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BOSTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1865. 
VOL. XXVI. NO. 52. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
the lightnings." In the midst of this breath- cold region, too high for agriculture, the 
less haste, which impresses its influence upon I live in comfort and refinement. 
every circumstance of human life, the elect 
of God (a widow for awhile) must wait on 
Him. In contrast to the roaring torrent of 
the world's life, the waters of Shiloah flow 
softly, arid still the Sent One invites the 
weary and heavy laden, out of breath in the 
world's rough race, to the calm haven of di-
vine repose : "Come unto Me, and I will 
give you rest."—The Revival. 
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hours in expounding the word to a small 
but interested congregation of Freewill 
Baptists, at the minister's house, and am sure 
it was not labor spent in vain. From there 
came a south-east direction 8 miles to Mys-
tic, to visit a highly respected mother-in-law 
and other family connections, and talk with 
them about the "blessed hope," Titus 2 : 13, 
and think the time was profitably spent. 
Then came a northerly direction 10 miles to 
this place, my native town, where I have 
spent the past two weeks in visiting family 
connections, Baptist friends, and the remain-
ing few of my former business companions, 
with whom I mingled before leaving for 
Hartford, some 30 years since. Our visits 
here in most cases have been mutually in-
teresting ; I have held no meetings for pub-
lic worship ; but whether in the desk, or by 
the fireside, my message has been and will 
continue to be, Prepare for the judgment, for 
"the kingdom of God is" now "nigh at hand," 
Luke 21 : 31, and it is manifest that my 
visit here has not been in vain in the Lord. 
Expect to leave next week for R. I., spend a 
week or two with our colored brethren, (the 
Narragansette tribe,) then visit the Advent 
church in Providence, even if I go no further 
east. I will venture therefore to say, until I 
write again for the Herald, my Post Office 
address will be Providence R. I., care of 
Eld. Osier. The friendasi will please to 
write. Yours as ever, agellitim CHAPMAN. 
North Stonington, atimaief.,15, 1865. 
OUR ONE LIFE. 
ime to breathe, that period has been well-
ioh reached which is man's extremity and 
od's opportunity. 
An age out of breath is an age in which 
here is no faith, for "he that believeth shall 
not make haste." It is an age which has 
become severed from its centre—God; and, 
like Phaethon, when entrusted with the 
chariot of Apollo, is driving onward to in-
evitable ruin. 
There is deeper truth and more portent-
ous meaning in the assertion that "the age is 
out of breath," thati probably the writer was 
aware of. If a man be out of breath, he 
stops to recover himself; and the circumstan-
ces must be desperate in which a rider would 
not slacken speed to allow his horse time to 
take his breath. But the Satanic pressure 
put upon this age allows no breathing time; 
the writer of its dirge perceives no hope of 
this, but declares that "it is going down to 
the tomb of epochs, broken-winded with the 
pace at which it lives its hard, useful, polem-
ic, inquisitive, restless, mechanical life." It 
is more emphatically true now than ever, 
"Surely, every man walketh in a vain show ; 
surely they are disquieted in vain ; he heap-
eth up riches, and knoweth not who shall 
gather them." But the age has no faith in 
God to utter the Psalmist's cry, "0 spare me, 
that I may recover strength, before I go 
hence and be no more." It is going down to 
the tomb of epochs : will a better dawn upon 
the world ? an epoch of faith—an age of 
rest ? 
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Gommunicationo. 
[0 riginai .1 
LETTER FROM BRO. CHAPMAN. 
'Tis not for man to trifle ! Life is brief, 
And sin is here. 
Our age is but the falling of a leaf, 
A dropping tear. 
We have no time to sport away the hours, 
All must be earnest in a world like ours. 
Not many lives, but only one have we, 
One, only one ; 
How sacred should that one life be, 
That narrow span ! 
Day after day filled up with blessed toil, 
Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. 
Our being is no shadow of thin air, 
No vacant dream, 
No fable of things that never were, 
But only seem. 
'Tis full of meaning as of mystery, 
Though strange and solemn may that meaning be. 
Our sorrows are no phantoms of the night, 
No idle tale ; 
No cloud that floats along a sky of light, 
On summer gale. 
They are the true realities of earth, 
Friends and companions even from our birth. 
O life below ! how brief and poor and sad ! 
One heavy sigh. 
O life above ! how long, how fair, and glad ! 
An endless joy. 
O to he done with daily dying here ; 
O to begin the living in yon sphere ! 
Dear Bro. Litch:—After writing from Fay-
etteville, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Oct. 1st, I 
visited a few isolated Adventists, in Manlius, 
three miles south, where we were enabled to 
renew subscription for the Advent Herald, 
and strengthen the things which remained. 
I then started for home ; stopped at Pors-
tenkill, 8 miles east of Troy, and spent a 
few days with Dr. H. B. Horton and family, 
late from Eden, Erie Co., N. Y., with whom 
On my return from Saints Croix I stoppe 
at Vuitebeuf, a small village at the foot o 
the mountains, two hours' walk from Grand 
son, and there being no church in the plat 
asked permission of Syndie, and head teache 
to deliver a lecture in the school-house th 
evening of the 2d inst., which was granted 
The house was filled with hearers that even 
ing, who listened very attentively ; but whet 
I asked if I" could have the use of the hous 
in which to continue my lectures the even 
ings of the following week, it was refuse 
me. I was then offered the use of a larg 
saloon in a hotel in the place, which I thank 
fully accepted, and appointed this evening 
(the 4th inst.) for the first lecture there. It 
is a hard, wicked place, I judge, and needy 
enough of plain, heart-searching, Bible 
preaching. May the Lord bless the labors 
of this week to the everlasting good of the 
people of that place. 
We receive excellent letters from Italy, 
and feel much encouraged to learn that the 
few who "gladly received Ate word" there 
are still faithful to the light given them, while 
others whom we left less decided, have since 
increased in strength. The field here is 
open on every hand. I have been invited to 
visit the city of Baske and deliver a course 
of lectures there, and I intend to accept the 
invitation. soon. I received, a few weeks 
since, a very kind letter from Bro. Thorp of 
Leeds, Eng., containing a donation of 65 
francs from brethren of that place. May 
God bless you all abundantly. 
Your affectionate brother waiting for the 
Kingdom. M. B. CZECHOWSKI. 
Grandson, Canton de Vaud, Suisse, Dec. 4, '65. 
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O day 
O day 
Come, 
Come, 
AN EARNEST MINISTRY. 
of time, how dark ! 0 sky and earth, 
How dull your hue ! 
of Christ, how bright ! 0 sky and earth, 
Made fair and new ! 
better Eden, with thy fresher green ; 
brighter Salem, gladden all the scene. 
—Bonar. 
ITALIAN MISSION. 
Dear Bro. Bich :—After the unusual si-
lence of between two and three months, I 
again take my pen to address you and the 
other dear brethren and sisters who are in-
terested in my labors in Europe. Since 
writing my last report, my time has been 
very much occupied in missionary labors 
about home as well as in other places. Until 
the first of November we had meetings every 
evening at our house, some of the people be-
ing much interested in the preached word. 
There are a few here who seem to have re-
ceived the truth into good and honest hearts, 
Those who object to modern religious bi-
ography on account of its incompleteness and 
untruthfulness, will find in this sketch of 
Dr. Chaplin's no ground for their objections. 
It is the picture of a Christian, and not of a 
Christian sitting for his picture. Duncan 
Dunbar was not a great man ; he was more, 
a good man, who may be viewed as the re-
presentative of a large class of clergymen, 
men of fair ability, unknown to fame, but 
whose devotion to the best'interests of men 
and zeal for the glory of God have been 
among the influential causes in extending the 
church of Christ. That such men may be 
better know and appreciated, we give the 
biographical sketch an extended notice. 
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a solemn tone, he said, looking keenly into 
his young parishioner's eye : 'Duncan, my 
lad, ye have always borne a good, name in 
the place, and been a great favorite, and all 
point to ye as an example for the young. 
But I.fear, from your present condition, that 
ye have deceived us all ! Ye must have 
committed some awful crime, which is tor-
menting your conscience and driving ye to 
despair. If this is so, ye may confess it free-
ly to me in the strictest confidence, and I 
will still be your friend. What ha' ye been 
doing, laddie ?' 
" 'Nothing in all my life, sir, that I would 
not be willing my parents should know. It 
is the sins of my heart which none but God 
can see, my rebellion against him, my re-
jection of Christ—in short, my exceeding 
vileness in his sight, which makes me wish 
had never been born ! I am so full of sin 
that I cannot see how God can possibly par-
don me, and yet remain a just and holy 
Being.' 
"The minister shook his head mournfully, 
admitted that he saw DO help, and dismissed 
his soul-stricken guest with the cheering as-
surance : 'I think ye are losing your mind, 
laddie.' " 
The instructions of a pious schoolmaster 
pointed the troubled Duncan to Christ as the 
way of peace, and he began in the joy of for-
giveness a religious life. Entering into 
business at Aberdeen, he commenced his 
ministry as a lay preacher. The desire for 
a wider field of usefulness led him to Ameri-
ca. He settled as a school teacher in New 
Brunswick, where his earnest labors were so 
successful in winning souls to Christ, that lie 
was invited to become the pastor of a church. 
Having through the study of the Scriptures 
been convinced that immersion was the only 
baptism, he was baptized and ordained in 
1818, and settled as the pastor of the Bap-
tist church in St. George. 
In 1819 his zeal for the evangelization of 
the province induced him to visit , Great 
Britain to obtain funds and missionaries. 
Having accomplished his purpose, he re-
turned with his family to America in the fall 
of 1820. The voyage was full of incidents 
which show of what stuff the man was made. 
The ship was old and leaky ; the provision 
inadequate ; and the captain having lost his 
reckoning, they were driven to and fro at the 
mercy of the winds. For sixteen weeks fifty 
passengers
. and nineteen sailors subsisted on 
a daily allowance to each of four potatoes 
and a gill of water. Mr. Dunbar was ade-
quate to the exigency ; while others were 
timid, he was calm, and 'consoled the timid 
passengers by reading of the Scriptures, sing-
ing of hymns and prayer. His daughter, 
who was with him, says: 
"He used every circumstance, however 
trivial, which occured, to strengthen his own 
faith as well as others. One morning it was 
announced that a babe had been born in the 
steerage ; and strange as it may seem, this 
caused great joy among all classes in the 
ship ; and father exclaimed : do believe 
that God intends to save our whole compa-
ny ; for instead of taking away a single life 
by sickness, starvation or accident, he has 
added another to our number? He then 
proposed that any one whO felt that be could 
spare one potatoe a day or half au one, 
should send it to the poor Irish mother, who 
had now another life beside her own to save. 
She bad a full supply after this, whoever else 
was hungry." 
The ship at last anchored off one. of the 
Bermuda Islands, where she was condemned. 
Mr. Dunbar and his family proceeded to St. 
George, N. B., where he was gladly received 
by his waiting people. There for over ten 
years he was abundant in labors, preaching 
three times on the Sabbath to his own peo-
ple, and once in Gaelic to the Highlanders. 
Almost every night during the week he held 
a meeting in the different neighborhoods, and 
was often absent from his family for days, 
carrying the Gospel to the regions beyond. 
In 1828 Mr. Dunbar became the pas-
tor of the North Beriah church, in the city 
of New York. He entered with zeal into 
his duties, and while not neglecting the peo-
ple of his charge, took upon himself the trials 
of a minister at large. All who needed re-
lief, either temporal or spiritual, became 
members of his parish, and he, their faithful 
friend. 
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I formed an intimate, and very happy ac-
quaintance while laboring in that place some 
two years since. They being isolated Ad-
ventists in "P," we held no meetings there 
for public worship, but had much preaching 
to them, and a few of the neighbors who 
dropped in around their fireside, so that the 
time passed off pleasantly, and we think to 
some profit. Bro. and sister II. are decided 
Adventists of the old school, and worthy o 
the confidence of all who are "looking for,' 
and "loving the appearing of the Lord.' 
Heb. 9 : 28. 2 Tim. 4 : 8. On Monday 
 
9th of Oct., I came via Troy dir-earTo Hart 
ford, Ct., from which I had been absent near 
two years and a half. Found the living 
members of my family in usual health and 
prosperity. But James Davis, my second 
son (aged about 40) was not there : after 
considerable suffering with lung complaint, 
he expired on the 13th of July last. James 
was an affectionate son and a faithful cor-
respondent. (Fortunately leaves no wife or 
child to mourn for him.) I miss him very 
much, and yet "we sorrow not even as 
others who have no hope," for he was de-
votedly pious, and doubtless "sleeps in Jesus." 
"Such will God bring with him," and that 
too, I confidently believe very soon. 0 how 
"comforting are these precious words," 1st 
Thes. 4 : 13-18. After spending some two 
weeks in Hartford, mingling with the Advent 
Church and family connections, I went to 
Northfield, 25 miles west, where I spent a 
week with the Advent church there to good 
advantage. Preached to respectable and 
very attentive congregation on The Sabbath, 
and several evenings during the week ; and 
by the word and grace of God, was enabled 
effectually to remove from several minds tile 
modern "age to come theory," so that I left 
the church in a revived and happily united 
state ; for which they manifested suitable 
gratitude to God. I then visited our isolat-
ed brethren and sisters in Plymouth and 
Cheshire, and found it mutually profitable. 
From Cheshire I went to Wallingford, where 
I spent several days visiting the friends from 
house to house, and had full congregations at 
the Advent chapel on the Sabbath, where 
the word was well received, and the breth-
ren were revived, several of whom accom-
panied me to meet our appointment at Gales-
ville, (3 miles west) that evening, and where 
we enjoyed a more than ordinary refreshing 
season of worship. Preached several even-
ings to that people, and left them in a prom-
sising state. Spent a few days very pleas-
antly with isolated Adventists in Meriden, 
and then returned to Hartford, where I spent 
some ten days more ; and on the Sabbath 
listened to preaching by Dr. Decker, who 
appeared very confident that the prophetic 
periods terminate, and the Lord will come 
during the year 1867. I am not sure of 
that, but should rejoice to have it so. That 
the event is now near "even at the door," 
we are "commanded to know," Mat. 24 : 33, 
and while waiting, I can heartily adopt the 
language of another, and say, "Amen, even 
so, come Lord Jesus." Rev. 22 : 20. On 
Wednesday, 22 ult, I took the boat at Hart-
ford for East Haddam, 30 miles south, where 
I spent a few days very agreeably with 
Judge Higgins and family. Bro. H. is now in 
his 84th year : smart and active as at mid-
dle age ; has been a consistent and decided 
Adventist for many years, but neglected to 
receive Christian baptism till lie was 80 
years old, when I had the pleasure of seeing 
him buried with his Lord in that sacred and 
significant ordinance, since which lie has en-
joyed the "blessed hope," wills great peace 
of mind. From there I came on some( 
 
miles east to Groton, where by the reeKest 
of a Bro. C. Morgan, I occupied full three 
But it was .during the memorable cholera 
Year of 1832 that Mr. Dunbar showed that 
the energy and courage which characterized 
his boyhood had been developed in his man-
hood by the grace of God. Most of the 
clergymen had fled from the doomed city, 
but he, with a faithful few, remained to al-
leviate the sufferings of the people. No dan-
ger, no sacrifice deterred him from going 
about from house to house doing good. 
His church was almost empty, but his 
house was filled with the friends of the dead 
and dying seeking his aid. Through streets 
and alleys, from garrets to cellars reeking 
with the pestilence, lie went a living com-
forter. 
God endorsed his preaching by using it in 
the conversion of fifteen hundred souls. 
Duncan Dunbar was a man of prayer, to 
whom it had become habitual to ask God for 
what he wished. Says one who knew him 
well : 
"Were we to search for the hidden spring 
f his personal piety, ministerial power, con- 
Duncan Dunbar was born among the 
Highlands of Scotland. He was a spirited 
boy at whose adventurous deeds the old 
folks shook their heads and prophesied that, 
"Wee Duncan will come to noe gude end ; 
and e'en, gif his life should be spared, he'll I 
be glide for naething save a mountebank." 
At eighteen years of age, realizing his per- i 
ona responsibility as a sinner to a just and 
oly God, he sought the advice of his pastor. 
he account of the interview is so readable, 
nd gives such a vivid picture of the mid-
ight which then covered the Church of 
cotland, that we quote it. The old minis-
er having patiently listened to the youth's 
onfession of sin and anguish, soothingly 
said : 
"This canna' be, Duncan ; ye are called 
by all, one of the very best laddies in Gran-
toun. Ye are ill, my young friend, and 
your mind has taken this melancholy turn.' 
"His visitor insisted that his bodily health 
was never better, and that only his soul was 
sick. 
" 'Now take my advice, laddie,' said the 
old man kindly, 'and return to your young 
companions and your innocent pleasures, and 
thus throw off this morbid gloom ; otherwise 
yell :surely lose your reason.' 
"Young Dunbar told him that the very 
thought of these companions and pleasures, 
and the hours he had wasted with them, 
were as arrows to his soul. The minister 
looked pitifully at him and said : 
" 'I used to hear you playing the German 
flute in the garden ; 
now try that again ; 
music will cheer ye, and surely there canna' 
be any sin in a flute.' 
"But as 'vinegar to the teeth and as nitre 
to a new wound, so is music to la sorrowful 
heart.' The skill of the physician was well-
nigh spent ; but a new thought now struck 
him. 
sacrament ?' 
"'How old are ye, Duncan ?' lie asked. 
" 'Nineteen.' 
" 'And ye have never partaken of the 
" 'Never.' 
"'Waal then, the cause of your trouble is 
quite plain to me. Ye are the son of wor-
thy Christian parents ; yourself are an up-
right lad, bound to set a good example to 
your companions. Ye have been unfaithful, 
and ,God is frowning upon ye. At the next 
sacrament come forward and take your place 
among the children of God, and after partak-
ing ye will be at peace, I think.' 
" '0, sir, I could never dare to do that ! 
A sinner under the wrath of God and re-
belling against his justice, to sit down and 
commemorate his dying love among his 
his children ! He would surely come out 
in sudden judgment, and smite me at his 
table.' 
"After a little reflection, a new solution of 
the mystery appeared to the minister, and, in o 
and who are trying to obey it. November 
5th I left home and walked six hours, and 
joined brother Gymet, who had been labor-
ing a few days at Missy, on the opposite 
shore of Lake Neuchatel, and found a large 
room crowded with those who had come to 
hear rue. I preached there two evenings, to 
good congregations, with much freedom, and 
also two evenings at Payeen, two miles from j s 
Missy. I then visited several places on the I h 
lake shore, viz. : Port Alban, Chambrey,11 
 
