'it will go to 'Tomas when the seas 
were roaring.' And so he wrote in the cor-
ner, at the top of the page, 'Tomas when the seas 
were roaring.' The hymn was printed accord-
ingly." 
Report of the Maine Advent Conference. 
According to appointment, the tenth session 
of the Maine Annual Advent Conference com-
menced Thursday, Oct. 8th, in Richmond. The 
day was very rainy, and but few arrived at the 
place, and a less number at the meeting. Those 
who met prayed for God's blessing so attend our 
conference, and adjourned to Friday morning. 
Friday, 9 o'clock, A. M., met in conference, 
and spent the forenoon in prayer, and in testify-
ing for Christ. It was a joyous season to the 
Lord. The omens of the blessing of God begun 
to appear, and the hearts of the•children were 
greatly refreshed. Reinforcements came in from 
various parts of the State, so that there was 
quite an army, who seemed to be clothed with 
the armor ot God, and ready for action. 
At 2 o'clock, P. M., Bro. Benjamin Spauld-
ing talked to us from the text—"Love worketh 
no ill to his neighbor." After which several 
followed with stirring testimonies. 
Evening, 6 1.2 o'clock. Preaching by Eld. 
C. II. Leverton. Subject—"The Glory of God 
filling the earth." 
Saturday, 8 o'clock, P. M., met for business. 
After prayer, the object of the meeting was stated. 
Eld. S. K. Partridge was chosen President of 
the conference the coming year. Eld. I. C. 
Wellcome was chosen Scribe. On account of 
ill health, Eld. W. urged to be excused, as he 
was liable to entire paralysis at any moment. He 
was not excused, but Eld. R. R. York was 
chosen Assistant Scribe. The conference had 
increased much in number of officers and pri-
vates, who came in from their various scouting 
marches and battle-fields to report, and to plan 
for another year's campaign. The time was oc-
cupied, until half-past twelve o'clock, in hearing 
the testimonies of the Lord's servants; reports 
of the ministers, and others, of the state of the 
cause ; progress of truth ; conversion of sinners, 
and revival of the work of God in their various 
fields of labor. These were generally "good re-
ports," showing much increase in the faith by 
conversions of sinners, and conversions of church-
members. Our hearts were greatly cheered, 
amid the scenes of affliction of this generation, 
to learn that the word of God runs and is glori-
fied, and a people are being prepared to greet 
the Lord with joy at his corning. The report of 
the Mission Board being called for, the Chairman 
gave the following : 
MISSION REPORT. 
Belored Brethren,—It becomes our duty, as 
your official board, to report to you at this time, 
our action and progress in the work assigned us, 
in connection with the Maine Advent Mission. 
We feel happy in being able to say that the 
blessing of God has rested upon our labors, and 
given us a good degree of success ; yet we de-
sire to see much greater progress. But when we 
remember that this mission started only three 
years ago, with very few active supporters, who 
contributed less than fifty dollars the first year ; 
then that the interest so increased that the sec- 
ond year we raised $422 55, in the State, and 
$62 out of the State ; sustained a missionary, 
ancl purchased a team for the mission, which left 
us but little in debt ; and again, that during the 
year just closed, we have employed one mission- 
ary the whole year, two others a part of the 
year, in continued active labor; have raised by 
subscriptions and contributions within the State, 
prejudice against missions, or ignorance of their It was then voted that the Secretary prepare 
resources, considered themselves under no obli- his report of this conference, and forward the 
gations to contribute to aid the laborer, because same to the World's Crisis, and the Advent 
Herald, for publication. 
Voted, To adjourn to meet at the call of the 
Chairman and Secretary, in 1864. 
Eld. D. H. Hanscomb preached a discourse 
on the resurrection, on Saturday evening, which 
I should have stated in its order. 
Sunday 10 1-2 o'clock. The house was 
densely crowded with earnest listeners, to whom 
Eld. L. L. Howard preached on the destiny of 
the nations, the signs of the times, and the 
prospect of Christ's immediate coming. 
P. M., Eld. I. Darman preached a discourse 
on the cleansing of the church by the word, to 
an attentive and deeply affected audience; after 
which, a goodly number of the waiting disciples 
sat down and partook of the Lord's Supper, re-
joicing in our hearts that we had embraced the 
truth, and were thereby shown the prospect of 
soon gaining eternal deliverance from evil, and 
rest with our blessed Savior, on the new earth. 
Truly the communion of saints is sweet ; and 
we long that more may' know it, and enter into 
peace with God and man. 
Evening. Our last meeting was a social one, 
and the testimonies and exhortations were cheer-
ing and heart-searching to the audience ; while 
some sinners seemed desirous to enjoy what the 
people of God do, and be ready for the coming 
day of God. 
The attendance, this year, was large ; but 
would have been much larger had it not been 
very rainy in the beginning. The ministers in 
attendance, were Elders Thomas Smith, I. Dam-
man, S. Nason, S. K. Partridge, 11. B. Sevey, 
L. L. Howard, D. M. Hanscomb C. H. Lever-
ton, J. R. Hall, R. R. York, I. C. Welcome, J. 
Somes, J. Partridge, L. Rhodes, and H. D. 
Read. The best of union, peace and harmony, 
prevailed during their deliberations ; and we 
parted, desiring that we each might gain the 
victory, and soon enter the eternal rest at Jesus' 
coming. 
S. K. PARTRIDGE, President. 
I. C. WELCOME, Scribe. 
Yarmouth, Me., Oct. 13th, 1863. 
P. S. As only a few of the Mission Board 
were present at the proper time to arrange with 
ministers to go on the mission, it was deferred 
until we could correspond with all. We expect 
to engage two or three, and will give due notice 
of them when we do. Let those who are wil-
ling to aid the mission, sit down and send me 
their pledges. The more we get, the more work 
may be done. A thousand dollars could be 
well expended, and God be glorified in it. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
friends, solicit subscriptions and contributions in I 
their fields of labor to aid in sustaining the 
Maine Advent Mission, as they may have op-
portunity. 
It was moved, discussed, and heartily adopt-
ed, to hold a ministers' conference, once a year, 
or more frequently, to become more fully ac-
quainted with each other; to examine and dis-
cuss the Scriptures, and the different views en-
tertained among us ; to ascertain the fellowship 
of the ministry, and to discipline ourselves. 
It was voted to have the first one commence 
Friday, 10 o'clock, A. M., Jan 1, 1864. Elds. 
L. L. Howard, Israel Damman, and R. R. York, 
were chosen to find the place, and advertise the 
appointment in due season. 
Voted, That the chair nominate a committee 
of four, one from each quarterly conference, to 
inquire into the expediency, and confer in re-
gard to a revision of the boundaries, and an in-lof the tract were held together by a thread ; 
creased number of divisions of the quarterly and in hindering one man from reading it, he 
conferences, and to report to the ministers' con- bad introduced it to a whole company. The 
ference, to be acted on if thought best. Elds. reader of the tract was led to reflection and 
H. B. Sevey, R. R. York, Thomas Smith, and prayer, and became an earnest Christian and 
A. H. Wyman, were nominated and chosen. j tract distributor. Three others became dili- 
g 
Voted, To adjourn to Sunday, 8 o'clock,ent laborers in the Master's vineyard. 
 
A. M. 
Never Mention it to Me Again." 
Sunday, A. M., 8 o'clock, met, and after As Miss A— passed through the wards of 
prayer and some discussion, and other remarks,ithe soldier's hospital on B— Street, speaking 
a committee waited on the congregation, and re- words of comfort and encouragement, a stern, 
ceived the subscriptions for the Maine Advent' middle-aged man told her of a night of extreme 
Mission, amounting to $55 10, some of which— pain. She expressed tender sympathy, and ad- 
$17 30,—was paid down. 
ided, "I hope you felt, though absent from loved 
the Board had pledged him a support. Some 
have actually withheld what they desired to give 
the minister, if he was not a missionary. 
These items are cited, not to complain of 
those who think it best to devote their money to 
other departments of the work ; but to show 
that there are elements of dissatisfaction among 
those, who, perhaps may become fully united in 
some other mode of' labor, and thus avoid divi-
sion of interest in this important work, in which 
all should be united. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, 
I. C. WELLCOME, 
President and Treasurer. 
The report was adopted ; after which the 
Board asked to be discharged, and were dis-
charged. Adjourned to 3 o'clock, P. M. 
P. M., 121-2 o'clock, preaching by Eld. Sam-
uel Nason ; after which the conference resumed 
business, when a discussion was had whether we 
should adopt another mode of mission labor, by 
adopting the itinerant circuit system, or any 
other better than our former one. The prevail-
ing opinion seemed to be, that our former sys-
tem, though not perfect, was the best. It was 
therefore moved, and unanimously adopted, to 
pursue the former plan. 
It was moved, and adopted, to choose the 
former Board of Officers. 
It was moved, and adopted, to add two more 
to the Board. Walter Nichols and J. W. Grif-
fin were nominated, and unanimously chosen. 
Present members of the Board of Missions,—I. 
C. Wellcome, Yarmouth, Chairman and Trea-
surer; A. H. Wyman, Jefferson, in place of R. 
Herley, resigned; I. Wight, Augusta; E. M. 
Haggett, Hartfort ; S. Timberlake, Livermore; 
W. Nichols, North Searsport ; J. W. Griffin, 
Stark. 
