VOLUME XXI. NO. 6. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1860. 
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Mr. Shimeall says :— 
" The next prophetic numbers in order are 
the 1260, 1290, and 1335 days of Daniel. 
Synchronic with the first of these—the 1260 
days, Dan. 7:25, and 12:7—are the the thou-
sand two hundred and three score days,' Rev. 
11:2,3 ; the twelve hundred and sixty days,' 
Rev. 11:3-6 ; and the time, times, and half a 
time,' Rev. 12:14. 
" In regard to these important prophetical 
dates in the great calendar' of mystical time, 
we observe, in the first place, that, so far as we 
know, all expositors, except Mr. Faber, whether 
they have understood the days ' literally, or as 
signifying years, are united in considering them 
as three divisions of one and the same period, the 
last two being merely elongations of the first, 
and hence that they have a common commence- 
ment ; the 1290 days being an addition of 30 
years to the 1260, and the 1335 a further term 
of 45 years to the 1290. 
" But as with the preceding numbers, so here : 
prophetical expositors diEr as to their charac- 
teristics, the objects to which they relate and the 
time of their commencement and termination. .. 
" We now pass to a view of what is noted in 
the Scriptures of truth,' and verified by history, 
of the commencement and end of these propheti- 
cal dates ; in reference to which, as of the pre-
ceding, there are differences of opinion, even on 
the part of several distinguished writers, who 
adopt the year-day theory of interpretation." .. 
Having stated Mr. Faber's theory, and his ob-
jections to it, Mr. Shimeall proceeds : 
" Now, how this little horn' can be made to 
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A CALL TO REPANTANCE. 
0 sinner bogin, to repent of thy sin, 
0 call on thy God, 
Think of his justice, and haste to the blood. 
He calls thee just now, refuse not to bow, 
For this is thy life, 
Put on His armor, and begin the blest strife. 
lie waits to forgive, His mercy receive, 
0 make no delay ; 
Rejoice in His love, and walk in His way. 
He'll turn from His wrath, when thou comest by 
faith, 
He'll comfort and save. 
Then come at His call, join the good and the brave. 
But if thou refuse, and the way of sin choose, 
How awful thy end. 
In weeping and wailing, eternity spend. 
R.H. 
From the American and Foreign Christian Union. 
The Beginning and End of the Pa- 
pacy. 
The course of the Papacy is nearly run. Such, 
at least, is the general sentiment of the learned in 
the Protestant world. The quickened activity 
which now, and for a few years past, has distin-
guished the leaders and abettors of the system, 
does not abate the force of the sentiment, nor the 
confidence reposed in it. The revived activity 
noticeable now, on the part of the prelates, priests, 
and others, in its interests, is but the fulfillment 
of ancient prophecy concerning its last days, and 
corresponds to the convulsive action which not 
uncommonly at a short interval precedes disso-
lution in the animal frame. The faith of the in-
telligent remains, therefore, undisturbed ; and 
with the developments of Providence and study 
of the Scriptures, is constantly accumulating 
strength. 
Within the past century much has been writ-
ten and published by learned and able divines 
concerning the rise, career, and final doom of the 
Papacy ; and not a few distinguished scholars 
have attempted to fix the precise period when its 
destruction would be effected. The labors ex-
pended upon the general subject have brought 
out a vast amount of information, from sources 
sacred and profane, and imparted to the study of 
Popery, as contained in the Bible, a very high 
degree of interest. They have served in an em-
inent manner to strengthen the faith and hope 
of the members of the true church of Christ, to 
have begun his career at two different periods, 
viz. in A. D. 533 and A. n. 715, (the difference 
being 182 years,) we must confess goes quite be-
yond our arithmetic. We can only account for 
this discrepancy in the premises on the part of 
Mr. Faber, on the ground of the overwhelming 
weight of evidence now lying before us (and on 
which he himself relies) in proof that the little 
horn' of Dan. 7 made his first appearance upon 
the prophetical platform in A. D. 533, and from 
which, as we contend, commenced the mystical 
period of the time, times, and dividing of time,' 
or 1260 years of Dan. 7:25. We here refer to 
the edict of Justinian in A. D. 533, constituting 
John II., the then bishop of Rome, the supreme 
head over all the churches ; and to the Pope's 
ratification of the imperial edict, etc. . . . 
" Victorious Justinian, pious, fortunate, re-
nowned, always triumphatit Augustus, to John, 
the most holy Archbishop of the venerable city 
of Rome, and Patriarch. 
" < Reddentes, etc. We rendering, as has al-
ways been our wish, honor to the apostolic See 
and to your holiness, and honoring your blessed-
ness, as it becomes us to honor a father, hasten to 
inform your holiness of all things connected with 
the state of the churches ; for it has always beeu 
our earnest desire to preserve the unity of your 
apostolic See, and the state of the holy churches 
of God, which up to this time has invariably ob-
tained, and subsists undisturbedly. 
" Hence we have hastened both to bring into 
subjection, and to unite to the See of your holi-
ness, all the priests of the whole eastern tract. 
Of those things, then, which have been at pres-
ent agitated (though they have been clear and 
indubitable, and have been firmly held and 
taught by all priests at all times,) we have 
thought it necessary that your holiness should 
be informed. For we suffer not anything which 
is agitated connected with the state of the church-
es, clear and indubitable though it be, to go on 
without your holiness, also, who are the head of 
all the holy churches, being apprised of it. For, 
by all means, as has been said, we are eager that 
the honor and authority of your See may increase. 
" We, therefore, acquaint your holiness,' etc. 
" The letter concludes thus :— 
" We request your blessedness to pray for us, 
and to procure the watchful care of God over us.' 