Cudrefin, Carnpeten, Marine, Neuchatel, a 
Boudri, Bevaix, Gorgie, Concise and Onnens, n 
leaving brother Gymet to do what he could S 
in Missy. This vicinity of Lake Neuchatel t 
seems to me a very interesting field of labor. c 
The evenings of November 15 and 16 I 
preached at La Chaux, a village on the top 
of Mont-Tura, near the frontier of France, 
and four hours' walk from this place. The 
17th I made application to the "Syndie" of 
the flourishing village of Siiint Croix, twenty 
minutes' walk from La Chaux, and to the 
minister of the national church of, that place, 
for their large house of worship, which was 
kindly granted me. I accordingly wrote for 
the village paper a notice that I would com-
mence, the 20th inst., a course of evening lec-
tures upon the fulfillment of prophecy, etc., 
specifying the subject of each lecture, and in-
vited all to attend. The first evening the 
large temple was crowded, and the congre-
gation very attentive. We continued our 
lectures every evening (excepting Sunday) 
till the close of the month, the house being 
filled every evening with attentive hearers. 
The ministers of the place, Mr. Dupont of the 
National, and Mr. Favre of the Free church 
attended, and assisted in prayer. The great-
est hospitality was shown us by ministers and 
people. Much bitterness of feeling, I was in-
formed, had existed in that place between 
the different denominations, and one lady said 
to me that no one before had beets able to 
unite them. Much interest was manifested 
in the truths we preach, and quite a number 
of the best and most intelligent people prom-
ised to continue their investigations of them. 
Two of these are college professors, one of 
whom has just gone to Holland to teach. 
Many of the youth especially gave good evi- 
dence, during our lectures, of being converted 
to God. To his Great Name be all the 
praise for the interest of the people in his 
truth. May he cause the word preached to 
bring forth much fruit to his glory. 
The people, when I left, showed the same 
interest to hear ; but I deemed it better to 
close my lectures, which are to tire the peo-
le. They are quite unaccustomed here to 
such courses of religious lectures, which are 
so common in the United States. The peo-
ple of this flourishing village are intelligent 
and very industrious. They are nearly all 
engaged in the manufacture of watches and 
musical instruments. Though living in a 
Marvellously does human history repeat 
itself. .The haste of Israel must wear itself 
out, and all the while God looks on, and 
waits that He may be gracious. "For thus 
saith the Lord God, the Holy One of' Israel: 
In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; in 
quietness and in confidence shall be your 
strength : and ye would not ; but ye said, 
No ; for we will flee upon horses : therefore 
shall ye flee : and, We will ride upon the 
swift : therefore shall they that pursue you 
be swift. One thousand shall flee at the re- 
buke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye 
flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top 
of a mountain , and as an ensign on a hill. 
Arid therefore will the Lord wait, that He 
may be gracious unto you, and therefore will 
He be exalted, that He may have mercy 
upon you ; for the Lord is a God of judg-' 
ment : blessed are all they that wait for 
Him. For the people shall dwell in Zion at 
Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no more: He 
will be very gracious unto thee at the voice 
of thy cry ; when He shall hear it, He shall 
answer thee." This age, the last of the ages 
of earth's six thousand years of labour, is 
going down to the tomb of epochs, broken- 
winded with its hard and restless life, but 
"The time of rest, the promised Sabbath conies." 
This hurrying age, riding upon the swift, but 
pursued by an enemy swifter still, must be 
left as a bare mast upon a mountain : but 
God waits with long and unwearied patience, 
that He may give the world her Sabbath 
rest. 
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he age bears upon its forehead and upon 
its hand the mark of the beast-666—the 
ever repeated toil, toil, toil. Man grasps 
at more of the creature as his increasing 
knowledge brings it within his reach, but 
wanders all the while father from the Maker 
and Upholder of it all. "For I doubt not," 
sings the laureate— 
"For I doubt not through the ages one increasing 
purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widened by the 
process of the suns." 
Even so ; the thpughts of men are widened, 
but not deepened. As the river widens, it 
becomes shallower and noisier ; as men's 
thoughts stretch abroad outwardly, they cease 
to penetrate inwardly ; and the voice of God 
in his holy temple, in the secret of the soul,' 
where the Spirit strives with man, is un-
heard by reason of the`din of outward things. 
As the history of fallen man upon the 
earth begins with doubting God, so it closes 
with the dedease of almost all that God can 
own as faith even in his own elect. "When 
the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith 
on the earth ?" This pathetic and mournful 
question follows that loving parable of the 
widow and the unjust judge, in which the 
Lord says, "And shall not God avenge his 
own elect, which' cry day and night unto 
Him, though He bear long with them ? I 
tell you that He will avenge them speedi-
y. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man 
ometh, shall He find faith on the earth ?" 
Is it so, ijideed, that even God's elect shall 
e fbund not believing, but making haste ? 
riding upon horses, fleeing down to Egypt 
for help, instead of waiting only upon God ? 
Take time, brethren. Lay hold on God. Be 
not carried away with the hasteful spirit of 
the age. A man out of breath is a power-
less man. "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem 
until ye be endued with power from on high." 
The only remedy against the haste of an age 
out of breath is faith in God. "lie that be-
lieveth shall not make haste." 
We are in the rapids of time, and the 
torrent of waters rushes onward to its fall. 
The time of the preparation of the Antichrist 
is known by this lightning speed : "The 
chariots shall be with flaming torches in the 
day of his preparation. The chariots shall 
rage in the streets ; they shall jostle one 
against another in the broad ways ; they 
shall seem like torches, they shall run like 
"OUT OF BREATH." 
The nineteenth century is out of breath. 
The spirit of the age thus Telegraphs its own 
condition, and writes its epitaph : "This—we 
have before now called it so—is an age out 
of breath. It is going down to the tomb of e 
epochs, broken-winded with the pace at 
which it lives its hard, useful, polemic, in- b 
quisitive, restless, mechanical life." 
How strange a present, how sad a future ! 
Oh, lame and impotent conclusion to the 
a%es of human "progress." Ought we not to 
have expected that the world in this nine-
teenth century should have presented the as- 
ellowed and dignified maturity, 
ms,. its being characterized by breath- 
less y ate, and an activity overstrained but 
still unequal to the race it has set itself 
to run ? 
It is a proverbial saying that "a gentleman 
should never be in a hurry :" the Spanish still 
more forcibly declare that "hurry is of the 
devil." This is a true proverb, and the only 
hope that remains to an age so overstrained 
lies in this, that when the slave-driver of the 
pit has succeeded in whipping the world into 
a condition in which the poor slave has no 
HERALD. 
Al) VENT 
THE 
206 
case, yea, happy is that people whose God is 
the Lord." , 
A'artlat TL-tleatil• 
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1S65. 
JOSIAH LITCH..EDITOR. 
From The Revival. 
STANDING ALOOF. 
THIRD SCENE. 
And before the throne there was a sea of 
glass like unto crystal : and in the midst of 
the throne and round about the throne, were 
four beasts full of eyes before and behind. 
And the first beast was like a lion, and the 
second beast like a calf, and the third beast 
had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was 
like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had 
each of them six wings about him ; and they 
were full of eyes within : and they rest not 
day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord 
God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to 
C01110. 
FOURTH SCENE. 
My dear Brother,—Going about from 
place to place this summer, the passage inn 
Malachi has been often brought to my mind, 
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often 
one to another," etc. Everywhere I found 
parties of Christians riot specially of any one 
denomination, earnest working Christians, 
meeting and communing together of "the 
things of the kingdom." watching "the signs 
of the times," and endeavonring to persuade 
poor sinners to "enter in" before "the door is 
shut." - Twenty•years ago there was none of 
this. Is it not in itself a striking "sign of 
the times"? Would that all the Lord's peo- 
1 
. . 
"And when those beasts give glory, and 
honor, and thanks to him that sat on the 
throne, who liveth forever and ever, the four 
and twenty elders fall down before him that 
sat on the throne, and worship him that liv-
eth forever and ever, and cast their crowns 
before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, 
0 Lord, to receive glory, and honor, and 
power; for thou hast created all things, and 
for thy pleasure they are and were created." 
Thus by the joint suffrage of the living 
creatures and the elders, Him that sat on the 
throne was awarded the worthiness to exer-
cise the office ot supreme Judge, because lie 
is the originator of all being. And being 
this enthroned, he proceeds to the first work 
of the Court, as developed in Rev. 5th chap-
ter. 
FIFTH SCENE. 
"And I saw in the right hand of him that 
sat on the throne a book written within and 
on the back side, sealed with seven seals. 
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with 
a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the 
book, arid to loose the seals thereof? And 
no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under 
the earth, was able to open the book, neither 
to look thereon. And I wept much, because 
no man was found worthy to open, and to 
read the book, neither to look thereon." 
We understand tine orening of this book 
to be the same as that of Dan. 7 : 10. But 
wino shall open this book of judgments ? 
This is answered inn the 
THE CLOSE. 
Solemn thought ! Ere another number 
of our paper shall be issued, the old year, 
1865, will have fled and its account will have 
been closed up to the great day for which all 
other days were made. What has been our 
record ? Is it such as we shall be glad or 
even willing to meet when the books are 
opened. 
To our country the year has been one of 
moment, and never to be forgotten. The 
great military feats performed by Grant, 
Sherman, Sheridan, Kilpatrick and Thomas, 
stand out conspicuously on the page of- his-
tory as prodigies of military skill and valor. 
The closing up of the great rebellion and 
restoration of United States authority over 
every foot of our territory ; the death of 
President Lincoln just at the moment when 
he seemed to have reached tine climax of 
popularity ; tine abolition and prohibition of 
slavery throughout the United States by an 
amendment of the Constitution., so that no 
state can ever again establish it without the 
consent of three-fourths of the United States; 
the absorption of from one to two millions of 
armed men by tine country and their return 
to peaceful pursuits ; these and many other 
events equally momentous, call for heartfelt 
gratitude. Our God has done it all for us ; 
not because we are worthy and deserve so 
great and distinguished mercies, but because 
of his own boundless goodness to the chil-
dren of men.. To Him are due our present 
and everlasting thanks for his distinguished 
mercy. 
Nor have our personal blessings been less 
important. To us lie has crowned the year 
with his goodness, and laid us under perpetu-
al obligations to -praise him. "0 that men 
would praise the Lord for his goodness arid 
for his wonderful works to the children of 
men." 
But while we recount the mercies of our 
God, we should not fbrget the justice with 
:which He has visited us for our sins. What 
desolations He has made in the land ! How 
few houses and homes which have not felt 
On the second of these solemn occasions, in 
his forty-eighth year, he left what all im- 
agined to be a dying testimony. Seized by 
a prevailing epidemin, while preaching with 
suct unutterable joy that "he would gladly 
have died in tine palpit"—"I commit my 
soul," he exclaimed, 'to my faithful Creator, 
my bosom Redeemer, ny approved Coinfort- 
er. Let me be made no account of when I 
am gone. Let not m: spiritual experience 
be obtruded upon the vorld after my death, 
as it has not been during 'my life. Is it not 
better that it should be said to me in that 
day, 'Art thou also here than that it should 
be said, 'Where is that renowned saint ?' 
Let nothing be made of any expressions 
which I may happen to utter on my death-
bed. Jesus, with his apostles and ,martyrs, 
is light sufficient for all who survive roe. I 
am no light. The example of a dying Chris-
tian is for his family rather than for tine ga 
of the world." In this request his Christin 
friends wisely judged him to be wrong, 
the death of God's children is precious ar 
comforting fo their fellow-saints of the hous 
hold or faith. 
From June to November, 1752, Beng 
was gradually dying, but his failing energie 
were still employed inn his usual duties. Dur 
ling tine last fortnight, his sufferings becam 
very severe ; but he felt himself bound, h 
said, to spend every moment that remaine 
in communion with God and instructing hi 
friends. From day to day he poured tort 
the final treasures of his Christian experi 
ence ; and on tine day of his departure, twelv 
members of his family partook with him th 
`holy communion for the last time. He gath 
erect up his expiring energies for this sacre 
'privilege, and, during an hour, declared his 
profession of faith, and uttering his last titan 
of comprehensive intercession, blessed hi 
househould. Soon afterwards, when li 
could speak no longer, the minister commend 
ed his spirit to God ; and when lie heard tin 
words, "Lord Jesus, thine I am," he laid hi 
right hand upon his heart and passed into the 
presence and joy of his Redeemer. 
He was buried at Stuttgart, on Sunday 
November 5th, 1752; where, it is said, n 
memorial has been placed to his memory 
Tine whole land mourned his loss, as if tin 
greatest divine and the best man the countr 
had produced was dead. Wiirtemberg 
which has properly mourned Schiller, her 
great poet, and many of lesser fame, ha 
never paid a suitable tribute to the memor 
of this, her greatest theologian. There ar 
more references to Bengel in Wesley' 
 
works than in all the rest of tine English lit 
erature of tine last century. The Gnomo 
always finds a place in the libraries of tin 
learned, and inn our own land his expositio 
is becoming more and more appreciated. 
to come, all tine plants lay to and drank. 
As the babe drinks at the bosom of its 
mother, so every root and flower and tree 
drink at the bosom of the universal mother. 
How bright.and cheerful all things, revived 
and refreshed, did look ! and how they gave 
thanks to God 1—except some : except those 
that cannot revive. After things have gone 
beyond a certain point of drouth, there is no 
help for them. Sonic that are hardier and 
tougher will conic out all right ; but others 
will not. If they live, they will be cripples, 
and you will feel more like helping to kill 
them, than like nursing them. 
It is so with a spiritual drouth. Many re-
vive, and come to, and hold up, their leaves, 
and blossom out, and get along very well ;. 
but many are carried so far that they never 
recover, and the season is over with them. 
Now, Christian brethren, let us turn to 
advantage all these phenomena of nature and 
happenings of thin"gs outside of us. It was 
the pattern set by our Saviour. There is 
somethingto be learned from every phe-
nomenon of nature almost, if we know how 
to turn it to spiritual profit. And when you 
see the dust and the dry leaves, and hear the 
complaint of men about the drouth, remem-
ber that there is a worse drouth than that. 
And when the rain comes to us, remember 
that there are drops more blessed than those 
which come from the clouds, and pray that 
God, while he sends upon the earth refresh-
ing showers, to his church .will send showers 
of righteousness.—Henry Ward Beecher. 
.• 
THE LAST DAYS OP JOHN ALBERT 
BENGEL. 
-- 
 
