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TILE LAST TIME. 
BY MARTIN F. TUPPER. 
Another year ! another year ! 
Who dare depend on other years ? 
The judgment of this world is near, 
And all its children faint for fears : 
Famine, pestilence and war, 
Mix with praises, prayers and tears, 
Civil strife and social jar, 
Spurn'd by pen and stirr'd by sword, 
Herald Him who comes from far, 
In Elijah's fiery car— 
Our own returning Lord. 
Look around—the nations quail ! 
All the elements of ill 
Crowd like locusts on the gale, 
And the dark.horizon fill: 
Woe to earth and all her seed, 
Woe, they run to ruin still :— 
He that runneth well may read 
Texts of truth the times afford, 
How in earth's extremest need 
Cometh, cometh soon indeed, 
Our own redeeming Lord ! 
Lo, the marvels passing strange 
Ev'ry teeming hour brings 
Daily turns with sudden change 
The kaleidoscope of things : 
But the Ruler just and wise, 
Orders all as King of kings— 
Hark ! His thunder shakes the skies ; 
Lo ! His vials are outpoured ! 
Earth in later travail lies, 
And creation groans and cries 
For our expected Lord ! 
Stand in courage, stand in faith ! 
Tremble not as others may ; 
He that conquers hell and death 
Is the friend of those who pray, 
And in this world's destined woe 
He will save his own alway 
From the furnace trial's glow— 
Till the harvest all is stored, 
Rescued from each earthly foe, 
And the terrible ones below, 
By our avenging Lord 
Yea, come quickly ! Saviour come ; 
Take us to thy glorious rest ; 
All thy children yearn for home, 
Home the haven of thy breast. 
Help with instant gracious aid ! 
That in just assurance blest 
We may watch—nor feel afraid, 
Ev'ry warning in thy word, 
Signs and tokens all array'd, 
In proof of that for which we pray'd, 
The coming of theLord. 
Scripture Illustrations. 
NO. 157. A DYING BENEDICTION. 
"Peace be with you all that are in Christ Je-
sus." 1 Pet. 5:14. 
The biographer of Wolfgang Muscrius, speaks 
thus of his last moments: -By degrees his strength 
WHOLE NO, 1058. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1861. 
VOLUME XXII. NO. 35. 
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failed him, the beating of his pulse began to fal-
ter, his extremities to grow colder and colder, 
his respiration to become more difficult and slow-
er, his sight to fail, and every thing in short to 
portend his dissolution. He extended his hands 
and said to those around him, "Peace be with 
you."—"Last hours of Eminent. Christians," p. 
114. 
NO. 158. AN ABUNDANT ENTRANCE. 
"For so an entrance shall be ministered unto 
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of 
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Pet. 1: 
11 
When the Rev. Andrew Fuller was visiting 
Mr. Sutcliff, a pious minister, on his death-bed, 
he said, on taking leave, "I wish you, my dear 
brother, an abundant entrance into the everlast-
ing kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ !" 
At this Mr. S. hesitated, not as doubting his en-
trance into the kingdom, but as questioning 
whether the term abundant were applicable to 
him. "That," said he, "is more than I expect. 
I think I understand the connection and im-
port of those words,—'Add to your faith virtue, 
give diligence to make your calling and election 
sure—for so an entrance shall be ministered un-
to you abundantly.' I think the idea is that of 
a ship coming into harbour,-with a fair gale, and 
a full tide. If I may but reach the heavenly 
shore, though it be on a board or broken piece 
of a ship, I shall be satisfied." 
NO. 159. A PROPHECY EULFILLED. 
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in 
the last days scoffers, walking after their own 
lusts." 2 Pet. 3:3. 
A gentleman travelling in a stage coach, at-
tempted to divert the company by ridiculing the 
Scriptures : "As to the prophecies," said he, "in 
particular, they were all written after the events 
took place." A minister in the coach, who had 
hitherto been silent, replied, "Sir, I beg leave to 
mention one particular prophecy as an exception, 
'Knowing this first, that there shall come in the 
latter days, Scoffers.' Now, sir, whether the 
event be not long after the prediction, I leave 
the company to judge." The mouth of the scorn-
er was stopped. 
Joy and Praise. 
What was the spirit of the Gospel as it exist-
ed in the experience of believers in the apostolic 
age ? It was pre-eminently a g ad and joyous 
spirit. They had received by faith a gospel 
which brought them glad tidings of great joy, 
and their daily walk was in the fear of the Lord 
and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost. A nat-
ural and with them, the habitual expression of 
this joy was praise. No sooner was the Lord 
parted from his disciples, and carried up to heav-
en, than they returned to Jerusalem with great 
joy, and "were continually in the temple prais-
ing and blessing God." Praise was a part of the 
daily expression of that pentecostal gladness 
with which thousands of new converts at Jerusa-
lem received the first great outpouring of the 
Spirit. "And they did eat their meat with glad-
ness and singleness of heart, praising God." At 
midnight, in the inner prison at Philippi, two 
prisoners with their feet fast in the stocks, were 
overheard praying and singing to God. The 
peace which passeth all understanding kept their 
hearts, and One who never sleeps, and who has 
promised never to forsake them, was near. Both 
they and their companions in the faith were oft-
en in tribulation ; but as the sufferings of Christ 
abounded in them, so their consolation also 
abounded by Christ. They knew how to be 
abased, and how to abound ; how to be full, and 
how to be hungry ; and in whatsoever state they 
were, therewith to be content. Whether they 
were in favor with all the people, or were led 
forth to prison and to death, they went out with 
joy, and were led forth with peace. They knew 
not what a day may bring forth ; but they were 
careful for nothing, casting all care on Him who 
cared for them. 
Blessed be God ! the joy which prison walls, 
and chains, and midnight darkness could not ex-
tinguish, was not confined to the apostolic age. 
The history of Christianity, down to the time of 
Constantine, presents the great body of believ-
ers as being pervaded, to an extent never yet 
realized, with the spirit of religious joy express-
ed by praise. The living spring of gladness 
which had been opened in their hearts poured it-
self forth in exuberant, never-failing streams of 
sacred melody. It sent these streams winding 
and purling along all the paths of life, making 
them like the garden of the Lord, a perpetual 
delight. In their social gatherings, in their 
homes, and in their daily private walks, the ear-
ly Christians lived and moved in an atmosphere 
of praise. Generally, no season of' househo'd 
worship was without it. The reading of the 
Scriptures, prayer, and sacred song, besides op-
ening and closing the active labors of the day, 
accompanied their ordinary meals. Through a 
portion, at least, of the period which we are now 
contemplating, the notes of tuneful worship might 
have been heard ascending from their happy 
dwellings four times in a day. And there were 
those who, like a psalmist, rose at midnight to 
give thanks--a custom which is said to have or-
iginated in those persecuting days in which Chris-
tian assemblies were compelled to seek the cov-
er of night for safety. "Songs dedicated to the 
praise of God," says Jamieson, "formed their 
pastime in private, and their favorite recrea-
tions at their family and friendly meetings." 
When the family group dispersed from the loved 
household altar, each to his daily occupation, 
their songs still cheered them in their toils. Je-
rome writing from the rural retirement, which 
he had sought as a "peaceful port," after a stormy 
life, says:---"Here, rustic though we are, we are 
all Christians. Psalms alone break the pervad-
ing stillness. The ploughman is singing hallelu-
jahs while he turns his furrow. The reaper sol-
aces his toil with hymns. The vineyard dresser, 
as he prunes his vines, chants something from 
the strains of David. These are our songs, and 
such the notes with which our love is vocal." 
Hymns and Choirs. 
The Guillotine. 
Louis Blanc, in the recently .issued eleventh 
volume of his History of the French Revolution, 
tells the following interesting story of the inven-
tion of the guillotine: 
Under the old regime it had been one of the 
privileges of the noblesse, when condemned to 
death, to have their heads cut off instead of be-
ing hung, as was the case with the commonalty. 
From a desire to render the punishments of all 
classes equal and similar, as well as from an in-
clination to abridge the sufferings of the patient, 
arose the Ouillotine. The problem submitted 
on the 10th of October, 17S9, to the constituent 
assembly, by Dr. Guillotine, one of its members, 
was a problem which he flattered himself he had 
resolved, and was, "how to inflict capital pun-
ishment in a uniform manner by means of' a sim-
ple machine." The discussion of the subject was 
adjourned until the 1st of December, when it 
Was first of all objected by Abbe Maury that the 
act of decapitation might have the effect of de-
praving the people by familiarizing them with 
the sight of blood ; upon which Guillotine ex-
claimed : "With my machine,I could cut off your 
head in the twinkling of an eye, and without 
giving you the least pain." A loud burst of 
laughter followed this remark—tragic laughter ! 
when one reflects that the guillotine, that horri-
ble machine, which, as yet, had neither shape 
nor name, was destintd to destroy the greater 
number of those whom it caused to laugh ! And 
what is not less tragic is, that the joke, spread-
ing beyond the walls of the assembly,caused Dr. 
Guillotine's remark to become the source of in-
numerable pleasantries. The idea of taking off 
a man's head in the twinkling of an eye, out of 
pure philanthropy,was so irresistibly comic. . . . 
Couplets were written on the doctor and his ma-
chine, which it was thought right to baptize with 
a feminine form of his own name, Guillotine ; 
and the result was, that while the instrument 
owed its origin to a sentiment of humanity, it de-
rived its name from a song ! 
In a novel of Dumas, M. Guillotine is made a 
luxurious amateur in the art of execution. M. 
Louis Blanc, setting aside the old romantic ma-
terials, shows that the popular notion of M. Guil-
lotine perishing by the knife he was supposed to 
have brought into fashion arose from the circum-
stance of his having been imprisoned during the 
Reign of Terror, the fact being that he survived 
the Revolution, and died in his bed in 1814. He 
not only deprives M. Guillotine of his glory as a 
martyr to the new engine of death, but of the 
honor which appertains to an inventor. He did 
sketch a suggestion of such an instrument, but 
the first machine was actually fabricated by M. 
Louis, Secretary to the College of Surgeons ; and 
the society in the midst of which arose this ghast-
ly symbol was scarcely less light-hearted out• 
side the prisons than inside of them. 
Easter-Dues. 
The attempt to collect "Easter-dues" at Ac-
crington for the Vicar of Whalley, led recently 
to a scene which must be exceedingly humiliat-
ing to Englishmen who boast of their liberty. In 
a poor working population household goods were 
seized and sold at auction to satisfy the vicar's 
claim. The people resolved to make a hostile 
demonstration without proceeding to violence. 
The appearance of the auctioneer, Mr. Roebuck, 
was greeted with groans and hisses. After much 
confusion the sale proceeded : 
"The first lot was a piece of black merino, ab-
stracted from the shop of Mr. John Halstead. 
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The Springfield Victory. 
The details of the battle near Springfield are 
now sufficiently ascertained, from the reports of 
both friend and foe, to form a just estimate of 
that remarkable fight. It will claim a record 
among the most memorable battles that have 
been fought on the continent. The Missouri 
Democrat gives the following resume : 
"With abundant leisure,and under the strong-
est incentives desperate leaders could supply, an 
army of twenty-three thousand men was gather-
ed for the destruction of scarcely a fourth their 
number. Claib Jackson's visit to Richmond 
and the high-toned and jubilant character of the 
proclamations of Lieut. Gov. Reynolds, Gen-
erals Pillow and Jackson himself, indicate the 
pains taken to make their force effective, and 
the serene confidence reposed in its prowess. To 
these advantages of numbers and opportunity for 
preparation, the rebel chiefs added the wariest 
generalship, evidently 'determined to let no cas-
ualty of war find them sleeping, and to make 
the conquest of Lyon's little army certain and 
complete. 
"Gen. Lyon is in camp in the suburbs of 
Springfield, only four leagues from the multitu-
dinous host of the foe. Twenty-five hundred of 
his command are little better than fresh recruits. 
The term of service of more than a third of the 
remainder, his best drilled soldiers, upon the 
point of expiring. How can he meet the enemy 
without reinforcements ? These, by circumstan-
ces which he cannot control, are hopelessly de-
layed. A council of war is called. Its voice is 
almost unanimous for the evacuation of Spring-
field—a retreat. Such a retreat would not have 
been inglorious, but it would have been disas-
trous. It would have dispirited friends and 
elated the enemy. The heroic resolve was 
therefore formed—to fight. Not to throw up en-
trenchments for defense, nor even to wait for 
an assault, but to march forth twelve miles and 
commence an attack upon the foe. 
"It was necessary to leave a force in defense 
of the stores and equipage. The thus diminish-
ed army was then divided into three parts, hav-
ing little more than a regiment and a half in 
each ! Two of these divisions under Lyon and. 
 
Sturgis, march directly for the enemy, and the 
third, under Sigel, detours to the southward to 
attack him on the south. 
"Surely here was a desperate undertaking. Its 
parallel can rarely be met with in the annals of 
war. The enemy were fully advised of the tem-
per of their adversary, for on several occasions 
he had dauntlessly marched miles to grapple 
with them in a fair field. They had therefore 
cautiously selected their position, and it was 
there on their own chosen ground that he came 
to meet them. 
"Take now the foe's report of the battle, and 
mark the overwhelming defeat that only shame 
and rage prevent him from fully confessing. He 
says: 'The enemy took the Confederate pickets 
prisoners, and surprised the main body. A 
bloody and desperate encounter ensued, with 
great loss on both sides. Five regiments of Mis-
sourians were panic-struck and thrown in disor-
der and fled. General Price made ineffectual 
attempts to rally them. The Louisiana regiment 
fought gallantly and suffered much. General 
Price led the third and fifth Arkansas regiments 
to a splendid charge.' 