A motion was made to receive Eld. I. Dam-
man as a member of this conference. Bro. Dam-
man give notice that a list of charges had been 
prosectlfed against him, by a man in the east, 
and he stood condemned as a bad man ; and he 
wished us to act understandingly, and not to re-
ceive him unless we had full fellowship for him, 
although he was in full fellowship and sympa-
thy with the conference. After considerable in-
quiry ot the several ministers, who are well ac-
quainted with him, his character and labors, he 
was unanimously received as a Christian minis-
ter. 
It was moved, and adopted, to receive Eld. 
J. Somes as a member of this conference. 
It was moved, and adopted, that all the min-
isters of this conference, as well as others of its 
The Torn Tract. 
Leigh Richmond, in walking up a hill to re-
lieve the horse of a coach in which he was trav-
elling, distributed several tracts to such persons 
as he chanced to meet. One was received and 
torn in two, and thrown on the ground. A fel-
low-traveller smiled and said, 
"See how your tract is treated ; there is one, 
at least, quite lost !" 
"I am not so sure of' that," said Mr. Rich-
mond, "at any rate, the husbandman sows not 
the less that some of the seeds may be trodden 
down." 
Reaching the top of the hill, and turning 
round to view the scenery, they saw that the 
wind had carried the torn tract over into the 
field among the haymakers, and that one of 
them was reading it to the others. The devil 
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BOSTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1863. 
JOSIAH LITCH, EDITOR. 
The readers of the Herat are most earnestly besought 
to give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God 
may be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it 
may be conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judg• 
ment and discernment of the truth, in nothing carried 
away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrother13 
disputation. 
The Love of Christ and the Terrors of the Lord. 
Two great influences moved the apostle Paul tc 
devote himself to the work of Christ's ministry 
And with the hand of a master he blended the twc 
with inimitable perfection, and made them sub-erv. 
ient to the oni great business of his life,—that o 
winning souls to Christ. So imbued was he witl 
these two influences that he could say, "Neither 
count I my life dear unto myself, so that I thigh 
finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have 
 
received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel o 
the grace of God." So faithfully had he devote ( 
himself to the work, that he exclaimed, "I am clea 
from the blood of all men, for I have not shtinne ( 
, to declare unto you the counsel of God." 
The first of these influences was "The love o 
Christ." "The love of Christ constraineth us." 
This may, and probably should be understood ii 
a twofold sense : 1. The love of Christ manifest ii 
his devotion to our interests. That he had this ii 
view, is evident from his remarks, which follow th 
above language : "The love of Christ constrainet 
us because we thus judge, that if one died for all 
then were all dead." The sentiment here taught 
is, that the world were all dead in trespasses an, 
sins ; that Christ's love for that world was so grea 
that he condescended to stoop from his lofty throne 
to the deepest humility and suffering, to secur
e 
their salvation. "He was rich, and for ou sake 
he became poor, that we through his poverty migh 
be rich." He was in glory with the father "befor 
the world was :" he laid aside that glory "and too 
upon him the form of a servant," that he migh 
raise us to the enjoyment of that glory with bin 
self; a glory that shall never end." "Behol 
what manner of love !" If Christ's love thus cot 
strained him to seek human welfare, why shoul 
not the knowledge and thought of it constrain us t 
co-operate with him in this holy and gloriot 
enterprise? Think of human wretchedness here 
Think of the wrath to come upon the world of tl 
ungodly ! Think of the worm which dieth not an 
of the fire which never shall be quenched ! To a 
this the sinner, for whom Christ died, was expose( 
and is, if he remains impenitent, still expose( 
Can we have a firm belief in the story of Gethsen 
ane and Calvary, and not be constrained by the ho' 
example, to exert our influence to secure the san 
end? "That they which live should not hencefori 
live unto themselves.'' 
But the love of Christ in the heart, is anothe 
and in fact, the great influence which moves tl 
' Christian. "Because the love of God is shed abro 
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us 
Is not this uniformly true in Christian experienc 
that the very moment the newborn soul tastes t 
love of Christ, the first impulse is, for those dear 
I. him in life? How eagerly unconverted friends 
sought out and pointed to the Lamb of God ! I 
r fervent the prayers which go up to God day a 
t night for their salvation ! What intensity of lo 
ing after them ! And all this is measured by the 
gree of the love of Christ in the heart. When ti 
e begins to wane, zeal in exact proportion slackens 
If reference to the salvation of others. But let i 
zeal be revived and quickened, and the same en 
tions return. But from whence this love? It 4 
I shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghosi 
From no other source can it be derived. In v 
be do we try to work ourselves up into this fram€ 
11 mind, unless the Holy Ghost takes of the things 
Christ and shows them to us, and implants I 
of holy principle. 
With what earnestness then should Christi 
Id cultivate the love of Christ in the heart, by cher 
ing the Spirit's influences, following his draw 
lk and leadings, praying for his presence and hi 
This was the prayer of the psalmist : "Restore u 
ld me the joys of thy salvation : uphold me with 
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free spirit : then will I teach transgressors thy law Bear with us, brethren, sisters, friends, if we 
and sinners shall be converted unto thee." Was it press this subject earnestly on you. You will bear 
not this constraining love of Christ which wrought us witness that we have not, since coming into the 
so wonderfully in and through the disciples on the office, troubled you with begging ; nor do we now 
day of Pentecost ? Was it not this which brought mean to beg ; but we do feel it a duty to call atten. 
five thousand to believe in Christ when Peter and tion to the value of the Herald as an Advent paper 
John healed the lame man at the temple gate, and and a family paper ; to its value to individuals, to 
preached Christ to the people ? Why, then, should churches, to ministers ; and with this before us, we 
not we who know Christ, and believe his word, be do feel anxious that it shall have a wider circulation. 
so filled with the Spirit and experience his love, So you had best, if tired of our importunity, learn a 
that we, like them, may see multitudes converted to lesson of the unjust judge, and so like him, prevent 
Christ? All heaven is interested in this work of being wearied. Let us all go at it. A brother in 
bringing sinners to repentance ; and why should Maine has already doubled his list. 
not we join with the angels in our interest in the 
same work? 
But "the terrors of the Lord" also acted upon 
this apostle. "Knowing the terrors of the Lord we 
persuade men." The first consideration mentioned 
as a terror of the Lord, is, "that we must all appear 
before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one 
may receive the things done in his body, whether 
they be good or evil." 0 dreadful thought ! that 
God will "bring every work into judgment, with 
every secrect thing ;" and that each in body, must 
receive according to his works. Well may sinners 
cry out, "Who shall he able to stand ?" "Indig-
nation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon 
every soul of man that doeth evil, to the Jew first 
and then also to the Gentile." 0, how his heart 
was wrung with anguish in view of the awful doom 
of the ungodly. "Many," he said "walk, of whom 
I have told you often, and now tell you, even weep-
ing, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ ; 
whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, 
whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly 
things." 
To what did these terrors of the Lord prompt 
this man of God ? Ile answers, to "persuade men." 
And with what earnestness did he persuade them. 
Think of him before his judge, reasoning of "right. 
eousness, temperance and judgment," till that judge 
trembled on his bench. Then his appeal to the 
king : "King Aggrippa, believest thou the prophets? 
I know that thou believest." 
0, that dreadful doom of the wicked, which he 
saw hanging over their heads, constrained him to a 
lifelong trial and endurance, if by any means he 
"might save some of them." 
Where are Paul's successors? What are we who 
look for our Lord's speedy return, doing to save 
sinners from eternal damnation ? We are aware 
that in this fastidious age it is not fashionable to 
use such language. But in the days of Paul, 
whether men would hear or forbear, he did not 
shun to declare the whole counsel of God. And 
why should not we do the same ? The same God is 
our master and judge ; the same day of judgment 
and eternal retribution is just before us ; 1800 
years nearer than then. May the God of all grace 
stir up his waiting people to labor and pray con-
tinually for the salvation of souls for whom Jesus 
shed his most precious blood ; and constrained by 
the love of Christ, and moved by the terrors of the 
Lord we shall not labor in vain. 
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viour with you." He replied, "Miss A—, 
you have spoken to me on tnat subject once be-
fore, and I want to say to you, never mention it 
to me again. If I want to be religious, I will 
send for a minister, and let him do the work." 
Sorrowfully she bade him good-morning, and 
passed on. 
One morning as she passed his bed, and he 
was sleeping, she laid some fresh flowers on his 
pillow, and noiselessly withdrew. After the fe-
fer left him he was disposed to sleep much, and 
every day his eyes were greeted with those fra-
grant remembrancers, At length he inquired of 
some of the ladies who there could be in the hos-
pital that cared so much for him, but no one told 
him. 
A few days after when he was getting strong. 
er, he awoke one morning and found not the ac-
customed boquet, but a neat copy of the New 
Testament on his pillow. "Is Miss A— in 
the hospital ?" he inquired ; "I know it must be 
her ; will you please send for her ?" He took 
her hand between his, and with a voice choked 
with emotion exclaimed, "Can you forgive my 
rude, ungentlemanly conduct towards you ? How 
could you be so kind ?" "I only want you to 
know how kind Jesus is, and how he loves you," 
was her gentle reply. 
Months after, a person met him in one of our 
suburb hospitals. He was still an invalid, though 
acting as nurse. and taking a deep interest in 
the religious welfare of his comrades. He spoke 
of' being in the hospital on B— Street, and 
was asked if he ever saw Miss A—there. 
"Miss A- ?" he replied—"the angel of the 
hospital—she was the means of bringing me to 
the Saviour."—American Messenger. 
Bow to Spend Evenings. 