BY G. P. DISOWAY, ESQ. 
John Albert Bengel died a little More than 
one hundred years ago, and was one of the 
greatest men whom German Protestanism 
has produced. His life, one of the most 
blameless and useful- in the records of the 
Christian Church, was devoted to the expo-
sition of the sacred Scriptures. For twenty-
eight years he discharged the duties of tutor 
in a theological institution ; and as a preacher 
and pastor, he labored exactly for half a cen-
tury. He became an indefatigable writer of 
Biblical comment and .criticism, and his Gno-
nzon, or Exposition of tine New Testament, 
has most perpetuated his influence since his 
departure. It is a work for all time, com-
posed by his whole mind, and spirit, and 
heart ; the accumulation of communion with 
the divine Spirit in his written Word. 
It may be questioned whether any single 
commentary on the New Testament has ever 
exerted, directly or indirectly, a greater in-
fluence. Besides many reprints, it has been 
-Worked up by several other hands inn a varie-
ty of useful forms ; and by far the best of 
these. is that of Wesley whose Notes on the 
.1.- • 
HAPPY ART THOU. 
sixTrt SCENE 
"And one of the elders saitb unto me, 
Weep not : behold, the Lien of the tribe of 
Judah, the Root of David, bath prevailed to 
open the book, and to loose the seven seals 
thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the midst 
of the throne, and of the four beasts, and inn 
the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it 
bad been slain, having seven horns, and 
seven eyes, which are tine seven Spirits of 
God sent forth into all the earth. And he 
came and took the book out of the right hand 
of him that sat upon the throne." 
The Lord Jesus Christ is thus brought for-
ward by the elders, and presented to the pre-
siding Judge as tine one suited to and com-
petent for tine work of opening the book of 
judgment. And to him, as worthy of all 
power, the beasts and the living creatures 
give their suffrage in behalf of the Church ; 
not as they did to him wino sat on tine throne, 
because he was the creator, but because lie 
has redeemed them by his.blood out of every 
kindred, and tongue, and nation, and people," 
&c 
mon. 
a few years, when Wesley discovered a value 
in it which no other English scholar seems 
to have noticed. We ought not, however, 
scarcely to call Mr. Wesley's New Testament 
a reproduction. For all distinctly Lutheran 
views in the Gnomon he omitted, with also a 
vast body of critical dissertation. Into the 
whole, Methodism is interwoven with su-
preme skill ; still the essence of the Gnomon 
is there, and Bengel's influence will ever be 
felt in one of the best standards of our Meth-
odist doctrine. 
John Wesley, by his Notes, has indissolu-
bly linked his name with that of Bengel ; 
but there was a bond between these two 
sistent walk, and his honored reputation as a 
pastor and Christian, we should perhaps find 
it in his prevailing power with God in 
prayer." 
He had great tact in introducing religious 
conversation in any company with which he 
mingled. Says Dr. Chaplin 
"Once when going. up the North River, a 
sudden shower, about sunset, drove all the 
passengers from the deck into the cabin. 
There they surprised a party of gamblers 
round a centre table, whither they had 
drawn two or three unwary youths. After a 
little pause at this interruption, they went on 
shuffling their cards : 'When,' says. one who 
was present, 'a gentleman rose and went up 
to them.. looked on as if with interest. 
in the `garine ; and soon one of the number 
offered him a seat, saying, "Will you try a 
hand with,.us sir ?" ' 
" "No," replied the gentleman, who I 
learned was Mr. Dunbar ; "I do not know 
the name of a card. When I was young, I 
had a great many games which I enjoyed as 
much as you do yours, and I now love to 
see all young men happy." He then told 
them of his early life in the Highlands of 
Scotland, with its wild sports and its hair-
breadth escapes, until quite a group, be-
sides the card-players, had gathered round 
him. The young men ceased playing and 
gave him their attention. Soon he spoke of 
a time when he grew sick of these pleasures, 
and was dissatisfied with himself ; when he 
felt he was at enmity with God, and that 
unless converted and reconciled to him he 
must be eternally lost. He told them of the 
despair into which he fell, and ot his fearful 
looking for of judgment, and then of the 
manner in which Christ revealed himself as 
the way of life, and of the change this made 
in all his prospects and pursuits for this 
world.' 
"By this time the cards had all been 
slipped into the pockets of the owners, while 
the man of God, having gained their ear, 
preached Christ to them. Even. those who 
under other circumstances would have scoffed, 
now listened with interest and attention, and 
all treated him with the greatest respect." 
On Sabbath, July 15, 1864, Mr. Dunbar 
preached his last sermon. The following 
Monday he was seized by, the disease which 
finally terminated his life. 
In his sickness he was thoughtful of others, 
asking after news from the army and the 
prayer-meeting, and distributing gifts to the 
destitute. His prayers would close with: 
"0, Lord, I know not where to stop, but 
thou knowest all our wants ; display thy 
power and accomplish thy purposes, for the 
sake of Jesus Christ, thy Blessed Son, our 
olessed Saviour." 
"Toward evening on Friday, after having 
lain long in a state of stupor. he spoke out; 
when his daughter asked, 'What did you say, 
dear father ?' He replied, was saying, 
thou Lord knowest me by name.' After this 
he said no more until just before he died, 
when the word, 'Happy ! happy r was re-
peated distinctly." 
He fell asleep in Jesus on Saturday morn-
ing, July 28, 1864, and ended his ministry on 
earth, where for forty-five years he had 
preached Jesus as the Saviour to his people. 
Many poor, aged and sorrowful of all na-
tions and colors gathered with -bereaved 
hearts to his funeral. A stranger's hand 
placed a cross made of his beloved heather 
on the . heart of him who had been "the 
stranger's friend," and devout men bore his 
remains to Greenwood cemetery. So lived, 
and died, and was buried Duncan Dunbar, a 
good man, an earnest minister, who with a 
loving heart, an open hand and a kind word 
went about doing good.—.Watchman and Re-
flector. 
-.111••••••• •- 
SPIRITUAL DROUTH. 
A LECTURE ROOM TALK. • 
SEVENTH SCENE. 
"And when he had taken the book, the 
four beasts, and four and twenty elders fell 
down before the Lamb, having every one of 
them harps, and golden vials full of odors, 
which are the prayers of saints. And they 
sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to 
take the book, and to open the seals thereof: 
for thou vast slain, and hast redeemed us to 
God by thy blood out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and people, and nation ; and bast 
made us unto our God kings and priests : and 
we shrill reign on the earth." 
EIGHTH SCENE. 
In giving this scene we quote from Mur-
' dock's Syriac translation as being more clear 
and harmonious than tine common version. 
"And I looked, and I heard, as it were the 
voice of many angels, around the throne, and 
the Animals and the Elders ; mid the num-
ber of them was a my riad of myriads, and 
thousand of thousands, who said, with a loud 
voice ; Competent is the Lamb that was 
slain, to receive power, and riches, and wis-
dom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and 
blessing ; and to be over every created 
thing, that is in heaven, or on earth, or under 
the earth, or in the sea ; and all that are inn 
them." 
The united voice of Seraphim, Elders, and 
Angels award to the Lamb the viorthiness 
to be over every created thing, in heaven and 
on earth, and under the earth, and in the 
sea; just as was given to Adam in the be-
ginning. Tine Court having rendered this 
verdict or award, the Presiding Judge pro-
ceeqs to pronounce the judgment of investi-
ture of the Lamb, as in the 
NINTH SCENE. 
ea 
"And I heard him who sat on the throne 
say : Unto the Lamb be given, blessing, and 
honor, and glory, and power, for ever and 
ever." 
The investiture is consummated, the Lamb 
is supreme, and then opens the 
TENTH SCENE. 
"Amid the four Animals said: Amen. Arid 
the Elders fell down, and adored." 
WHAT SHALL BE DONE TO SAVE 
OUR YOUNG MEN ? 
This is a question of vast importance. The 
enemy lurks for them in every corner, fol-
lows them inn every street, lane and alley, 
haunts them in their midnight dreams, and 
entices them in open day before the sun, into 
the paths of the destroyer. Houses of ill-
fame, street-walkers, gilded saloons, bar-
rooms, gambling houses, places of amuse-
ment, and spiritual circles, make up a few of 
the many enticements which endanger their 
souls. 
How shall they be rescued from these dan-
gers? 
This question is forcing itself upon the at-
tention of Christians with great power, and 
there is an increasing conviction that some-
`thing` must be done to rescue them from the 
Pins of the destroyer. 
The Young Men's Christian Association 
have done a blessed work in opening rooms 
used in subordination to Divine Grace. I 
is truly said, "any branch of knowledg 
which a good man possesses he may apply t 
some good purpose. If lie possessed tin 
knowledge of an archangel, he might appl 
it all to the advantage of men and the glor 
of God." An unstudious minister has . 
paralizing effect upon a parish. There is 
samenessof preaching, which becomes firs 
unprofitable, then intolerable. There is in 
suitableness of of application, no progressiv 
building tip in the faith, no address to indi 
vidual conscience. The bow is drawn me 
Chanichally, and the arrow is shot at a vein 
ture, and naturally misses the mark. So 
too, in respect to literature. If th ehe 
betray the barrenness of his ctua 
stores, and his want of sympathy with th 
educated class of his congregation, what ca 
be the, consequence but failure of personn 
respect, absence of attractiveness, loss of in 
fluence for tine good objects of his ministry 
A lady who had refused fo give after Inca 
ing a charity sermon, had her pocket picke 
as she was leaving the church. On makin 
the discovery she said, "God could not fin 
the way into my pocket, but it seems tin 
devil did.". • 
The desire of happiness is a universal de 
sire. Everything that hath breath desire. 
it, and, to a certain extent, seeks, finds, a 
enjoys it. Creatures without souls tree 
the outer court of happiness, while being 
with souls taste the more refined delights o 
the inner temple. Happiness is a gloriou 
reality, and the supply fully equals the de 
mand, so that if it were sought aright, sigh 
would give place to songs, and grief to glad 
ness. The inborn conciousness that there 
a handkerchief in the gauze, affects the chile 
whose eyes were blinded, while the handker 
chief was being hidden. The child know 
that there is a handkerchief inn the play, and 
rummages till he finds it. The man knows 
that there is fullness of happiness in the uni-
verse, and with manly perseverance he pur-
sues it. For this he labors diligently in 
building houses, planting vineyards, getting 
musical instruments and books of all sorts. 
Men applaud his success, and call him 
happy, and he is so. But be would be infin-
itely more so, if like the child inn the game, 
he would throw away his blinders and let 
in the light. The child, inn his simplicity, 
unblinds his eyes, and finds the precise thing 
that makes the game attractive. But tine 
man who instinctively yearns for the one 
thing needful, -clings to his blindness, and 
with barely light enough to see houses, vine-
yards, books and instruments, he gropes on 
without seizing that which alone can make 
the game of life successful and satisfying. 
The man whose dying- words we are abou 
to repeat, had spent full forty years inn th 
possession of abundant sources of worldly 
happineSs. Adopted by the daughter of 
king—could he lack any good thing ? Wer 
not the chariots and tine horses of his grand 
father all that a boy could ask ? The leeks 
.and the onions (if he liked them) the cucum-
bers and the melons, were they not served to 
him inn a lordly dish ? And then as years ad-
vanced to be learned in all the wisdom of 
the Egyptians I Surely, the son of Phara-
oh's daughter must have been happy. And 
doubtless he was so, as far as it was possible 
for him to be with his eyes blinded, and his 
understanding darkened. 
But when he was lull forty years old, his 
mind was enlightened by rays of light from 
the throne of Him inn whom is light and no 
darkness at all. And now, the sufferings of 
Iris oppressed countrymen are more to him 
than all the treasures of Egypt. Henceforth 
Israel is his people, and Israel's God is his 
God. And with God for his portion to en-
joy, and his Master to serve, his happiness 
is unspeakably great. But, after a pilgrim-
age of a hundred and twenty years, he is 
about to die. His last words will soon be 
spoken. The pages of his own personal his-
tory are sparkling with .the gems of .a bril-
liantcareer. He has spoken with God face 
to face. With his rod, he has done what tine 
'magicians with their enchantments could not 
do. Will he speak of these wonders now ? 
His eye is not dim nor his natural force abat- 
ed. His voice does not falter. But his race 
is run—his course is finished, and we listen 
for his dying utterances. Arid we do not 
listen inn vain. He who was once of slow 
tongue, breaks out inn rapturous eloquence, 
and, inn relation to his great life work ex-
claims, "HAPPY art thou, 0 Israel ; who is 
like unto thee? 0 people saved by the Lord!' 
HAPPY tine pastor who can say of his 
charge, "They are a people saved by the 
Lord." "Happy the people that is in such a 
experience, there is no`such culture and pre-
paration. You cannot have grace to meet 
strong temptations unless you have had 
Christian experience, and Christian experi-
ence carried down deep, and made so habit-
ual that it becomes a source of supply. 
Where the roots are long, and the soil is 
mellowed far below the surface of the 
ground, there is no fear of drouth ; but 
where the roots are short, and the soil is 
little plowed, all changes produce their most 
disastrous effects. And as it is with tempor-
al things, so it is with spiritual. 
All signs fail in dry weather. My barome-
ter was up, and down, and middlewise, and 
everyway, and it could not fetch rain. I 
have looked at the thermometer, and at the 
sun, and at the sky, and we have had every 
sign possible that would bring an abundance 
of rain ; but all signs fail in dry weather. 
And, although I have gone to bed feeling 
sure that it would be better in the morning, 
yet, when the 'morning came, there was the. 
old brass sun, just as relentless as ever. And 
I have done looking at the sun, and gone to 
work hoeing inn my garden, satisfied that that 
is the only way to resist the drouth. If you 
would save, your plants you must keep the 
surface of the ground mellow, and water each 
plant that needs especial care. Go to work, 
and take care of your crops, and let the sun 
take care of himself. 
I have seen persons watch for revivals ; 
for the return of religious interest; for this, 
that and tine other change. It is of no use. 
All signs fail in dry weather in the church, 
as well as out of the church. The only way 
is to go to work upon specials, and each man 
for himself. By-and by, probably when we 
are not thinking of it, and inn the way that 
we least look for it, there will be the sound 
of rain in the heavens ; and oh ! how blessed 
that sound will be ! How the leaves' will 
clap their hands ! How things that, over 
night, hung drooping and seared, will, in the 
morning, stand up succulent and plump ! 
At one time last year there was not water 
enough to give the convolVulus substance 
enough to support itself a minute after it 
was picked. In ordinary times, you can pick 
it in the morning, and it will hold itself up 
till supper time ; but if you picked it then, be-
fore you could get it into a tumbler it would 
collapse. There was not water enough tq 
fill up the tissues, and make it self-sustain-
ing. But by-and-by, when the rain began 
before they wake up and see that it is a 
drouth. 
There is no violent assault. Sometimes 
there is the seeming of great damage, when 
a powerful thunder-storm—as boys are ac-
customed to say—the breaking of a water 
spout, or of a cloud, (though all clouds are 
broken, I take it, before they rain ;) and 
gardens, and do immense mischief in spots. 
On there comes deluges that where the 
ground is inclined, tear deep furrows and 
gutters, and sweep away. On the other hand, 
when a drouth comes there is no noise in it, 
no threat, nothing that terrifies any sense, 
nothing that has any power for mischief. 
But all the roar of thunder, all the deluging 
of rain, is rather to be coveted than simple, 
silent, seemingly harmless holding back of 
rain. The negative is more dreadful than 
the positive. 
And so it is in spiritual. decline. There 
are great enthusiasms, great fanaticisms, ac-
companying religious fervor, which mar the 
work of God, and defile the church : but all 
the wildfire that ever went with revivals is 
not half so much to be dreaded as the silent 
subsidence of religious sensibility, inactive-
ness, deadness. 
When the drouth begins to come upon 
things, you will notice that there is r.. very 
great difference between different plants in 
acting under it. There are some plants that 
have their roots near the surface of the 
ground, and they do well ordinarily : but the 
moment there is the beginning of a drouth 
they feel it, and commence to shrink and 
crumple up, and turn brown ; and soon ttey 
are destroyed. There are others, that like 
the clover, have roots which plunge far down 
into the ground—sometimes three or four 
feet—and they .draw their supply from deep 
,below the surface, and do not particularly 
feel superficial ehanges. I observed at the 
time of the severe drouth to which I have 
alluded, that on my lawn, wherever there 
.was surface grass everything was dead : 
wherever there were turfts of clover it was 
as green as ever. And you will see the same 
things in churches. You will see that, in 
nine cases out of ten, when there is a spiritu-
al droutii, their roots run so shallow, they 
are spread so much upon the surface, that, at 
the first indication of a spiritual drouth, they 
shrivel, and wither, and turn brown. (Where-
as you will notice in the case of others that 
they are like turfts of clover, and they thrust 
their roots down so far that they are not af-
fected by surface changes, and are green all 
the time. 
When I came down from my place in the 
country last year, I observed the trees along 
the Hudson river ; and seeing how succulent, 
and green, and plump they were, I said, 
"They must have had rain down here, any-
how." But it instantly occurred to me that 
it was said in the Psalms that the righ
by the 
 