" The following extract is from the Pope's 
Ratification of the Imperial Edict : 
" To his most glorious and indulgent Son, 
Justinian Augustus, John the Bishop of the city 
of Rome [sends greeting.] 
" Inter clarus, etc, Among the illustrious 
praises of your mildness, most Christian of prin-
ces, it shines like some star of purer light, that 
in love of the faith, that in pursuit of brotherly 
love, being instructed in ecclesiastical learning 
you preserve the reverence of the Roman See, 
and are subjecting all things to it, and bringing 
them to union with it, to whose founder, that is, 
the first of the apostles, the charge was given 
with our Lord's own lips, " Feed my sheep." 
Which See, both the rules of the fathers, and 
the statutes of the princes show and the much to-
be-honored expressions of your piety attest, to 
be truly the head of all the churches. It is mani-
fest then that in you is fulfilled what the Scrip-
tures say, " By me kings reign, and princes de 
tree righteousness," etc. . . Accordingly, I have 
received with my habitual reverence, the letter 
of your Serenity. . . . the consent of my brothers 
and fellow-bishops having been given to it in tha 
interval : which edict, since it is conformable to 
Apostolic doctrine, I confirm with my authority.' 
Unfulfilled Prophecy.1,0.,8,10,x 
A remarkable work has just appeared from the 
pen of the Rev. Dr. Cumming, on the subject of 
our blessed Lord's prophecy respecting the close 
of the present dispensation, or the time of his se-
cond advent. He notes, in detail, the various 
aspects of the times, and arrives at the conclus-
ion that the world, is on the eve of a great crisis 
in its history—in other words—the " great trib-
ulation" which is to precede the immediate com-
ing of the Lord. It is well known that Dr. Cum-
ming is a pre-millenarian, and the tendency of 
his arguments may easily be anticipated. We 
have no sympathy whatever with his views on 
tills subject, but we are quite prepared to admit 
that a crisis of no ordinary magnitude may be at 
hand ; nay, even at our doors. We are distinct-
ly told by our Lord that one sign of " the end" 
will be the preaching of the gospel to all the 
world, " for a witness unto all nations." He 
does not say that all nations would embrace the 
gospel, and thereby be converted ; but he affirms 
that all nations would, to some extent, hear the 
preaching of the gospel. The heralds of the gos-
pel would stand upon every shore. Now one re-
markable evidence that the period of the end 
cannot be far distant, is found in the considera-
tion that there is scarcely a single portion of the 
globe upon which the message of the gospel has 
not been preached. So far as this sign is con-
cerned, we have ground to expect the speedy ad-
vent of Christ ; seeing that what He affirmed 
must take place preparatory to the end has al-
ready taken place, and is manifest before our 
eyes at the present day. 
Again, another token of' the approach of a 
great era, is the unequivocal, the irresistible evi-
dence of the decadence and the imminent des-
truction of that huge sacerdotal tyranny and su-
perstition under which the world, and Europe 
especially, has so long groaned—we mean the 
Papal apostacy. It is certainly true that " the 
Pope trembles in the Vatican." He has a pre-
sentiment of the nearness of his doom. What 
office in Europe would insure his pontifical lite 
for five years ? Now reflect what this power was 
in ancient days—a power that made kings trem-
ble on their thrones ; a power that could force a 
German Emperor to remain doing penance amid 
the snow in the trenches around the Imperial 
City, till the Pope gave him absolution ; the 
great power that could reign over the kings of 
the earth. How are the mighty fallen ! Is this 
the name that shook kingdoms—that made the 
earth to tremble ? And do not recent events in-
dicate the decadence of the system to the very 
verge of' destruction ? In her blind infatuation, 
Rome may exult with joy, and be flushed with 
hope, and be elated with triumph ; her princes, 
and prelates, and advocates may vaunt her pow-
er, and make new aggressions, and display new 
corruptions, and be entranced in a dream of se-
curity, when her awful doom is nigh. There is 
great reason, indeed, to believe, as Dr. Words-
worth remarks, that as the great river, the river 
encourage her in her struggles, and even to fill 
her with joy through an apprehension of 
the close proximity of the time when her suffer-
ings at the hand of this ancient foe (the Papacy) I 
to her purity, peace, and happiness, would be 
ended for ever. 
That the precise time when the system of Ro-
manism shall be overthrown, the " man of sin" 
be destroyed, and nothing of the Papacy shall re-
main to offend God or to grieve any of his peo-
ple, can be determined with certainty, we do 
not affirm. Still, we are constrained, by the 
teachings of the Bible, to regard the destruction 
of this antagonist of the Gospel as nigh at hand. 
The events of Providence, the success of Popish 
movements in Protestant countries, as well as 
the numerous conversions of Romanists to Christ 
in Popish lands, confirm us in this view. Yet we 
do not affirm that the precise time is revealed. 
But we are not about to discuss this sub-
ject ourseves. We design rather to submit a 
few paragraphs from the pen of the Rev. R. C. 
Shimeall, of New-York, found in his recent and 
valuable work on " Our Bible Chronology." 
Our readers will see that he differs in some 
respects from those to whom the public have 
been accustomed of late to look as to standard 
authorities on chronological matters, and that he 
fixes dates with precision and marked confidence. 
He gives reasons however, for his decisions. We 
quote from the 5th section of Chapter IX. of his 
work—a chapter devoted to the " exposition of 
the mystical or prophetic numbers of the books 
of Daniel and the Apocalypse." We regret that 
we have not room for the entire section. We 
must content ourselves, however, with parts of 
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The Name of Names. 
140 years. But Fynes Clinton, followed by 
others, has proved fo demonstration that there is 
a mistake hi the vulgar era, and that the birth 
of Christ must consequently be put forward to 
the year of the world, or Anno Mundi 4132. 