Amos Lawrence wrote to his son in 1832 : 
"When I first came to this city (Boston) I took 
lodgings in the family of a widow who had com-
menced keeping boarders for a living. I was 
one of her first, and perhaps had been in the 
city two months when I went to this place ; and 
she, of course, while I remained, was inclined to 
adopt any rules for the boarders that I pre-
scribed. The only one I made was, that after 
supper, all the boarders that remained in the 
public room should keep quiet. for at least one 
hour, to give those who choose to study or read 
an opportunity of doing so without disturbance. 
The consequence was, that we had the most quiet 
and improving set of young men in the town. 
The few who did not wish to comply with the 
regulation went abroad after tea, sometimes to 
the theatre, sometimes to other places, but, to a 
man, became bankrupt in after life, not only in 
fortune, but in reputation ; while a majority of 
the other class sustained good characters, and 
some are now living who are ornaments to soci-
ety, and fill important stations." 
An undue love for amusements in youth, and 
evenings given to self-indulgence, undermine 
strength of character, and unfit for success in the 
stern struggles of life. Evenings spent at home 
in increasing the cheerfulness of the family cir 
cle, or enriching the mind by study ; or even 
ings given to God's service and labors of love 
will strengthen and ennoble the character.— 
Watchman and Reflector. 
PRAYER.—Fill up the void spaces of you 
time with meditation and prayer. 
They are the safest who are most in thei 
colsets ; who, pray not to be seen of men, bu 
to be heard of God. 
It is a comfort to Christians apart to thin 
their prayers meet before a throne of grac 
and their persons shall meet before a throne 
glory. 
There wants nothing but a believing pray 
to turn a promise into a performance. 
God is a great God, and therefore he will 
sought; he is a good God, and therefore he wi 
be found. 
The breath of prayer comes from the life 
faith. 
Whatever you want, go to God by faith a 
prayer, in the name of Christ, and never thi 
his delays are denials. 
They that spend their days in faith a 
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New Subscribers. 
Our ministerial brethren will see by the report of 
the Standing Committee, that they are, with the 
new form and dress of the Advent Herald, to have 
their papers free of charge ; and that the Board 
have taken the liberty of conferring on them the dis-
tinguished honor of appointing each and all of them 
special agents for the Herald. We trust none will 
fail to honor the confidence reposed in them, by 
sending in a good list of subscribers between this 
and the first of January. We look with confidence 
to our ministers to bring this subject before each of 
their congregations, present the claims of the Herald 
to their patronage and support, and then press the 
matter of taking the paper on each individual who 
is able to do so. If any are unable to take it alone, 
they can unite with some one else and take it. By 
such an united and persevering effort the list may 
be doubled by the first of the year. Brethren, shall 
it not be done? Our net gain since the first of last 
March, above all discontinuances, has been over a 
hundred. We are thankful for this ; and it en-
courages us to ask for larger things, with the expec-
tation of having them realized. 
If ministers and churches will but reflect a mo-
'is ment on the influence the Herald would exert on 
their welfare, in each family where it is regularly 
received, they would be more in earnest in extend-
ing its circulation. There are hundreds of persons, 
nay, thousands, firm believers in our doctrines, mem-
bers of other churches, where ministers and people 
are opposed to our views, who now do nothing for 
this cause, not even so much as to take the Herald. 
Are they doing right? Is it not their duty to be-
come subscribers, and do what they can to spread 
the light among their associates through its influ-
ence ? Should not those who know of such cases, 
thy call their attention to this subject ? 
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nto 
The People's Preacher, &c., 
Is a new religious paper the size of our own, pub-
lished at Jacksonville, Ill. The first and second 
numbers are before us. 
Among other subjects which the paper proposes 
to discuss is the doctrines of the second advent of 
Christ, "their spiritual nature, and a refutation of 
the delusive schemes of the Adventists." 
Lest the editor should be led into the same mis-
takes with respect to the views of the Adventists 
that he has already fallen into in reference to "the 
Millenarian theory," we shall forward him some 
publications on the subject, so that if he strikes he 
may know where to find us. "Information is the 
groundwork of judgment."—The Schoolmaster. 
We shall keep our eye on this new assailant, and 
keep our readers informed of his sayings and doings 
From his professions of regard for truth and righ-
teousness, we shall expect our new cotemporary to 
treat us fairly and honestly, and have a sacred re 
gard for the Bible. As long as he does that, we 
have no fears of his doing the cause of truth any es-
sential injury. 
We wish him success in doing good ; and trust he 
will seek and find such information as will deter 
him from doing harm to the cause he professes to 
advocate. 
CITY MORTALITY.—The total number of deaths 
reported at the City Registrar's office for the week 
ending Saturday noon was 89-38 males and 51 fe-
males. Of the deceased 28 were of American birth 
and 62 of foreign parentage ; 14 died of cmsump-
tion ; 30 were under 5 years ; 1 was between 80 
and 90, and 5 were between 90 and 100. 
The American Bible Union. 
The annual meeting of the American Bible Union 
was held in the First Baptist church, New York, last 
week, Rev. Dr. Armitage, presiding. The receipts 
for the past year were $17,359 22, and the expen-
ditures $17,518 44. The report of the Correspond-
ing Secretary, Dr. W. H. Wyckoff, was in brief as 
follows : 
Last year the four Gospels were issued from the 
final committee charged with the revision of the 
New Testament. This year the Acts of the Apostles, 
the Epistle of the Romans, and the two Epistles to 
the Corinthians, have been completed and printed, 
and the books are now ready for delivery. The re-
maining Epistles and the Book of Revelations will 
probably be ready for circulation as early as May 
next. The various readings of the Greek, which 
have furnished the foundation for some of the most 
important changes, will be published in a few weeks. 
The Old Testament is still under way. Many 
parts, such as Proverbs, the Minor Prophets, and 
some of the historical books, are in various degrees 
of forwardness, considerable portions ready for the 
press, and many chapters actually stereotyped. But 
no portion of the Old Testament (except that already 
printed,) will be issued till the New Testament is 
completed. 
A soldier's edition of the Gospel has been pre-
pared, and is found to be highly acceptable with the 
army. It will be followed by a soldier's edition of 
the Epistles. 
The finances of the Union are in an improved con-
dition. The receipts are greater than those of last 
year, and the prospects of the ensuing year are en-
couraging. 
Rev. Dr. Conant, of time revising committee. spoke 
on the principles that had guided the translators of 
the new version. The first common version, dating 
from 1380, the days of Wickliffe, was the basis of 
all their work, in style, manner and expression, as 
far as was consistent with the true sense. That style 
the revisers deem to be the true one for the Scrip-
tures. Other versions fail so far as they depart 
from it. There is not a chapter in all the revision 
in which any changes could be detected as to the 
character of its style from the common version, yet 
there is scarcely a line in which there is not a 
change as required by faithfulness to the sense of the 
original. 
Mrs. Vinton, a returned laborer in the Karen 
Mission in Burmah, stated as the result of the un-
remitting toils of missionaries in that distant field, 
that 70,000 souls had been converted to God within 
thirty years, yet that 800,000 more still needed time 
circulation of the Gospel. 
THE HUDSON STREET ADVENT CHURCH, Boston, have 
adopted the system of " Weekly Offerings," as the most 
Scriptural, and that promising the best success to sustain 
public services in their Chapel. All brethren and sisters 
in the city and abroad, scattered through the towns adja-
cent, who are members of this church, are invited and 
solicited to aid us in our good work according as the 
Apostles has enjoined: "Upon the first day of the week 
let every one of you lay by him. as God hath prospered 
him." Let each one determine what sum he or she will 
be able to contribute weekly during the year, large or 
small, and as often as practicable, weekly, monthly or 
quarterly, deposit the same, enclosed in an envelope, in 
the "Offering Boxes," or forward to the Treasurer, Wm. 
L. Hopkinson. 
0. R. FASSETT, Pastor. 
N. H. Quarterly State Conference. 
A Conference will be holden at Piermont, N. H., Clay's 
Meeting House, commencing Thursday evening, Nov. 5, 
continuing over the following Sabbath. This will be the 
first Quarterly State Conference, according to arrange-
ments made at the last State Conference. The principal 
object of the meeting will not be to transact business, but 
to labor for the spread of truth and a more perfect prepa-
ration for the coming judgment. Preachers, and brethren 
and sisters in this region of country, are cordially invited 
to attend. For the Committee, 
J. Correa.. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
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the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le-
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and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
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expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
It is desirable that there he raised by donation five or 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
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due notice should be at once given to 
R. R. KNOWLES, Treasurer. 
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SHOULD CHRISTIANS FIGHT ? BY I. C. WELLCOME. 
Eld. G. Ditlabaugh says: " This work, by Bro. I. C. 
Wellcome, is an able one, and needed by every Christian 
who really believes God, and is willing, like early Chris-
tians, to suffer for him. Those who do not know what 
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Bro. 0. Rufel, South Bend, Ind., orders a second lot, and 
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WELLCOME'S IMPORTANT REMEDIES ? 
WHEN I began to offer my remedies for sale I was 
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Mrs W W Patten, Topsham•, Mrs F Winslow, Yar-
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From a Philadelphia Merchant. 
DEAR SIR:—This morning Mr. J. Allison Eyster 
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H. H. MARKLEY. 
Dec. 17, 1862. 