"And this, out of the enemy's mouth, is 'Mc-
Culloch's Victory !' Noble twenty-three thou-
sand ! More of you than the force that attacked 
you fled. Lyon had not five full regiments, and 
five of yours fled ! Who was left on the field ? 
This your report forgets to say. Your remain-
ing eighteen thousand, including the Louisiana 
regiment that 'fought gallantly,' and the Third 
and Fifth Arkansas, that Gen. Price, indignant 
for his lost laurels,led to such a 'splendid charge,' 
were ingloriously routed and driven from the 
field ! 
"Had the fleet foe all been caught and con-
demned to be shot, our fatigued troops, who had 
lost sleep, marched far,, and fought for six and a 
half hours, would scarcely have been physically 
adequate to the task of shooting so many. They 
therefore withdrew to their camp, and this with- 
drawal is all the victory the enemy can claim ! 
Why did he not pursue to Springfield ? Why 
did he not pursue beyond Springfield ? He was 
so cut up and frightened that he could not if he 
dared, and dare not if he could. 
"Several untoward circumstances occurred, 
which exhibit in still stronger light the heroism of 
our intrepid boys. A grievous mistake took 
place by which Sigel's division received the 
worst fire from their friends. Of the First Re-
giment, on which much dependence was placed, 
only seven hundred were in the fight. The de-
plorable fall of Lyon was a heavy blow to the 
hearts of his advancing men, whose hope and 
confidence were reposed in him. But in despite 
of these drawbacks, the thinned and lessening 
band closed up their ranks, pressed resistlessly 
onward an won a victory of imperishable lus-
tre. The devoted valor of the First Regiment 
appears from the sad fact that nearly half their 
number engaged are among the slain or wound-
ed." 
Original. 
Armageddon. 
The belief is so general,almost universal, that 
Armageddon is the place where the battle of 
that great day of God Almighty is to be fought, 
that it may seem presumptuous to express a doubt 
of the correctness of the idea. When, in 1844, 
Mr. Miller suggested a doubt on the subject, I 
was disposed to regard his idea as fanciful. 'But 
the more I have looked at the subject the more 
I am inclined to his opinion. 
The prevailing view of expositors,is, that Ar-
mageddon means the mountain of Megiddo. 
Perhaps the criticism of Dr. J. F. Berg, of Phil-
adelphia, on the meaning of the word, may be 
interesting to the readers of the Herald. The 
Dr. was a believer in the doctrine that Sebasto-
pol was Armageddon, and the object of his criti-
cism to identify it as such. Although I dissent 
entirely from his application, his criticism is 
none the less valuable. He says, "But what is 
Armageddon ? Where is it ? A. degree of ob-
scurity arises from the circumstance that Arma-
geddon is a compound Hebrew word, or name, 
written, not in Hebrew letters, but in Greek 
characters. This would offer no difficulty, if the 
letters in both languages were uniformly corres-
pondent to each other. In the present instance, 
the name Armageddon, becomes somewhat en-
igmatical, from this circumstance. St. John 
wrote the Apocalypse in Greek. He introduces 
a Hebrew word, or name, and writes it in Greek 
characters. The Greek alphabet contains no 
letter corresponding [in sound] to our H, or to 
the Hebrew, which conveys the same sound. The 
sound of H, in Greek is indicated by an accent 
placed before the vowel. If the vowel is to be 
aspirated, the accent placed before it indicates 
the fact. If it is to have the simple force of 
the vowel without an H, that is indicated by 
another accent. These two accents are called 
the spiritus lenis and the spiritus asper. The 
mild accent is simply a comma put before the 
vowel—the aspirate He sound is indicated by a 
comma reversed. You will see, then, that if it 
became necessary to write a Hebrew word be-
ginning with H, in Greek characters, everything 
would depend upon the right accent. The He-
brew word Har, means "a mountain." The 
Hebrew word Ar means "a city." If these 
words were written in Greek letters they would 
both be spelled Ar and the difference in the 
sound would be indicated by the accent. If St. 
John had written 'Ar with the reversed comma, 
it must be pronounced accordingly, Har. But 
he writes it 'Ar—and the word is therefore 'Ar, 
which means "a city ;" not Har, which means 
mountain. All writers on prophecy, have there-
fore treated Armageddon,as though it were Har-
mageddon, or rather Harmageddo, a very differ 
ent combination from Armageddon, and express-
ing a meaning altogether different. Har Megid-
do means the "mountain of Megiddo," or "moun-
tain of destruction." Now Megiddo is spoken of 
frequently in the Old Testament, and is intro-
duced in the Old Testament prophecies ; but 
then Har Megiddo is not Armageddon. It is 
very natural for students of prophecy to seize 
on Harmegiddo as a Key to this passage. There 
might be a mistake in the accent, and what was 
written Ar ought to have been written Har, and 
so the first part of the discrepancy would be ea-
sily explained. But how shall we explain the 
other part of the name ? Marged is not Megid- 
do—Marged means "august," "noble," "illustri-
ous." Megiddo means "destruction." Prophe-
cy and the Times, pp. 126-128. 
If this criticism is just, as it is clear, then Ar-
mageddon is "The august, or illustrious city." 
But expositors of the Apocalypse have taken 
it for granted that the three unclean spirits are 
to gather the kings of the earth to a place call-
ed in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. But is 
not this as great an error as the name itself ? 
"They are the spirits of devils working miracles, 
which go forth to the kings of the earth and of 
the whole world, to gather them to the battle of 
that great day of God Almighty !' This is the 
work of devils. "Behold, I come as a thief ; 
blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his gar-
ments,lest he walk naked and they see his shame." 
This is evidently Christ who speaks to his peo-
ple. 
"And he," the last speaker, Christ, "gathered 
them," to whom he addressed himself, those who 
watch, "together into a place called in the He-
brew tongue, Armageddon," or the illustrious 
city. Is not this a solution of the question so 
often asked, "Where will the saints be while 
Christ executes his judgments on the earth, and 
especially during the conflagration ?" "He has 
prepared for them a city." "I go and prepare 
a place for you. I will come again and receive 
you to myself, that where I am, there ye may be 
also." 
If this is correct, then the "Battle of Arma-
geddon" is a misnomer ; there is no such thing 
mentioned in the Bible. The scriptural name of 
the battle, is, "The Battle of that Great day 
of' God Almighty." Its place is in the "Valley 
of Jehoshaphat." Joel 3. 
J. LITCII. 
Getting on too Fast. 
A pious old slave had a wicked master. This 
master had much confidence, however, in the 
slave's piety. He believed he was a Christian. 
Sometimes the master would be serious and 
thoughtful about religion. One day he came to 
the old slave, with the New Testament in his 
hand, and asked if' he could explain a passage to 
him. The slave was willing to try, and asked 
what it was. 
"It is here in Romans," said the master. 
"Have you done all it tells you in Matthew, 
Mark, Luke and John ?" inquired the slave se-
riously fixing his eyes upon his master's. 
"No, I hav'nt," said he. 
"Then you're getting on too fast,—too fast, 
master. Go back to the beginning of the book. 
Do all it tells you, till you get to Romans, and 
you will understand it easy enough then ; for the 
good Book says, "If any man will do my will, he 
will know the doctrine." 
If any of our readers ever heard anybody ar-
guing about a hard text in Romans, or some-
where else, and worrying to know what it means, 
just tell them this story about "getting on too 
fast." 
On the Word One. 
BY PLAIN JOHN. 
To many readers, there will seem nothing in 
the caption of this fragment beyond the letters, 
or the fact that it expresses a unit. But with 
Plain John it has a richer signification. Per-
haps ere he has concluded his thoughts upon it, 
the same impression may be yours. You speak 
of one person. But is it not often one, compar-
ed with whom the millions beside are but com-
mon dust? One home!! There is no other. One 
stream ! There is none like it, among all the 
waters of the world. One land ! It is par-ex-
cellence and undividedly one, to all our affec-
tions and yearnings. 
Death touches one ! Seldom touches more 
than one at a stroke ; but before the solitary 
bier and the one new made grave, we are more 
profoundly impressed than before any other 
scene. A fresh scene of solemnity in the fact of 
death arouses us. The abrupt cleaving away of 
one whom we held by so many strong ties, awak-
ens us to feel that One above is the sole and in-
scrutable Disposer. The revelations of an im-
mortality vague, and well nigh powerless in the 
As soon as Mr. Ro‘.buck exhibited this at arm's 
length, there was raised one of the most hideous 
howlings we ever heard ; and, amidst the clam-
oring of the crowd, who were too excited to bid 
for the lot, it was knocked down for £ 1 to Mr. 
Newton (a member of the Anti-Easter-due Asso-
ciation.) The next lot consisted of five pieces 
of leather, belonging to Mr. George Barnes. 
This was knocked off for £ 1 to the same pur-
chaser. Then came four and a half yards of 
black broadcloth, the property of Mr. James 
Walley, and which went for £ k.to Mr. Hack-
ing, also a member of theektitEaA'ar-dire Asso-
tion. A cornopean, in an elegant case, was next 
brought out, and after one or two advisedly brief 
remarks from the auctioneer, was knocked off 
at £ 1 10s. to Mr. Hacking. The production of 
the next lot was the signal for a dust'—it was a 
bundle consisting of four pairs of boots, belong-
ing to Lawrence Rushworth until the vicar of 
Whalley and his agents claimed them, arid no 
doubt still belonged to the said Lawrence Rush-
worth. These went for 20s., Mr. Newton being 
the purchaser. Next came a bundle of leather, 
comprising five pieces, which were seized from 
Johu Fish ; on these being held up by Mr. Roe-
buck, more howling followed, and the auctioneer 
was assailed with sundry cries. Afterwards 
there were thirty-six knives and forks belonging 
to James Bently, which Mr. Hacking also bought 
for XI ; a piece of cloth (7 1-2 yards of broad 
br own), the property of James Swain, which 
was sold to Mr. Newton for £ 1 ; a mirror, be-
longing to Hugh Nuttal,knocked off for the same 
sum to Mr. Hacking ; a number of books, 'Tales 
from Blackwood,' (six volumes,) belonging to 
Mr. Bowker,for which there were two offers. Mr. 
Newton, however, being the purchaser, the sum 
being, as in most of the previous cases, £1 ; a 
copper kettle, looking-glasses, a pair of scales, 
two candlesticks, a bundle of umbrellas, etc., be-
ing produced." 
These articles were purchased by officers and 
members of the Anti-Easter-due Association,who 
then disposed of them as follows : 
"At this moment the cart to remove and con-
vey away the goods made its appearance, and 
created a new excitement. The streets were 
filled in every direction as far as eye could reach, 
and not fewer than 10,000 persons were pres-
ent. The vehicle was decorated with white and 
colored bills, bearing the mottoes, �
hate robbe- 
ry for Easter-dues or burnt-offerings ;"Let eve-
ry man pay his own parson ;' 'The Church and 
its effects ;' 'Does the Church seek the good, or 
the goods of the people ?"Down with ecclesias-
tical tyranny ;"Thou shalt not covet thy neigh-
bor's goods ;"Should religion be forced upon 
the people by bumbailiffs ?' The cart had been 
so arranged as to display the various articles 
seized, and the fitting up of the conveyance oc-
cupied a considerable time, during which the 
crowd grew still larger. Rev. Charles Williams 
then proposed three groans for Easter-dues and 
three cheers for the Anti-Easter-due Association 
which were most willing and vehemently given. 
"Mr Tattersall having given some further ex-
planations as to the route, the goods were slow-
ly conveyed along Abbey street, Blackburn 
road, Piccadilly, St James' street, and other 
principal streets, amidst a scene which it is di-
fficult to describe. It was quite impossible to 
form any procession ; the 'eight abreast' was im-
provised into at least thirty abreast ; and the 
whole street was filled by a dense stream of hu-
man beings, numbering, at least, ten or twelve 
thousand. At nearly every window laughing 
faces were seen, and from many others more de-
cided demonstrations were made as the cart pass-
ed beneath. At intervals, as the houses of the 
'victims' were approached, the cheering was re-
newed, and it drowned the strains of the band 
which had joined and headed the procession soon 
after it started. It seemed as if nothing but 
Nonconformity were to be found in Accrington, 
so complete appeared the unanimity." 
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For another illustration of' this, let us pass to 
the world of Commerce. We see there a suc-
cessful child of fortune. The winds of heaven 
have wafted his ships, richly laden, to the near-
est and the most distant parts of the habitable 
earth. The waves and rocks of the ocean, as if 
in league with the winds, have reserved their 
desolating power for other barks, and his have 
passed speedily and safely on to their destined 
ports. Times, and seasons, and circumstances 
have combimed with wind and sea to prosper 
every voyage, and send home his mariners re-
joicing in the pride of his gains. 
Yea, rather, "God hath given the man power 
to get wealth." He has gained his heart's de-
sire. He has laid up "gold as dust, and the gold 
of Ophir as the stones of the brooks." He is en-
riched in all manner of store. .His name as pro-
prietor is known on land and ocean, and in the 
costly dwellings of the goodly city. He has be-
come as it were a nation's banker, and his name 
will go down to posterity as one of the rich men 
of the earth. But what shall these things profit 
him when he comes to die, if he be not also rich 
toward God ? 