teous New Testament are, for the most part, a 
man should be like a tree planted 
translation and abridgement of Bengel's Gno- 
rivers of water. There it was. The roots The Gnomon had been published only 
ran into the Hudson ; and although there 
was no rain,-they did not want any rain. 
Now, whether you have long roots, or 
grow by favoring streams, so that your roots 
have an everlasting supply, it is all the same. 
There be some long-rooted or happy-rooted 
persons that stand green through all the de-
cline of spiritual concerns, to make the sad-
ness more sad on the one side, and on the 
other side to make the cheer more cheerful. 
There is one other thing that occurred to 
me. I noticed that where I double7plowed 
the ground, turning up the sub-soil to the 
depth of twenty-four or thirty inches, there 
crops did not suffer, but that where I plowed 
but once, and the soil was shallow, there the great and pious minds more real and abiding 
crops suffered most. 
than this mere fortuitous connection. They 
And it is just so in times of trouble. In were strikingly alike in their religious char-
those that have a deep, ascertained Chris- aster, and distinguished by the wonderful 
tian experience there has been a culture and clearness with which they apprehended and 
preparation beforehand for the meeting and expounded the atoning work of the Redeem-
. mastering of every ill ; whereas in those that er. We remember no two men in Christen-
-have but a shallow and superficial Christian dom more absorbed in their divine Master's 
work than the teacher of Christianity in 
Wiirtemberg and the evangelist of England. 
They were one in preaching the evangelical 
gospel—the glory of their liVes. They never 
met in this world, but are together now, 
where, continued from generation to genera-
tion, disciples do follow them. 
Although Bengel had many and onerous 
public engagements, which deprived him of a 
pastoral home and charge for the last seven 
years of his life, still they did not seal his 
lips as a preacher. He preserved his integ-
rity as a preacher to the end. After a morn-
ing of exciting debates in the secret State 
Council, or the harassing ecclesiastical dis-
cussions of the Consistory, he quietly passed 
in the evening to the little assembly waiting 
his coming in a retired street of Stuttgart, 
where he prayed and discoursed with as 
much simplicity and power as if the whole 
day had been spent in his closet. His own 
beautiful words are the best comment here : 
"Habitual self-renunciation has made every 
change of employment easy to me, however 
irksome the new employment might be in it-
self ; my settled object has been to assert and 
promote the honor and glory of God. In all 
these relations to my prince, my superiors, 
and those below me, it has.been my bounden 
law to promote good and diminish evil to the 
best of my power. These ends being attained, 
I cared not who was the instrument. I am 
drawn out from 'my long retired habits into 
a stirring life of constant engagement." In 
every department of his probation, Bengel 
was great, but never greater than in the final 
test of his integrity. 
He was born at Winnenden, a quiet -and 
beautiful little town some fifteen miles from 
Stuttgart, the capital of Wiirtemberg, June 
24, 1687. His ancestors on both sides were 
distinguished Reformers in the religious his-
tory of that remarkable country. He lived 
to complete his sixty-fifth year, and when 
summoned to depart, lie was found in the ac-
tive exercise of all his public and private 
duties. 
His life had been one incessant contest 
with death. One of his favorite expressions, 
concerning human existence was "perpetua 
tendentia ad mortenz" (its perpetual tendency 
los death ;) and this was most affectingly Il-
lustrated by his own example. Twice in the 
course of his career he passed all the pre-
paratory stages of human dissolution, per-
haps suffering all but the very penalty itself: 
'In some parts of the world the seasons de-
pend in such a manner upon the currents 
and atmosplierc influencces that the year is 
divided into the.season of rain and the sea-
son of dryness. At the Cape of Good Hope 
there are mouths in which everthing is 
scorched, dried up, and apparently dead; al-
though the ground is full of bulbs and roots 
that carry their life in them. But in our 
northern climate there is an equability, a 
sort of distributive season, so that it is sel-
dom that it is subject, except in a compara-
tive degree, to drouth. Last summer, you 
may remember, was an exception. There 
was for six weeks almost no rain. Wells 
were failing in the country. Streams of 
water were running very shallow. Pastures 
were almost ended. Many harvests were 
beginning very materially to suffer. Pre-
maturely there were beginning to be yellow 
leaves in all the trees except those that grew 
in moist places. The ground !ooked brown 
where but a few weeks before it was • green 
with grass. 
There are a great many analogies between 
spiritual drouth and real natural drouth. I 
observe that drouth steals upon the ground 
insensibly. No person knows it beforehand 
or can predict it. It has been a week, and 
we say : "Well, it is only a week since 
we had rain ; we will have it soon, 
doubtless." It has been ten • days, and we 
say : "It is about time for that rain to come, 
but it will come before long." It has 'been 
a fortniett, and we say : "I wish the rain 
would come," but we take no especial alarm. 
It has been three weeks, and we say : 
looks as though we were going 'to have a 
drouth." It has been four weeks, and now 
it is too late to take precautions, to mulch 
out trees and to prepare our crops to -with-
stand a drouth. Little by little it steals on 
the harvest and on the ground, and we are 
in the midst of drooping and suffering, be-
fore we actually begin to see that it is a 
drouth. 
And it is pretty much so in religious meet-
ings. Men are still singing their hymns. and 
still praying their prayers, and still talking 
about revivals and the interests of Christ's 
kingdom ; but there is a subsidence, little by 
little, and we begin to say : "Well, if things 
are not qnickened, we shall, by and by, begin 
to be in a declining state ;" and so spiritual 
drouth steals insensibly • upon the heart and 
upon the church, and men are already in it 
• 
saaigas 
207 
BERALD. 
THE ADVENT 
CANADA SUBSCRIBERS. 
W. H. Swartz, Westboro', Mass., or C. relieve England and Ireland of much aux- in the most courteous and respectful terms 
Cunningham, North Attleboro', Mass. iety and some trouble, 
and beating toward the dominent race was 
Let the work go on at once. 
In Ireland the arrest and trial of leading peaceful and conciliatory. All the speakers 
The proper course will be for an associa- members of' the order is progressing, and 
we are accepted in the Beloveds Sioce He 
is mine and I am His, what can I Want be-
side. 
tion of leading brethren all over the country 
Ito be formed, and then to receive proposals 
from different sections for a location, time de-
cision of the question to be finally made by 
the association. In behalf of committee. 
J. LITCH. 
many have already been sentenced to yeiu.s 
of servitude in the British penal colonies.. 
The energy with which the Etiglish Govere-
ment have takeri hold of the matter will be 
likely, together with their divisions here, to 
break up the enterprise -for the liberation of 
asked me not to game, and never' 
gambled and I cannot tell who is Itsasiltet lit 
games that are being played. She admores 
ished me, too, against hard drinking ; and 
whatever capacity for endurance I have at 
present, and whatever usefulness I may have 
attaiued ,in life, I have attributed to having 
complied with her pious and Correct wishes, 
When I was seven years of age she asked 
me not to drink, and then I made a resolu-
tion of total abstinence, and that I have ad- 
advised this course, and scouted the idea of There is a question which I would lifse to 
even a dream of insurrection. They urged fathom : Why are we, as a band of disciples, 
the necessity of education, and advised their (knowing that we have been redeemed, not - 
fellow freedmen to prove their title to the with corruptible things such as silver and 
rights of citizenship by their upright deport. gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus 
ment, and their loyal and faithful 'adhesion to Christ,) svhy are we so slothful ? I was 
law and order. Nistkon, JUNIOR. walking *with a band of Sabbath School 
Charleston, S. C.,
. Dec. 2. 
DIRECTION OF 
OF LETTERS. Ireland, at least for the present. 
 vencentru 
Torropondowe. 
The evacuation of Rome by the French 
As some of the friends continue to send some troops is still progressing, and it is believed 
letters to the office in Boston, and thereby that before the time agreed upon by Napo-
cause inconvenience to us, therefore it is de- leon, the last of the French soldiers will have 
FREEDMEN'S 1Y1ISSION.'
1 1"3"
11 
Bro. Litch :—Of the enclosed three dollars, 
please apply two to the 'continuance of my 
subscription for the Herald, and one in aid of 
the Freedmen's Mission. 
-Would that I 
retired and left time Pope to himself. Al-
rZady collisimie betweon his forces and the 
brigands have saken place. All eyes are 
turned to Rome. 
sirable that the friends give special attention 
to the necessity of directing all letters con-
taining money, orders, or business matter for 
the office to R. R. .Knowles, Providence, R. 
suade a hundred of your eubscribers to con-
tribute one dollar each. I was sorry to see 
for young men, and furnishing them with 
choice reading, and leading many to the. Hitherto postage has cost so much on both 
house of God. But this movement still sides et' the line as to almost deter persons in 
leaves the great multitude who have no rel- the British Provinces from taking the Visitor. 
jab for reading in a quiet and pleasant room, We now propose to have an office of publica-
out in the cold. They love and will have tion in Boston and Canada, so that all who 
excitement. The ball-room the theatre, the send us 30 cents. for their paper in Canada, 
grog-shop or gilded saloon and gambling 'will receive...the Visitor twice a month free 
house afford it, and there they seek what of postage. 
they desire. 
With this arrangement, we should have at 
To meet this class, and rescue them from least a thousand subscribers in Canada. 
the haunts of 'vice, it is proposed to open 
. Ts:R.MS. 
rooms where similar amusements and reere- 
Subscribers in the United States will re- 
ations can be found, and placed under the di- ceive the paper !for '25 cents a year, and pay 
rection of Christian people, they may be their own postage at their_ post-office. Can- 
made instruments in leading the young, first ada subscribers will receive the paper for 30 
away from vicious to virtuous associations, cents a year, free of postage. 
and froni thence to the house of God and the Four ounces, or 9 Visitor sent to one ad- 
religion of the gospel. 
dress cost no more postage than a single pa- 
'We confess we can see but little hope of per. It is for the interest of subscribers to 
success by such means. The practice of get a good dub. 
such amusements in a moral or religious cir- 
SENT MONTHLY. 
cies will inevitably engender a taste for such 
The Visitor will be published the 1st and 
gratifications which can be more fully grati- 15th of each month. When desired, we will 
lied where these things are made a profession k 
than can be done under such moral influences, keep the paper of the first of the month till 
 the next number is out, and send two to- 
The Church can never compete with the gether, and save half the postage. 
world in these matters. 
• sege_ . 
After all, is not the foolishness of preaeh- 
teachers (which might -be told with a unit ;) 
we met a band coming from the school (of hered to through all time., 
that class of people who call themselves 
4 40... 
Christians, but wOrship images and pictures.) The Minutes of the Congregationalist 
There was more than five of theta to one of' General Association of Maesachusetts, which 
us. While 'asking the question, this thoug4 have recently come to hand, give the follow- 
has crossed my mind, they are in their des, ing -statistics of the churches: The number • 
ment, we are not. We are in the world, but of churches is 4:89—of which 313 have pas-
not of the world ; they are of the world, and tors, 100 have acting, pastors, and only 76 
,the world.kuovveth its own nme,i &Jae, a are dependent upon supplies from Sabbath 
"Hallelujah to the Lamb,' • -a 91P ' to Sabbath. Number of male members, 
He has purchased our pardonignoli 
We'll praise him aZain 
23,488 ; females 51,730.; total 75,218; of 
. whom 11,716 are absent from their home, 
When we pass over Jordan.".tinettoat 
Ileaviog an average force of 130 members. 
During the past year 4.820 were added to 
the churches, or about ten to each. The, re-
movals by change of residence and death 
were '3,253—an average of about seven to
each church. The baptisms were 2,490, of 
which 1,023 were infants—an average of 
nearly five to each church. The number of 
ministers reported is 566, including eighteen 
temporarily absent, and sonic still retaining 
 
your one dollar list so soon closed, though Looking for the time when with you stini/ 
perhaps it had occomplished its tnission for and all the redeemed I shall sing that new'i 
the time. But who that has done little or 
one 
nothing for this object, could not contribute song unto him who loved us and washed us) 
in his own blood from our sins, I remaitn 
 
dollar? And who that has been more respectfully yours, 
E. 6. S. 
 
liberal, cannot add one dollar more ? We 
4410 414. 
have been asking the Lord to remove the _Pear Bro. ',itch am getting old and 
hand of oppression, arid let the oppressed go unable to do much ; .I .am in the 72d year of 
free, and that he would show us our duty in my age, and posSeased of but small means, 
regard to them. 'He 'has graciously an- yet by the blessing of God I have a comfort- 
membership here who are in missionary ser- 
able support. My wife died four years ago 
vtee abroad, of whym 318 are pastm•s, 101 
last March. She was a firm believer hi time 
acting pastors, and 147 are "others." The 
second Coming' of out Lord, as also I am. It 
appears very strange'tiVj'nie'that Christians total Sabbath school membership reported 
can't believe in the doctrine' ' Ohl the Bible, I during the.yeaniee,86s1§7. :rap 
might have said, for it is perfectly plain there. 
 
It appears 
appears to me they are as blimrin respect A 'Vow WELL MADE AND WELL KEPT. 
1—A quarter of' a century ago a faithful min 
ister of' the gospel, of Northern birth, was 
preachTni in Florida and was called to settle 
to Christ's second coming as the Jews werei 
respecting his first appearing. Bat when he 
comes all true Christians will then see eye to' 
I., as the accoonts are all kept by him. And The assurances of peace between the U. could multiply it by a hundred. But how 
we hope the friends will be able to send us a S. and France are very strong. The most can I do it? In no 'way , unless I can per-
we 
we will soon soon commence a new year, 
friendly relations between the two govern- 
good list of Hew Subscribers as well as time ments are said to exist. So that at pree-
continuance of' their own subscription for the .emit more interest clusters around _ Rome 
coming year; also remember that time than any other part of the world. What 
Youth's Visitor is as good a Sabbath School shall befall her in the year 1866? There is 
paper as can be found in the land for the a good prospect of restoration of' peace, be-
children in arid out of Sabbath Schools, and tweets Spain, and Chili, 
that it is published twice a month for twenty- 
Official information from the French Govern- 
fire cents per year—now is the time to send' 
in your names for the paper, as the next 
 
meat has been 'received that the Emperor in- 
Volume commences in January. As we drawItends to withdraw the French troeps from 
near the dose of another year we present our Mexico, yet it is vaguely given out by the 
hearty thanks to the scattered, " 
 French Minister in diplonsatic circles that 
beloved friends of the Cause, f`uvraittillielgir"pa:
sdt while such is his intention llifaximilian ex- swered our prayers without calling on us 
for any labor or sacrifice in effecting their 
favors so cheerfully bestowed, for the sup- peets to snpply their niece with Austrian emancipation. 
-We were merely calledupon 
port of the precious gospel of' our blessedtroops, numbers of whom are said to be on to stand still and see the salvation of God. 
Master—praying that the blessings of our , their way to Mexico. 
Now he is answering our second petition, 
heavenly Father may rest upon you in giv-1 Penny trains are now fully established in showing us our duty, and calling for our 
ing you "thirty, sixty, and an hundred fold I London, England. They run entirely under sacrifice. Shall we not heed the call, and 
in this life, and in the world to come life ground, late and early. They will take a 
R. K. 
thus testify our sincerity ? He has loosened 
R. 
everlasting." 
person to his neighborhood for two cents in their bands and thrown them upon our chari- 
Providence, Dec 16, 1865. 
ten minutes, while if he took a buss above ty. And we must daily hear the reproaches 
ground an hour would be consumed in reach- 
. 
--.4....- e 
_ 
• of the enemy, that, ;we ha,y9;,let loose a eye ; we shall know as we are known. over one of the best churches in the state. 
TRACTS. 
ing his destination, and have to pay twelve 
.• 
 their destruction is the end of our philanthro- fully •prepared to meet the Lord in peace, 1,united, and the position most attractive,and 
 