This is really brought out with immense force, 
and in all likelikehood it is correct, If so, we are 
again brought down to 1867, as the close of the 
world's long working week, and the eve of its 
magnificent and long predicted Millennial Rest. 
Rev. Dr. Cumming quotes, in his chapter of 
" The Great Tribulation," headed 1867, an ar-
ray of names who concur with him in looking for-
ward to 1867 (not, as ignorantly charged, proph-
esying the end of the world) as a great crisis—
a testing crisis-4nterscted by the various lines 
of prophetic dates. 
It appears from all this, that these writers on 
prophesy have handled this branch of investiga-
tion as others treat geology, chemistry, or astron-
omy. It is a legitimate subject of research. 
The errors of geologists and chemists do not fair-
ly militate against their respective fields, and we 
do not see why the errors of interpreters of pro-
phecy should be adduced as a reason for ignor-
ing what is difficult, but Divinely commended to 
our study. We do not discover any fanaticism 
in the' works on prophecy referred to. The writ-
ers constantly guard themselves against misap-
prehension, repudiating the claims of the prophet, 
and accepting only the relation of the student. 
Some of their works are very learned. The 
Horce" of Mr. Elliot does credit to the theolo-
gy of the age. Others are very popular. It is 
not, therefore, fair in rash and reckless writers, 
to confound the sober, even if mistaken, students 
of a grand text, with fanatics and enthusiasts. 
But whether these interpretations be right or 
wrong, there is no doubt that the barometer of 
Europe singularly—it may be accidentally—cor- 
responds with their deductions from prophecy." 
—Church Witness. 
Persecution in Hungary, 
The London Daily News of Jan. 6th, says : 
The latest news from Hungary shows, in 'painful 
distinctness, that the reign of terror has set in, 
and that all hope of concession from the govern-
ment is over. The Emperor has replied to the 
candid remonstrances of his Protestant subjects 
by an act of signal revenge. Instead of patient-
ly listening to their complaints, he has struck 
them a vicious and relentless blow in the person 
of their foremost spokesman and representative, 
M. Edward von Zsedenyi. This distinguished 
Protestant gentleman has just been sentenced by 
the Criminal Court of Kaschau to four years' 
penal servitude in irons, " for having incited to 
contempt of and resistance to the laws." It is 
difficult for any one in a free country to imagine 
how even the most arbitrary and servile judicial 
instrument of despotism could have construed 
M. Zsedenyi's recent conduct into a crime of this 
magnitude, or that any government with the 
least regard to its character and influence, should 
have determined to visit it with such a penalty. 
The sentence is one of the severest that could be 
pronounced short of death itself; while Zsedenyi's 
only crime is, that three months ago, in an able 
speech at a public meeting at Kassmark, he pro-
posed that " a humble petition should_ be sent to 
his Majesty, protesting the loyalty of the Pro-
testants, and requesting that his Majesty would 
deign graciously to suspend the execution of the 
Order in Council respecting the organization of 
Protestant churches, until a legally elected Synod 
should be called together." 
That the Government of Vienna should have 
proceeded to this extremity, proves conclusively 
not only that its moral influence is justly and 
hopelessly gone in Hungary, but that it knows 
this fatal truth. This cruel and arbitrary act is, 
iu fact, a most striking proof of conscious guilt. 
It is the practical confession of a selfish despot-
ism that it has gone too far in violence to retrace 
its steps. Dark omens threaten the House of 
Hapsburg. �
Its empire is already divided, 
bankruptcy stares it in the face, and disaffection 
is rising in almost every province beneath its 
rule. But instead of inciting it to better courses, 
these ominous warnings only confirm it in its evil 
and desperate way. Francis Joseph has resolv- 
Euphrates, the glory and bulwark of ancient 
Babylon, became a road for the conqueror of the 
city ; so the swelling stream of Rome's tempor-
al and spiritual supremacy, which has now flow-
ed on so proudly for so many centuties, and has 
served for her aggrandizement, may be, in God's 
bands, the means of her destruction and final des-
olation. 
On another occasion we shall probably notice 
all the signs indicated by Dr. Cumming, as mark-
ing the approach of the era of " the Great Trib-
ulation." Every human being is concerned iu 
this truly great event, and it cannot be treated 
with indifference. It is a remarkable circum-
stance, that the London Times devotes its columns 
to a consideration of the subject. In a late num-
ber it says : 
In a chapter in " The Great Tribulation," 
headed, " 1867," it is attempted to show, and 
with some success, that, however much our best 
interpreters of prophecy differ in details, they all 
agree that 1867—if their views be correct—must 
prove a great determining crisis in the world's 
lilistory. There are certain dates, in the books 
of Daniel and the Apocalypse, expressed in var-
ious formulas. One is, " time, times, and half a 
time"—that is, a prophetic year, two prophetic 
years, and a half a prophet year, or 1260 literal 
years. Another form of the same period is forty-
two months. This is a governing period, but its 
commencement is the difficulty. It describes the 
dominant duration and tyranny of a great apos-
tacy in Christendom within the ten kingdoms, 
and at the running out of these 1260 years, that 
apostacy is steadily to begin its decay. The au-
thor of the " Hone Apocalytticx," and " The 
Great Tribulation," incline to date the beginning 
at this period, in A. D. 532, when Justinian 
gave his vast prerogatives to the Bishop of Rome. 
On this hypothesis the 1260 years run out in 
1792, and certainly at that date Romanism be-
gan its decadence in a baptism of blood. One 
remarkable proof is the following; Sixty years 
ago there were 5000 priests in Paris. The ac-
tual number now is 800. 