We would derogate nothing from the benefits 
which these naturally confer. We press not now 
the divine declaration that a "man's life consist-
eth not in the abundance which he bath." Let 
us admit that the above condition gives to the 
man power, and respectability, and influence over 
others—that it removes from him all the incon-
veniences attendant on restricted means, and 
supplies all his bodily wants. Yet how long is 
he to enjoy these blessings? Will not a few 
years bring them to an end ? Will not the grave 
soon make him as lowly and as poor as any oth-
er man ? Then what will his possessions avail 
to his soul, when it comes before the tribunal of 
a God requiring righteousness ? To say that 
one word of pardon, one smile of acceptance 
from his Judge would then be worth more to 
him than his former gains, would be a sentiment 
too obvious to require utterance. And yet, for 
these same gains, the man had voluntarily for-
feited every good, and every mercy, which this 
Almighty Judge has power to confer upon him. 
If these things be so, does it not become men 
who are striving to lay up treasures here, but 
none in heaven, to look well to the final issue,be-
fore it is too late to consider it? Yes, in the 
midst of all their cares and labors they will, if 
wise, regard the ultimate result. They will of-
ten put to their conscience that great, that mov-
ing question, which lies at the foundation of all 
pecuniary enterprises—"What will it profit me ?" 
and then, applying this question to that world 
which concerns them most, they will stop and 
inquire, What am I likely to gain by living on 
as I have lived ? If I pursue my present course 
with that exclusive and absorbing interest as 
heretofore, shutting out Christ and his religion 
from all my time and thoughts, what is to be the 
end of it ? As God's word is true my soul is 
lost. 
Besides, do we not learn from the Scriptures 
that the time for repentance which is most pleas-
ing unto God, and which he even calls his "ac-
cepted time," is not the future, but always the 
present? "Behold now (saith he) is the accept-
ed time : behold now is the day of salvation." 
Why should we not be of the same mind with 
our Maker, and let his chosen time be ours? 
The moment we bring our wills to this point, 
there breaks upon us the dawn of a glorious des-
tiny. We then have one thing which ought great-
ly to cheer and encourage us. We have the cer-
tain prospect of success, and final acceptance. If 
in answer to his own invitation we become co-
workers with God, and thus link our own weak-
ness to his strength, we cannot fail. We shall 
become accepted through Christ—accepted for 
his sake "who loved us, and gave himself for 
us." We shall no longer tread the journey of 
life with the loneliness of an alien's heart, feel-
ing that we have no friend in heaven. We shall 
bustle of daily care, assume the form of power-
ful conviction, and bestir us at least to a purpose 
of immediate preparation. And how do these 
feelings deepen under the bereaving stroke when 
it comes near ! when we speak of the dead as 
one in whom centres a wealth of fond affection. 
One a root of ourselves, as a severed parent. 
One a flowering of ourselves, as an idolized child. 
One a part of ourselves, as a cherished compan-
ion. It is only one !—but what a void and an 
abyss does the single absence leave in the soul ! 
Surely there is something far from trivial in this 
word. 
There is one life,—only one ! By this I mean 
one life of probation. So the Scriptures speak 
of it. "This life," "your life," "his life," "my 
life." It is never lives. They ask, "What is 
your life ?" They answer, "It is even a vapor 
that appeareth for a little time and then vanish-
eth away." Do we ask in what it consists ? 
They tell us,--"Not in the abundance of the 
things a man possesses." In this life they place 
but one element,--"to be spiritually minded is 
life." They urge to an attainment of this spir-
itual mindedness by the admonition,—"The time 
is short," and also by the fact that, "Ye are not 
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and 
gold, but with the precious blood of Christ." 
One life, and that life a state of trial in which 
we make or undo ourselves forever ! How very 
difficult it is to realize it. The years to come 
seem an exhaustless fountain. We frittered 
away our time and strength. Far off in child-
hood, and as distant in age, seems the evil day, 
—yet it comes on. As a strong man armed to 
run a race, it pursues us. We know this ; alas ! 
we did not expect it. But no, this is true of 
the world, not of believers; and yet we all need 
the caution, lest we gird the world too close,—
lest we get our minds entangled in its pleasures, 
or business, or party errors. 
Precious and above all price, ought this one 
lite to be to us. If Plain John had but a single 
blank book in which to pen his thoughts, and 
could never obtain another, careful indeed I think 
he would be, that every page found a carefully 
studied and carefully written record. Lite is the 
one blank volume which God gives us to write 
out the record of our earthly existence. Every 
day a leaf, each hour a line, and the words once 
entered are imperishable. By them we shall at 
last be judged. 
One Life ! The fact demands of us dispatch, 
and yet that we hasten with a serious and mea- 
sured speed. The years are silently drifting 
from us. As they go by, they bid us spring to 
diligence, and thrust into our languidness the 
spurs of sharp intent, and rise with an earnest 
and alert wakefulness, to give the hour to come, 
and now upon us, a better and purer fruitage, 
.that at last this one life may be crowned with 
honor and glory and immortality, at the appear-
ing of Jesus Christ.—/V. Y. Obs. 
The Lord Cometh. 
our proximity to it, should therefore be duly 
weighed. 
That Christ will come again personally and 
visibly, in power and great glory, is as distinctly 
announced as was his first advent to suffer and 
die. Listen to his own words uttered on the eve 
of his crucifixion : "When the Son of man shall 
come in his glory, and all the holy angels with 
him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his 
glory."—Matt. 26 : 31, &c. "Hereafter shall 
ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand 
of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." 
—Matt. 26: 64. You will observe he is to come 
as the Son of man. This title is applied to him 
84 times in the New Testament, and simply be-
cause of his humanity, as Paul teaches in Rom. 
i. 3: "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our 
Lord, who is made of the seed of David accord-
ing to the flesh." If therefore he is seen as the 
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, his 
advent must be personal and visible. 
The words of the angels to the disciples on 
the day of his ascension are equally explicit : 
"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up in-
to heaven ? this same Jesus who is taken up from 
you into heaven, shall so come in like manner 
as ye have seen him go into heaven."—Acts i. 
9-11. How cheering and expressive this an-
nouncement ! The Man of sorrows who went 
about doing good ; who knew how "to speak a 
word in season to him who was weary ;" whose 
voice hushed the stormy winds and waves of Gen-
nesaret, and drove demons from their human 
habitations ; those words fell as gently on the 
ear as the dew on the moss-rose of June, when 
to the disciples he said, "Fear not," or in the 
hearing of parents uttered the children's gospel 
(Mark 10 : 14) ; who sympathized with Jairus, 
the widow of Nian, and the sorrowing sisters of 
Bethany, and bade their dead live again; who 
offered himself an atoning sacrifice on Calvary ; 
whose body was laid in the rocky tomb from 
which it emerged on the third day ; who "chew-
ed himself alive after his passion by many in-
fallible proofs," and said,—"Behold my hands 
and my feet, that is I myself; handle me and 
see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye 
see me have."—(Luke 26 : 39, 40) ; yes, "this 
same Jesus," shall come in like manner as he 
was seen go into heaven. Such is the testimony 
of angels. It is not difficult to understand their 
words as teaching a personal advent, but ex-
tremely hard to make them teach anything else. 
The manner of his coming may also be gath-
ered from the apostolic epistles. Paul taught 
that "Christ was once offered to bear the sins of 
many, and unto them that look for Him shall 
he appear the second time without sin unto sal-
vation."—Heb. 9 : 28. "For the Lord himself 
shall descend from heaven with a shout,with the 
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of 
God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first."-
1 Thess. 4: 16. Now we argue that as the 
prophecies were fulfilled literally which describ-
ed his conception, birth-place, ministry, ride into 
Jerusalem on the ass, humiliation, suffering, 
death, burial, resurrection, and ascension ; so the 
predictions respecting his coming "the second 
time," will be literally fulfilled. Surely it is not 
fanaticism to believe that the accomplishment of 
the prophetic word relative to the first advent is 
a pledge of the fulfilment of that which pertains 
to the second. Man may be slack concerning 
his promises, but the word of God "is true from 
the beginning," not one of His promises will fail. 
"The Lord cometh !" This is the startling 
cry that falls upon our ear, sounding through 
the centuries of the past. It rises on the other 
side of the Flood, for Enoch, the seventh from 
Adam, made the announcement to the men of 
his generation.—Jude 14, 15. It is a living 
truth which Satan hates and fain would crush, 
for it is the death-knell of his hope and liberty. 
It never will be popular with a godless world. 
How can it be ? for we are assured "If any man 
love not the Lord Jesus Christ," he will "be, 
Anathema, Maranatha," that is, accursed when 
the Lord comes. Neither to the mere formalist 
is it to be a pleasing sound ; but to the lone 
watcher at Zion's gate,—the weary pilgrim on 
the enchanted ground, it brings strong consola-
tion ; for by such ones it will be said in that day, 
"Lo, this is our God ; we have waited for him, 
receive the spirit of adoption. We shall be made 
the sons of God, and heirs of that kingdom 
which he hath prepared for all who love him. 
This is the highest reward we can conceive of. 
More than this the heart of man cannot crave. 
What insane delusion then, must possess au oth-
erwise rational man, to risk the loss of so great a 
blessing ? "For what is a man profited, if he 
had gained the whole world, and lose his own 
soul ?"— Western Episcopalian. 
Rev. Dr. Cumming of London. 
BY REV. HENRY D. NORTHROP. 
Rev. John Cumming, D. D., F. R. S. E. au-
thor of "Apocalyptic Sketches," "Benedictions," 
"Lectures on the Parables," "Voices of the 
Night," "Signs of the Times," etc.—Rev. John 
Cumming, the modern prophet, author of the 
"Great Tribulation," the "Great Preparation," 
etc., etc., is minister to the Scottish National 
church, Crown Court, Covent Garden, London. 
Over and above these badges of distinction, it 
may be said that Dr. Cumming is a popular 
preacher, a good platform orator, and a Christian 
gentleman. 
Those who are acquainted with the location of 
his chapel will remember that it is situated a lit- 
tle off of the Strand, a crowded thoroughfare, 
and is hemmed in and surrounded by other build-
ings, so that a stranger would almost need a 
guide in order to find it. The only motive for 
putting a chapel in that particular spot must 
have been to have carried the gospel into the dark 
places of the earth. 
The edifice itself is plain, substantial, and in-
convenient. Some of the entrances are narrow 
and tortuous. The audience room has the shape 
of a half-moon, the pulpit being in the center. 
By this arrangement a large portion of the con-
gregation is brought near the preacher. 
The singing is conducted by a choir seated in 
front of the desk. No organ is used. In many 
congregations in England and Scotland, there 
seems to be a conscientious opposition to prais-
ing God with any sort of instrument. The peo-
ple are more pious, in this respect, than David 
was. If the "harp of gold" spoken of in Scrip-
ture, should prove to be a literal thing, it is to 
b! feared that it would mar all their enjoyment 
of heaven. There may be praise in a Yankee 
nasal twang or an English guttural, and we like 
congregational singing whether men sing through 
the nose or out of the stomach, but we do not 
believe the harmonious, stirring, solemn tones of 
the organ are unsacred or unchristian. An in-
strument ia religious or irreligious according to 
the use to which it is put. A fiddle can be made 
to play Old Hundred with such propriety and 
solemnity that it shall prove a means of grace 
to the hearers. An organ is generally a help in 
singing, yet the voices in Crown Court chapel 
appear to have no need of its assistance. 
But now that the Psalm is ended, we can 
take a look at the preacher. The personal ap-
pearance of Dr. Cumming is in his favor. His 
features have an intellectual cast and his whole 
demeanor in the pulpit is such as to inspire re-
spect and an expectation of something above the 
ordinary standard of discourses. His rotundity 
is not drawn out into excessive length, nor is 
his circumference equal to that of the two Dutch-
men who obtained sufficient exercise by walking 
around each other once a day. His belief that 
the end of the present dispensatian is close at 
hand evidently does not cause him any great 
anxiety or affect his enjoyment of good dinners. 
His inevitable spectacles and gown add some-
what to his native dignity, yet his bearing is 
easy, graceful, and generally unimpassioned. 
There is no attempt at display, or to get up a 
sensation without any capital to do it with. He 
fires the gun and makes as little noise about 
it as possible. He is sprightly, gentle, fluent, 
instructive, persuasive. Other preachers may 
be greater, but hardly any more pleasing. His 
voice is not remarkably sonorous, yet it is well 
modulated, and has a peculiar richness of tone. 
He preaches withont manuscript, and the cur-
rent of his thoughts and language flows on 
smoothly without a moment's cause of hesitation. 
One happy feature of Dr. Cumming's minis-
tration is his exposition of Scripture. He is a 
critical scholar and thorough Bible student. If 1 
The necessity of calling attention to this im-
portant truth arises from the fact it is practical-
ly disbelieved by mnititudes. The politician ar-
ranges his plans and acts upon them as if the 
world would last for ever. Much is said of the 
march of intellect, and the present being regard-
ed as an age of progress, continued improvement 
of the nations is expected. Many feel sure that 
the world will last their day, and, if indeed it 
ever comes to an end, probably thousands of 
years must first pass away, and thus afford am-
ple room for the accomplishment of their schemes. 
It is true there are individuals—and we fondly 
hope the number is on the increase—who believe 
Christ will come again, and who think of the 
event, yet the mass of mankind is uninfluenced 
by such thoughts. Men go forth to their work, 
the mechanic to his shop, the merchant to his 
counting-room, the lawyer to his office, the stu-
dent to his books,—in short, all classes of every 
occupation without any apprehension that "the 
end of all things is at hand." If they admit 
He will ever come again, the event is placed at 
such a telescopic distance that it has not the in-
fluence upon them which it would have if view-
ed as less remote. The evidence of the certain-
ty and suddenness of our Lord's return, and of 
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there is any hidden meaning in the chapter 
which he reads, any lurking beauty, any choice, 
related significance, any concealed and precious 
gem, he is sure to seize and bring it forth. Un-
der his touch, old familiar passages appear 
freshly inspired. He is not one of those minis-
ters who hurry through the chapter as if it were 
very uninteresting to the hearers, and then shut 
the sacred book with an air that seems to say : 
"I beg pardon for trespassing on your time and 
for intruding God's Word upon your notice." 