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An Eccentric Character in Palestine, 
The Israelite translates from the Lebanon the fol-
lowing interesting incident : "Rabbi Saphir from 
Jerusalem writes : Whilst I was in Sana, Yeman, 
there lived there a maker of earthern tobacco pipes, 
who presented himself before the ecclesiastical court, 
Baying : 'An angel appeared to me in a vision of 
the night, ordering me to divorce my wife, and re 
tire to a solitary place, prepare myself, and then 
travel about in the cities of Israel, calling upon 
them to repent, and announce to them that the time 
of their redemption is nigh !' The ecclesiastical 
court did not discourage him ; and the tidings bear-
er forthwith took his staff and scrip, and dwelt 
away from the city, in a solitary place. He did 
not salute any man, nor did he answer when salut-
ed, but proclaimed to all passers by, and wrote to 
all of little faith in Yemen : 'Be incessant in your 
prayers, and rouse yourselves to repentance ; for 
Israel's salvation is nigh, and our redemption will 
not tarry.' He does not lodge in any city over 
night, does not eat food prepared by any man, and 
has no intercourse with any human being. His 
food is dry bread, which he bakes himself, and he 
drinks water out of a gourd. Many are the feats 
and wonderful things ascribed to this man, which 
I, however, will not repeat, as I know the creduli-
ty of the people." 
Acknowledgments, 
Instead of publishing a list of receipts for the 
Herald as heretofore, they will be acknowledged on 
each paper sent in a bundle, and on the wrapper of 
.all single papers. The number printed at the end 
of the subscriber's name is the whole number of the 
paper, as found at the top of the first page of each 
paper at the left hand corner. When payments are 
made, for two dollars 52 is added to the previous 
account ; 26 for one dollar ; 13 for fifty cents. If 
the change is not made in two weeks after sending 
money, the editor should be notified. From Nov. 
1st we shall publish a list of all letters received. 
New York City Subscribers. 
New York city subscribers will hereafter receive 
their papers by letter carriers ; but will not pay 
postage or delivery, as the agent, Bro. J. B. Iluse, 
has paid it. If any directions are incorrect, or if 
the paper is not regularly received, please inform 
the agent at No. 20 Greenwich Avenue. Subscrib-
ers will also confer a favor by an early settlement of 
dues on the Herald, as we shall need all the money 
we can raise to perfect our new arrangements in the 
Herald. Bro. Huse will forward all new subscrib-
ers and remittances from old ones. 
The Children's Paper. 
The books are still open for the disposal of stock 
in this new enterprise ; send in your money in the 
shape of payment for a good list of subscribers, or of 
donations for the paper to give the first number a 
good circulation. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
Summary of War News. 
The Texas expedition has taken possession of Op-
elousas, and is making rapid progress. 
Gen. Hooker has had a victorious battle near 
Chattanooga. Our forces are now in possession of 
Lookout Mountain, and their line of supplies is 
clear. 
Gen. Gilmore has opened fire again on Charleston 
with his Greek fire shells and thrown them into the 
heart of the city, so that the city is now at his 
mercy. The exchange of prisoners is for the present 
interrupted, owing to unreasonable demands on the 
part of the rebels. 
The most favorable news continues to be received 
from Arkansas. The people are petitioning our 
Government for the appointment of a Military Gov-
ernor. 
A most formidable insurrection against the Span-
ish government has broken out in St. Domingo, in 
which, sostar the Spanish forces have had the worst 
of it, being repulsed in every engagement. 
General News Items. 
Vermont, in granting State aid to drafted men, 
excludes substitu ces. 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue says that 
each copy of a lease must be stamped. 
Counterfeit $5 bills on the New England Bank, 
dated May 5, 1863, are in circulation. 
Patterns have been made and measures taken for 
casting a 20-inch gun at Pittsburg, Pa. 
Western merchants are buying largely of fish in 
Maine, for which there is a heavy demand in the 
West. 
Two horses belonging to Seth Ford, of Barnet, 
Vt., were poisoned on the'Sth inst. They were val-
ued at $300. 
A regular line of sailing vessels between Cleveland, 
Ohio, and Liverpool has been established. 
The Maine Farmer says the potato business is ac-
tive, and they are coming into market freely. 
The Mobile Register says the proper place of the 
black man is in the army. 
Salted trout bring $40 per hundred in the Rich-
mond market. 
There is a project on foot for erecting a monu-
ment to Robert Fulton in Trinity churchyard, New 
York city. 
New Hampshire has been the scene of more rob-
beries during the past two months than has occurred 
in the State for years previous. 
A New Brunswick paper says that the gipsies 
are emigrating to Aroostook from Europe. There 
are now over a thousand in that country and Can-
ada. 
A project is on foot to advance the educational 
interests of Vermont by consolidating all the Col-
leges in the State, merging them into a State Uni-
versity. 
Capt. Latshaw, the post quartermaster at Lex-
ington, Ky., has been tried by court martial, and 
fined $60,000 and sentenced to three years' impris-
onment for defrauding the government. 
It is estimated that the amount of prize money 
accruing to each seaman who has served for two 
years on board the Santiago de Cuba will amount to 
over two thousand dollars. 
J. B. Crittendon, a leading citizen of Brooklyn, 
and one of the most practical supporters of the 
government, has given $20,000 for the purpose of 
promoting enlistments in that city. 
Diptheria continues to prevail in various locali-
ties in Maine. Whole families are swept off by it. 
In Moscow it has been fearfully fatal. Mr. A. A. 
Rackliff of Fremont, Aroostook county. recently 
lost all his family. 
Cincinnati, according to the annual statement of 
its trade and business, has 131 houses engaged in 
manufacturing clothing for the army, and over 
eight thousand persons, chiefly females, are employed 
in them. 
Advices from Cuba state that there is serious 
alarm on many of the flantations of the island less 
the slaves should break out into open insurrection, 
their conduct in many places being such as to excite 
the most serious apprehensions. 
At Santa Cruz, in California, there are over a 
thousand acres covered with a substance resembling 
asphaltum, from one to ten feet thick, which is in 
reality a species of petroleum, easily melted, and 
susceptible of being purified and refined into excel-
lent burning fluid. A company has been formed, 
and a retort secured sufficient to refine fourteen 
hundred gallons per week. 
SPIRITISM.—We infer that some of the spiritists 
are getting in a bad way, from the fact that a con-
vention at Manchester, Ill., has thought it neces-
sary formally to repudiate free love and to advise 
married spiritists to live in harmony instead of 
seeking for new affinities ; and that Andrew Jack-
son Davis solemnly warns his disciples against 
"characterless and unprincipled adventurers, who 
enter your homes under the white flag of spiritism, 
teach free-passion doctrines to your wives and 
daughters, sanction every disgusting familiarity by 
Pretended communication from some loved departed 
ones, and conclude their visits by overthrowing 
your family happiness and shipwrecking your faith 
in spiritism itself." 
A GREAT Loss.—The house of Dr. J. S. M. Ram-
sey, at Mecklenburg, near Knoxville, Tenn., was 
destroyed by fire recently, and with it the only col. 
lection of materials from which a complete history 
of Tennessee, from its earliest settlement, could be 
written. Dr. Ramsey made the collection with 
great care and pains. 
NOTICES. 
GOLDEN SALVE.—Bro. C. P. Whitten, of Lowell, Mass., 
manufacturer of that excellent article, so widely and fa-
vorably known among our people, informs us that he has 
quite an amount due him from readers of the Herald, 
which, if immediate remittance was made to him, it would 
be very thankfully received, and would relieve him from 
perplexing embarrassments. He needs his pay to meet 
current expenses. "Owe no man anything," is the divine 
command. 
In consequence of the ill health of my wife, and her 
aged mother who still lives with us, we retire for the win-
ter, at least, to the old homestead at East Weare Village. 
Will correspondents please remember this, and govern 
themselves accordingly. All letters, papers, &c., for the 
present, therefore, to be directed to East Weare, N. H. 
Concord, N. H., Oct. 26, 1863. T. M. PREBLE. 
MESSIAH'S CHURCH in New York worship temporarily 
in Metropolitan Hall, No. 95 Sixth Avenue, nearly opposite 
Eighth street. Preaching on the Sabbath, at 10 1-2 A. M. 
and 3 P. M. The prayerful support and co-operation of 
all Christians is solicited. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
In th is d epa-rtment, articl es are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
onalities,and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as diseutitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteouseontroversy. 
From Rev. H. Randy. 
Bro. Litch,-There is fruit appearing as the re-
sult of our Conference. Two or three are convert-
ed, and several backsliders reclaimed. Last night 
as many I should think as a hundred and fifty were 
out to meeting, and it was a weeping time ; wan-
derers started for home, &c. Pray for us that the 
well begun work may go on. 
Your brother, 
H. BUNDY. 
Lake Village, Oct, 26, 1863. 
American Millennial Association. 
Annual Meeting. 
The fifth Annual Meeting of A. M. Association 
was holden in the Advent Chapel, Lake Village, 
N. H., on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 13, at 2 1-2 
o'clock. Eld. Josiah Litch took the chair, and re-
quested the Recording Secretary to read his record, 
which was as follows : 
To the Life and Associate members of the A. M. 
Association, convened with the A. E. A. Conference, 
for their Annual Meeting in Lake Village, N. H., 
Oct. 13, 1863. 
In presenting an abstract from the records, your 
Secretary deems it proper to state, that the last 
annual meeting of the A. M. A. was holden with 
the Second Advent Church, situate in Waterbury, 
Vt., on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1862, and on Friday 
10th, the annual election of officers for the ensuing 
year took place. Your Standing Committee, dur-
ing the fiscal year ending July 1, 1863, have met 
quarterly, in Boston, Mass , as required by Art. 