thriftless class to sjui`f`fer3r... an'd. die, and that Please prav for .me, that I may be found 1 The iitfarY Offered was huge, the people were 
, 
Awake to the Tract interest, ye who love cents. 
.--- ' IT "1-.1,
e'st841•"' py ; not recognising the hand of God in their whenever he enures, and dwell with him and, I inviting in all respects but one. He could 
to do good! Time times demand it—no time , A PROCLAMATION. 
,t -RI - , 
i 
deliverance, or desiring to improve their all the redeemed in heaven, in a worWaswith- I not bear to bring up his family under the ins 
to loose. Let us have gotal tracts of two to 
Slain we give countenance to out end..,„ k,Moet, aespectfully yosawaiet i fluence of slavery, mual so, in spite of their 
of autumn, not knowina which will acenm- lamation has been issued :-.-- „ their taunts by folding Our hands ? or' shall s -"ss " V , - ' 
condition. 
pi ingtn .e, i ov., 6o. I). R. TeIssap*aaaL entreaties, he declined the invitation. But 
four pages, that sve may scatter as the leaves Washington, Dee. 18. The following proc- 
plish good, this or that. Ye lovers of our "'William H. Sewmird, Secretary of State the blessing of those ready to perish' 'cbme 
 hen 
aving
'-' 
 this -att. aimed people, he said 
race, give us in tract form your Ares:ALS— of the Un 
U 
ited States, to 
 
a
ll whom these pres- Upon US ? So that, though' the mortihs'4 , 14'6, ' n FRAER A BLESSING:Iti that he did not d w 
" 
 l' w 
le 
' 
-1 i 
 LYi, 
lot v, , , 
espair y oilm4i4vrry I 
ye ur ENTREATIES—WARNINGS—ARGUMENTS ents may come, greeting,. 
gainsayers can by no Means he stopped, we 
land if ever that day should corrtaishal); ould 
There iNtuch an•exilted delight lb a're•• 
' ' 
and EXHORTATIONS for the truth, that we Kilo* ye that, whereas, the Congress of can leave them to settle the controversy 
in the act of prayer, and he return and preach to them once more. With 
may publish and send them forth as swift- the United States, on the 1st of February with him against whom they contend, rests generate beii)g 
anticipates with so much pleasure, amid the 1 that purpose in his heart he came North, and 
winged ineSsengers of g,00d to man. last, passed a resolution which is in the ing in the consciousness that the guilt of , toils of business amid the Crowds of the world, , for more thrum twenty years has labored 'as a 
their sufferings rests not with us while we time moment when he shall be able to pour pastor in the state of Illinois. At length he 
words following„ viz : 
 
"A resolution submitting to the Legisla- stand with open hand ready to dispense what 
sees the desire of his heart aecomplished. 
: out his soul without interruption into the 
ture of the several States- a proposition to a- is gieren us for that purpose. Many are do- 
. 
— bosom of his Maker, that I ans persuaded Slavery is dead, and he is now on his way 
' back to, the South, there to spend the rest of 
1 his days in preaching the gospel, where now 
there will be no restraint upon his liberty. 
two of the 
CONGRESS. 
HEAVEN, HELL, PARADISE, AD THE 
ing the gospel God's approveel flethod of 
KINGDOM OF GOD: WHAT AND 
saving sinners? 
• 
WHERE THEY ARE, AND THE 
Has any instrumentality ever reached the RELATION OF MEN TO EACH. 
world, and turned men from -darkness to 
light like this ? It is an undoubted truth This is arm unustntI theme, and one on 
 
that where the Spirit of' God is powerfully at which the great body'Icifthe Christian world 
work, and Christians are in eaiiiest for the is in the dark. Cortilmencing with the next 
souls of men, there will be thronged houses of volume, we propose to give a series of arti-
all classes of sinners. 
des on the suhjects indicated, embracing the 
Gambling and theatrical implements are 
not favorable to morality and Christianity Scriptural and historical aspects of the sub- 
anywhere. We can conceive of no better jects. All who wish the entire series should 
way to bring young men to Christ than the send in' their subscriptions before or by, New 
old gospel plan. 
Year's day. We believe that the series will 
The following from The Revival much embody a large amount of' ioformation which 
more forcibly impresses us than the new at the present age is greatly needed, and 
American plan. We commend it to the at- w 
tention of our friends who are engaged in which will clear up many obscure portions 
 
of 441ptitrA, a“ell as bring to light tat 
that enterprise: 
TH HALLELUJAH BAND AT LEICESTER. dark and mysterious future so much dreaded 
E 
The secretary and treasurer of the Mid- by the great mass of mortals. 
land Counties Hallelujah Band have sent us Let all our subscribers call the attentienV 
gratifying accounts of the good work now 04 aliskitkiends to this subject, and get as 
going on in Leicester. 
many subscribers as they can. 
It appears that some of the Lord's ser- 
vants in that town, anxious to have the Baud A NEW TRANSLATION. 
among them, engaged the Circus in Belgrave 
.2.103 
ftah 
Gate for six months, after vainly trying to A Brother in Calaorni as sent us some 
 
NtrisrAanislation 
obtain other public buildings. The - services extracts from a e 
of the 
 
Bible, which professes to have been Made by 
began on Sunday, Oct. 1st, with an open-air 
prayer-meeting in the Haymarket at six inspiration. But from what source the in- 
o'clock in the morning. About 3000 per- spiration came it does not inform us. But 
sons were present, and a very powerful i 
from the liberties it takes we judge it is 
n- 
fluence was felt. At nine o'clock the Band what may very properly be called a free 
 translation. At any rate we will, give our 
sang through the streets and invited the 
drunkard, the outcast, and the Sabbath-break- readers the benefit of the eats-act respect- 
er
ing Noah. 
to accompany them to the Circus, Where 
• 
"Nevertheless they hearkened not, and. it 
three service were heid during the day. The 
I 
building, which will hold nearly 2000 per- repented Noah, and his heart was pained 
sons, was densely crowded, hundreds being than the Lord had made man on earth, and
it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord 
unable to obtain admission. Many remained 
to the evening prayer-meeting, and several , said. I will destroy man whom I have creat 
souls were brought to Jesus. 
- 
I ed from the face of the earth, both man and 
, 
Similar services have been held every ueast, and the creeping th,4sgs, and the fowls, 
Sunday since that time, with equally crowd_ of the air : for it repenteth Noah that I have 
; 
ed audiences, and numerous conversions are created them, and that I have made them 
 
reported, including some of the most degrad- and he bath called upon me; and they 
ed characters in the town. Such persons have sought his life. 
cannot be attracted to any ordinary services, 
 
 "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the 
 Lord : and Noah was a just man, and per-
but they flock to hear preachers like William feet in his generation, and Noah walked with 
Mee, who was converted to God in Leicester God, and also his three sons, Shem, Ham 
Gaol, where he had been confined for daring 
robberies committed on the Midland Railway and Japheth. The earth was corrupt before 
 
in 1862. As soon as he was liberated he God and the earth was filled with violence. 
commenced working for the Lord, and his And God looked upon the earth, and behold, 
labnrs have been owned and blessed abunds it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his 
antly. 
way upon the earth. And God said unto 
Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me, 
We learn with thankfulness that the corn- tor the earth is filled with violence through. 
mittee for carrying on the services consists them, and behold I will destroy them from 
of local members of the Wesleyan, Primitive 
" 
Methodist, Methodist New Connexion, Meth- off the earth. 
odist Free Church, Independent and Baptist OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. 
Churches, all of whom engage heartily in the 
 
work fbr the Lord's sake, and take an • in- The affairs of the office are at length so,ar- 
terest in the converts, leading them into their ranged as to enable us to fulfill our long 'de-
societies. One new class has been formed, ferred promise to visit Pa., C. W. and Vt. 
numbering nearly sixty members, some of We propose starting on our tour this week 
and shall first go to Pa., and visit as far as 
whom were wretched drunkards, but since 
their conversion they have signed the tern- practicable, all the churches, and from thence 
to C. W., and meet with the Conference 
perance pledge. If' the churches in other 
towns would thus associate themselves with at Black Creek on Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 
the revival movement, we might hope for aar where we hope to meet a full repre-
greater results than have yet been attained. sentation from all time churches as well as 
The Hallelujah Band, while continuing preachers in the the province.. On our re-
the services at Leicester, are extending the turn we hope 'to be able to visit North-
work to Syston, Hinckley, Kettering, and ern Vermont, and spend some time there. 
other places in the neighborhood: . Particular appointments will be made here- 
A local newspaper, the Midland Free after' 
tion of the Act of Congress, approved on the 
20th of Apri1,1818, entitled "An Act to pro-
vide for the publication of the laws of the 
United States and for other purposes," do 
hereby certify that the amendment afbresaid 
has become valid to all intents and purposes 
as part of the Constitution of the United 
States. 
Died at Ellsworth, Me., Dec. 2, 1864, 
Samuel Milliken, a venerable and beloved 
follower of Christ. Our readers will re-
'member his occasional letters in the Herald 
for many years past. lt is only very recent-
ly that we were apprised of his decease. 
But notwithstanding ale length of time 
which has elapsed since his departure, we 
cannot permit it to ,pass without a notice, es-
pecially as many of our readers will, we 
trust, be afresh admonished by his godly ad-
monitions of former days. We doubt not he 
sleeps in Jesus and is blest. 
Press, thus refers to the 'services :— 
SAMUEL MILLIKEN. 
"The Circus gathering is a sort of rough-
and-ready congregation, which could not be 
got together under any other circumstances! 
Whether the end—the 'conversion' of the 
obdurate and depraved—justifies the means, 
the parade of prize-fighters and 'bear 
wrestlers' before the public, is a question we 
cannot now enter into. It cannot be denied 
that there is a vast outlying population hith-
erto unredaimed by any agency, and the 
moral condition of such outside, undefined 
masses is exemplified in the very means thus 
brought to bear upon them. Even the 
'Primitives' are thought to have settled 
clown into a stereotyped and orthodox fash- 
SPECIAL ATTENTION 
ion Of religious exercises, which may be 
• 
'above the heads' and circumstances of some 
of the ‘miserables.' That such should le the 
case is a severe reflection upon our moral 
and social state." 
After some further remarks in a sarcastic 
tone, the same paper adds :—"Seriously, 
however, we are told that assistance comes 
for these operations from various quarters, 
and that there is a marked improvement in 
the conduct of the men at several of the 
factories and establishments of the town." 
ShAoygan, Falls, Wis., Dec. 6, '60. 
-4 -41.44Me- 
CORRECTION. 
THE 
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THE SEMI-MONTHLY VISITOR. 
The call for tracts are many and urgent; 
who will respond to the call ? Men are 
saved by instrumentalities—time crisis of this 
world is fast approaching—what we do must mend the Constitution of the United States: ing well for the cause, and some are sacii es the degree of desire or' repugnance which a 
be done quickly. - ?7.Y.FET curl. • K- 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep- , ing health if not lite, and grudge not. the man feels to the performance of this -amiable 
I Providence, Dec. 16, '65. ' 
resentatives of the United States of America sacrifice. But are all doing what they can 
.duty is an infallible criterion of his accept 
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in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both fi or do some give a, passing "look," or thought, 
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. anee with God.- Let the unhappy child of 
Houses concurring, that the following article and "pass" them heedlessly by. and thus 
LETTERS RECEIVED. 
dissipation—let the impure voluptuary boast 
be proposed to the Legislatures of the sever- lose the moment Whn. 
e the deli-sand ' is most 
S. Foster ;.. Adam Euller t I. R. Gates ; 
of his short hours of exquisite enjoyment e 
ilI States as an amendment to the Constitu- 
Solomon Weeks ; Anson Wilber ; G. IV. 
tion of the United States, which, when rati- ' 
ure,,:ent. 
The Lord has blessed me abundkuitly, not even in the degree- of bl.iss they are infinitely 
Burnham ; Job Chadsey ; J. IV. Lyon ; II. A. 
inferior to the delight of which a righteous 'Brocktiway ; D. Bosworth ; S. Horne ; credit 
Considerable energy has been manifested fied by three-fourths of said Legislatures, with money to hoard or put. to interest, or 
Participates in his private devotions; you to June 25th 1866. Please do so. A. 
in Conarese perha s more than usual es ec- , shall be valY. te all intents and purposea as to clothe emyself in costly- attire. But he. man 
ially on questions having a bearing upon thelpart of stmid Constitutioo, viz : 
has supplied may necessities, and given rise , while, in their opposite consequences, they 'Spence ; .. . si ips . ''. 'imnieesam ; 
. Libbie S. Loy ; J. B. Huse ; IL J. 1Nicker- 
reconstruction of' the revolted States. There • Article XIII. Section 1. Neither slavery a dwelling in my feebleness and aee. And , lead to a no less wide extreme than heaven 
I , 11 a state of positive happiness and a 
Jss(s)itinsoEi.i.A.• Child; Sheldon 'Palmer ; Eliza 
_seems to be a pretty fixed purpose not to ad- nor involuntary servitude, except as punish- it would seem that CS'ery dollar is 'needed to i ""'s he", 
 
_},ge_e_ss.......aaa-ssteeseetseesarsatasiand issFosgrausufelly---reastate of positive misery.. ,If theee_w_es
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States lately in rebellion, until the safety nes:. duty convicted, shalt catet within, mtme in these expensive times. But he can pre_ other inaucen
1110.11000the gratifi- . tem.,/ e 
mit the new y eleeTesstsernembers from iiii;41
, .r.-s-starsir-c=4e.senseehresesaf the party assail- 
and rights of the negro Shall be secured. United States or any place subject to their vide for me with one dollar less just as well be regarded as the most important object of 
. 
• . 
In North Attie 
by Eld. C. Cunoing- 
bo!'
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cation it imparts to the soul, it deserves to 
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a. e resi es mi a • le 
No measure of importance has yet • been 
Conaress is not disposed to go quite as fast 
move. jurisdiction. 
force this article by aapropritite legislation." .allow me to give, I hope I shall be disposed 
Sec 2. Congress shall have power to en- another that I think duty , and justice 
when duty calls, And when he shall give me 
win a .Christian ; for nowhere else coulddie pui- 
, 
 
' chase so much calmness, so much resi`gnation, 
 
and so much of that pc-ice and repose of spirit 
• 
both of Wrentham. 
AttirrO• ' 
-,) 
ham, Mr. Samuel Miller to Mi -- - Laura A. AV ilbcr, 
fully cceissumated except the appointment And whereas, it appears from official doc- to forward it through this, or some other in which consists the chief happiness of this 
of ft committee of fifteen, nine from the uments on file in this Department that the channel. 
 