Having beard so much of Dr. Cumming's pro-
phetic disposition, you expect, of course, that 
his sermon will be a mathematical demonstration 
of the time of Christ's second coming. You are 
prepared to have the mysteries of inspiration 
and of Providence all cleared up, the present 
constitution of things reasoned away, and the 
world annihilated. You are therefore not a lit-
tle surprised when you hear a practical, earnest 
evangelical discourse, containing no allusion to 
his cherished theme. You find him selecting 
what might be called revival texts and aiming 
at the hearts and consciences of his hearers. He 
deals with the "great tribulation" of the guilty 
sinner, and the "great preparation" which he 
needs for heaven. 
Dr. Cumming is not a monomaniac upon the 
subject of the world's end. If he is mad, there 
is a remarkable coolness and method in his mad-
ness. He reasons so deliberately and eloquent-
ly upon this subject, that his writings attract 
the notice and admiration of men who disbelieve 
every word of them. It is said he rarely intro-
duces his peculiar views into the pulpit except 
in a series of sermons. 
Dr. Cumming is a very voluminous author. 
Many of his extemporaneous discourses are tak-
en by the stenographer and published with slight 
revision. He has said many good things, and 
many things which, dying, it will not be neces-
sary for him to blot, for kind oblivion will re-
lieve him of the task. His expository works 
are full of excellences, yet are not intended to 
be critical guides. He is in sympathy with every 
good reform, speaks often in behalf of ragged 
schools and other benevolent enterprises, and 
feels much interest in every undertaking which 
looks toward the elevation of the masses of the 
people. 
His chapel is usually crowded, many of the 
congregation belonging to the nobility, and re-
presenting titles and wealth. The Dr. is now 
about fifty years old, and bids fair to live to see 
"the end of the world."—IV. Y. had. 
his part was the means of putting the police on' 
the track, which they pursued, by the Emperor's 
orders, with the greatest circumspection. The 
letter further states that several persons who 
visited the reunions, were suddenly dismissed 
from their situations. This had the effect of at 
once arousing misgivings that they were discov-
ered. Some strove to quit the country, and the 
ringleader in the plot became utterly deprived of 
reason. 
When all this was made known to Govern-
ment, M. Patkul, the chief of the Russian police, 
paid a domiciliary visit to the house of the Sen-
ator, for the purpose of seizing all his papers. 
While doing so, a colonel in the Russian army, 
and secretary to one of the ladies in question, 
came and displayed an order which empowered 
him to take possession of the treasonable corres-
pondence. A warm contest ensued ; but Patkul 
was the victor, and in the letters which he found 
was discovered the clue to the conspiracy. The 
two ladies were immediately ordered to leave St. 
Petersburg, and also forbidden ever to return 
there. But the fate of all the others has not yet 
transpired. 
A New Dish. 
A writer in one of the Eastern papers, says 
that probably not one farmer in fifty knows what 
excellent, hearty, wholesome food he can have 
directly from the wheat field, stack or barn. He 
says : "The writer's family breakfasted this morn-
ing, July 20, mainly on boiled wheat. Boiled 
wheat and wheat gravy. Boiled wheat and milk. 
Boiled wheat and maple sugar. Not wheat flour, 
nor wheaten groats, nor cracked wheat, but 
whole grains of wheat, shelled from the best 
heads, as the larger the better, and soaked in 
in cold water one or two hours, or until it is 
quite soft,and the water all absorbed. It should be 
cooked while other culinary operations are go-
ing on, as it needs to boil or simmer on a slow 
fire a good while, and care must be taken at the 
last that it does not burn. To prevent this it 
may be finished off in a sand bath, that is a pan 
of heated sand, or in a pan of water, or in a tin 
kettle set upon a thick earthen plate on a stove ; 
or in a stove oven with all the heat over the top. 
How easy for our soldiers to have a change in 
the eternal bread and salt meat rations, if they 
may be allowed to glean a few wheat heads from 
the "sacred soil" of the enemy, and boil the 
grains in their camp kettles. How convenient 
would this little item of knowledge in domestic 
cooking be to the wife of many a farmer, who 
would gladly get up an extra dish for the tired 
harvest hands ! Try it. How many familes are 
this day living on short allowance, right along-
side of a wheat field, or with grain in stack or 
barn near the house, because they cannot get it 
ground, the mill being dried up or broken down, 
or occupied by 'the army,' or suffering a collapse, 
so that no grinding can be had. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, AUGUST 31, 1861. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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Exposition of Daniels Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VII. 
It has been somewhat different in respect to the 
Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9th, which measured the 
time to events in connection with the first advent, 
and "which," according to Prof. Bush, "by Jews 
and Christians have been interpreted of weeks of 
years." He says : "This fact is obvious from the 
Rabbinical writers en masse, where they touch up-
on this subject, and Eusebius tells us, (Dem.Evang. 
L. VIII. p. 258, Ed. Steph.) that this interpreta-
tion in his day was generally, if not universally ad-
mitted"—i. e. in respect to the 70 weeks, Mero-
pliant p. 243. 
It is also claimed by Prof. B. that among the 
Christian fathers, "Mede is very far from being the 
first who adopted this solution of the symbolic term 
day," in respect to the three and a half times. In 
support of this claim, he says : 
"I have, in my own collection, writers on the 
prophecies prior to the time of Mede,who interpret 
the 1260 days of so many years, and who are so far 
from broaching this as a new interpretation, that 
they do not even pause to give the grounds of it, 
but proceed onwards, as if no risk were run in tak-
ing for granted the soundness of a principle which 
came down to them accredited by the immemorial 
usage of their predecessors." Ib. 
Prof. B. has not given the names of these early 
writers on prophecy or extracts from their writings 
showing their precise position. Though there may 
be writers older than Mede, it does not appear that 
any older than the reformation, thus interpreted the 
1260 days. Since that epoch, however, this inter-
pretation has been quite general. Thus in a letter 
to Mr. Miller, Prof. Bush said : 
"1 do not conceive your errors on the subject of 
chronology to be at all of a serious nature, or in 
fact to be very wide of the truth. In taking a day 
as the prophetical time for a year, I believe you are 
sustained by the soundest exegesis. as well as fortifi-
ed by the high names of Mede, Sir Isaac Newton. 
Bishop Newton, Faber, Scott, Keith, and a host of 
others, who have long since come to substantially 
your conclusions on this head. They all agree that 
the leading periods mentioned by Daniel and John 
do actually expire about this age of the world ; and 
it would be strange logic that would convict you of 
heresy for holding in effect the same views which 
stand forth so prominently in the notices of these 
eminent divines. 
" If the old established principle of the year day 
theory is wrong, then," said Prof. Bush, "not only 
has the whole Christian world been led astray for 
ages by a mere ignis fatuus of false hermeneutics, 
but the church is at once cut loose from every chro-
nological mooring, and set adrift in the open sea, 
without the vestige of a beacon, light-house,or star, 
by which to determine her bearings or distances 
from the desired millennial haven to which she had 
hoped she was tending." Ad. Her. v. 7, p. 38. 
Mr. Elliott dates the application of the year day 
principle soon after the reformation. "We find," he 
says "that almost immediately after Luther's publi-
cation of his Bihle,it was discussed by the chief Pro-
testant prophetic expositors that followed ; and in 
most cases the year day principle applied to explain 
Whatever thus dates back to so early an epoch in 
the reformation, has become venerable for its age ; 
and though that of itself is not sufficient evidence of 
its truth,there is always a satisfaction in finding the 
paths of truth to be the "old paths." On this 
point Prof. Bush says : 
"I am not of the number of those who deem the 
consent of fathers or the current of tradition an in-
fallible test of biblical interpretation ; nor am I in 
the least a stickler for a punctilious specification of 
the dates of prophecy ; but neither am I, on the 
other hand, inclined to discard an opinion long prev-
alent in the church, which has commended itself to 
those whose judgments are entitled to profound re-
spect. That such is the case in regard to the year-
day calculations of prophecy, I am abundantly sat-
isfied, and 1 confess too at once to the pleasure that 
it affords me to find that that which is sanctioned 
by age, is also sanctioned by argument." Hierophant 
p. 242. 
The objection that there is comparatively little 
evidence of the interpretation of symbolic days'as 
years previous to the Reformation, is sufficiently 
met by the fact that,till the last days, the prophecy 
was to be closed up and sealed (Dan. 12:9). But 
it was not to be unintelligible in all respects; for an 
angelic interpreter gave Daniel an understanding 
of the various symbolic agents, shown him in vision 
(7:16-27 ; 8: 15-26) ; whilst, of the salvation thus 
revealed, the prophets "enquired and searched dili-
gently,who prophecied of the grace that should come 
unto you ; searching what, or what manner of time 
the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, 
when it testified before hand the sufferings of Christ 
and the glory that should follow" 1 Pet. 1:10,11. 
It was in respect to the time, or manner of time, 
mainly, that the vail of obscurity was spread over 
Daniel's prophecy. And therefore when the disciples 
asked our Lord, "Wilt thou at this time restore 
again the kingdom to Israel ?" he replied with mark-
ed emphasis, "It is not for you to know the times 
or the seasons, which the Father bath put in his 
own power. But ye shall receive power, after that 
the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall 
ne witnesses of me," &c. Acts, 1:6-8. There are 
therefore clear intimations that a veil was spread 
over the symbolic revelations of time, which was to 
be removed towards the end ; when, in respect to 
that which till then was sealed, "many shall run to 
and fro and knowledge shall be increased." And 
this prediction of a running to and fro, which has 
not respect to a movement in space, but is put by 
substitution for the various and often contradicto-
ry interpretations which should be advanced dur-
ing the increase of knowledge—shows that the light 
was to dawn gradually, and explains fully any con-
flicting and erroneous views which have been ad-
vanced respecting the epochs from which the periods 
in question have been dated. 
The ablest opposer of the year-day theory, is the 
late Prof Stuart of Andover, and his main argu- 
ments in opposition are, That when a short period 
is representative of a long one,—like the instances 
refered to in Numbers and Ezekiel—"the prophet 
is expressly told that one day is the symbol of a 
year ;" that it would never have entered the mind 
of any man, "that such could be the case, unless 
he were expressly informed of it ;" that "Daniel 
and John never once hint at such a mode of inter-
pretation;" that "the scriptures abound in instances 
where designations of time are literally announced 
in connection with predicted events,"—as in the 
predidtion of Jonah against Nineveh,the years to the 
flood, Sze.; that where there is no intimation to the 
contrary, and nothing in the context requiring a dif- 
ferent mode of interpretation," the designations of 
time should be regarded as literally to be fullfilled ; 
and that unless Daniel himself used time literally, 
vs. 2 and 3, of chap. 10, "would necessarily make 
Daniel himself to say, that he fasted in the most ri-
gid manner for twenty one years." 
The obvious reply to all this is,that the two instan-
ces adduced from Numbers and Ezekiel are sufficient 
to establish the general principle of a like interpre-
t tation of other designations of time, in connection 
Conspiracy Against the Czar. 
From a letter published in the Paris papers, 
and containing the most circumstantial details, 
it appears that at St. Petersburg a tragedy was 
on the point of being enacted,the effects of which, 
had it been accomplished, would have spread at 
least over one half of Europe. A plot against 
the life of the Emperor Alexander, as well as 
against the lives of the different members of the 
Imperial family, has lately been discovered, in 
which some of the highest members of the nobil-
ity and State functionaries were implicated. For 
some time past the house of a great functionary 
was the rendezvous of a large number of persons, 
who assembled there under divers pretexts. 
They were for the greater part Government 
functionaries, retired officers, landed proprietors, 
discontented with the late reforms, and individ-
uals belonging to the different coteries into which 
the court is now divided. These personages, it 
is stated, became the centre of a conspiracy, 
which aimed at the lives of the Emperor and his 
children, as well as the establishment of a con-
stitution. The complicity of two ladies of the 
highest rank shows whom the conspirators had 
in view as their future Czar. 
Relations were also formed with some exiles, 
who were brought round by the promise of the 
immediate proclamation of a liberal constitu-
tion ; a Senator, who, on account of the favor he 
enjoyed at the court, was considered to be the 
most fitting intermediary between the different 
malcontents ; and the correspondence on the sub-
ject was carried on through him. However, the 
frequency of the meetings drew the attention of 
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his guilt, and on being brought before United States 
Commissioner C. L. Woodbury, yesterday, upon the 
charge of robbing the Post Office in Fitchburg, he 
waived examination and was held in $2000 for trial 
before the next term of the United States Court. 
"The Worcester Transcript gives the following 
method employed for detecting F. E. Dickinson, 
who was lately arrested on a charge of robbing the 
Enfield Post Office : 
"Dickinson was detected through a plan laid by 
United States Officer Holbrook. A decoy letter con-
taining a five dollar gold piece was sent from Bel-
chertown directed to a fictitious name at Enfield, 
and on arriving of the mail was called for, but 
Dickinson, who had been purposely left alone in 
the office, said that no such letter had been received. 
He was thereupon arrested, and the stolen letter 
found in his pocket. He had been in the Ward Post 
Office, where he was suspected, and was placed in 
the Enfield office to facilitate detection. It is be-
lieved that he has purloined $200 from the Enfield 
office and $400 from the Ware office." 
the anthem peal out from the vast assemblage, the 
preacher commenced singing,— 
"All hail the power of Jesus name ! 
Let angels prostrate fall ! 