To this period of 1260, ending, as we assume, 
in 1792, Daniel adds a period of thirty years. 
This would bring us down to 1822. Then, also, 
and that very year, was the beginning of a great 
change in Eastern Christendom, " the drying up 
of Euphrates," or progressive decay of Moham- 
medanism at its fountain. What goes far to con-
firm this, is the fact that another period given 
by Daniel, called 2300 years, at the end of 
which the "cleansing of the sanctuary," i. e., the 
preparation of Palestine for its people, was to 
begin. Dating this period at what has been, if 
not clearly, at least probably assigned, before 
Christ 478, we find its termination in A. D. 1822. 
To this period Daniel adds another of forty-five 
years. This brings us down to 1867. Daniel 
says he is especially " blessed" who arrives at 
1867. Supposing this correct, 1867 would be, 
in the words of Lord Carlisle, " the close of this 
dispensation," and, according to others, the res-
toration of all things, the baptism of the earth, 
and the regenesis of nature. 
Another class of interpreters date the 1260 
years at the decree of Phocas, in 607, which they 
think was the real transformation of the Western 
Church into a corporate apostacy. If so, they 
would end in 1867. The same writers also hold 
that Daniel's great epoch, ending in the restora-
tion of the Jews, began before Christ 433, and 
ends, therefore, in A. D. 1867, and that then as 
they believe, the crescent in the east, and the 
crucifix in the west, will both disappear, and 
Christianity, the light of a few, be then the glory 
and gladness of all mankind. 
What casts some light on this subject, is the 
ancient, and, as Bishop Russel has shown, almost 
universal beliet that the week of Creation was in 
brief the type of the great week of the world--
that is, that the six working days of the Crea- 
tion week correspond to the 6000 working years 
of the world, and that, as the former ended in the 
Sabbath-day rest, the latter will culminate in the 
Sabbath of 6000 years—what St. Paul calls 
" the rest that remaineth for the people of God." 
Now, the question occurs—have these 6000 
years nearly run out? According to the vulgar 
chronology they are short of their end by at least 
ed to abandon all considerations either of justice 
or mercy in dealing with the Hungarians. 
In defence of their rights they appeal to the 
fundamental laws of the empire, to the treaties 
that have guaranteed them, to the Emperor's 
own voluntary engagements to respect them. 
But the appeal was vain, being addressed to one 
who is ready to sacrifice everything, humanity, 
the welfare of his people, the peace of his em-
pire, to gratify his own imperial will. This bru-
tal policy is tersely summed up in the reply 
which the Emperor is reported to have made to 
Count Bissengen, the Governor of Venice, in 
urging him to adopt conciliatory measures to-
wards the Venetians :—" What do I care wheth-
er the Venetians or Hungarians love me or not, 
if they only fear me? I never will agree to make 
concessions. My sword and my army will up-
hold the integrity of my monarchy, and if they 
cannot, let the whole concern go to the dogs." 
God Rules and Overrules. 
Few things delight the child of God more' 
 
than to see His hand and power so clearly that 
there can be no mistake. And, thanks be to God ! 
to those who look for it, they seldom fail of that 
joy. How sweet to know that our poor, feeble 
prayers wing their way to God quick as thought, 
and as swiftly, at times, bring an answer down ! 
Being lately at Lowestoft, on our eastern coast 
of Suffolk, I gathered the following instance of 
answered prayer from one who well knew the 
facts. 
On Thursday the 7th of October, there was a 
heavy storm of wind, and many were the vessels 
passing from the north of England (from New-
castle), bound to various parts of the world. 
During this storm, one was seen tossing about in 
a manner which at once told the sailors of Pake-
field she was in danger of running on the sand 
bank, called the Newcombe. They hastened 
home, and manned the life-boat. The bark, call-
ed Lemira, had, in the meanwhile, struck, and 
was fast disappearing. Shortly all was gone.—
Those in the life-boat had got near the sand-bank, 
when the helmsman said, " Is it prudent to risk 
our lives, which are dear to us, across these dan-
gerous sands, without the hope of saving a sin-
gle life ?" 
" Yes, let's go," said a young man on board ; 
" for, as I came running along hither, I saw two 
ladies behind a hedge kneeling and praying for 
us. �
There's work for us to do, and we shall be 
safe." 
Not another word passed, but onwards, boldly 
and silently, they pulled through the blowing 
winds and whitened surf, nerved by the words of 
the young man to courage. They cleared the 
sands, and the next minute a poor creature was 
seen, almost lifeless, clinging to a piece of the 
wreck. He was quickly drawn into the boat. 
Shortly another, and another—some so spent as 
to be unable to help themselves—no fewer-than 
eight souls were thus saved from a watery grave. 
One had floated nearly two miles before he was 
rescued. They were poor Italians, and their 
vessel bound to Leghorn ; five were lost—thir-
teen composing the crew. 
The worldly man may praise the bravery of 
the men, and they deserve praise for thus nobly 
risking their lives for others. But how will each 
Christian view it—that ladies should have been 
kneeling behind a hedge in prayer—that the 
young man should have come up at the moment, 
his eye should have rested upon them, that this 
should have been the turning-point just at the 
moment when the prudence and courage of the 
men began to waver ? What shall we say ? It 
was God who bowed the hearts and t e knees of 
the ladies. It was God who caused it to be seen. 
They had honored God, and God honored tbeir 
prayer. It was in secret, but the answer was 
made plain. 
Oh!! to be more earnest in prayer ! We never 
shall know, till in another world, how we move 
God to help us by prayer. We shall never know 
till then how we help theors when we come upon 
our bended knees, and with bowed hearts, before 
God through Christ. The Lord make us men of 
prayer ! and then, wherever our lot may be, 
we shall not fail to be blessings.—Churchman's 
Penny Magazine. 