5, Sec. 4 of the Constitution. 
Each meeting was opened with prayer-the rec-
ords read and accepted-and the several quarterly 
reports of the late and lamented Treasurer, Bro. 
Sylvester Bliss, and his successor in office, Bro. R. 
R. Knowles, have been as follows : 
RECEIPTS 
From Subscribers to the Herald, Sale of Books, Adver- 
tisements, Donations, Agents, Ac. 
Far quarter ending October 1, 1862, $1326 44 
" January 1, 1863, 1657 47 
" " " March 31, " 2099 78 
July 1, " 
Total receipts, 
The Expenditures of the year, for Editorial 
Department, Foreman of Printing Office, 
Compositors, Type, Machinery and Sun- 
dries in general, have been $6354 79 
Add Balance due on accounts July 1, 1863, 253 19 
" Cash on. hand same date, 
1406 43 
And the account will balance, $8014 41 
From this exhibit of the sums total, as reported 
by the Treasurers, it will be seen that in the good 
providence of our gracious God, and in answer to 
many earnest believers' prayers, the treasury of the 
A. M. Association, has been prospered into a truly 
solvent condition. For the coming year, let us ask 
of God, a continuance of the same high favor ; and 
may we not confidently ask the well-wishers of the 
cause of Christ, to grant the A. M. A. their con-
tinued and liberal patronage ? Who can fail to re-
member the sacred averment, "lt is more blessed 
to give, than to receive." The very liberal do-
nations of the past year, (amounting to $1459 03, 
including the providential legacy of $400 from 
Mr. William Plumer, of Londondery, N. IL, 
and $10 from the Children's Do Society,) have 
served to relieve the office of its embarrassment, 
and to greatly cheer the Board in their responsible 
work and labors of love. 
To the Millennial Aid Societies, and all donors, 
the thanks of your Committee are hereby acknowl-
edged to be due. 
During the year past, the Board of Publications, 
(in addition to the weekly Herald,) issued an 
edition of 13,000 copies of the tract written by Bro. 
D. Bosworth, of Waterbury, Vt., entitled "The Cup 
of "Wrath, Transferred from Jew to Gentile," and 
over 11,000 have been disposed of -in sales and dis-
tribution. 
If means were at command, the Board of Publica-
Vion would have issued several good awl useful 
iLikorks on prophecy. 
The vacancy in the chair editorial, has been ac-
ceptably filled by Elder Josiah Litch, formerly of 
Philadelphia, now of Boston, Mass. ; and the post 
of Treasurer and Business Agent has been occupied 
by R. R. Knowles, Esq., of Providence, R. I. 
Your Committee, with an eye to economy and 
utility, authorized the purchase of a suitable ma-
chine to print the names, and record the dates of 
arrearages. 
The present editor of the Herald fostered and set 
in operation "the Juvenile Do Society," whose 
very creditable doings have been already published ; 
and with the opening of another year, this youthful 
army enquire "Shall we not have a paper for the 
lambs ?" 
Your Committe notice with regret, that Bro. 
Amasa Colburn, of Haverhill, Mass., has departed 
this life since the last annual gathering ; Bro. Col-
burn was an esteemed donor, and valued director, 
in the Board of Officers ; and in the same list, we 
must record the name of our highly respected brother 
and director, N. Brown, of N. H. And it is but jus-
tice to the memory of our departed Bro. Sylvester 
Bliss, of Roxbury, Mass., one of the founders of 
this Association, and from the date of its organiza-
tion to the period of his sudden death, its most ac-
tive servant, to say-that he lived long enough to 
see the Association prosperous, and left its treasury 
and business affairs, in so easy and satisfactory a 
condition, as to enable your Committee to immedi-
ately arrange for the further and successful prosecu-
tion of the affairs and interests intrusted to their 
general superintendence. 
Respectfully submitted, 
F. GUNNER, Rec. See. 
Lake Village, N. H., Oct. 13, 1863. 
The Report of the Treasurer, was twice read, 
accepted, discussed and adopted. 
The Rev. L. Chace, and Rev. H. Stevens being 
present, on motion it was voted that the sum requi-
site to constitute them Associate members in ac-
cordance with Art. 2, Sec. 2 of Constitution, be at 
once collected. The Secretary was appointed to 
collect the free offerings, and he returned to the 
table with $5.00 ; the overplus $1.00, was devoted 
to a similar object, and the whole paid over to the 
Treasurer. 
After a good season of social exercise, the follow-
ing officers for 1864 were duly elected by written 
ballot, publicly assented to by the members of,.' the 
Association present, and qualified to vote. 
President-Josiah Litch, Boston. 
Vice Presidents-D. I. Robinson, New Jersey; J. B. Huse, 
C. Dutton, New York; H. Rupp, Pennsylvania; I. H. 
Shipman, New Hampshire; S. Foster and J. Pearce, Can-
ada West. 
Treasurer-R. R. Knowles, Providence, R. I. 
Recording Secretary-F. Gunner, Massachusetts. 
Corresponding Secretary-O. R. Fassett, Massachusetts. 
Auditor-A. Pierce, Rhode Island. 
Directors-R. Hutchinson, J. M. Orroek, Canada East; 
G. W. Burnham, J. Pearson, Jr., L. T. Cunningham, 
Massachusetts; Henry Lye, Pennsylvania; A. W. Brown' 
L. Osler, A. Pearce, Rhode Island; 0. Doud, D. Bosworth, 
E. W. Case, Vermont. 
The President stated that he friends in Richford, 
Vt., had forwarded twenty-five dollars to the funds 
of this Association, to con•titute their pastor, Rev. 
S. S. Garvin, a life member of the A. M. A. 
On motion, It was voted that Rev. S. S. Garvin 
be received as a member of this Association. Ad-
journed to call of President. 
Monday, Oct. 8, 1863, A. M. The A. M. Associa-
tion, on the call of the President, met at the house 
of Eld. H. Bundy. The Secretary being absent, 
Rev. D. I. Robinson was appointed Secretary pro. 
tern. The President stated that Mr. Levi Hooper, 
of New Boston, N. H., and Rev. George Hardy, of 
Groveland, Mass., were qualified by payment of $25 
each for membership in the A. M. A., when on mo-
it was voted that they be received as members of 
this Association. Adjourned. 
Attest, F. GUNNER, Rec. Sec. 
Quarterly Meeting of the Standing Committee 
of the A. M. A. 
The Standing Committee of the A. M. Associa-
tion met at the residence of Eld. Horace Bundy, in 
Lake Village, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1863, at 10 1-2 
o'clock, A. M., with the President in the chair. 
Eld. 0. R. Fassett, of Boston, Mass., was re-
quested to open the session with prayer. The Sec-
retary's minutes of the previous Board meeting were 
then read and adopted, when the Treasurer submit-
ted the report for the last quarter of the fiscal 
year ending Oct. 1, 1863, which was read and 
adopted. 
Eld. D. I. Robinson, Vice-President, now took 
the chair, when the Publishing Committee reported 
through its Chairman that an edition of 13,000 
copies of D. Bosworth's tract, entitled "The Cup 
of Wrath taken from the hand of the Jews, and put 
into the hand of the Gentiles," had been issued, 
and about 11,000 copies sold and distributed. 
On motion of Eld. John Pearson, it was voted 
that a committee of three be appointed to prepare 
a synopsis of our faith as ministers of the A. E. A. 
Conference, and submit the same to the Standing 
Committee of the A. M. Association, for examina-
tion and approval. The Chairman nominated- Elds. 
J. Pearson, L. Osier, and D. I. Robinson, to serve 
on the committee of synopsis of faith! 
Voted, That certain propositions presented before 
the committee of A. M. Association, by Eld. L. Os-
ler, relative to colportage and ministerial usefulness, 
be recommended to the conference in session at Lake 
Village, for consideration and adoption. (For the 
propositions referred to above, see report of the con-
ference proceedings.) 
Voted, That the form and address of the Advent 
Herald be further considered at the next meeting of 
the Board. 
Adjourned to call of Chairman. 
Wednesday, 8 o'clock, A. M. The President 
took the chair, called the Board to order, and re-
quested the Recording Secretary to read the minutes 
of previous meeting, and no objections being of-
fered, the minutes were received. 
The Board then voted to proceed with the annu-
al election from their own number, of three sub-
committees, of three persons each, to serve as stipu-
lated in the constitution, see Art. 4, Sec. 2. We 
annex the committees for 1863-4. 
Committee on Publication.-L. Osler, J. Pear-
son, R. R. Knowles. 
Committee on Finance.-A. Pearce, D. Bosworth, 
0. R. Fassett. 
Committee on Colportage.-J. Litch, J. M. Or-
rock, A. W. Brown. 
After consultation, it was voted, that Eld. Josiah 
Litch, of Boston, Mass., be continued as editor of 
the Advent Ilerald the ensuing year, and that R. R. 
Knowles, of Providence, R. L, be uppointed busi-
ness agent. 
Voted, That the names of the following gentle-
men be published in the Herald as a Board of Con-
tributors to its columns : 
J. Pearson, Dr. R. Hutchinson, L. Osler, 0. R. 
Fassett, S. S. Garvin, J. M. Orrock, F. Gunner, 
D. I. Robinson, D Bosworth, I. II. Shipman, Rev. 
W. Conklin, Ohio ; Hector Maiben, Montreal. 
Voted, That on and after Jan. 1, 1864, the form 
of the Herald shall be a folio, and the present vig-
nette dispensed with, and the name be, "the Advent 
Herald," with the added words, " Published by the 
American Millennial Association." A motion to 
determine the style of heading for the folio Herald, 
and refer the matter to a committee of three, with 
the recommendation that they procure ornamental 
type for the lettering, was tabled, but subsequently 
was taken up from the table and given in charge to 
brethren Knowles, Pearson and Fassett, who consti-
tuted a Committee on Mechanical Construction of 
Herald. Sundry matters affecting the welfare of 
the A. M. Association were canvassed, and the 
Board adjourned to call of the Chairman. 