Bring forth the royal diadem, 
And crown Him Lord of all!" 
"The effect was electrical, The audience started 
to their feet and sang the hymn with such spirit 
and feeling as perhaps it was never sung before or 
since. Right royally did that great congregation 
pay homage to the Saviour as their Sovereign on 
that Sabbath morning.—Thst. Sketch of Hymns. 
with symbolic agents, when similarly disproportion-
ed to the agents symbolized ; that the principle hav- 
mg thus been revealed, it was not necessary to re- 
affirm it continually ; that there was no occasion 
therefore for hinting it in Daniel and John—though 
it is thus hinted in the use of the Seventy Weeks ; 
that Scriptural designations of time literally ex-
pressed, in connection with literal predictions, fur- 
nish no basis for an argument respecting those in 
connection with prophetic symbols, disproportion-
ate to the agents symbolized ; that the context, of 
the three and a half times,—the little horn being 
proved to be the Papacy,—requires that more 
than literal time should be understood of the period 
of its tyrannical supremacy ; and that Daniel's fast 
of twenty one days, being not symbolic, but a liter-
al act, its time could be only literal. 
Prof. Bush, in a letter to Prof. Stuart makes the 
following disposition of such logic : 
"On the ground you have assumed,the argument 
will stand thus :—The chronological periods attach-
ed to all literally expressed prophecies are found to 
be themselves literally and not mystically expressed. 
Therefore the chronological periods attached to all 
symbolically expressed prophecies,must be themselves 
literally and not mystically expressed. Now this is 
a gross nonsequitur. It is reasoning from unlike to 
unlike. More is put into the conclusion than had 
appeared in the premises," Hierophant, p. 246. 
The reasoning of the Andover theologian, is fair-
ly open to this criticism of the New York Professor ; 
who thus shows the insufficiency of the logic brought 
to bear against the year day theory. The period of 
the minor revolution of the earth on its axis, is an 
appropriate representative of the greater one of the 
revolution of the earth around the sun, when the 
representative agents and acts are correspon- 
dingly �
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than �
those symbolized — like 
those in Numbers, Ezekiel, and the 7th and 8th 
chapter's of Daniel. And as the symbolic conditions, 
in the last two chapters referred to, are analogous 
to those in the writings of Moses and Ezekiel, in-
stead of here needing a special direction to inter-
pret the time on the principle there laid down, we 
are, without express permission to depart from it, 
shut up to that principle of interpretation under all 
similar circumstances. 
sire to know what has been said, and can be said 
on a subject which will never cease to possess inter-
est, while the prophecies of Daniel and John shall 
be reverenced as Canons in the Christian Church." 
—Concord Democrat. 
Inquiries. 
Bro. Bliss :—I wish to know just how long it 
was from the commencement of John's preaching 
to the destruction of Jerusalem ; also I wish to 
know how long it was from the first event named to 
the crucifixion of Christ : and also, how long from 
that event to the last named event—the destruction 
of Jerusalem. In other words, I wish to know if 
the cross is not half way between the two named 
events. 
T. 'WHEELER. 
ANS. John commenced his ministry in the 15th 
year of Tiberias Cmsar, in A. D. 26. The destruc-
tion of Jerusalem was in A. D. 70. The crucifix-
ion is commonly placed in A. D. 33-7 years after 
the former event, and 37 before the later ; but we 
have supposed it to be in A. D. 31. 
Robbing the Boston Post Office. 
During the past six months, letters deposited in 
the Post Office in this city have been frequently 
broken open and the contents stolen. The oft- 
repeated acts of this sort, and the loss of various 
sums of money,induced a strict watch to be kept up- 
on the movements of all parties connected with the 
office, and the matter was entrusted to Mr. N. G. 
Ordway, special Post Office agent, to unravel. Af-
ter diligent investigation, with the assistance of Mr. 
John Lewis, a clerk in the office, Mr. Ordway suc-
ceeded on Wednesday evening [Aug. 14th] in de-
tecting another clerk in the office named Charles 
Center in the act of pilfering the contents of a let-
ter. 
Young Center was immediately arrested,and yester-
day was brought before U. S. Commissioner Wood-
bury, upon a complaint charging him with stealing 
letters and their contents at different times since 
February last, and in default of bail in $1000 he was 
committed for trial. The precise gross amount 
stolen by Center is not known, but it is supposed to 
amount to several hundred dollars.—Boston Jour-
nal. 
On Tuesday, Aug. 6, we made a complaint at the 
Post Office, of money lost that had been mailed for 
the Herald. And on Tuesday 13th, we left there 
the following list of lost letters : 
Mailed, about Jan. 1, 1861 from National, Iowa, 
by James Woodworth, $2. 
Jan. 18, from Caledonia, Pa. by A. M. Luce, 2. 
Feb. 1, from Volga City, Iowa, by A. J. Black-
man, 1. 
Mar 4, from Manchester N. H. by John Morse,3. 
June 11, from York Pa. by Jacob Shelley, 2. 
July 1, from Moravia N. Y., by David Barber, 1. 
July 11, from Lake Village N. H., by John 
Knowles, 2. 
July 15, from Allenstown N. H., by J. B. Clark, 
1. 
About July 30, from Manchester N. H., by Wm. 
P. Stratton, 2. 
Since the above, we have to add the following 
Mailed July 29, 1861, at Conway Mass. by A. 
M. Sherman, $3. 
Mailed about July 20, at Huron 0., by E. W. 
Mead, 1.50. 
The above comprises our share of losses by some 
dishonest party, and we hope, the agent of them has 
been detected and removed. When we do not credit 
money sent us, we desire a prompt notice. 
Another :— 
F. E. Dickinson, a clerk in the post-office at En-
field, in Hampshire county, was arrested on Mon-
day by U. S. mail agent Holbrook, on a charge of 
robbing the mail. Abundant testimony of his guilt 
was found and he was taken to Boston for an ex-
amination before the proper authorities.— Worces-
ter Transcript. 
It seems the rogues have been about ; but we 
hope some of them have been detected 
ARREST OF A NOTED ROBBER. Yesterday after-
noon, Officer Baker of the 4th Police arrested a man 
giving his name as Spear, for breaking a window 
on Washington street. He was, however, identified 
by Mr. N. G. Ordway, special Post Office agent, as 
Oliver Cromwell Smith, who had been traced by 
Mr. Ordway for several weeks past, Smith always 
making his appearance in the immediate vicinity of 
the recent Post Office robberies! 
On searching him a large number of postage 
stamps and several Post Office keys were found up-
on him, which with other evidence already in pos-
session of Mr. Ordway, clearly satisfied him that 
Smith is guilty of robbing the Post Offices in North 
Easton, Stoughton, Charlestown, Fitchburg, and 
Roxbury, carrying away money, stamps, letters 
checks, drafts, and rifling nearly two thousand let-
ters. 
After finding himself caught Smith acknowledged 
The Coronation. 
"The late Mr. Dawson, a very plain man, but a 
highly popular local preacher among the Wesleyan 
Methodist's of England, was some years since, 
preaching in London on the offices of Christ. After 
presenting him as the great Teacher and Priest, who 
made himself an offering for sin, the preacher intro-
duced him as the King of saints. Having shown that 
he was king in his own right, he proceeded to the 
coronation. Borrowing his ideas from scenes familiar 
to his audience, he marshalled the immense proces-
sion, moving towards the grand temple, to place the 
insignia of royalty upon the King of the universe. 
So vividly did the preacher describe the scene, that 
his hearers almost thought they were gazing upon 
that long line of patriarchs and kings, prophets and 
apostles, martyrs and confessors, of every age and 
clime, until at length the great temple was filled, 
and the solemn and imposing ceremony of corona-
tion was about to take place. The audience by this 
time were wrought up to the highest pitch of ex-
citement ; and, while momentarily expecting to hear 
A Brother writes from Wisconsin : 
"Bro. Bliss :—enclosed you will find a gold dol-
lar to pay in part for my paper. It is the first one 
I have had since I sent you the last. You shall have 
the next one. I send you these, because there is no 
discount on them. Many of our bank bills are worth 
only from 60 to 80 cts. on the dollar. I esteem the 
Herald very much, and hope and pray it will be sus-
tained until Jesus comes ; which cannot be long. it 
seems to me." 
The above not only paid "in part," but in full to 
April 1, 1862. In this time of famine of money, 
such an interest in the Herald shows that the will of 
its patrons exceeds their ability. 
To the Point. 
Lockport, Aug. 12, 1861. 
Mr. Sylvester Bliss—Dear Sir : Enclosed please 
find three dollars, of which apply one dollar in pay-
ment on my subscription for Advent Herald, and 
two dollars in donation to its support. 
Truly yours, 
Mrs. J. W. REED. 
The above is just the talk we need at the present 
time. It is to the point ; and is encouraging, in 
the evidence it presents of an active interest in the 
Herald's welfare. We would like to see such wel- 
come epistles greatly multiplied. �ED. 
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"THE TIME OF THE END." 
This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the 
present editor of the Advent Herald and published 
in 1856,treats "the time of the end," (Dan. 12: 9.) 
as a prophetic period preceding the end ; during 
which there was predicted to be a wonderful in-
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periods that fill up the future of this world's dura-
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It presents various computations of the times of 
Daniel and John ; copies Rev. E. B. Elliott's view 
of "our present position in the prophetic calen-
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gives three dissertations on the new heavens and the 
new earth, by Drs. Chalmers, Hitchcock, and Wes- 
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Our Annual Conference. 
Instead of occupying the time of the next Confer-
ence with the framing and passing of vain resolu-
tions, and the transaction of mere business affairs, 
the following subjects will be presented and discus-
sed in their order. 
It will be noticed that they comprise the great 
cardinal questions which make us a distinctive peo-
ple, with doctrines eminently and strictly practical. 
They will not only call out the liveliest interest 
among ourselves, but demand the attention of others 
who will, undoubtedly,attend the session. We shall 
too, by this method, secure as good as twenty ser-
mons, per day, instead of one or two as formerly, 
and in a way that shall bring out the many and va-
rious gifts of our preachers, and must elicit the 
warmest expressions of faith, experience and exhor-
tation from the lay brethren. 
In order to obtain promptness and give energy to 
the questions, and to insure an unflagging interest 
from the opening of the Conference, to its close, 
speakers will be appointed to open each subject, i. 
e. make an address, or preach a short sermon of 
about 30 minutes, to be followed by remarks from 
any who may choose to speak. 
Subjects for Discussion at the next General 
Conference. 
Revivals :—Their essential qualities ; Their 
Importance ; the best means to promote them. 
Aspect of the Times :—Political, moral and 
religious; Practical application as taught in Scrip-
ture. 
Importance of Union :—In Faith ; in Labor ; 
in Sympathy. 
Fundamental Doctrines :—What ones vital to 
salvation ; essential to understand, to believe and 
propagate. 
Sabbath Schools :—Importance ; management ; 
Instances of interest; the best method of promoting 
them. 
Christ's Second Advent :—Personal and Visi-
ble; Pre-millennial. 
ResurrectiOn :—Literal ; of all the dead ; their 
order as to character and time. 
The Restitution : of man, morally and physic-
ally ; of the earth ; of the atmosphere, &c. 
Kingdom of Christ :—Its essential parts ; the 
Time of its Establishment ; the place of its Manifes-
tation. 
Adventists and other Millenarians :—Their 
Differences and agreements ; co-operation desirable. 
Practical Value of our Faith :—To individ-
ual Christians ; to the Church ; to the World. 
Our absolute Dependence for success in the 
prosecution of our mission, on the Father, the Son, 
and the Holy Ghost. 
The names of the opening speakers will be attach-
ed next week. 
Pope's Ode. 
"The excellent John Wesley, in giving an account 
of a visit he made to Bolton in Lancashire, in the 
summer of 1787, tells that, in the evening of a Sab-
bath on which he addressed eight hundred Sabbath 
school children, he desired forty or fifty of them to 
sing Pope's ode,— 
"Vital spark of heavenly flame." 
He adds, "Although some of them were silent, 
not being able to sing for tears, yet the harmony 
was such as I believe could not be equalled in the 
King's Chapel."—lb. 
The 8th Georgia Regiment. 
The Richmond Dispatch gives a Homeric account 
of the 8th Georgia regiment at the Manassas battle. 
After marching twenty-seven miles on Friday, and 
then kept moving by rail till Sunday morning, and 
then marched thirteen miles to the scene of battle, 
it was opposed to Sherman's battery, and badly 
"cut to pieces." They retired, when the Dispatch 
says : 
"But a horrible mistake occurred at this point. 
Their own friends,taking them for the enemy, pour- 
ed a fatal fire upon their mutilated ranks. At length 
they withdrew from the fight. Their final rally was 
with some sixty men, of the six hundred they took 
in. Balaklava tells no more heroic tale than this : 
'Into the valley of death marched the six hun-
dred.' " 
This is paying dearly for secession. All accounts 
show the rebel losses to be very great. 
On the Sabbath morning on which the battle of 
Lake Champlain was fought,when Commodore Dow-
nie of the British squadron, was sailing down on 
the Americans, as they lay in the Bay of Platt:—
burg, he sent a man to the mast-head to see what 
they were doing on Commodore McDonough's ship, 
the flag-ship of the little American squadron. 
'Ho! aloft,' said Downie, 'what are they doing on 
that ship ?' 
'Sir,' answered the lookout, 'they are gathered 
about the mainmast, and they seem to be at pray-
er.' 
'Ah !' said Commodore Downie, 'that looks well 
for them, but bad for us.' 