Father, thy Son hath died 
The sinner's death of woe ; 
Stooping in love from heaven to earth, 
Our curse to undergo ; 
Our curse to undergo, 
Upon the hateful tree 
Give glory to thy Son, 0 Lord, 
Put honor on thy name of names 
By blessing me ! 
Father, thy Son bath borne 
The sinner's doom of shame ; 
Bearing his cross without the gate 
He met the law's full claim ; 
He met the law's full claim, 
Sin's righteous penalty. 
Give glory to thy Son, 0 Lord, 
Put honor on that name of names 
By pardoning me ! 
Father, thy Son bath poured 
His life-blood on this earth, 
TQ cleanse away our guilt and stains, 
To give us second birth ; 
To give us second birth : 
From sin to set us free. 
Give glory to thy Son, 0 Lord, 
Put honor on thy name of names 
By cleansing me ! 
Father, thy Son bath risen, 
O'ercoming hell's dark powers ; 
His surety-death was all for us, 
His surety-life is ours ; 
His surety-life is ours, 
Ours, ours eternally. 
Give glory to thy Son, 0 Lord, 
Put honor on that name of names 
By quickening me ! 
Father, thy Son to thee 
Is now gone up on high, 
Enthroned in heaven at thy right hand, 
He reigns eternally ; 
He reigns eternally, 
In might and majesty. 
Give glory to thy Son, 0 Lord, 
Put honor on thy name of names 
By owning me ! 
Father, thy Son is King, 
Heaven's crown and earth's is his, 
For us, for us he bought the crown, 
For us he earned the bliss ; 
For us he earned the bliss. 
Amen, so let it be ! 
Give glory to thy Son, 0 Lord, 
Put honor on that name of names 
By crowning me ! 
Rev. Dr. Banar. 
Whittier on Whitefield. 
Truth shall follow truth, and joy shall multi-
ply upon joy, as star flashes upon star on a clear 
frosty evening, until the whole heavens are tell-
ing forth the glory and the praise of God. For, 
for the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree, and 
for the thorn shall come up the fir-tree ; and it 
shall be to the Lord for an everlasting sign, that 
shall not be cut off. This must one day be; 
The Day of Hope. 
J. G. Whittier publishes in the Independent, 
under the title of " A. Preacher," a vivid poem 
on Whitefield, whose remains are interred under 
the Presbyterian Church, in Federal street, New-
buryport. The poem concludes with the follow-
ing 
Under the church of Federal street, 
Under the tread of its Sabbath feet, 
Walled about by its basement stones, 
Lie the marvelous preacher's bones. 
No saintly honors to them are shown, 
No sign or miracle have they known, 
But he who passes the ancient church 
Stops in the shade of its belfry porch, 
And ponders the wonderful life of him 
Who lies at rest in that charnel dim. 
Long shall the traveler strain his eye 
From the railroad car as it plunges by, 
And the vanishing town behind him search. 
For the slender spire of the Whitefield church ; 
And feel for one moment the ghosts of trade 
And fashion and folly and pleasure laid 
By the thought of that life of pure intent, 
That voice of warning yet eloquent, 
Of one on the errands of angels sent : 
And, if where he labored the flood of sin, 
Like a tide from the harbor bar sets in, 
And over a life of time and sense 
The church spires lift their vain defense, 
As if to scatter the bolts of God 
With the points of Calvin's thunder rod— 
Still as the gems of its civic crown, 
'Precious beyond the world's renown, 
His memory hallows the ancient town ! 
43 
PIE ADVENT HERALD. 
secret to himself, but as the One who had made a 
revelation to Nebuchadnezzar. 
By the " latter days," here, is to be under-
stood future time, the after days, hereafter, time 
to come. The dream covers all the future, begin-
ning with the time of Nebuchadnezzar, continu-
ing down through all the phases of earthly gov-
ernments, and bringing to view and ushering in 
the endless kingdom. 
" The visions of thy head," is a phrase, recog-
nizing the brain as the seat of intellect; and it 
also shows that the symbolization of the king's 
vision, was an operation of the mind and not any 
outward manifestation. 
As Daniel proceeded to announce to the king, 
_" Thy dream, and the visions of thy head up-
on thy bed, are these,"—how attentive must have 
the king been to every word uttered. Daniel bad 
sought the king's presence, claiming to be endow-
ed with power to reveal what all the wise men of 
the realm had declared man unable to do, and for 
not doing which they had been all disgraced and 
sentenced to die. How indignant would the king 
have been, had there been any failure on the part 
of Daniel ! But he anticipates none ; and Dan-
iel stands in his presence, the very impersonation 
of confidence in the God of heaven. How ma-
jestic is the comencement of the inspired utter- 
Leaves from my Note Book. 
when it shall be, I am no prophet, and cannot 
predict ; but that the signs of the approaching era 
are thick and multiplied around us is what a re-
flecting mind cannot deny. But why should we 
be sorry when it comes? Can you be sorry that 
you shall be happy ; sorry that there shall be no 
more head-aches, nor heart aches, nor tears, nor 
crying? Sorry that all the devil's triumphs shall 
be expunged, sin's havoc put an end to ; and that 
glorious morning dawn when the whole earth shall 
be covered with the glory of the Lord, as the 
waters cover the channels of the great deep ? 
From the Great Tribulation, by Dr. Cumming. 
The Power of Prayer. 
EXPOSITORY. 
The Book of Daniel. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
CHAPTER II. 
"Then Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the 
king had ordained to destroy the wise men of 
Babylon : he went and said thus unto him ; Des-
troy not the wise men of Babylon : bring me in 
before the king, and I will shew unto the king 
the interpretation." �
v. 24. 