Thursday, 8 o'clock, A. M. The Standing Com-
mittee was called to order by Eld. Josiah Litch, 
and after reading, the minutes of previous meeting 
were approved. 
The thanks of the Board was then voted to R. R. 
Knowles, the Treasurer and Business Agent, and 
also to Rev. F. Gunner, Recording Secretary, for 
the faithful and able manner in which said brethren 
had discharged the duties of their respective offices. 
A Board vote determined that the insertion of ar-
ticles on the question of "utter extinction," and other 
long-continued articles, be left to the discretion of the 
sub-committee on publication; and that all long-
continued and yearly advertisements be discontinued 
from Jan. 1, 1864 ; also, that our ministers, with 
the commencement of the new issue, receive their 
papers free of charge, and be requested to act as 
agents, and that we will give to missionaries and 
others who interest themselves to promote the cir-
culation of the Advent Herald, 25 per cent. on all 
moneys received at the office for subscribers. 
The A. M. Association will also prepay the post-
age on Herald, to the line, for Canada subscribers, 
and English subscribers, in consideration of the 
large postage, may receive their papers at $2 50 
per annum, including postage, of which fact the ed- 
itor of the Herald is authorized to properly notify 
our English agents. 
Voted, That commencing with Jan. 1, 1864, the 
A. M. Association will publish monthly, a youth's 
paper, the size to be that of one now published, and 
called "The Child's Paper ;" and the matter of vig- 
nette, &c., be referred to the Committee on Mechan-
ical Construction of the Herald. 
The subject of child's paper, and folio Herald, 
and that of the ministry, was recommended to the 
consideration of the A. E. Conference, on Thursday 
and Friday afternoons, and an invitation was ex-
tended to all proper persons to become yearly and 
associate members of the A. M. Association. 
Friday, 8 o'clock, A. M. After the usual open-
ing, reading of minutes of the previous meeting, &c., 
it was voted that the Publishing Committee be con-
stituted a committee on correction of manuscript 
articles, for all persons desiring such service. 
Voted, That the name of our children's paper be 
"The Youth's Visitor"-that Dr. R. Hutchinson be 
appointed editor, and that the price of the "Youth's 
Visitor" be 25 cts. per annum, and five copies for $1, 
and that the postage to the line be prepaid to Can-
ada subscribers. 
Voted, That the child's department, consisting of 
two columns, be continued in the Herald, with the 
new folio issue. 
Voted, That Bro. Cyrus Cunningham's essay on 
"The Millennium," be referred to Eld. Osler, as a 
committee to prepare the same for publication in 
tract form. 
 
Voted, That each member of this Board be re-
quested to write a tract and forward it to the pre-
siding officer in Boston before the next quarterly 
meeting, and that the members of the Standing 
Committee come to their next meeting in Boston 
fully prepared to remain the time requisite for the 
proper discharge of the labors before them. 
Adjourned to call of President. 
Attest, F. GUNNER, Rec. Sec. 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
County of Middlesex, Oct. 24, 1863. 
Appeared before me, Rev. Frederic Gunner, of 
Lowell, Mass, and was duly affirmed as Recording 
Secretary elect of the American Millennial Associa-
tion of Boston, Mass., for the year ensuing. 
Lowell, Oct. 24, 1863. 
J. D. PINDER, Justice of the Peace, 
Help one Another. 
A traveller who was crossing the Alps, was over-
taken by a snow storm at the top of a high moun-
tain. The cold became intense. The air was thick 
with sleet, and the piercing wind seemed to pene-
truth his bones. Still the traveller, for a time, 
struggled on. But at last his limbs were benumbed, 
a heavy drowsiness began to creep over him, his feet 
almost refused to move, and he lay down on the 
snow to give way to that fatal sleep which is the 
last stage of extreme cold, and from which he would 
certainly never have waked again in this world. 
Just at that moment be saw another poor trav-
eller coming along the road. The unhappy man 
seemed to be, if possible, even in a worse condition 
than himself, for he too could scarcely move ; all 
his powers were frozen, and he appeared to be just 
on the point to die. 
When he saw this poor man, the traveller who 
was just going to lie down to sleep made a great ef-
fort. He roused himself up, and crawled, for he 
was scarcely able to walk, to his dying fellow-suf-
ferer. He took his hands into his own and tried to 
warm them. He chafed his temples ; he rubbed 
his feet ; he applied frictions to his body. And all 
the time he spoke cheering words into his ear and 
tried to comfort him. 
As he did thus, the dying man began to revive, 
his powers were restored, and he felt able to go 
forward. But this was not all ; for his kind bene-
factor too was recovered by the efforts which he had 
made to save his friend. The exertion of rubbing 
made the blood circulate again in his own body. 
He grew warm by trying to warm the other. His 
drowsiness went off, he no longer wished to sleep, 
his limbs returned again to their proper force, and 
the two travellers went on their way together, hap-
py and congratulating one another on their escape. 
Soon the snow storm passed away ; the mountain 
was crossed, and they reached their homes in safety. 
If, dear reader, you feel your heart cold toward 
God, and your soul almost ready to perish, try to 
do something which may help another soul to life 
and make his heart glad, and you will often find it 
the best way to warm, and restore, and gladden 
your own. 
Receipts. 
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a fine powder, and applied in the same manner as 
brick-dust is used. This is a recent and valuable 
discovery. 
MAKING SOAP WITHOUT GREASE.-One bar.of com-
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of rain or soft water ; then add the soap, and boil 
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CEMENT FOR THE MOUTHS OF CORKED BOTTLES.-
Melt together a quarter of a pound of sealing-
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of beeswax. When it froths, stir it with a tallow 
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ADVERTISEMENTS. 
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in connection with the 
OFFICE OF THE ADVENT HERALD, 
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The money should accompany all orders. 
BOOKS. Price. Postage. 
Kingdom not to be Destroyed, (Oswald) .. $1 00 17 
The Time of the End 
75 20 
Memoir of William Miller 
75 19 
Hill's Saints' Inheritance . 
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Daniels on Spiritualism ............ .... 50 16 
Litch's Messiah's Throne ........ ... 50 12 
Orrock's Army of the Great King........ 25 7 
Preble's Two Hundred Stories .... ... 40 7 
Fassett's Discourses.... ............ .... 10 5 
Memoir of Pamelia A. Carter ........ 10 5 
Questions on Daniel.... .... 
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Children's Question Book .... ... 12 3 
Bible Class, or a Book for Young People, 
 
on the Second Advent .... ........ .. 15 4 
The New Harp, Pocket Edition 60 II 
 
Pew 
 50 16 
" Pocket " 
 1 25 11 
The Christian Lyre .... 
 CO 9 
Tracts, bound in volumes 
 15 7 
Wellcome on Matthew 24 and 25 .... 33 6 
Taylor's Voice of the Church.... 1 00 18 
Hastings' Signs of the Times 
 , 1 00 16 
Cumming's Scripture Readings—Exodus 25 18 
TRACI S. 
The postage on one or more tracts up to four ounces is 
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Price. 
Restitution 
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Osler's Prefigurations . 
6 
The End, by Dr. Cumming .... 
.. 4 
Letter to Dr. Raffles. 
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Brock on the Lord's Coming a Practical Doctrine 4 
Brock on the Glorification of the Saints .... .... 4 
Litch's Dialogue on the Nature of Man. 6 
The Government of the United States in the Light 
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THE AMEN I' HERALD 
and her works will soon follow. She was amiable 
from her youth ; none knew her but to love her ; 
none named her but to praise. She experienced re-
ligion about seven years ago, I think, in a revival 
at a protracted meeting held by our brethren in the 
place ; or rather promised Bro. Wm. Kitson that 
she would seek the Lord, and kept the promise at 
once. She became a devoted member of the church, 
and was uniformly an example of piety to the close 
of her life. She was naturally of a very diffident 
disposition, and this, she said, led her sometimes to 
shrink from speaking in meeting, which she regret-
ted ; but otherwise had tried to be faithful. In-
deed, she had in that beyond most persons. Punct-
ual in attendance at prayer-meetings and preach-
ing when able, and a good, and punctual teacher in 
the Sabbath school. I have often wondered at her 
fortitude in going when sick, till within about two 
months of her death. Her illness had been pro-
gressing about fifteen months. She suffered much 
by spells all that time, but her last two months 
only, confined. She was resigned and patient in 
her sufferings. She wanted to live for her husband 
and child's sake, and had hopes to recover till a little 
before she died. But I talked often with her, and 
she felt prepared and willing if God called her 
away. She loved to converse on religion and on 
the blessed hope, and often said to me after prayer, 
''0, blessed hope! blessed hope !" 
She wished me to call and pray as often as possi-
ble, it did her so much good. 
She was a great helpmeet to her husband, in both 
religion and the world, to cheer and comfort in afflic-
tion and trial. She told me, a few days before she 
died, she had given up hope of living, and now 
there was nothing but to pray to be kept till the 
end. 