It was bad for the British Commodore, for the 
very first shot from the American ship was a chain-
shot which cut poor Downie in two, and killed him 
in a moment. McDonough was a simple, humble 
Christian and a man of prayer, but brave as a lion 
in the hour of battle. He died as he lived, a simple-
hearted, earnest Christian. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In th isdepartment, articles are solicited, on thegeneral 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, ovei 
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 rers 
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all reference-
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as c'isentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless,unkind, or uncourteouscontroversy. 
From Bro. J. T. Curry. 
Bro. Bliss:—Bro. D. Bosworth's remarks in your 
last, in reply to my own, convince me that he is 
more or less in the dark with regard to the question 
in dispute. In the spirit of Christian love, and 
with a perfect willingness to be set right if I am 
wrong, I will endeavor to do my part in the remo-
val of the difficulty. The pronominal expressions 
under consideration do not occur often enough in 
the New Testament to warrant the assertion of Bro. 
B. that they are " scattered all through the Bible." 
They number about 327 in the Old Testament, but 
only about 27 in the New. If the New T. had a 
proportionate number, it would have about 107.—
Instead of standing in the ratio of 1 to 3, they ac-
tually range 1 to 13. So much for the wholesale 
expression " scattered all through the Bible." 
But why does this mode of speech superabound 
in the 0. T. ? Dr. Eadie replies, " Nouns of this 
nature are used, because the Hebrew has no inten-
sive or reflexive pronouns." To this Bro. B. an-
swers, " But I am not quite convinced, for I have 
known orthodox divines to be a little heretical on 
some points." Now what does he mean ? Does 
he mean that he is " not quite convinced" of the 
truth of the above statement of Dr. Eadie ? If so, 
why has he not stated his ground of objection ?—
Has he, or any one else, a right to publicly impugn 
the authority of a standard Biblical critic, without 
giving any reason ? Let it be understood that it is 
not a question of doctrine. (I believe that Dr. Ea-
die is "heretical" in doctrine, inasmuch as he main-
tains the immortality of the soul.) But it is a 
question of Ilebrew grammar. I will now quote 
further from Dr. Eadie. "The Hebrew and Arabic 
abound in similar instances. Gesenius illustrates it 
by the German selb or selber. Nordheimer, in the 
2d volume of his Hebrew grammar, illustrates such 
usages at considerable length." Here are two other 
Hebrew scholars to be branded with heresy. I won-
der what Goold Brown would think if some one 
should charge him with heresy for explaining " the 
laws of (English) grammar and principles of (Eng-
lish) poetry." 
It may be asked, Why are such expressions found 
in the New T. at all, as it was written in Greek ? 
To this question I reply in the words of another 
" orthodox divine and celebrated critic," Dr. Edwd. 
Robinson. " The writers of the New Testament, 
with the exception of Paul, and partially perhaps 
of Luke, were unlearned men ; and, like the rest of 
their countrymen, knew the Greek language only 
from the intercourse of common life, and not from 
books. With them, therefore, the Hebrew element 
which mingled in this idiom, would naturally have 
great prominence. . . . This is seen more in 
the construction and connection of words in phrases 
and sentences, than as affecting their intrinsic sig-
nification." Robinson's Lexicon, Preface. 
Another " orthodox divine &c." Rev. Ezra Stiles 
D.D., Pres. of Yale College, says, " Kindred with 
this (the Hebrew) or rather a bath-kol, and daugh-
ter voice, is the Syriac, in which the greater part of 
the New T. (I believe) was originally written, and 
not merely translated, in the Apostolic age." 
Prof. Murdock says of the above " opinion of Dr 
Stiles, that the greater part of the books of the N. 
T. were originally written in Syriac, and not mere-
ly translated, is far from being so strange as to have 
no other advocate. Many have believed that Mat-
thew's Gospel and the Epistle to thellebrews, if not 
also some other books, were originally written in 
Hebrew or Jewish Aramaean." App. II. Mur-
dock's Trans. of the Syriac Test. 
To dismiss the question, I believe the phrases, 
"My soul," " his, her, thy soul," and also the 
" your, their souls," are Hebraisms, and mere-
ly expressive of personality. Least of all do they 
prove the existence of ala entity in man which can 
survive what is popularly styled "temporal death." 
I have thus far kept to the question in dispute. 
But Bro. B. in his reply to my former remarks, in-
troduces another question instead of adhering to the 
one started by himself. He says comparatively lit-
tle about the point in dispute, but occupies most of 
the space allotted to him in the Herald in discussing 
something else. Let us analyze his article. It has 
47 lines. He occupies 8 lines in statement of the 
question. In the next 4 he compresses his argu-
ment. (?) Then 31 lines are devoted to another 
point. Then 3 lines " relieve Dr. Eadie of his dif-
ficulties." I prefer to discuss one questioneat a 
time. �
JOSEPH T. CURRY. 
Fly Mountain, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1861. 
From Sr. Martha Salt. 
Dear Br. Bliss :—The times in which we live are 
surely very peculiar ; and as time rolls on much 
will be revealed. We have undoubtedly entered upon 
those days of temptation, which should come upon 
all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 
I am more convinced than ever, that the signs of 
the times strongly indicate those awful events spo-
ken of in Isaiah. He speaks of One who is to 
tread the wine-press alone ; who will tread the peo-
ple in his anger, and trample them in his fury,—
sprinkling their blood upon his garments. He says 
I will tread down the people in mine anger, and 
make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring 
down their strength to the earth. By fire and by 
sword will he plead with all flesh. He will give 
them that are wicked to the sword. The prophet 
Jeremiah says, chap. 25, Evil shall go from nation 
to nation. Zephaniah speaks of God's bringing 
distress upon men : "and I will shake all nations." 
Hie adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pie-
ces. David says, in the 46th Psalm, " Come be-
hold the works of the Lord, what desolations he 
hath made in the earth. Upon the wicked lie shall 
rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tem-
pest." What awful anarchy and confusion will the 
nations experience ! C what war and shedding of 
blood ! 0, of its present fearful aspects and conse-
quences, who can think without a shudder. What 
wonderful instruments in preparation, and being 
made, as implements for war. The calamities and 
convulsions are making men's hearts to fail for fear, 
and for looking after those things that are coming 
on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be sha-
ken. 
But 0 how great the happiness of the believer in 
Christ, to know that he is building his hopes upon 
a rock, against which all the counsels of earth and 
hell shall never prevail ; and to see in all these evils 
the certainty of the truth, as taught by Jesus. All 
things are warning us that ere long the crashing 
blow of destruction will come and sweep the earth 
of all which now trouble and disgrace it. 
Yours looking for the blessed hope, 
MARTHA SALT. 
East Liverpool, 0., Aug. 2, 1861.. 
 
From Sr. A. Muzzey. 
Bro. Bliss :—I sailed from Boston to Nova Scotia 
last May,—the first time I ever left my native soil. 
Although it is not a very great way off, it is away 
from home and from war. 0, cruel thought ! Is 
it so that our once united and happy country is now 
convulsed in civil war—brother against brother ! It 
is even so ; and who can tell what the end will be ? 
Alas for our nation ; for God hath said that he will 
give them that are wicked to the sword. 
Although it is now a time of peace in this prov-
ince, yet who can tell what a day or year may bring 
forth. 
I came here in company with Bro. and Sr. Ing-
ham. Sailed over the mighty deep for the first time, 
had a pleasant and safe passage, and fonnd a very 
hospitable and kind people, a few scattered ones that 
love the doctrine of the coming of the Lord and the 
resurrection of the dead, who are comforted with 
the words, " The Lord himself will descend from 
heaven," to raise the sleeping dead, change the liv-
ing, and bring them all together to their long-sought 
rest. 
Unbelief is prevalent here. The harvest is great, 
and the laborers are few. 0 that the Lord would 
send forth laborers into his vineyard. 
We have had some very good meetings, have felt 
much of the presence of the Lord and hope it may 
not be in vain that I came to Nova Scotia. I have 
tried to prove faithful to my trust ; have labored as 
I felt God would have me, both in public and in 
private. I have held up the light on the coming of 
the blessed Saviour, as far as I had the ability to do, 
have scattered papers and tracts, visited and prayed 
with the sick and the dying ; and now I feel the 
blessed assurance,: if my Master should call me from 
labor that I should receive the reward of the right-
eous, and have it said of me, " She bath done what 
she could." 
I feel much attached to the people here, am loth 
to leave them ; but my mind begins to look toward 
my native shore. I think of returning in a few 
weeks ; but as the sound of war and battle increases 
I almost dread the thought of meeting friends whose 
hearts are filled with sadness. 
0 let the morning dawn, that will end our tears 
and sorrows, remove the curse, restore the earth to 
its Eden beauty, and bring up the saints from their 
dusty beds. Let Zion triuniph ; let the tree of life 
be restored ; let the river of life flow ; let the holy 
city appear ; let the church be gathered ; let the 
song of salvation be sung ; yea, let Jesus reign King 
of kings and Lord of lords. Then peace shall smile' 
from shore to shore and nations shall learn war no 
more. 
From your sister in Christ, watching for the mor 
ning dawn, �
ABIGAIL MUZZEY. 
.Hillsburgh, N. S., July In, 1861. 
From Bro. TV. S. 'Cutting. 
Bro. Bliss—Dear Sir :—What could we do in 
these days of peril, when men are heaping to them-
selves teachers having itching ears, if we had not 
the Book of books, the true and everlasting chart, 
to teach us truth from error, and ,right from wrong, 
and good from evil. When I hear ministers of the 
gospel declare from the desk that Christ had no ex-
istence until he was born of the virgin Mary, and 
that his whole being died on the cross, it does seem 
to me that they are blind, or greatly mistaken ; for 
when I read the words of Inspiration that declare 
that though he was rich yet for our sakes he became 
poor, that we through his poverty might be rich, 
and knowing that when he was born into the world 
he was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a 
manger, which looks like poverty, and nowhere 
when in this world, veiled in humanity, was he rich, 
but said himself that the birds of the air have nests 
and the foxes have holes, but the Son of man bath 
not where to lay his head. It is evident that he 
was poor in this world, a man of sorrows and ac-
quainted with grief ; and he that was rich in wis-
dom, power and glory stooped down to the lowest 
degree of degradation, poverty and suffering on our 
account, that we might be rich. Paul says, " Let 
this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 
who being in the form of God thought it not rob-
bery to be equal with God, but made himself of no 
reputation and took upon him the form of a servant 
and was made in the likeness of men." It is plain 
to my mind by this scripture that he was in the torm 
of God before he was made in the likeness of men, 
whatever that form was ; but God is a spirit, and a 
spirit bath not flesh and bones. Still God said, Let 
us make man in our image, after our likeness. So 
.God created man in his own image. I think God 
has a form, and is called the eternal God, who rid-
eth "upon the heaven in thy help and in his excel-
lency on the sky, and underneath are the everlast 
ing arms. And the invisible things of him from 
the creation of the world are clearly seen, being un-
derstood by the things that are made, even his eter-
nal power and Godhead. And Christ being in God's 
form, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 
and it is said that he was the brightness of the Fa-
ther's glory and the express image of his person ; 
and he says by the wise man, The Lord possessed 
me in the beginning of his way, before his work of 
old I was set up from everlasting, from the begin-
ning, or ever the earth was. When he prepared 
the heavens I was there. When he appointed the 
foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one 
brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, 
rejoicing always before him. The Scriptures teach 
that he did exist with the Father from the begin-
ning, and was the creator of the whole creation.—
For in the beginning was the word, and the word 
was with God, and the word was God. All things 
were made by him, and without him was not any 
thing made that was made. He was in the world, 
and the world was made by him, and the world 
knew him not. For by him were all things created 
that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible 
and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions 
or principalities or powers, all things were created 
by him and for him, and he is before all things,and 
by him all things consist ; but unto the Son he 
saith, Thy throne, 0 God, is forever and ever ; and 
thou Lord in the beginning hest laid the foundation 
of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine 
hands. It is evident to my mind at least that he 
did exist before the world was, and he was the Lord 
that appeared unto Abraham in the plains of Mam-
re, and said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing 
which I do ? and said he would not destroy the city 
if there could be ten righteous found in it, and the 
same one that wrestled with Jacob until the break-
ing of the day, and that changed his name from Ja-
cob to Israel, the satne God that Jacob said he had 
seen face to face and his life was preserved, and the 
One that said to Moses, Behold I will stand before 
thee there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt 
smite the rock, and there shall come water out of 
it, that the people may drink. And Paul says,—
They all ate the same spiritual meat and did all 
drink the same spiritual drink ; for they drank of 
that spiritual rock that followed them, and that 
rock was Christ. It looks to me that he was the 
being that Nebuchadnezzar meant when he said his 
form was like the Son of God, and the same I that 
said to the Jews, Destroy this temple, and in three 
days I will raise it op ; the same I that said,—
' Where two or three are gathered together in my 
name, there am I in the midst of them ; the One 
that said, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the 
end of the world, and declared to the Jews that be-
fore Abraham was I am ; and he told John that he 
was the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
end, the first and the last. Wherefore when he 
cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offer-
itig thou wouldst not, but a body hest thou prepar-
ed me. Then he said, Lo, I come, to do thy will, 
0 God. It seems to me that this body was prepar-
ed for an offering for the sins of the world ; for 
without shedding of blood is no remission. Foras-
much then as the children are partakers of flesh and 
blood he also himself likewise took part of the same, 
that through death he might destroy him that had 
the power of death, that is the devil. He took only 
in part of flesh and blood. He took not on him the 
nature of angels that cannot die, that we might live. 
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made 
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful 
and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God 
to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 
For what the law could not do in that it was weak 
through the flesh, God sending his Son in the like-
ness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the 
flesh. The promise to the serpent was that he should 
bruise the heel of the seed of the woman, which 
looks to me like the human nature of Christ—the 
body only died, and not the being that the words 
were addressed to, Let us make man in our image. 