Had Daniel free access at this time to the 
king's presence, he would not have requested Ari-
och to bring him in before the king ; which con-
firms the view taken respecting v. 16, that he 
did not then have a personal interview. As the 
captain of the king's guard would have free ac-
cess to his presence, and as he was entrusted with 
the execution of the king's decree, had sought 
Danie' to slay him, and was waiting the result 
of the time granted to Daniel, the Hebrew cap-
tive would naturally first make known to him the 
success of his prayer, and solicit through him an 
audience of the king. 
" Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the 
king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have 
found a man of the captives of Judah, that will 
make known unto the king the interpretation." 
v. 25. 
The " haste" manifested by Arioch, denotes in 
the original violent and excited action. He must 
have greatly exulted at the discovery of the 
king's secret; for it would not only stay the effu-
sion of blood, but would give great pleasure to his 
sovereign ; and it was no small privilege to be the 
one who should announce the discovery to the king. 
He was therefore in haste to bring Daniel into the 
royal presence ; and he takes to himself some of 
the credit of the discovery ; for he says to the 
king " I have found a man" &o. The confidence 
of Arioch in Daniel is evident from the assur-
ance he gives the king that his dream will be in-
terpreted. 
"The king answered and said to Daniel whose 
name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make 
known unto me the dream which I have seen and 
the interpretation thereof?" �v. 26. 
The reference here to Daniel's name, Belte-
shazzar, seems to imply that the king recognized 
him as the one on whom he had formerly bestow-
ed that name, as a token of favor ; which may 
account for the kind manner in which he address-
es Daniel, in response to Arioch's 
meet. 
The king speaks of his dream which he had 
" seen." It was not a mere succession of thoughts 
nor spoken words to which he had listened, and 
which had escaped his memory ; but something 
wonderfully impressive, had been presented to 
his vision,—though he could not recall it to mind. 
And his enquiry being, first, Whether Daniel 
could tell him the dream, shows that his ability 
to do so, was the point to be first determined ; for 
if he could not recall the dream, there was noth-
ing for him to interpret. 
ante 
" As for thee, 0 king, thy thoughts came into 
thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to 
pass hereafter : and he that revealeth secrets ma-
keth known to thee what shall come to pass." 
 
The thoughts of the king, to which Daniel re-
fers, are evidently those of his waking moments, 
after his retirement to rest, before sleep overpow-
ered him ; and they served as a prelude to his 
dream. As the absolute sovereign of the most 
renowned monarchy that had then ever existed, 
which had been greatly enlarged, and strengthen-
ed by his own victories and statesmanship, he 
could not be indifferent to the events that should 
transpire subsequent to his day. �
And as Dan- 
iel was able to remind the king of his thoughts 
that preceded his dream, he could not have fail-
ed to inspire confidence, that he could also recall 
the dream. 
The word " hereafter," has the same signifi-
cance as the phrase, " latter days," in the pre-
vious text. The making known what should 
come to pass, Daniel ascribes solely to God; and 
he is very careful to disavow that he is himself, 
entitled to any merit on account of its revelation. 
"For, lo, He that forrneth the mountains, and 
createth the wind, and declareth unto man what 
is his thought �
 treadeth upon the high 
places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, 
is his name," Amos, 4:13. 
Daniel modestly says : 
"But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me 
for any wisdom that I have more than any living, 
but for their sakes that shall make known the in-
terpretation to the king, and that thou mightest 
know the thoughts of thy heart." 
 
Daniel had, in the previous verse, made the 
meditations of the king respecting the future, the 
reason why God had condescended to favor him 
with his wonderful dream ; which was a recogni-
tion of the dignity and importance of the posi-
tion of the king--then the most mighty of all the 
sovereigns of earth. And though the king was 
thus honored, because of his position, yet when 
Daniel comes to speak of himself, his piety i;ful- 
ly equaled by his modesty. �
He disclaims the 
possession of any wisdom above others, to entitle 
him to the distinction of an inspired interpre-
ter. 
The phrase, for " their sakes that shall make 
known the interpretation," is more correctly ren-
dered in the margin, for " the intent that the in-
terpretation may be made known." He ascribed 
his ability to interpret entirely to the will of God 
that there should be a revelation of the future; 
which was doubtless very unlike the Chaldeans 
and other magi, who would naturally ascribe to 
their own skill and wisdom the interpretations 
they pretended to unfold. Also, to give the king 
the information be desired, is recognized as a rea-
son why the interpretation was given. But no 
merit is taken by Daniel to himself, as he pro-
ceeds to declare to the king his dream. 
Friday, 16th. Met the Bible class at Bro. 
Libbey's and had an interesting time. The truth 
of God may not affect every person alike, but 
every christian loves it ; to quote D'Aubigne—
" Scripture,' said Melancthon, imparts to the 
soul a holy and marvelous delight : it is the heav-
enly ambrosia.'—' The word of God,' exclaimed 
Luther, is a sword, a war, a destruction ; it falls 
upon the children of Ephraim like a lioness in 
the forest.' �
Thus one saw in the Scriptures a 
power to console, and the other a violent opposi- 
tion against the corruptions of the world. �
But 
both esteemed it the greatest thing on earth ; and 
hence they agreed in perfect harmony." Would 
not that Book, which was such a powerful weap-
on in the hands of the Reformers, be with us 
mighty thr(rugh God to the pulling down of the 
strongholds of Satan, if we made ourselves better 
acquainted with sword exercise. " The sword of 
the spirit is the word of God," and we may say 
of it as Great-heart did of the pilgrim's, " It is a 
real Jerusalem blade ;"—or, as David did of Go-
liath's, " There is none like that, give it me." 