, otherwise dark - and stormy being. But to 
House and six from the Senate, to whom is amendment to the Constitution of the United Now, Bro. Litch, if you think proper, 
 
peayer, besides the inducement of momentary Providence permitting,' I will pi-each next 
to be refeii-ed all questions ktud papers rel-it- States, proposed as aforesaid, has been ratie Please commence anew your one dollar list, 
 
m _ear when re_ gratification, the very self love implanted in 
Sunday at New York ; 
ing to the reception of Southern members. fied by the Legislatures of the States of Illi- . that, at this season 01'100 y 
b 
And no member from those states can be ads nois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, mittances fin! the. Herald are most numerous, ' 
- • Id lead I1S te resort, as she Tuesday evening, Jan. 2d, at Morrisville, 
Pa. ; Thursday evening at Philadelphia ; 
good ; for our Lord bath said, "Ask, 
milled to either house until that committee New Yoi, 'West Virginia, Olsio, Messourie - -I hi tie 
- • ' el to eive but Ii chief 
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Friday evening I will spend at Lancaster, 
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has passed upon time case. Congress has ad- Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wis- been delaying, may be reminded of 
.their iii-• and it shall be given unto thee knock and 
 
forward an additional dollar it sl 
journed till after New Years', and consequent- con mu Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Comm- tentions, and 
sit ill be opened ;" and not a supplication, Pa., and preach if the way opens ; 
ly all its projects are at a stand still till that necticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Kansas, with their subscriptionse_ . 
made iii the true spirit of faith and humility , Sunday , 6th in Cumberland Valley as 
, 
b-ut shalt be answered ; not 4 request which 13ro. Heagy may appoint. 
time. 
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South if my isuggestion 
m
eets your approval, you 
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is urg,ed with unfeigned submission and low- Let us have a grand rally _ at each point, 
Cal'Olina, Alabama, North. Carolina, and may commence your Hat with my name if it 
DOMESTIC ITEMS. 
. liuess of spirit, but shall be granted, if it be and praystpuch for., Gods bles.sing on the la- 
Georgia, in all twenty-seven States ; . should have to stand alone. 
 
i consistent with our happiness, either tempo- bora.gilif_e; e ,,,er ,,,,,,,,,,,, .„„e J. I/1Tel'. 
Forefather's Day was celebrated on the . And whereas, the whole number of States ''' - • CLARSSA STOWE.: ' 
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22d inst., with unusual interest, all over the ti 
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te, ti e .i 
sell or eternal.. Of this happirigss -• however, 
ill!` 
- ENGLISH BIBLES. 
f„, ; ,. . __. --- , • „Li I me, the Lord God is the only judge ; but this 
We have a few copies of English Bibles. 
And whereas, the before specially named; 
ers are found in any coneiderable_numbers. 1 IStates whose Legislatures have ratified the 01. 11911101 turV I SI T glift..,..1. viii beee,,,, we do. know, that whether our requests be 
vs marginal references, 
country, especially wherever New England- 
FiRoan Gilt' 'edges, Brass rinss, 
 
s star i . T-7,',, 
 r4„,,,,c, k granted, or whether they be, refesed, all ie 
E itor :—We like youee paper, the 
nsarainal references, 
2 00 
Two hundred and forty-five years ago, the ' said proposed amendment constitute threee at 
 
working together for our ultiniatebenefit•-•— 'Diamond, i fimo. Calf binding, 
i Pilferims from' the Mayflower landed on fourths of the whole number of States in the -rese • t- hen • • 
2st .or, 'Very munch. We Should like it bet- ga-, K pr/mite 
• 
-'''Pica, ''' New- Testament and 1 50 
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1 Plyrnontli Rock, in a vast wilderness and in- United States; 
ter ifit was aemi-monthly. If it was I think 
 
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,,,7 -,-,; 
-i. , Psalms, Roan Gilt, large, clear 
. hospitable season ,of the year, exposed to dan- ' 
I Now, therefore, be it known that I, William you would •aet more sabscribers. Here is YOU 'LL BLESS HIM FOR EVERY 
.__R_±.__Ell ,,.i it p-fmitrqa*,.: i i! Print, *siva Isaaleisy bor. 2 00 
gers and hardships, and commenced the H. Seward, Secretary of tire United States, the money ter seven copies:... We have en- ' 
great empire which now stretches out from by virtue and in pursuance of the second sec- 1 joyecl the reading of' it for two years. A.1- This was the testimony of' one of the no4a l .1a, JUDAH'S LION--SHEET MUSIC. 
i 
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes to 
though we could not see to read it ourselves, blest 'women of our day. - Mrs. W si? 
was,. . We have just issued a sheet of' music un- 
 
1 • 
the Gulf, peopled by more than 30,000,000 
we have kind parents and sisters who have in her 76th year, and I shall never forget) -der the above name, designed for prayer and 
of people. The circumstances of the occasion 
been very willing to re id it to us. ,It is a our last conversation. Laying her hand on, 
sr confprence, camp and gi-ove meetings; It is 
just at the close of the war have given Un- 
great blessing. There are -many children in mine and -looking up in my face with _ lien,/ 1 
a'i e'xcellent piece of Music and words. We 
usual importance to the day. In Boston the 
this great world who do- not enjoy this bless- own beautiful smile, she said .to me softlyse have also printed on the same sheet the 
day was marked by a general parade of the 
ing, but we hope and trust that God will with. a slight Scotch brogue, "My dear, nev-fr words published a few weeks ago- in the Her - 
veterans. who have returned Irons the war. 
take care of them. How thankful we who et-. say again that life's hard. Learn yotnei 
 
i aid under the head of "The Covenant of Re- 
i To each skeleton regiment was returned for 
enjoy that blessing ought to be. We think lesson better, and mind, every trouble that deinption," to be sung to the air, "'"I'lle Sword 
their use for the occasion, their torn and tat- 
the Visitor is both interesting and instructive.. cernes is just a sign that God loves you ; for 
Hill." Price of' single sheets, 5 
tered battle-flage, under which they had 
It .shows us the Wttyr in which we should whom he loveth he chasteneth. 1'ye had ' 
 
. of' Bunker 
cents.- 42 cents a dozen. $3 00 per hundred.. 
marched and fbught the battles of freedom. 
live if we wish to be children of our.Father sore trouble. Of my twelve children, eight 
 
At the close of the procession all these war- 
which is in heaven. Let us' all try to live so died long ago: You know -when My last • 
BOOXS, PAlYIPHLETS AND TRACTS 
worn flags were returned by the regiments, 
that .we can truly say we are all children of trouble came," alluding to the death of her 
FOR SALE A'r THIS OFFICE 
and delivered over to the Governor of the 
God who lives above, son; the late good and gifted Prof. George 
one Father, the.great 
Price. Postage 
State, to be preserved as mementoes of the 
S. L. & M. E. Mc:CAINE. IV , of Eclinburgli."" " 1-"--4""-''' 4' 
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valor of the soldiers of the Commonwealth 
South Ware, ,Ni. H., Dec. 8, 1865. 
"I lost my husband Many years 'age, and 
$1 00 20 cts 
Menioirs of' Miller, 
75 12 
in aid of that great work the crushing out of 
a ... — . 
for long it seemed as if 1 could never bear it. • ' The Christian Lyre, 
80 16 
a gigantic rebellion and emancipation offour 
Brio. WILLIAM TRow,BRIDGE; WRITES— But it's come to me now. I'm old and can Voice of the Church, 
millions of slaves. A more fitting occasion 
75 16 
Dear Bro. Litch :—I am iim my 76th year, do little but read and think, and I've .learns SBainttesr',InhTeariotal 
Inheritance, 
75 12 
I am looking far an inheritance among the God loved me. 011," she continued, while Messiah's Tt
isproneoen, 
and can but poorly write, I am so trembling. ed the meaning of it all. It is just this, that 
for such a review and deposition of battle- 
75 12 
 
Spiritualism versus Christianity, 75 16 
flags, than immediately following the official At a meeting of the Executiae -committee 
proclamation of the end of slavery could riot of the United States Christian Commission, 
Night of Weeping, 
50 23 
sanctified. I am looking for that blessed her eyes filled with tears, "how he must have 
Zethar, a Poem, by B. D. 
have been found, Heaven grant that they held at ,the Central Office, philadelphia, on hope, and the glorious appearing or Christ, loved me to chasten me so." 
12 . 
 
WM. TROWBRIDGE- dear, trust him. He loves you. I ken that, Great Confederation, 
Haskell, 
15 
may never again be called forth for another the first day of December, 1865, the follow- our blessed Saviour. Yours with esteem, Her Parting words were, "Trust him, my 
such fearful struggle. 
ing action was taken in i-egard to the close \ , 
Historical Prefigurations of the 
because he tries you. Remember this text, , . Kingdom, 
RUFFIANISM. .1' °..911.1 of this great national organization. 
 
—,G4 444.--.1, 
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Ruffianisln in I3oston and vicinity,' •seeins Resolved, Tisat the tinited States Chris- 
and take it for yours, 'Whom the Lord lov- SERUSALEM IN GLOOM AND GLORY : with a Review 
to have met with quite a check. Within the fiats Commission terminate its labors and if. Litch, Editor of the Advent Herald, Sir : eth he chasteneth,' and you'll soon come to 
J. M. Orrock. This is a pamphlet for the times, 
o the Rev. G. B. Bucher's Objections to Error : by 
last two months our criminal courts have close its oflices January 1st, 1866, and that a —The doctrine of the advent and reign-grows bless him as I do for every grief I ever had." 
well calculated to remove objections to our views on 
sent some seventy to the State's Prieon. final report be made to the peublic'as soon as increasingly precious. I can say with all my She has gone home now. .Because the 
to circulate among all denominations of Christians. 
the Pre -Millennial Advent of Christ, and is adapted 
King's commandment was urgent, she made 
 
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i 
One garroter ,vvlio was convicted last week, practicable thereafter. 
heart, 
 
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was sentenced to 25 years hard labor' in the 
And bring the welcome thy," . 
VINDICATION : The Speedy Advent of Christ to Juclg- 
her dying testimony: "God loves you when , 
 