The body only died, and not the Alpha and Omega, 
the first and the last. At the last supper he took 
bread and gave thanks and brake it, and gave unto 
them, saying, This is my body which is given for 
you. Also the cup after supper, saying, This cup 
is the new testament in my blood which is shed for 
you. It looks to me that there was a body prepar- 
ed. �
Then said he, Lo I come to do thy will, 0 God, 
by the which will we are sanctified through the of-
fering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all; and 
having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into 
the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and liv-
ing way which he bath consecrated for us through 
the vail, that is to say his flesh ; for he is our peace 
who bath made both one and hath broken down the 
middle wall of partition between us, having abol-
ished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of com-
mandments contained in ordinances for to make in 
himself of twain one new man, so making peace ; 
and you that were sometimes alienated and enemies 
in your mind by wicked works, yet now bath he 
reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to 
present you holy and unblameable and unreprovea-
ble in his sight. It is evident to my mind by these 
texts that the body only of Jesus died, and the of-
fering was made through the Eternal Spirit without 
spot to God, and should purge our conscience from 
dead works to serve the living God. If his entire 
being died on the cross, as some say, I see no way 
that his prayer could be answered, Now 0 Father 
glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory 
which I had with thee before the world was ; for 
after lie had a resurrection and a glorified body 
there would be an addition to his glory, and hear-
ing him say to the thief on the cross in positive 
terms, roday shalt thou be with me in paradise, it 
looks to me that his prayer was answered when he 
commended his spirit into the hands of his Father 
and was ushered into the presence of the Eternal 
God, as he was when he was in the form of God and 
thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; and 
I can say with Paul, Now unto the King eternal, 
because he had an eternal existence with the Father 
before the world was ; immortal, because his mortal 
body that was prepared died on the cross, was bur-
ied, and through the resurrection was made immor-
tal; invisible, because, Whom having not seen yes 
love, in whom though now ye see him not, yet be-
lieving ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of 
glory ; and he will in his times show who is the 
blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and 
Lord of lords ; who only bath immortality : and 
the Lord. 
giftof God is eternal life through Jesus Christ 
our 
 
W. S. CUTTING. 
Barnston, C. E. 
 
From Bro. J. T. Sweet. 
" And they lived and reigned with Christ a thou-
sand years." 
Mr. Editor— Dear sir :—Notwithstanding you 
may differ from me in my views, yet I am persuad-
ed that the question, " Who lived and reigned ?" 
has not been fairly discussed in the Herald. Mr. 
Peaslee takes the position that it is the martyrs at 
some future period of this world's history ; your-
self, in discussing this question with the above-nam-
ed, took the position that it was the church in the 
world to come. Now it looks to me (after holding 
those views for twelve years) that your position 
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takes too much for granted. It is altogether gratu-
itous to say, that those persons that were beheaded 
for the witness of Jesus were resurrected when John 
saw them. It cannot be future in this world, as 
Mr. Peaslee argues ; for the dead rise not until the 
second advent of Christ ; and when he comes, it is 
to judge the quick and the dead, and take vengeance 
on all that obey not the gospel." 2 Tim. 4:1 ; 2 Th 
1:7-10 ; Rev. 20:11-15. 
If they are resurrected persons, then they must 
rise at the resurrection at the last day. John 11:24. 
If they rise at the last day, then they must be in-
cluded in the account of the dead that were deliver-
ered up from the sea, death, and grave, Rev. 20:13; 
for you will observe that this delivering up is at the 
time of the appearing of the great white throne, v. 
11 ; and if verse 4 teaches a resurrection, it is only 
those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, 
which would not worship the beast and his image. 
Now I cannot see how the 4th verse can refer to the 
resurrection at the last day, when Christ said, "All 
in their graves shall come forth in the same hour, 
some to life, and some to condemnation.'' And 
John has said everything that contained any dead. 
at the time of the appearing of the great white 
throne " delivered them up, and they were judged 
every man according to their works." And Paul 
says, " Christ will judge the quick and dead at his 
appearing and kingdom. Now, as all the dead that 
are in the sea, and all that in their graves, are to 
be delivered up prior to the passing away of the 
heavens, earth and sea, how can there be any rest 
of, or remnant, of the dead, to be delivered up a 
thousand years subsequent to the time when the 
containers of death were passed away, or destroyed? 
We answer the question for ourself, it is impossible 
that the special class referred to in verse 4 should 
commence their reign for 1000 years, at the judg-
ment ; for at that time, all do rise, and the grave is 
cast into the lake of fire (melted earth), and the 
sea delivers up its dead ; and therefore the 4th ver. 
must precede vs. 11-15 by 1000 years, and as the 
white throne appears at the end of this age, v. 11, 
so verse 4 must precede v. 11, and the end of this 
world (age) by 1000 years ; and consequently the 
reign of the martyrs that were beheaded was a spir-
itual reign with Christ, (who is now, and will con-
tinue reigning until the last enemy is destroyed,and 
then death and he that had the power thereof being 
destroyed, Christ will have accomplished his work 
that the Father gave him to do. 1 Cor. 15:24, 25. 
There is 1000 years between verse 4, and vs. 13-
15. This is conceded on all hands ; and yet it is 
impossible to avoid the conclusion (fairly) that vs. 
11, 12 apply at the same time with vs. 13-15. 
If verse 4 teaches a resurrection, then it applies 
at the end of this age, and consequently must be 
prior to the passing away of the earth, v. 11; and 
if it does not synchronize with v. 13 then that verse 
is to be applied in the new earth, and that would 
give us the present sea and graves in the new earth, 
which is impossible. 
Will you give me an opportunity to show up the 
truth on this point, and oblige yours, 
J. T. SWEET. 
From Bro. C. Dow. 
Bro. Bliss :-I have an interest in the Herald. I 
am not willing to give it up at present ; for it seems 
to me that the light it reflects is very much needed 
at this hour of our national affliction, when the 
stoutest hearts are failing for fear. The enemy in 
our midst seems to triumph over our misfortune-
provoking the church to feel somewhat like the ap-
ostles when they asked permission to pray for fire to 
come down and destroy those that were unwilling 
to lodge the Savior for a night ; which was rebuked 
by him, I suppose, for our example. If so, how 
much we need a like rebuke, judging from remarks 
made by professors of Christianity concerning the 
rebels of the South. That they are wrong, and 
should be put down by our government, I have no 
question ; but we should pray for them, and desire 
to do them good, instead of cursing them. It is a 
trying time to the Christian, who means to be hon-
est, pay his debts, and live with a conscience void of 
offence towards God and man. We need great grace 
in order to live in constant readiness to meet the 
Savior when he comes. Desiring still the paper, 
and its prosperity, yours in much affliction, 
CHAS. Dow. 
Inverness, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1861. 
A Sister writes : 
"Bro. Bliss :-I did not expect it would ever he my 
painful duty to write to have the Advent Herald stop-
ped,but I am compelled to do so. If my dear husband 
had lived, it would not have been stopped. Oh, how 
my little family is changed since his death. He sub-
scribed for it, when called the Signs of the Times. 
We have taken it for many long years, and have 
highly appreciated its columns ; for it has contained 
food for our hungry souls, and I am truly sorry to 
be deprived of it. I feel that I must bow in submis-
sion to the will of God in all things. I see by the 
last number I have received all I have paid for. I 
wish I had money to send in this for the paper ; but 
have not. I hope it will be sustained ; for it 
greatly needed in this time of trial. I would gla(Ly 
help to support it, if I could. The paper and those 
connected with it, shall have my earnest prayer 
that God may be with you all. 
From your sister in the Lord, looking for Jesus 
soon." 
Communications like these are multiplying on us. 
ED. 
From Bro. A. C. Brown. 
Bro. Bliss �
am sorry to see some stoping their 
papers on account of hard times; for I think there 
are but a few so poor that they cannot raise one dol-
lar in six months, if they try. I am poor myself ; 
but I mean to try to pay so long as I can. You 
will find one dollar enclosed for the Herald. 
Yours, still looking for Redemption, 
A. C. BROWN. 
Oakdale, .Mass., July 15, 1861. 
Mary the Sister of Lazarus. 
BY D. HOYT WILLEY. 
The lamp of day looked warmly down 
On Bethany's fair and sacred mound, 
While tiny shrub and stately trees 
Stirred 'mid the zephyr's gentle breeze. 
On Mary's home-the household dear-
Those beams of love fell soft and clear-
And he who did the world atone 
His blessings scattered round her home. 
But once ere his return was made, 
Kind Mary's brother low was laid. 
Hadst thou been here, she wildly cried, 
I know my brother had not died. 
Then went they to the silent grave, 
An earnest, fervent prayer was made, 
The dead awoke, and free of pain 
In faith sweet Mary smiled again. 
And when the festal board was spread, 
Soft was heard her gentle tread. 
At her Master's feet, 'mid tears and prayer 
She bathed them with her golden hair. 
The soft winds stir amid the leaves 
Of Bethany's tiny shrub and trees, 
But Mary hears no more their song-
She has joined above the angelic throng. 
A TOUCHING INCIDENT. The following touching 
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the Second Rhode Island Regiment: 
"After the battle was fought I went into a grove 
where the secessionists had been concealed. I found 
the ground was covered with the dead and dying. 
The eight was one I pray never to see again. One 
poor fellow with his leg blown off called me to him 
and asked me to shake hands with him. He then 
asked me if I had any ill feelings toward him: I 
replied, 'No ; but I am sorry that brothers should 
be obliged to slaughter each other in this manner.' 
The poor fellow burst into tears and said he came 
from Georgia, and they would have shot him in his 
own house if he had not come. I saw many heart-
rending scenes; too numerous to mention." 
Providence Journal. 
At Christ Church Sabbath School, Sunday after-
noon Dr. Goddard was discoursing to the children 
on the beauty of love as developed in the Christian, 
whose leader was Christ, when he asked: "Who are 
our enemies" ? A little lad,who doubtless supposed 
the Doctor asked the question to have it answered, 
spoke out in a manly voice: "The secessioners." 
The effect was electric, and the Doctor had to hold 
his sides. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BOSTON. AUGUST 31. 1801. 
The Great Dreamer. 
Syrian churches and convents, European consulates, 
&c., were mingled in one common destruction. 
There was still remaining many traces of the for-
mer magnificence of the houses. Broken marble 
columns and tesselated pavements were thickly scat-
tered in the court yards, and the walls in many 
places were richly inlaid with mother of pearl and 
gold. 
The Chick-a-dee. 
Near the window where I'm sitting, 
gan his sermon, and before it was finished 
if they held any more meetings, the con-
stable and his men might perhaps take 
laws had been lately passed against those 
him away to prison, because very severe 
who thus joined together to worship God. 
But John Bunyan was no coward ; he be- �
Icy winds around him playing, 
Sings as to and fro he's flitting. 
There a merry chick-a-dee 
Stands a bare and leafless tree ; 
Wildly rock his foothold frail ; 
Yet that little bird of cheer, 
Shivering under winter's breath, 
Daily dying winter's death ; 
the constable appeared with a warrant or �Chirps his chick-a-dee-dee clear ; 
Arm'd in coat of feathery mail, 
written order for his arrest ; and, scarcely �
Laughs he in his cradle swaying. 
allowing the humble friends to have a �
On the bird I crave a blessing, 
parting word, he hurried off their beloved �
On the happy chick-a-dee ; 
teacher to Bedford jail. �
Thus amid the storm of life, 
This prison stood on the old bridge that �
Groans of death and noise of strife, 
spanned the river Ouse,and like other pris- �
Let me sing as blithe as he, 
ons of the time had stone walls,iron bars, �
Cheerfulness and peace possessing. 
Zion's Herald. 
and narrow, cold, damp, comfortless cells. 
l'or twelve years one of these cells was 
John Bunyan's home ; here he wrote his �
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy 
Progress." During those long, youth," Eccl. 12:1. 
years his brave wile made many efforts �
A TOUCHING INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE FIELD. A 
for his release, and several times he was letter received in New York from Atlanta, Ga., 
brought into court and pleaded his cause gives this incident of the battle at Bull Run: 
before the judges : still no liberty came. �
"A staff officer from Charleston, engaged in the 
But though they might fetter his hands or battle on the 21st of July says: 
feet, they could not chain his mind, and, �
"I rode out the day after the battle to view the 
free, as the lark, it rose heavenward in ground, and passed piles of dead in various positions. 
sunshine and in song. �
Under a large tree I saw a body lying, very hand- 
Now let us walk softly to the the door somely dressed, with a fancy sword, and a handker-
of his cell and look in. That is Bunyan chief over the face. It attracted my curiosity. I 
sitting at the table near the grated window, stopped, removed the handkerchief, and saw one of 
and the little girl by his side is his laugh- ' the handsomest faces I ever met with, of a boy not 
ter ; but she does not see the prison bars, more than twelve or fourteen years old. his ap-
nor miss the bright daylight that shined pearance and dress indicated high social position ; 
outside, for she•is blind. Look, he is niak- probably he was a temporary aid to some general 
ing tagged laces,•and when several dozen officer. To ascertain who he was, I examined his 
are finished, he will send them to his wife pockets, and found' a testament, in which was writ-
that she may sell them to be able to buy ten, 
bread for herself and' their four children. �
"James Simmons, New York. From his loving 
Or perhaps his jailer, who is very kind, mother. My son, remember thy Creator in the 
will allow him to breathe the air at the days of thy youth." 
prison doc,r, where, still firmly chained,he 
may stand with his loved little one asking �
I wished very much to take the body away, but I 
was six miles from quarters, on horseback, and it 
the passer-by to make a purchase. 