She had the husband's father and some friends 
sing and pray shortly before she died, and was so 
happy, she sung, and shouted, and praised God till 
some feared it was too much for her. 
Her last hours and moments were peace. A 
very affecting scene took place when her father and 
brothers were sent for to come home by her re-
quest to give her dying charge and promise her 
to seek the Lord, which they did, and meet her 
in the kingdom of God. Her mother and sister 
profess the Savior's love. 0, may they all keep 
those blessed promises to the end, and meet her 
in eternal glory. 
I saw her two or three times a week for nine 
months, and always saw something to make me 
think higher of her piety, which can be said of few. 
A very large assembly came to her burial, and I 
preached on the occasion, 2 'I'hess. 2 : 16 17. 
For any delay, and lack of dates and incidents, 
I must apologise, for I lost my minutes taken, 
from which to prepare this, and have done it from 
memory. Yours truly, 
D. I. ROBINSON. 
How Officials are Pensioned in England. 
When an official personage retires from public 
duty in England, he is comfortably and quietly put 
upon the British pension list, and has something to 
rely upon for the remainder of his days, no matter 
how stilly the storms blow, or how much his pri-
vate resources may get crippled. A recent parlia-
mentary return presents some curious illustrations 
of the extent to which this system has been carried. 
For instance, five ex-chancellors of England are now 
in the regular receipt of £5;000 a year each—or 
$25,000 of our money ; the exact equivalent of our 
the salary of the President of the United States, 
who works hard all the time, being paid to fine, jol-
ly old English gentlemen for doing nothing at all. 
There are four retired judges in England who re-
ceive £3,500 a year each, or $17,560. Viscount 
Avermore was, until recently, Registrar of the Irish 
Court of Chancery, but having retired, receives 
$20,000 a year in memory of the services rendered 
in the very lucrative offices which he once held. 
The Earl of Roden has $11,000 a year as ex-Audi-
tor General of the Irish Exchequer. Moreover 
England pays £23,000 per annum in perpetual pen-
sions, all of which will continue to be paid so long 
as there is an Earl Amherst or Nelson, a Lord Rod-
ney, a Viscount Exmouth, or an heir of William 
Penn or of the Duke of Schomberg Lord Glenelg 
and Mr. Disraeli each receive $.10,000 a year—both 
having once been statesmen in high office. 
THE MAXIMILIAN 1103IE GUARD.—It appears from 
Paris correspondence that the enlistment of ten thou-
sand Irishmen to constitute a home guard for Max-
imilian, the Emperor nominate of Mexico, and their 
organization, are in the hands of the Duke of Ma-
genta (McMahon) and certain Irish officers now in 
Paris. It is stated that the latter have given satis-
factory evidence that they can raise ten thousand 
men. The duty of this corps will be to serve as a 
body guard to the Prince, and it will form a nu-
cleus around which the future Mexican army will 
be organized. They will follow Maximilian to Mex-
ico, and will assist at his coronation, which is to be 
performed by the Pope's Nuncio, who is to leave 
Europe on the same vessel as the Prince. 
POPULATION OF THE EARTH.—A professor in the 
University of Berlin, Prussia, has published his re 
cent researches as to the population of the earth. 
He makes the present grand total of the human 
race 1,283,000,000. The average annual mortality 
is reckoned as at least one in forty, according to 
which the number of deaths is about 32,000,000 
every year, or 87,761 per day, 3653 per hour, and 
61 per minute, which is fully one for every second 
of time. The number of persons who have lived on 
the earth since the creation is estimated by another 
calculator at 36,627,843,275,075,855 ! What a 
procession ! 
NEW REMEDY FOR HYDROPHOBIA.—A French paper 
notices a new remedy for Hydrophobia—simply 
hot water. A German vetrinary surgeon of Madge-
burg, named Hildebrande, has ascertained that hot 
water has the effect of decomposing the virus, and 
if applied in time renders cauterization unnecessary. 
He says all that is to be done, after well bathing 
the part, is to apply a solution of caustic potash to 
the wound with a brush, and afterward anoint it 
with antimony ointment. 
Louis Napoleon has decreed that all who took 
part in the Mexican expedition shall have a medal 
hung on their Ieft breast, by a white ribbon with a 
cruciform and red and green stripe, with the Mexi-
can eagle holding a serpent in its beak by the mid-
dle. The medal is to be of silver—on one side the 
words—"Napoleon IiI., Empereur," on the other 
"Expedition du Mexique," 1862, 1863—Curnhres, 
Cerro Borego, San Lorenzo, Puebla, Mexico." 
A clergyman's daughter, in Ireland, collects com-
mon garden snails, those with shells, puts there into 
a dish with another over it to prevent their running 
away, and sprinkles them plentifully with dark su-
gar. Next day the syrup thus made is drained off 
and bottled for use Dose for consumption, a table-
spoonful three times daily. She also advises snails 
boiled in real broth. Snails were used for curing 
consumption at a very remote period. 
Hannah Kitson. 
Bro. Litch—1 send you a brief notice of the 
death of sister Hannah Kitson, of Morrisville, Pa., 
wife of Bro. George Kitson, and daughter of Mr. 
Jenkins, of the same place. She died of dropsy, on 
the 23d, I think, of September. She had been mar-
ried about two years, and leaves one child and 
parents to feel, but I trust, not to mourn her loss ; 
for she died in the Lord and rests from her labors 
Truman Lee. 
Died, in Stanstead, C. E., Sept. 26, 1863, Tru-
man Lee, son of widow Edee Lee, aged 23 years. 
When first taken sick he was in Boston ; he was 
advised by his physician to go to his friends in 
Stanstead, where he could have the kind care of 
his mother and enjoy the pure air of the country. 
But the journey overcame him, and the typhoid fever 
setting in he soon became delirious. He lived about 
ten days and fell into the embrace of death. He 
leaves a dear mother, one brother and three sisters 
to mourn his loss. May sister Lee and the remain-
ing children be sustained by grace and kept by the 
power of God, so that they may eventually enjoy 
the consummation of their hopes in meeting the 
loved one who now slumbers in death, and together 
partake of eternal happiness. A large congregation 
was present to pay their last respects to the de-
ceased,—the tithing tears good evidence that he was 
beloved by all who knew him. The writer address-
ed the mourners and friends, from Ecclesiastes 
12 : 1. 
S. W. THURBER. 
Mrs, Rebecca Laskey. 
Died, Sept. 10, 1863, Mrs. Rebecca Laskey, in 
the 80th year of her age. 
Sister Laskey was converted to God and joined the 
Baptist church in Fredrickton, Me., at the age 
of 17 years ; and she remained connected with 
that church till the day of her death. She also 
embraced the Advent faith about four years since, 
and has loved the doctrine, and looked in hope for 
the speedy return of her Lord. Her conversation 
was much upon this theme with other Christian 
doctrines, and nothing pleased her more than to be 
in company with Christian friends, and especially 
ministers of the Gospel of Christ, with whom she 
could talk of her hope. Sister Laskey, after spend-
ing many years of usefulness has departed this life 
in faith. She was apprised of the approach of 
death and met her end in peace. 
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The Youth's Visitor. 
Our young readers were told last week 
the good news that they are to have a pa-
per of their own. The Committee of the 
American Millennial Association, at their 
meeting at Lake Village, Resolved to pub-
lish a child's paper, and to bring the sub-
ject before the Conference, and ask them 
for their assistance in doing so. The mem-
bers of the Conference seemed very much 
pleased with the proposal, and at once 
went to work to raise the hundred dollars 
required for an outfit :—that is, for a beau-
tiful picture for the heading ;—for lines at 
the head, and perhaps at the borders ; —for 
type with which to print it, and several 
other things connected with it. When this 
subject came up, it was one of the most 
interesting times we had during our ses-
sion. In about 10 or 15 minutes the hun-
dred dollars were raised by the subscrip-
tions of kind friends of little children. Arid 
now we intend to have as handsome a pa-
per as we are capable of making, and filled 
with as interesting and instructive matter 
as the Editor can furnish. In a very few 
minutes there were between three and four 
hundred subscribers handed in for the pa-
per. And now -.ve expect those who were 
not there to take part of this stock will feel 
bad about it. But we will tell you what 
to do. We want to send out ten thousand 
cepies of the first number, all over the 
country, which will cost a good deal of 
money. Who will subscribe to this fund 
for free circulation of the Youth's Visitor, 
to make it known 7 
The " Do Society " must attend to this 
matter, and those who give for this object 
shall be members of that Society. The 
Visitor will be the Doers' paper. Of the 
one hundred dollars raised at the Confer-
ence for the outfit of the Visitor, twenty-
five dollars were to constitute Dr. Hutch-
inson, the Editor of the paper, a life-tnem-
ber of the "Do Society," and twenty-five 
more to constitute the Treasurer of the 
" Do Society " a life-member. Now with 
this start, the " Do Society," can afford to 
be very active. 
Who will send us the largest list of sub-
scribers for the Visitor? All subscriptions 
and money for the Visitor skould be sent 
the same as for the Herald, to J. Litch, 
Boston, Mass. 
BOSTON, TUESDAY, NOVMEBER 3, 1863. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. 
"FEED MY LAMBS."—John21:15. 
The Old Pilot. 
A steam-boat was once making her way 
over the bright waters of Lake Erie. The 
man at the wheel was John Maynard, a 
bluff old weather-beaten pilot, who had 
weathered many a gale. Everybody round 
the lake knew the old sailor, and trusted 
him ; and he went by the name of " Hon-
est John Maynard." John was as true as 
steel and faithful to duty, come what 
would. He was a Christian man, and his 
needle always pointed to God in every-
thing. 