Saturday, 17th. Went five miles and preach-
ed in the evening from 1 Sam. 2:3, " The Lord 
is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are 
weighed,"—a truth well expressed in the lines of 
Mrs. Sigourney, 
" Man weigheth gold; each fragment slight, 
Each atom of its glittering dust 
He in the well-poised balance lays, 
And marks with unforgetful trust. 
Man weigheth words ; the fleeting breath 
That's coined within this mortal frame 
May waken anger unto death, 
Or kindle love's exulting flame. 
God weighs the spirit ; Oh, beware, 
Ye who in guile your sins would shroud : 
There is an Eye ye cannot 'scape ; 
A sun-ray reads the darkest cloud ; 
And when the gold the rust shall eat, 
The tongue be silent in the tomb, 
The motives of the secret soul 
Give verdict in the day of doom." 
Sunday, Dec. 18th. Preached thrice ; at 
Dying Rich. 
I should not like to die worth two or three 
hundred thousand pounds. What an awful 
thought, to have had so much wealth in a world 
where so many mouths want bread, and so much 
poverty and misery are festering at your very 
threshold ! In vain have we renounced the Pope, 
in vain have we beaten the Czar, if we are now 
the victims of Pope Mammon, and the serfs of a 
Czar more terrible than the Autocrat of all the 
Russias—imperious and insatiable Self. Iniqui-
ty abounds in social life. Avarice grows strong 
beside pining hunger, and man, apparently think-
ing that the chief end of man is not, as our good 
old-fashioned Catechism says, " to glorify God 
and to enjoy him forever," but to make a fortune, 
second y, to make a will, and leave your money 
to heirs, however remote. That man is not most 
to be admired who comes into the world born to 
riches, or to rank, or to greatness ; but he who goes 
out of the world over whose grave thousands 
shall stand and say, " He made many a heart 
happier by his munificence, his liberality, and 
goodness."—lb. 
A godly man, the master of an American ship, 
during one voyage found his ship bemisted for 
days,and he became rather anxious respecting her 
safety. He went down to the cabin and prayed. 
The thought struck him, if he had with confi-
dence committed his soul to God, he might cer-
tainly commit his ship to him ; and so according-
ly, he gave all into the hands of God, and felt at 
perfect peace ; but still he prayed that if he 
would be pleased to give a cloudless sky at twelve 
o'clock, he should like to take an observation, to 
ascertain their real position, and whether they 
were on the right course. 
He came on deck at eleven o'clock, with the 
quadrant under his coat. �
As it was thick and 
drizzling, the men looked at him with amaze-
ment. He went down again to his cabin, pray-
ed, and came up. There still seemed no hope. 
Again he went down and prayed, and again he 
appeared on deck with his quadrant in his hand. 
It was now ten minutes to twelve o'clock, and 
still there was no appearance of a change; but he 
stood on deck waiting upon the Lord, when in a 
few minutes, the mist seemed to be folded up and 
rolled away by an omnipotent and invisible hand; 
the sun shone clearly from the blue vault of heav-
en, and there stood the man of prayer with the 
quadrant in his hand ; but so awe-struck did he 
feel, and so dreadful' was that place, that he 
could scarcely take advantage of the answer to 
his prayer. �
He however succeeded, although 
with trembling hands, and found to his comfort 
that all was well. But no sooner had he finish-
ed taking the observation, than the mist rolled 
back over the heavens, and it began again to driz-
zle as before. 
This story of prayer was received from the lips 
of the good Captain Crossby, who was so useful 
in the Ardrossan awakening; and he himself was 
the man who prayed and waited upon his God 
with the quadrant in his hand. 
Let us be taught by this striking incident, that 
we ought to expect God to hear us when we pray, 
and that we should put ourselves in readiness for 
taking immediate advantage of the answer to our 
prayers. Let us learn, in effect, to wait upon the 
Hearer of prayer, " with the quadrant in our 
hand !" 
" Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw ; 
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw : 
Gives exercise to faith and love; 
Brings every blessing from above." 
announce- 
" Daniel answered in the presence of the king, 
and said, The secret which the king bath demand-
ed cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the ma-
gicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king ; but 
there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, 
and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar 
what shall be in the latter days. �
Thy dream, 
and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are 
these :" �
vs. 27,8. 
Did Daniel in affirming that the various orders 
of magi were unable to show the king his dream, 
design to express his contempt for them? or, did 
he mean to apologize for their inability to do it ? 
Probably not the former ; for they had not claim-
ed such power. Daniel designed, then, to affirm 
that no human skill or wisdom could have shown 
it, and that God alone was able to reveal it. 
The conceptions of the king must have been 
as dim respecting the existence of " the God in 
heaven," as they were respecting his for-
gotten dream. Daniel did not therefore mere-
ly recall and interpret the dream, but 
he made known to the heathen monarch the ex-
istence of the One living and true God,—ac-
knowledging him, not only as the revealer of the 
Thursday, 15th. At 7 o'clock P. M. I attend-
ed a temperance meeting and took part in the ex-
ercises. The Rev. Cyril Pearl of Maine gave a 
good lecture ; his address was pleasing, and his 
arguments powerful and convincing. The follow-
ing " Song of the Decanter" will describe in few 
words the giant evil with which we have to con-
tend. Read it and let every friend of humanity 
rise to the rescue :— 
There was an old decan-
ter, and its mouth was 
gaping wide ; the 
tsar 
rosy wine had �
"1 l"" 
ebbed away n iliw Wily 91i 
and �
left vs:14 tiAvss sd �
l! 
its crys- 
tal side ; �
flies 114 Nkilt 
and the wind 
went humming, 
humming, 
up and 
down the 
sides it flew, 
and through the 't,.r tkobizull 
reed like ,,ti odi �
4071, 
hollow neck �
ytil„ad, 
the wildest notes it 
blew. I placed it in the �
mniinfuni4 
window where the blast was 
blowing free, and fancied that its 
pale mouth sang the queerest strains to 
me. �
” They tell me—puny conquerors ! the 
Plague has slain his ten, and War his hundred 
thousands of the best of men ; but I "—'twas 
thus the bottle spake—" but I have conquered 
more than all your famous conquerors, so 
feared and famed of yore. Then come, ye 
youth and maidens all, come drink from 
out my cup, the beverage that dulls the 
brain and burns the spirit up ; that puts 
to shame the conquerors that slay their 
scores below ; for this has deluged mil- 
lions with the lava tide of wo. 