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when He shall come whose right it is to he chastens you; I knew this and 'bless him cts. per hundred. 
THFS SECOND ADVENT OF CFIRIST Will be Pre-Millen- 
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er over all flesh that He should give eternal God grant that her experience may be ' a, T 
...HE ,ORD's COMING A GREAT PRACTICAL DOCTRINE: 
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WILL CHRIST COME AGAIN TO REIGN ON EARTH. 
Price 30 cts, per hundred. 
DOES THE Som. LIVE IN DEATH. Price 30 cts. per 
hundred. 
by Eld. D. Bosworth has been issued. 30 cents per 
Cur or WRATH. A new Edition of this 4 page tract 
hundred. 
D.D. 4 pages, 30 cts, per hundred. 'limit is an 
THE FUTURE OF THE LOST. By Rev, C. P, Krauth, 
im- 
pressive and awakening tract, and should be widely 
spread. 
new Edition just out. $3 per hundred. 
GLORIFICATION. By Mourant Brock. 36 pages. A 
In testinmony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and caused thh, seal of the De- 
partment of State to be affixed. 
Done at Washington _this 18th clay ef De- 
cember, in the year of our Lord 1865, 
and of the independence of the United 
States of America the einetieth. 
-WILLIAM H. SEWARD, 
Secretary of State. 
CLOSING OF THE U. S CHRISTIAN 
COMMISSION. 
together for good to those who love God, assuredly that trials are only so many seals 
those who are the called according to his pur- of the love which he pours out on those whom 
pose, according to the working whereby He he chastens. 
C. G. 
is able to subdue all timings unto Himself. i 
He is able to overrule everything, trials, 1 A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.—How touch-
temptations, pleasure, prosperity, Paul, or ing is the tribute of Hon. T. H. Benton to his 
Apollos, or Cephas, or things present, or mother's influence. "My mother asked me 
things to come. All timings are ours because never to use tobacco. I have never touched 
we are Christ's and Christ is God's. Yes, it from that time to the present day; she 
Is called to the note of Bro. Knowles in 
respect to the direction of letters of Business 
and communications for the Herald. Will 
not all our correspondents note hand govern 
themselves accordingly. 
•.,e 
— 
OUR LITERARY INSTITUTION. 
ti10.1.14. UL‘,' 
At the recent meeting of the standing 
Committee of the A. M. A., held at West-
boro', a committee of three was appointed, 
consisting of J. Litch, IV-. H. Swartz, and 
C. Cunningham, to receive communications 
or contributions in reference to the proposed 
institution, and to eooperate with individuals 
or an association which may be organized in 
order to carry into effect the e.sdalishment of 
a school.of.learning •for the education of' our 
sons'aii.dAughters, and especially for the 
assistance of our young men wishing to en- 
ter. the ministry. 
Communications on time subject may be 
s addressed eithor to J. Lit* Boston, Mass., 
COLORED CONVENTION IN S. C. 
A correspondent of Zion's Herald tinder 
date of Dec. 2nd says :—The colored State 
Convention has just adjourned. They had a 
pleasant and harmonious session of one 
week, during which they dispatched a large 
amount of interesting and important busi-
ness. Their proceedings were characterized 
by great calmness and moderation. There 
were no blood and thulider in their resolu-
tions—no talk of getting their rights at the 
point of time bayonet; but on the contrary 
their petitions and memorials were all couched 
FOREIGN ITEMS. 
There has been a great split among the 
Fenians. The Senate of the brotherhood 
have, after due process of impeachment and 
trial, deposed President O'Mahoney, and 
elected President Roberts in his stead. The 
ex-President refuses to stay deposed, and 
there is a conflict of jurisdiction between the 
two presidents, a part of the fraternity ad-
hering to each. Between them they are 
likely to paralyze their own energies, and 
• 
What is being done for the Visitor? How 
many are getting up clubs for it. We made 
a mistake in our offer of an extra copy to 
the one who would get it up. We said who-
ever will send us $1.50 for five subscribers 
shall have an extra copy free. It should 
have read, $1.50 for six subscribers shall 
have an extra copy free. 
HERALD. 
ADVENT 
THE 
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HIGHLY IMPORTANT! 
LET THE AFFLICTED READ, 
-AND- 
Know of the astounding efficacy 
OF THE 
pot of Ponationo. 
handed her the bottle which he held in 
his hand. She dashed it out of the car 
window, and slowly resumed her seat. 
The people, who had crowded around 
to hear the conversation, slowly and 
thoughtfully returned to their seats, and 
the now cowering liquor-dealer looked 
the very embodiment of humiliation and 
shame. With a deep sigh we turned 
away, our own faith made stronger by 
the Maine-Law sermon we had listened 
to. Ah, how many in our land would 
have escaped the bitterness of fife, had 
rum been banished in their day !--Chris-
tian Secretary. 
m)agrao 
VEGETABLE 
PAIN KILLER. 
his little cold hands were filled with 
food, which he eagerly took and ate, and 
then went out into the world again. 
Alas, little wanderer! what will be-
come of him in the bitter cold days and 
nights that are coming ? who will give 
to him "bread that shall never perish 7" 
And yet he is only one of a city full, and 
the world is, oh, so great, and there are 
so many cities ! Children, pity the poor 
wanderer, blown like the snow flakes 
hither and thither, with no home and 
loved ones, and when at night you are 
tucked tenderly away in your soft, white 
beds, and a dear, good mother leaves 
you with a good-night kiss on your lips, 
sometimes pray for the poor, neglected 
boy, who sung for a piece of bread. 
"And that you remember the words of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, how he said, It is more blessed to 
give than to receive."-Acts 20: 35. 
cock in the barnyard. He thought he 
owned the neighborhood in which he 
lived. He brings his domineering pro-
pensities on shipboard, and everybody 
near him is made miserable by his noise 
and bluster. At the table, on deck, 
everywhere the atmosphere is disagreea-
ble on account of this self-estimated king 
among men. Then here is also the 
strong-minded woman in charge of her 
husband and family. She feels her im-
portance as the head of the man, as she 
really is. Providence has wisely or-
dered that a male and a female general-
ly marry together. So a male woman 
generally selects a female man as a 
companion for life. It is best it should 
be so. This arrangement, queer as it is, 
is much better than for two males or 
twe females to be married together, al-
though one be a man, and the other a 
woman. Here are husbands that ought 
te be at home with their wives an chil-
dren, and there are wives also who 
ought to be at home with their husbands. 
Here are professed Spiritualists, but the 
profession is all that indicates spirituali- 
ty. If they are not carnal-if the flesh 
does not wonderfully predominate, then 
appearances are more than usually delu-
sive. 
Here are broken-down politicians, ex-
secessionists, who have done all they 
could to ruin the country, but are now 
obliged to be still for a time, until anoth-
er opportunity offers to show their real 
colors. There are also on board aban-
doned wretches whose very touch is 
poison, whose very breath pollutes the 
air. They go about like their illustri-
ous sire, seeking whom they may de-
vour. Who can doubt a hell that be-
lieves in a future existence? Where 
these demons are after death is hell, no 
matter what the geographical position 
may be. 
Here are fops and flirts and fools; but 
here also is the very salt of the earth, 
men and women of solid piety, and 
many precious children dear to the Sav-
iour of the world. They are joyous 
and buoyant and happy. I love them 
more and more, and would sooner have 
their blessings and their prayers than to 
own the continent. 
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ASTHMA AND PHTHSIC, 
Liver Complaint, 
ASCID STOMACH, HEADACHE, 
INDIGESTION, HEARTBURN, 
CANKER IN THE MOUTH AND STOMACH, 
CANKER RASH, 
KIDNEY CCMPLAINTS, 
PILES, 
Seasickness, 
SICK HEADACHE 
Cramp and pain in the Stomach, 
PAINTER'S COLIC, 
DIARRHCEA, 
DYSENTERY, 
Summer Complaint, 
CHOLERA MORBUS, 
Cholera hafantunt, 
-AND- 
"Give and it shall be given you good measure 
pressed down, shaken together,and running over, 
shall men give into your bosom. -Luke b: 38. 
Amount previously received, $1,966 62 
Sarah Williams, 
2 00 
Jason F. Alden, 
1 00 
H. A. Brockway, 
1 00 
NL'TTIE ALLEN. 
COUGHS, HOARSENMSS, AND THE VATWOUS THROAT 
Affections to which Public Speakers, Military Officers 
and Singers are liable, relieved by "Brown's Bronchial 
Troches." Having a di, ect influence to the affected parts, 
s they allay Pulmonary Irritation. 
FOR MISSION HOUSE. 
RINGWORMS, 
RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS, 
HEADACHE, 
Neuralgia in the Face, 
Toothache, 
PAIN IN THE SIDE, 
PAIN IN THE BACK AND LOINS, 
Neuralgic or Rheumatic Pains in the Joints 
Limbs, 
STINGS OF INSECTS 
Scorpions, Centipede 
*-AND THE- 
Amount previously received, $197 65 
The Hartford Religious Herald gives 
an interesting account of a daughter of 
Rev. N. T. Allen, of Jewett City, Conn., 
who died a month since at the age of 
twenty-two. "Let me die the death of 
the righteous." 
By and by she laid herself down to 
die. At the first, when her sickness 
came, she thought it hard to leave this 
beautiful world, to leave the scenes in 
which she had taken so much delight ; 
but as the days wore on, and the disease 
fixed itself immoveably upon her, she 
gradually loosened her hold upon the 
things of time, and fixed her heart on 
heaven. She spent much time each day 
in prayer, and although when near her 
end, she experienced some darkness, yet 
when the end came, her exit was trium-
phant and glorious. She was in a dying 
state for nearly a whole day, and during 
that time her mind was as calm as a 
summer's eve. She made all the ar-
rangements for her funeral, decided as 
to her burial robes, the hymns that 
should be sung, and all with the most 
perfect composure. Many times during 
the day on which she died, she ex-
pressed herself as if filled with inex-
pressible joy. She said she wanted to 
die, to go to heaven, that she knew she 
was going there. She wanted her older 
sister to play on the piano and sing with 
other friends the beautiful hymn, "0 
sing to me of heaven, when I'm about 
to die," and that other that she had so 
often sung with her scholars, "I want to 
be an angel, and with the angel stand." 
Just before her death, she said, "I am 
just as happy as I can live. I shall go 
down into the valley, but Jesus is there, 
and it will be all light. Come, Lord 
Jesus, receive my spirit !" and then 
raising her eyes upward as she sat in 
the chair, (where she died,) her face 
seemed to shine with the glory of 
heaven ; and those who stood about her 
els 
waiting to bear her spirit, enfranchised 
and free, to the realm of the blessed. 
Thus, talking to those who were weep-
ing around her, advising them to be 
Christians, and meet her in the better 
land, and Hling them not to weep for 
her, for she was happy and blessed, did 
she spend her waning strength, till by 
and by the breath grew shorter, the 
pulse feebler, and as if passing into a 
gentle slumber, her spirit left the worn 
and useless tenement of clay, and 
clothed itself with the garments that the 
angels wear. 
DO SOCIETY FOR FREEDMEN'S MISSION. 
QC) /Intl A YEAR made by any one with $15-
t44)A,',‘-71-7I-/ Stencil Tools. No experience neces-
sary. The Presidents, Cashiers, and Treasurers of 3 
Banks endorse the circular. Sent free with samples. 
Addiess the American Stencil Tool Works, Springfield 
Vermont. 
41-3m 
Amount previously received. $12 61 
Adurrtiorintuto. 
FOR BOOKS AND TRACTS. 
"To do good and communicate forget not, for 
with such sacrifices God is well pleased."-Heb. 
13: 16. 
Amount previously received. $121 00 
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED 
Bite of Poisonous Insects, 
THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 
it
HAND BOOK OF VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR 
EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD. SENT FREE on 
receipt of One Stamp for Postage. Address, ADAMS 
CO. PUBLISHERS, 21 Beomereen Sr., BOSTON. 
51-6t eop 
-AND- 
VENOMOUS REPTILES. 
CHOLERA. 
Sold by Medicine Dealers everywhere. 
51-7w 
the tamitg Cult. 
AMALGAM BELLS, 
AMALGAM BELLS, 
AMALGAM BELLS, 
AMALGAM BELLS, 
A tprices within the reach of every Church, School, 
Cemetery, Factory, or Farm In the land. Their use 
throughout the United States and Canada, for the past 
six years have proven them to combine most valuable 
qualities, among which are Tone, Strength, Sonorous-
ness, and durability of vibration, unequalled by any 
other manufacture. Size from 15 to 5000 lbs., costing 
two-thirds less than other metal, or 20 cents per 
pound, at which price I warrant them twelve months. 
Old bell-metal taken in exchange, or bought for cash. 
Send for a circular to the manufacturer, 
JOHN B. ROBINSON. 
No. 36 Dey Street, New York. 
THE SECOND ADVENT. 
WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC 
It comes! it comes! that glorious day! 
Legions of light, in fair array, 
Attend him down the sky: 
No lowly manger waits him now, 
No crown of thorns to pierce his brow, 
No cross whereon to die. 
TO THE MERITS OF OUR TWO 
WISTAR'S BALSAM 
-OF- 
WORLD-RENOWNED PREPARATIONS 
WILD CHERRY 
KNOWN AS 
HAS BEEN USED FOR NEARLY 
COE'S COUGH BALSAM, 
HALF A CENTURY, 
See! where, in central heaven uprear'd, 
His cherub-circled throne prepared 
Rests on the void profound. 
Lo! he ascends the awful seat, 
The universe salutes his feet, 
In prostrate crowds around. 
He frowns, earth trembles at his name ; 
Hell kindles to her hottest flame, 
As she receives her prey; 
For ever still and e'er will rise 
The smoke of the dread sacrifice 
Of that tremendous day! 
He smiles! hosannas burst along 
The ranks of glory's gathered throng, 
As near the throne they fall; 
In white-robed armies round they press, 
His name of love for ever bless, 
And crown him Lord of all. 
WITH THE MOST ASTONISHING SUCCESS IN CURING 
AND 
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Influenza, 
Whooping Cough, Croup, Liver Complaint, 
Bronchitis, Difficulty of Breathing, 
Asthma, and every affection of 
The Throat, Lungs and Chest. 
COE'S DYSPEPSIA CURE, 
THE ONE 
A SURE. SAFE AND SPEEDY CURE FOR 
COLDS, 
LIST OF PRICES, WEIGHTS AND SIZES OF FARM, HOTEL, 
STEAMBOAT, SCHOOL-HOUSE, SHOP AND FACTORY BELLS. 
These bells are fitted with Yoke, Standard'. Crank 
and Bolt, complete for use : 
Weight of bell and 
Cost of bell and Hang 
Hangings. Diameter. ings complete. 
COUGHS, 
CONSUMPTION, 
which carries off more victims than any other disease, 
and which bafles the skill of the Physician to a greater 
extent than any other malady, often 
YIELDS TO THIS REMEDY! 
when all others prove ineffectual. 
AS A MEDICINE, 
RAPID IN RELIEF, SOOTHING IN EFFECT, SAFE 
IN ICS OPERATION, 
IT IS UNSURPASSED! 
while as a preparation, Nee from noxious ingredients, 
poisons, or minerals ; uniting skill, science and medi-
cal knowledge ; combining all that is valuable in the 
vegetable kingdom for this class of diseases, it is 
INCOMPARABLE! 
and is entitled, merits and receives the general con-
fidence of the public. 
SEYMOUR THATCHER, M. D.. 
of Herman, N. Y., writes as follows :- 
"WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY gives uni-
versal satisfaction. It seems to cure a Cough by loos-
ening and cleansing the lungs, and allaying irritation. 
THUS REMOVING THE CAUSE, INSTEAD OF DRYING UP THE 
COUGH AND LEAVING THE CAUSE BEHIND. I consider 
the Balsam as good as any, if not the best, Cough 
medicine with which I am acouaiuted." 
CROUP, 
SORE THROAT, 
AND 
LUNG COMPLAINTS, 
THE' mar ER 
15 lb*. 
20 " 
35 
50 
75 
100 
150 
200 
250 
A POSITIVE CURE 
7 inches. 
81-2 " 
10 " 
12 " 
16 " 
18 
20 
22 
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$3.00 
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Ah ! will that day be hail'd by me, 
And join me, gracious Lord, to thee, 
n sin and weep no more! 
Hope sweetly whispers, "All is well ! 
Thy lot is cast with him to dwell. 
On heaven's unclouded shore." 
-Rev. .1. East. 
FOR 
BREAD FOR A SONG. 
DYSPEPSIA 
IN ALL ITS WORST STAGES, 
AND 
A SOVEREIGN REMEDY 
FOR ALL DISEASES 
That originate in a disordered state of the 
STOMACH AND BOWELS. 
11, 
HARD TIMES COFFEE. 
I want to tell a story to the little pout-
ing, scowling, crying children, who are 
never satisfied with their breakfast, din-
ner or supper. What! you may say, do 
these sweet little faces of the children 
actually put on snch looks when the 
thousand and one good things do not 
please ahem ! Yes, indeed, strange as 
it may seem. I have seen a boy throw 
away his pie, and scream for fruit cake. 
I have seen a little girl put all the bread 
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and then 
MANKIND AT SEA. 
TILE VERY BEST 
SUBSTITUTE FOR PURE COFFEE, 
And not distinguished from Pure Java by people 
generally. 
MANUFACTURES ONLY BY 
LIST OF ACADEMY, STEAMBOAT, FIRE-ALARM, AND C1111RCH 
BELLS, WITH PARTICULARS AS TO WEIGHT, SIZES, 
PRICE OF BELLS, HANGINGS, AC. 
We,ght of Pr. of Bell Pr. of Pa- Pr. of Bell 
 
Bells. Diameter, without tent A Hangings 
Hangings. Ilangings. complete. 
 