The boat was•about twelve miles from 
land, when the captain saw smoke rising 
from the hold. 
" What's that smoke 7" he cried to a 
sailor. 
"From the engine-room, sir," answered 
the man. 
" Go and see," said the captain. 
The sailor went, and presently rushed 
up with the terrible news— 
"The hold 's afire, sir ! " 
The captain hurried to the spot, and 
found the story too true. Some sparks had 
fallen on a bundle of tow, and not only 
had a portion of the baggage been burned, 
but the side of the vessel had caught and 
was already in flames. 
All hands were called, passengers as well 
as sailors, and lines were formed from the 
hold to the vessel's side. Buckets were 
filled with water, and as they flew along, 
were dashed on the burning mass. So 
prompt and rapid was the work carried 
on, that a mastery seemed to be gained 
over the fire. 
" How does she head 7" shouted the 
captain. 
" West-sou'-west, sir !" answered the 
old pilot. 
"Keep her south and by west !" cried 
the captain. " We must try and make 
shore somewhere." 
The wind breezed up, and drove the 
flames towards the saloon, which speedily 
took fire, and long wreaths of smoke came 
puffing out through the skylights. Then 
the captain ordered the women forward, 
and told the engineer- to put on all the 
steam ?ossible. The American flag was 
run up with the union down, in token of 
distress, and water was dashed on the 
sails to make them hold the wind. At the 
wheel stood John Maynard, now alone, for 
sheets of smoke and Ilame separated him 
completely from the rest of the crew. 
Hotter grew the heat, brighter the flame, 
and mo:e suffocating the smoke. The en-
gineers fled from the engine-room, passen-
gers were tightening their life-preservers, 
throwing off their coats, and preparing to 
jump overboard ; while the sailors were 
lashing the women to planks, for a con-
flict with the waves. But the paddles 
worked well, and the shore grew plainer and 
plainer. If they could only hold out a few 
minutes longer. 
" Maynard !" shouted the captain. 
" Aye, aye, sir," replied the pilot. 
" Can you hold out five minutes long- 
er 7 " 
" I try, sir." 
And he did try. The smoke was almost 
suffocating, the air was like the blast of a 
furnace; his hair was singed, and his blood 
ready to boil; but he stood at his post, and 
held fast by the wheel, till the flesh on his 
hand shrivelled with heat. Then he took 
the other, and bore the dreadful agony 
without flinching for a moment. 
Boats from the shore were seen coming 
to their rescue. A shout of joy arose from 
the sailors as they reached hailing dis-
tance. 
" The women and children first aboard !" 
shouted the captain ; " then every man for 
himself, and God for us all." 
The poor pilot heard no more. Whether 
he lost his footing and fell overboard, or, 
suffocated, he fell into the flames, they 
could not tell. 
'The moment the vessel struck, the boats 
were alongside, and all saved in them that 
could be, while the rest swam to the shore, 
and so all escaped except the poor pilot, 
whose faithfulness, under God, had been 
the means of their salvation. 
Iceland. 
This island, which has a population of 
about seventy thousand, is under the gov-
ernment of Denmark. The language spok-
en in Iceland is the old Scandinavian, close-
ly akin to the Saxon, with no admixture of 
Greek or Latin roots. It has, singularly 
enough, a literature nine hundred years 
old. 
There are four presses on the island, and 
four newspapers. About sixty volumes are 
issued in a year. There are colleges and 
academies of medicine there, and common 
schools. But most of the education is do-
mestic in its character. The fathers teach 
the children so effectually, that a young 
The Riddle. 
God made Adam out of dust, 
But thought it best to make me first; 
So I was made before the man, 
According to God's holy plan. 
My body he has made complete, 
But without legs, or arms, or feet, 
Nor did he give to me a soul, 
Yet did my actions well control. 
A living creature I became, 
'T was Adam that gave me my name, 
Then from his presence I withdrew, 
No more of Adam ever knew. 
I did my Maker's laws obey, 
From them I never went astray ; 
Thousands of miles I ran in fear, 
But seldom on the earth appear. 
But God in me did something see, 
And put a living soul in me ; 
A sin in me the Lord did claim, 
And took from me that soul again. 
And when from me the soul was fled, 
I was the same as when first made ; 
And without hands, or feet, or soul, 
I travel now from pole to pole. 
I suffer oft by day and night, 
In giving fallen man great light : 
For thousands, both young and old, 
At my death great light behold. 
No fear of death doth trouble me, 
For happiness I cannot see ; 
To heaven above 1 never shall go, 
Nor to the grave, nor hell below. 
The Scriptures 1 cannot believe, 
Whether right or wrong I can't conceive; 
Although therein my name is found, 
They are to me an empty sound. 
And when, my friends, these lines you read, 
Go search the Bible with all speed ; 
And if my name you can't find there, 
It will be strange, I must declare. 
The Diamond. 
Once a man, travelling in South Ameri-
ca, in crossing the dry bed of a stream, 
saw a sparkling object down among the 
pebbles. He stooped and picked it up. It 
was a diamond of great value. A mer-
chant bought it; a labidary worked it 
with immense labor and art and careful-
ness, and it glittered on the person of roy-
alty in the most brilliant court in the 
world. As high as five hundred thousand 
dollars, we are told, has been paid for a 
single diamond. Diamonds are set in the 
crowns of kings and are worn by queens 
as their most valued ornaments. 
Well, one day as I was walking, I came 
upon a precious stone. One would not 
have thought it, though, for it was alto-
gether unwrought, without form, and had 
no beauty and no splendor yet ; and, be-
sides, it was encased in a most unprepos-
sessing covering of gross matter. Put 
stop; examine closely; look down through 
these two eyes. There is a soul behind 
them somewhere — a jewel worth more 
than all Golconda ever was. 0, now for 
the instrument to reach it, to bring it to 
light, to cut and polish it, then, 0, what a 
brilliant it would be ! 
Just to secure this one precious stone 
would be worth a whole lifetime's labor ; 
for its value cannot be told. The whole 
world and all the stars could not buy it. 
0, if I could but secure it, then would I, 
by and by, when the Lord makes up His 
jewels, see it placed by His own hand in 
"I feel it Pull." 
A very suggestive incident is related by 
a pastor. In the twilight of a summer 
evening he called at the residence of one 
of his parishioners, and found, seated in 
the door-way, a little boy with both hands 
extended upwards, holding a line. 
"What are you doing here, my little 
fellow 7" inquired the minister. 
"Flying my kite, sir," was the prompt 
reply. 
"Flying your kite ? " exclaimed the 
pastor. "I can see no kite; you can see 
none." 
" I know it, sir," responded the lad ; " I 
cannot see it, but I know it is there, for I 
feel it, pull." 
If our affections are set upon things 
above, we shall have a sense of it which 
can hardly be mistaken. The question is, 
do we " feel it pull ?" 
PANAMA HATS.—GUyaq1111 is the great 
depot for Panama hats; eight hundred 
thousand dollars' worth being sold an-
nually. The grass of which they are 
made, is found chiefly in the neighboring 
province of San Cristoval. They can be 
braided only in the night, or early in the 
morning, as the heat of the daytime ren-
ders the grass brittle. It takes a native 
about three months to braid one of the 
finest quality. Some of these hats look 
like fine linen, and are valued at fifty dol-
lars apiece, even there. 
THE OLDEST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. —
The New Hampshire Gazette, published 
at Portsmouth, completed the one hundred 
and seventh year of its publication with its 
issue of October 1, 1563. The Gazette 
was started in 1756, and is the oldest 
newspaper in America. 
ANCIENT CUSTOM.—An ancient horn, said 
to be the gift of King Alfred, is still blown 
every night at Ripon, England, at the hour 
of nine. The maintenance of the city char-
ter depends upon the keeping up of this 
antique custom. 
No man can avoid his own company, so 
he had best make it as good as possible. 
Iceland boy or girl of eight years old can-' His own diadem, there to, shine more 
not be found unable to read and write. brightly, on and on, forever and ever. 
Wandering minstrels, like those of the How, then, can we secure this priceless 
old time in Scotland and Germany, are diamond? 
still to be found traversing the country, 
dropping in on families happy to receive 
them, who gladly give them a night's sup-
per and lodging in exchange for their lay. 
The Icelandic Church is Lutheran. 
There are one hundred and ninety-nine 
churches on the island, with two hundred 
and eighty clergymen. 
Honor and Generosity.. 
A man was once carrying along a basket 
of peaches, covered with cloth, and slung 
over his shoulder, making a pretty heavy 
load. By some means the cover became 
loosened, and quite a number of the tempt-
ing-looking peaches rolled down upon the 
sidewalk, and the man went on without 
perceiving it. 
A poorly-dressed boy, about ten years 
old, who was walkicg a little way behind" 
observed them, and immediately picked 
them up. 
But he did not put them in his 
pocket and run away, as too many boys 
would have done. 
" Here ! here ! " he shouted to the man, 
who stopped, and the honest little bellow 
restored him his property. 
The man rewarded him with one of the 
finest peaches, and went on his way. But 
this is not all. Just then the lad met two 
of his companions, and immediately divid-
ed his peach with them. 
Was not that a noble-hearted little fel-
low? Who could but love him, ragged 
and dirty as he was? The part of the 
peach he had for his portion was sweetened 
by kindness, by honesty and generosity, 
and the fruit was more luscious than the 
most costly could have been, if obtained 
dishonestly. 
J.