How dark it grows ! the day's work is was impossible. ' " 
done, the blind girl must go home for the 
night ; but look, before she sets out, her 
father puts his arms round her and they �
A Campmeeting will be held (D. V.) at Marsh Creek, 
both kneel in prayer ; then with a parting Center Co., Pa., on the ground occupied the last season, 
kiss he sends her by the rough hands of to commence Aug. 29 and continue one week. Brn. Litch, 
Oster Pearson and others are expected to be present. Let 
the jailer to her mother. �
there be a general gathering of our brethren and friends 
Now it is quite dark ; Bunyan is quite in this vicinity, at this meeting. Come up in the name of 
alone. A rude lamp glimthers on the lit- the Lord ; bring your fatuities and tents with you, and 
spend the week especially devoted to the service of God ; 
tie table, and two books keep each other and we doubt not, as in time past, it will tell for your 
company in the corner, while one more spiritual advancement, the salvation of precious souls and 
the prosperity of the cause of our soon-coming Redeemer. 
lies open before him. The open book is As soldiers of the cross, let us be awake—at our posts, 
the Bible, the closed ones are a Concord- waiting, watching, praying, valiantly fighting for God, 
ante and Stories of the Martyrs. The pris- holiness and truth. The conflict will soon end, and victo-
ry be given to the faithful ones. 
oner has pen, ink, and paper too. How �
Committee of Arrangements — Wm. T. Irwin, Jacob 
happy he looks ! he writes, he smiles, he 
Hoover, Samuel Shank, D. P. Watson, Joseph Eckley, 
claps his hands and looks upwards ;ire 
Andrew Heaton, Wm. Reside. �
M. L. JACKSON. 
has forgotten the prison cell ; he is writing 
your "Pilgrim's Progress." �
THE MAINE ANNUAL ADVENT CONFERENCE. The next 
On the 17th of May, 1672, John Bun- session of this conference will be held in Yarmouth (in 
the Institute occupied by the Advent church) Sept. 11th, 
van left Bedford jail, for the king had 
Wednesday, at 2 o'clock P.M., and continue over the fol-
granted his release. With greatjoy the lowing Sunday. The brethren there intend to make ample 
provision for all the friends who attend. Those who come 
people hurried to hear him preach once by cars, if on the Kennebec and Portland R.R. will leave 
more. He was chosen pastor of a congre- 
the cars at Yarmouth Junction, about one-half mile from 
gation in Bedford,and passed the next six- the meeting. Those coming on the Waterville, Farming- 
ton, or Grand Trunk Railroads, will leave the cars at Yar-
teen years there or in London, laboring mouth Station, a few rods from the meeting. Those com-
earnestly and lovingly in the cause of the ing from the Penobscott can take the boat to Portland, 
then the Grand Trunk R. R., eleven miles, to Yarmouth 
Saviour he loved ; sometimes preach irg, Station. Call on En. Geo. W. Harvey, Geo. HumphreY, 
sometimes writing one of his many books, 
R. R. York. This will be a good place for another friend- 
greeting of the pilgrims, in this time of trouble. It 
ly
but always working for Christ. Though 
may be the last. We hope to see all the Advent ministers 
the brave workman did not complain of 
of Maine, who can work and worship in harmony and un-
fatigue, rest was near. In the autumn of ion, and as many other such brethren and sisters as can 
well attend. �
H. B. SEVEY, Pres. 
16SS lie left home on an errand ,of love, �
I. C. WELLCOME, Sec'y. 
and after it was done he was about to re- 
turn, when he was seized by fever, �
, 
and �
G. W. Burnham proposes to preach at Loudon Ridge, 
N. H., Sabbaths, Aug. 11th and 18th and several inter-
after a few days' illness, died in London. vening evenings at 5 P. M., if brethren think best ; Tuf-
What has made the difference between 
tonboro', as Rid. T. Piper with others may arrange, from 
Tuesday, 20th, to Sabbath 25th. Will bro. P. assist me 
the swearing tinker boy of Elstow, and 
as to appointments in Wolfboro', from Tuesday, 27th, to 
the brightest spirit of Bunyan before the Sabbath, Sept. 1st? Merideth Neck, from Sept. 3d to 
throne in heaven 7 The love of God the Sabbath, 8th, inclusive. . �
G. W. B. 
AMERICAN EVANGELICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE. The 
annual session of this Conference will be holden in the 
Advent chapel in North Springfield, Vt., on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 8th, at 2 P.M. The brethren in Springfield will do 
their best to accommodate ministers, delegates and others 
who may attend. Let all who are friendly to the good 
cause make an effort to be there. It has been proposed 
that the Conference hold services over the Sabbath. Let 
us invoke the presence and blessing of God who " giveth 
more grace." �
JOHN PEARSON, JR., Pres.t. 
F. GUNNER, Sec'y. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT now twenty-eight years old, and for five 
years he labored night and day to do good 
FEED MY LAMBS. 
John 21:15. 
to his fellow countrymen by pointing out 
to them the way to be saved. 
One winter's evening the fire blazed 
brightly in a farmer's large comfortable 
kitchen ; one neighbor after another drop- 
ped in until the room was crowded, for 
Many of our young readers have read they expected John Bunyan to be there. 
the " Pilgrim's Progress," and many oth- But when he arrived, the farmer's face 
ers have heard of that delightful story.— grew sad as lie told him he had heard that 
Perhaps they would like to hear about the 
man that wro`e it two hundred years ago. 
If they have read the wonderful dream, 
they will enjoy a peep at the dreamer; and 
if not, this peep at John Bunyan may 
make them wish to learn more about his 
pilgrim's long rough journey, with its hap-
py end. 
Three years after Charles I. came to the 
British throne, John Bunyan was born at 
Elstow, a village. n Bedfordshire. His 
parents were poor, and, with a very scan-
ty education, he grew up a great boy,with 
broad forehead and piercing eye, ever fore-
most in the rude games of those times, but 
foremost too in many sins, which caused 
him much alarm and sorrow in his after 
life. For the present pleasure of sin is not 
more certain than the pain that follows 
'laid after. 
As he grew older he learned his father's 
trade, that of a tinker, and traveled up 
and down the country with his tools on 
his back, ready to do a job of work for 
any one who had broken things to mend 
and a few pence to pay. But when Bun-
yan was about seventeen years of age he 
entered the army,for at that time all Eng-
land -was in arms, though not against a 
foreign foe ; and that saddest of wars, ci-
vil war, was laying the land bare and rais-
ing the heart and hand of brother against 
brother. He was chosen to serve at the 
siege of Leicester ; but when just ready to 
march for that town, a comrade offered to 
go instead, and, having taken the place 
which John Bunyan should have occupi-
ed as sentinel among the besiegers, the 
poor fellow was killed by a musket-shot 
in the head. But this providence did not 
awaken John's soul ; he still went on in 
sin. For some time lie remained in the 
army, having in the meantime married a 
young woman, who, though very poor like 
himself, was much better in other respects ; 
and whose only fortune, two good books 
which her father had given on his death-
bed, provel more useful than many a 
larger marriage. portion might have been. 
TheSe books were read over and over 
again ; and, though John Bunyan still 
loved to do wrong, the voice of conscience 
often disturbed him, and sometimes spoke 
so loudly that he would stop and look up 
to know if such words as these were real-
ly coining from the sky,"Wilt thou leave 
thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy 
sins and go to hell 7" 
Once mote., he wandered as a tinker 
through the streets of Bedford ; and, as he 
sauntered slowly along one day, in a very 
unhappy state of mind, he overheard three 
or four woman talking while sitting at a 
doorway. They were talking about Je-
sus, about his great love in coming to die 
for poor sinners like them ; and Bunyan 
heard from their lips the good news, that 
if we believe on him with all our heart, 
God will forgive us for his sake, and,what 
is more, treat us as his children and make 
us holy by his own Spirit. This message 
of grace sank down in the soul of the poor 
tinker, and, though Satan tempted him 
sadly by whispering, "Leave off seeking 
to be saved ; return to your old ways," 
the golden chain of heavenly truth and 
love was too strong to be broken even by 
the tempter's art, and as link after link 
fastened itself round his heart, John Bun-
yan learned, he tells us himself, to read 
the Bible "with new eyes," and became a 
better and happier man. One evening 
when the day's toil was ended, the foot-
sore wanderer strayed into a humble meet-
ing where a good pastor was explaining 
to his flock a verse from God's own word 
which told of Christ's love to those he has 
redeemed Two simple words fixed them-
selves in Bunyan's mind, "my love ;" and 
for many days after, as he pondered over 
the thought that Jesus really loved him, 
he could not restrain his joy front burst-
ing out into a song Some time afterwards 
he was urged to go and tell others about 
God's message of love, and the people of 
Bedford flocked to hear him. He was 
Father,the grace of God the Son, and the �
Bro. Bliss : — I wish to say to the brethren of C. E. 
fellowship of God the Holy Ghost—Child's there will be a grove meeting in St. Armands, C. E., near 
Com
the Guthrie school house, to commence the 11th of Sept. 
panion. 
and hold over the Sabbath. �B. S. REYNOLDS. 
PS. J. M. Orrock and D. Bosworth are expected. 
B.S.R. 
RUINS OF DAMASCUS. 
Damascus is now almost a 
heap of ruins, charred and blackened by fire. A re-
cent visitor says that he saw not a soul, except here 
and there a lazy Arab driving his donkeys before 
him laden with the debris of the fallen houses. This 
is what the Turks call rebuilding the quarter ! 
Throughout the length and breadth of what but a 
year ago was by far the handsomest part of the city, 
not one single house is now standing—Greek, Latin, 
APPOINTMENTS. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
The No, appended to each name is that of the HERALD to 
which the money credited pays. No. 1023 was the closing 
number of 1860 ; No. 1019 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1861; and No. 1075 is to the 
close of 1861. Notice of any failure to give due credit, 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
Those sending money should remember that we have 
many subscribers of similar names, that there are towns of 
the same name in different States, and in some States there 
is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
address — the name of the town and state, and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is directed. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it, without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
their names ! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
gip full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
Wer is sent. 
A N Kendall 1082, M J Hodgkins 1675, R Stillman 
1054, J D Wheeler 1088, C Dow 1101, S Gilman 1232, 
Miss C G Grover 1075, T Wheeler 1070—each $1. 
C A Ludlow 1101, Tho J Bailey 1088, S Burke 1101—
each $2. 
RECEIPTS, 
VP TO TUESDAY, AUG. 27. 
C. Baylies. It was rec'd July 3d, and paid to 1075. 
Mary S. Wicker. It was reed July 22, and paid to 
1075. 
A. M. Sherman, It was not reed. It is another of the 
letters we have had stolen. We must lose, of course, and 
so we credit you to 1127. 
M. J. W. The paper of T. Ward Jr was already paid 
to 1002; and this pays to 1078—three Nos. in next year. 
H. Otibert. Yours of 23d was reed — will devote our 
earliest leisure moment to the selection. 
E. W. Mead. It. was not reed; but we cr. it to you to 
1062. 
The " American Millennial Association," located in Bos-
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1858, under 
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le. 
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
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report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
due notice should be at once given to 
SYLVESTER Buss, Treasurer. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, AUG. 27, 1861. 
Herm. Yost, Philadelphia, Pa ................ �
$1.00 
Special Proposition. 
" A friend to the cause" proposes to give one hundred 
dollars towards the six hundred needed to publish the 
Herald weekly the coming year, provided the amount be 
made up by other contributors. This is not designed to 
interfere with the pledges of annual payment, below.—
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six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
that purpose. 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
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Cordova, Rock Island Co., Ill.. �
 ....O. N. Whitford. 
Cincinnati, 0 �
. Joseph Wilson. 
De Kalb Centre, Ill.. �
 ........Charles E. Needham. 
Dunham, C. E �
 ........ �
 . ...D. W. Sornberger. 
Durham, C. E
............J. 
 M. Orrock. 
Derby Line, Vt. �
S Foster. 
Eddirigton Me �
Thomas Smith. 
Fairhaven, Vt. 
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Robbins Miller. 
Homer, N. Y 
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J. L. Clapp. 
Haverhill, Mass 
�Lendal Brown. 
Lockport, N. Y �
R. W. Beck. 
Johnson's Creek, N �
 Y. �
 ...........Hiram Russell. 
Kincardine, C. W .... .... .... ........ Joseph Barker. 
Morris-Ville, Pa �
. Wm. Kitson. 
Newburyport, Mass 
�
. John L. Pearson. 
New York City �
J B. Huse. 
Philadelphia, Pa �
 .J. Litch, No. 127 North 11th st. 
Portland, Me .... ........ .... ....Alexander Edmund. 
Providence, R. I �
. Anthony Pearce. 
Princess Anne, Md �
John V. Pinto. 
Rochester, N. Y . 
 .D.Boody. 
Richmond, Me �
.I. C. Wellcome. 
Salem, Mass �
Chas. II. Berry. 
Springwater, N. Y. �S. H. Withington. 
Shabbonas Grove, De Kalb county, Ill...N. W. Spencer. 
Somonauk, De Kalb Co., Ill �
. Wells A. Fay. 
St. Albans, Hancock Co., Ill �
 .Elder Larkin Scott. 
Stanbridge, C. E �
.John Gilbreth. 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis �William Trowbridge. 
Toronto, C. W 
 Daniel Campbell. 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. ..... .... R �
 Hutchinson, M .D. 
Waterbury, Vt... �
 .... .... ........ .. D. Bosworth. 
Worcester, Mass.... .... .... .... —Benjamin Emerson.