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H. B. NEWHALL, 
No. 3,6 South Market Street, Boston. 
45-2m 
Bishop Kingsley, of the M. E. church 
writes on board a California steamer to 
the Christian Advocate as follows : 
While on the subject of animals, per-
Laps it is as well to finish the aes,-riro;on 
right here. A shir 117' PanerlgerS 
tr- rrrro. *Ala is a sort ''-'•:Id 
. tniattlre 
?.%arly everything, good and bad, 
wise and fo)li t in the shape of human-
ity; may be found on these large ocean 
steamers. And the prarninent traits of 
character will generally develop them-
selves in the course of a twenty-five 
days' voyage. The genuine Christian, 
the highest style man, can be found 
here, bearing "the image of the heaven-
ly," through evil as well as good report. 
How precious is the image of Christ 
wherever seen; and how doubly pre- 
cious where iniquity abounds! 
The atheist, empty headed, proud, 
confident, defiant, in whose head the 
word philosophy rattles like a kernel of 
corn in a dry and empty bladder, is also 
here. 
The man of infinite self-conceit is 
here. He believes the Lord did his very 
best when he was made, and has never 
been able to succeed so well since. 
There are two species in this genus, pi-
ous swells and wicked swells. Each 
admires himself more than all the world 
besides ; while the pious swell disgusts 
sensible people with his egotism and 
vanity, there is seen, neverfrieless, to be 
a goodness of heart about him. His 
head, and not his heart, is out of order. 
He looks patronizingly and ber.evolently 
on those whom he imagines to be almost 
beyond comparison his inferiors. He 
will condescend to be your friend, es-
pecially if you will revolve about him, 
praise him, agree with him. He will 
tolerate almost anything in you but an 
effort to prick him and let the wind out. 
The wicked swell is overbearing, iras-
cible, contemptuous, repulsive, an object 
of utter loathing to all men of sense. 
Men of nearly all civilized nations are 
here talking all the civilized languages. 
Men of all religions- nearly are here. 
Men of all pursuits, merchants, mechan-
ics, professional men, gamblers, specula-
tors, land sharks. 
Officers and soldiers of the army are 
here. The solid veteran with the scars 
of battle on him, more honorable than 
lordly titles, more precious than glittering 
diadems, is here. So also is the mere 
turkey cock, -Who will Stretch up its 
neck and gobble at the very sight of a 
bit of red tape. 
In one part of the ship may be seen a 
group busy in reading; close by, another 
group is playing cards, another playing 
chess, another checkers, etc., while on 
deck some are promenading, some are 
waltzing, some are smoking, others en-
gaged in earnest discussion. 
in one corner a navAl officer is mak-
ing love to a senator's daughter, in 
another a young widow is making a 
desperate effort to captivate a naval of-
ficer of similar rank. Here is a man 
going to San Francisco with his family. 
At home he considered himself a kind of 
We warrant both of them, in every instance, if our 
directions are followed. 
C'OE'S 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Cureathe most violent at- 
Cures Dyspepsia positives tacks of croup in either 
ly. 
old or young. 
FROM R. FELLOWS, .M. D., OF HILL, N. II. 
"Although I have generally a great objection to pa-
tent medicines, I can but say, in justice to Da. Wis-
sr or WILD' °ern ...,.,switer"rrite-frrenrcu- 
I have made use of this preparation for several 
years, and it has proved to be very reliable and effica-
cious in the treatment of severe and long-standing 
Coughs. I know of one patient, now in comfortable 
health, who has taken this remedy, and who, but for 
its use, I consider would not be living." 
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONY. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Cures Indigestion and Con-
stipation in every instance. 
Make Your Own Soap 
WITH B. T. BABBITT'S 
- - 
Pure Concentrated Potash, or Ready Soap Maker 
WARRANTED double the strength of common 
V Potash, and superior to any other saponifier or 
ley in the market. Put up in cans of one pound, two 
pounds, three pounds, six pounds, and twelve pounds, 
with full directions in English and German, for mak-
ing Hard and Soft Soap. One pound will make fifteen 
gallons of Soft Soap. No lime is required. Consum-
ers will find this the cheapest Potash in market. 
B. T. BABBITT, 
64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 80, 72, and 74 Wahsington 
Street, New York. 
42-ly 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
Cures the worst colds 
surely ard speedily. 
pout and refuse to eat dinner because 
she could not have jelly enough for half-
a-dozen. Now, all you plump, rosy-
checked children, who have nice fresh 
bread and sweet milk, with more cake, 
pudding and pie than is good for you, 
listen to this little story. 
It was one of these cold, chilly days 
of .November, when all seems so dull 
and dreary. The sky and everything 
else looked lifeless and cold, and the 
wind blew around the corners in a fierce 
way, as though it would whirl you 
away if it could; and every now and 
then a wee little snow flake, that looked 
as though it fell before it was half ready, 
came hither and thither in an uncertain 
way, just as the wind pleased, you 
know. But we were safe within doors, 
and the room was warm as June, and 
we were chatting merrily around the 
dinner table, when there came a timid 
ring of the door bell. Now there is some-
thing peculiar in the ringing even of a 
door bell. Did you ever think of it? 
Sometimes it is the firm, strong ring of 
the solid business man, who has all the 
world on his sholders, and knows how 
to carry it; sometimes it is the sharp, 
quick ring of the postman as he goes his 
rounds. Ah ! how men learn to listen 
eagerly for the signal, or wait his coming 
with dread. Now it is the professional 
ring of the doctor, who would not .dis-
turb a feeble, moaning patient; then the 
dainty touch of a fashionable lady out 
making calls; or the noisy, repeated 
peal of the children just coming home 
from school. 
But this was unlike all I have named ; 
it sounded as though whoever touched 
the bell was but half assured of a right 
to-do so, and so it was. A little child, a 
boy, perhaps six years old, was waiting 
with his bare feet on the cold stone steps, 
and the wind blowing through his torn 
cap. He wanted to "sing a song for a 
piece of bread !" "Let him have the 
bread," said one, "never mind the song." 
"No," said another, "let us have the 
song." So he came into the hall, and 
down in the dining-room we listened. 
In a moment a clear,sweet voice began 
"Who'll care for mother now 7" I can-
not begin to tell you how sweet it was, 
as it came ringing and floating down, 
and yet it seemed to me so pitiful, as 
though it were full of tears. Poor little 
wanderer, scarce old enough to leave his 
mother's knee, who 'cared for him? 
No living hand bathed his thin face 
with fragrant water when the golden 
sun came up and he left his wretched 
bed; no pen tle fingers smoothed his tan-
gled curls, or mended the rents in his 
miserable clothes; no pleasant breakfast 
table waited for him with silver cup and 
spoon and nourishing food. So he wan-
dered about like the child Luther, away 
over in Germany, singing songs for a bit 
of bread. When his song was ended, 
LARGER SIZES MADE TO ORDER AT 20 CENTS PER POUND. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Cures distress after eating 
instantaneously. 
GUARANTEE. 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
Cures sore throat, aud 
soreness of the chest and 
lungs. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Sweetens the stomach, 
purifies the breath, and in-
stantly stops sourness, 
acidity, and rising of food. 
COE'S 
Cough Balsamn 
Cures hoarseness and 
tickling in the throat. 
All bells sold at the above prices WARRANTED 
against breakage by fair ringing, for TWELVE 
MONTHS from time of purchasing. Should one fail a 
new be/1 will be given by returning the broken one. 
JOHN B. ROBINSON, 
36 Dey street. 
The American Advertising and Purchasing Agency, 
receive orders for the above-named Merchandise. Bus. 
Dep., E. ALVORD. Correbp. Dep., FOWLER & 
WELLS. 
308 Broadway, N. Y. 
27-6m 
From REV. FRANCIS Lonnete, Pastor of the South 
Congregational Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut. 
BRIDGEPORT, January 21, 1864. 
Gentlemen :-I consider it a duty which I owe to 
suffering humanity to bear testimony to the virtue, of 
DR. WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY. I have used 
it-when I have had occasion for any remedy for 
Coughs, Colds, or Sore Throat-for many years, and 
never, in a single instance, has it failed to relieve and 
cure me. I have frequently been very hoarse on 
Saturday, and looked forward to the delivery of two 
sermons on the following day with sad misgivings, but 
by a liberal use of the Balsam my hoarseness has in-
variably been removed, and I have preached without 
difficulty. 
I commended it to my brethren in toe ministry, and 
to public speakers generally, as a certain remedy for 
the bronchial troubles to which we are peculiarly ex-
posed. 
Entirely unsolicited, I send you this testimonial, 
which you are at liberty to use in any way you choose. 
Perhaps the Balsam does not affect all persons alike, 
but it always removes my hoarseness, and fits me for 
the minister's hard working day-the Sabbath. 
Very truly yours, FRANCIS LOBDELL. 
-••••••••• 
Cough Balsam 
Relieves consumptive 
cough, as soon as it is 
taken. 
Terms of the Advent Herald. 
DR. 0. PHELPS BROWN'S MEDICINES 
BOSTON AGENCY 50 KNEELAND STREET. 
ACACIAN BALSAM, 
For the cure of Consumption and Asthma, Sore 
Throat and Bronchitis. 1$ per bottle, 6 bottles for $5. 
MAGIC ASSIMILANT, for Fits and Dyspepsia, 
$2 per bottle, 3 bottles for $5. 
RENOVATING PILLS, for Costiveness and de-
rangement of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels. 50 cents 
per'box. Postage when sent by mail 9 cents. 
ETHERIAL OINTMENT, 50 cents per bottle. All 
except the pills must be sent by Express. 
BOSTON AGENCY, 50 Kneeland St., S. Litch. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Cures sick headache, sick-
ness at the stomach, and 
pain or colic in the bowels. 
AN ELOQUENT OLD LADY ON THE 
RUMSELLER. 
Riding in the cars, I heard behind me 
a shrill voice exclaim, "Would to God 
that the Maine Law could have been 
passed fifty years ago !" We turned to 
find an old lady on the seat back of us 
venturing her wish in the midst of an 
earnest discussion between a Maine Law 
Yankee and a red-nosed member of the 
bottle fraternity. "Yes," continued the 
old lady, "fifty years ago! A husband 
would not have gone down to a drunk-
ard's grave, my daughters married 
drunkards and lived lives of sorrow, or 
my boys have died in jail and the mad-
house. Look at me," and with some-
thing of a fire kindling up in her old 
eyes, she laid her bony hand upon- the 
arm of the liquor-dealer, "and see what 
a fruit of your accursed business. I was 
young, and had enough of this world's 
goods, and my heart was full of happi-
ness and hope. My God! sir, how 
they have poured desolation into this 
old heart ! I am often bitter, and do 
you wonder? Such as you robbed me 
of my children, mid at eighty years of 
age, I am alone ! Do you hear-alone! 
And let me tell you this hand never 
wronged the least of God's creatures. 
But you, sir, have wronged me. You, 
sir, talk about the domicile and say it is 
sacred. God forgive me, but I remem-
ber the day when my home was entered 
by the constables and skinned of all. I 
remember when the Bible my mother 
gave me was taken away for drink. I 
remember the time when my first-born 
was laid in my arms from a drunken 
husband's hands, and its little life-blood 
ran warm into my bosom from its 
wounds.. Why, sir," said the old wom-
an, half rising in her seat, "in God's 
holy name, did you come into my house 
to rob and kill ? Was that constitution-
al 7 I have one child living-in the 
asylum-a maniac. It's all the work of 
your hands. There is blood there! 
Blood, sir! Better, sir, have a mill-
stone around your neck than sell rum. 
The curse of the widow be upon you! 
It will follow you. The serpents you 
send out shall return to you and to yours. 
Give me • that bottle !" Inv cluntarily , 
as it almost seemed, the liquor-dealer 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
Cures influenza, asthma, 
and all bronchial affec-
tions. 
PUBLISHED BY 
THE AMERICAN MILLENNIAL ASSOCIATION. 
For 1 year, in advance ...........$2 00 
6 months .. ....... 1 00 
6 copies to 1 address, 6 months.. 5 00 
12 " " " " ..1000 
Ministers, or others, sending us four paying sub-
scribers for a year, shall have their own paper gratis. 
Those who receive of Agents, free of postage, will 
pay $2 50 per year. 
English subscribers will be, charged 2 shillings post-
age, amounting to 10 shillings per year, to our Agent. 
Richard Robertson, Esq., 89 Grange Road, Bermondsey, 
London, England. 
POSTAGE. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Creates an appetite, and 
gives vigor and strength 
to the whole system. 
COE'S 
Is the largest bottle in the 
world for the price, there-
fore not only the best but 
the cheapest medicine ex-
tant. 
Ayer's Ague Cure. 
PRICE ONE DOLLAR A BOTTLE. 
PREPARED BY 
SETH W. FOWLE & SON, 
18 Tremont Street, Boston, 
AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 
FOR THE SPEEDY CURE OF 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Cures flatulency, weak-
ness, and general debility. 
It ihakes the weary am-
bitious, the feeble strong, 
the debilitated healthy-
for it enables the patient 
to take plenty of healthy 
food, which is the parent 
of the body. 
Intermittent Fever, or Fever and Ague, Remittent 
Fever, Chill Fever, Dumb Ague, Periodical Head-
ache or Bilious Headache, and Bilious Fevers, in-
deed for the whole class of diseases originating in 
biliary derangement, caused by the Malaria of mi-
asmatic countries. 
Over one million of bot-
tles of 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
are sold annually, and the 
people all pronounce it 
the best cough preparation 
they ever used. 
Postage on the Herald, to any part of the United 
States, 5 cents per quarter, or 20 per year, prepaid. It 
not prepaid 4 cents for each number of the paper. City 
subscribers, where there are carriers employed, will 
have their papers delivered at the door, free of charge, 
after paying their 5 cents per quarter at the post office. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Allows you to eat a 
hearty meal without fear 
of distress afterwards, for 
it will stop as soon as this 
is swallowed. 
VEVER and Ague is not 
the only consequence of 
the miasmatic poison. A 
great variety of disorders 
arise from its irritation, in 
inalarious districts, among 
which are Neuralgia, Rheu-
matism, Gout, Headache, 
Blindness, Toothache, Ear-
ache, Catarrh, Asthma, Palpitation, Painful Affection 
of the Spleen, Hysterics, Pain in the Bowels, Colic, 
Paralysis, and Derangement of the Stomach, all of 
which, when originating in this cause put on the in-
termittent type, or become periodical. This "CURE' 
expels the poison from the blood, and thus cures them 
all alike. It is not only the most effectual remedy 
ever discovered for this class of complaints, but it is 
the cheapest, and moreover is perfectly safe. No 
harm can arise from its use, and the patient when 
cured is la, as healthy as if he had never hal the dis-
ease. Can this be said of any other cure for Chills and 
Fever? It is true of this, and its importance to those 
afflicted with the complaint cannot be over estimated. 
So sure is it to cure the Fever and Ague, that it may 
be truthfully said to be a certain remedy. One Dealer 
complains that it is not a good medicine to sell, be-
cause one bottle cures a whole neighborhood. 
Prepared by J. C. AYER, A Co., Lowell, Mass, 
and sold by all Druggists. 
Litch's Boston Liniment. 
For the immediate cure of all kinds of pain, Cuts, 
Burns, Scalds, Bruises, and Sprains. For external 
and internal use. 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
Is warranted to give satis-
faction or the money re-
funded. 
Grace's Celebrated Salve 
CURES CUTS, BURNS, SCALDS. 
Grace's Celebrated Salve 
CURES WOUNDS, BRUISES, SPRAINS. 
Grace's Celebrated Salve 
CURES RINGWORMS, WARTS, AC. 
Grace's Celebrated Salve 
CURES CORNS, FELONS, PILES. 
Graces Celebrated Salve 
CURES FROZEN LIMBS, AND CHILBLAINS. 
Grace's Celebiated Salve 
CURES CHAPPED HANDS, AND BLISTERS. 
Grace's Celebrated Salve 
HEALS OLD SORES, FLESH WOUNDS. 
Grace's Celebrated Salve 
is prompt in action, removes pain at one', and reduces 
the most angry-looking swellings and inflammations, 
as if by magic,- thus affording relief and a complete 
CRTC. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Is a purely vegetable 
preparation, contains no 
opiates, no poison, nothing 
hurtful, but acts promptly, 
surely and immediately. 
AGENTS FOR THE HERALD. 
Albany, N.Y .Win. Nichols, 85 Lydins street 
Burlington, Iowa.... .... .. James S. Brandeburg 
Bangor, Me ........ ............ Thomas Smith 
Centre Co., Pa .... -Rev. NI. L. Jackson 
Cameron Co., Pa.... .... .....Rev. M. II. Moyer 
Cabot, (Lower Branch,) Vt.... Dr. M. P. Wallace 
Cincinnati, 0.... ........ . .. Joseph Wilson 
De Kalb Centre, Ill.... ...... B. Sturreeant 
Dunha.in, C. E
D. W. Sornberger 
Derby Line, Vt. 
. S. Foster 
Elk Co., Pa.... .... Rev. Thomas Holton 
Fairhaven, V t 
 .. obbins Miller 
Freeland, Be Kalb Co., Ili Wells A. Fay 
Homer, N Y J. L. Clapp 
Haverhill, Mass. 
 Lendal Brown 
Lockport, N. V...... .....................R. 
R. W. Beck 
Johnson's Creek N. Y -Hiram _Russell 
Kinkardine, C. W.... ............ Joseph Barker 
Loudon Mills, N. H 
 .George Locke 
Morrisville, Pa.... ....... Wm. Kitson 
Malone, N. Y ........ .... C. W. Leonard 
Middlebury, Ohio.... .... .....Edward Matthews 
New Haven, Ct.... ........ 
 George Phelps 
New York City .... .J. B. Huse, 20 Greenwich Av 
Philadelphia, Pa.... ....J. Miller, I110 South St 
Portland, Me. Alexander Edmund 
Providence, R I Anthony Pearce 
Princess Anne, Md 
John V. Pinto 
Rochester, N. Y ........ . .... D. Bondy 
Salem, Mass.... ..... ........Charlas H. Berry 
Springwater, N. Y.. S. H. WIllthington 
Shabbonas Grove, Be Kalb Co., Ill. . N. W. Spencer 
Stanbridge, C. E. 
 ... John Gilbreth 
Sheboygan Falls. Wi, William Trowbridge 
Toronto, C. W........ ..... Daniel Campbell 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E ...R. Ilutchinson, M. D 
" ... J. M. Orrock 
Waterbury, Vt... .... 
H. Canfield. 
Worcester, Mass.. . Benjamin Emerson 
Yarmouth, Me... _ . I. C. Wellcome 
Valley Falls, R.1 . . M. B. Patterson 
Agent at Large .... 
Rev. I. R. Gates 
West Bolton, C. E James Austin, Jr. 
Newburyport, Mass .Joeep'i Ballou. 
THE YOUTH'S VISITOR, 
No family can afford to be 
without 
COE'S 
Cough Balsam 
In the house, ready for 
immediate use. 
COE'S 
Dyspepsia Cure 
Is the best remedy in the 
world for dyspepsia, mdi-
gestiou, sick headache, 
heartburn, fever and ague, 
nausea at stomach, and, in 
fact, all diseases or pains 
in the stomach or bowels. 
COE S 
Cough Balsam 
Costs but Forty Cents. 
The bottle holds more than 
any other at the same 
price. 
The medecint itself war-
ranted superior to all 
others 
Only 25 Cents a Box! 
(Sent by mail for 35 cents.) 
SETH W. FOWLE & SON, Boston, 
PROPRIETORS. 
For sale by all Druggists, Grocers, and at all country 
stores. 
48-4teop 
Sold by Druggists every-
V\ here. 
Sold by druggists every-
where. Price ONE DOL-
LAR per bottle. 
C. G. CLARK, & CO., 
General Agents for the United States and Canadas. 
For sale by all Druggists and Apothecaries, in the 
city and country. 
27-din 
American Bible Union, 
350 BROOME STREET, NEW YORK. 
Its object is to procure and circulate the most faith-
ful versions of the Sacred Scriptures in all languages 
throughout the world. 
English New Testament, Revised 
FROM THE FINAL COMMITTEE. 
This great work is now completed. It is printed on 
fair, open type, and makes a duodecimo volume o 
766 pages. 
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APOS /i/t/L.- C. Ore: 
COSTIVENESS PILES 
DYSPEPSIA , HEADACHE; 
SOLIAEVERY WHERE. 
-BY- 
J.. LINCOLN LITCH, 
11 Tyler street, Boston, 
And by Miss Louisa Mitchell, Rock Island, C. E. 
Price 50 cents per bottle. 15 bottles for $5. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY NY THE 
AMERICAN MILLENNIAL ASSOCIATION 
46 1-2 Kneeland Street,. Boston, Mass. 
J. M. ORROCK, D/TOR. 
Terms, always in advance 
Single copy, one year,........ . 25 cents. 
Five or more copies, one year, each .. 20 cents. 
POSTAGE,. -Twelve cents a year for one to eight 
Copies-it being one cent for each four ounces or frac 
tion of an ounce, for these papers to any part of the 
United States. This is to be paid in advance at the 
Post Office where the Subscriber receives his paper. 
Orders for the papers, and all business communica-
tions, should be sent to Rev. J. Litch, 46 1-2 Kneeland 
Street, Boston, Mass. Articles for the paper may be 
sent to the same address, or to the Editor of the 
Youth's Visitor Advent Herald Box, Boston, Mass 
TO CONSUMPTIVES. 
LUNGS-DR. 0. PHELPS BROWN has lately published 
-a Treatise on Consumption, Bronchitis, Asth-
LUNGS-ma and General Debility, of 48 octavo pages, 
-beautifully illustrated with Colored Plates, 
LUNGS-containing a prescription for the positive 
and speedy cure of FITS and DYSPEPSIA. 
LUNGS-This work will be sent free to all on receipt 
-of five cents, to pre-pay postage. 
LUNGS-Address, DR. 0. PHELPS BROWN, No. 19 
Grand Street, Jersey City, N. J., or S. Litch, 
LUNGS-50 Kneeland Street, Boston, Mass. 
PLEASANT to the palate, cause no pain, act 
promptly, never require increase of dose, do not 
exhaust, and for elderly persons, females and children, 
are just the thing. Taken at night move the bowels 
once the next morning. Warranted in all cases of 
Piles and falling of the Rectum. We promise a cure 
for 1/ ymptoms Of DYSPEPSIA, such as Oppression 
site. 3 a ting, Sour Stomach, Spitting of Food, Palpita-
tions also, Headache, Dizziness, Pain in the Back 
ant. 'oins, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Sick 
Headache, Coated Tongue, Biliousness, Liver Com-
plaint, Loss of Appetite, Debility, Monthly Pains and 
Irregularities, Neuralgia, Faintness, Ac. Travellers 
find the lozenges just what they need, as they are so com-
pact and inodorous that they may be carried in the vest 
pocket. Price CO cents. For sale by J. S. 1IARRISON 
A CO., Proprietors, No. 1 Tremont Temple, Boston. 
Will be mailed to any address on enclosing 60 cents. 
28-ly 
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Roan, Red Edges 
Roan, Gilt Edges 
Turkey rr or'occo, Gilt 
Turkey morocco, Gilt, with Clasps and Bands.... 5 00 
Cheap Edition, Plain Cloth ................ .... 75 
On the receipt of the price for either of the above 
styles, a copy will be sent, by mail, to any part of the 
United States. 
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