Though in the path of battle 
darkest waves of blood 
may roll ; yet while I 
killed the body, I have 
damned the very soul. mn° 
�
The cholera, the �
900 'in 
�
sword, such ruin , �
• 
muntinia, 
 
never wrought �
" 
as l, in mirth 
or malice, on son lionfli 
the innocent f 
have brought.
- 
And still I breathe tisuosit • 
upon them, and they ,/ 
shrink before my breath ; 
and year by year my thousands 
tread the dismal road of Death." 
Alarm Bell. 
44 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
Glind's Corner in the morning on the parable of 
the pounds (Luke 19:11,27), in the afternoon 
on the parable of the talents (Matt. 25:14-30) ; 
and in the Pond school house in the evening on 
some of the characteristics of God's ancient peo-1 
ple. Men may devise various plans of salvation,1 
but God has never had but one way of saving a 
soul from death,-as Jesus said, " I am the Way 
the Truth and the Life ; no man cometh unto the 
Father but by me." �
This way is ancient and 
easily discovered, those who remain in it are 
safe, and the place to which it leads is glorious. 
Some, however, are so deceived as to imagine that 
we may live as we list, yet our happiness in a 
future state will not be endangered. How all 
will be saved, they are not able fully to explain, 
but that all will be finally happy is as certain as 
it was in the case of Paul's shipwreck when some 
swam to shore, " and the rest, some on boards, 
and some on broken pieces of the ship : and so it 
came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land !" 
Monday, 19th. Met in the evening with the 
children of the Derby Line Sabbath School-to 
catechise them preparatory to a more public ex-
amination. As the foundation of my knowledge 
of Scripture was laid in the Sunday School, I 
consider my self deeply indebted to such an in-
stitution, and would do what I could to encour-
age such a noble, responsible, and God-like en-
terprize. The simile of Shakspeare might well 
be applied to the organization of such au insti-
tution anywhere, 
" How far yon little candle throws its beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world." 
Tuesday, Dec. 20th. A few friends being con-
vened in my " own hired house" to search the 
scriptures, I endeavored to expound to them the 
way of God more perfectly, teaching those things 
which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. �
I have 
read of one anciently who said that the sun was 
such a glorious orb that life might well be spent 
in contemplating its dazzling splendor. �
With 
how much greater propriety might the Christian 
spend his life in contemplating the glorious Sun 
of righteousness. If I know but little of the 
stars which bedeck the firmament of heaven, I 
am determined to know Christ, the Morning Star. 
The Bible will be my study in time, and Christ 
in eternity. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
Stanstead, C. E. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 11, 1860. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
THE TERMS OF THE HERALD. The terms of the 
Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;-with 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
shall open their hearts to give, towards the comple-
tion of the payment of the purchase of the office 
by the A.M.A. ; and to make the Association an 
efficient instrumentality for good. 
OUR LORD'S PRAYER. 
II. ADORATION. 
" Hallowed be thy name," Matt. 6:9. 
In drawing nigh unto God, it should be with most 
devout reverence. " Thou shalt not take the name 
of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the Lord will not 
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain," 
(Ex. 20:7) is a prohibition that was audibly uttered 
by God himself, amid the the fire and smoke and 
thunders of Sinai. He elsewhere said, " Neither 
shall ye profane my holy name ; but I will be hal-
lowed among the children of Israel," Lev. 22:32. 
To hallow, means to sanctify, to make holy ; and 
" name," by a metonymy, is put for the Lord him-
self. To hallow his name, then, is to venerate and 
reverence Him, to treat Him most circumspectly, to 
use His name only with the most profound honor, 
and to praise and magnify Him for all hisgreatness, 
glory and majesty. " According to thy name, 0 
God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth. 
Thy right hand is full of righteousness," Pea. 48:10. 
" Praise ye the Lord. Praise, 0 ye servants of the 
Lord, praise the name of the Lord from this time 
forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun 
unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is 
to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations, 
and his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto 
the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high," Psa. 
113:1-5. His is " this glorious and fearful name, 
The Jehovah thy Eloem," Deut. 28:58. And he 
has said that, " From the rising of the sun, even un-
to the going down of the same, My Name shall be 
great among the Gentiles ; and in every place in-
cense shall be offered unto My Name, and a pure 
offering : for My Name shall be great among the 
heathen, saith the Lord of hosts. . . For I am a great 
King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dread. 
ful among the heathen," Mal. 1:11-14. " Bless the 
Lord, 0 my soul ; and all that is within me, bless 
his holy name. Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and for-
get not all his benefits," Pea. 103:1,2. " Let it even 
be established that thy name may be magnified for 
ever," 1 Ch. 17:24. " Thy name, 0 Lord, endureth 
forever ; and thy memorial, 0 Lord throughout all 
generations," Psa. 135:13. " Many, 0 Lord my 
God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, 
and thy th oughts which are to us ward : they can-
not be reckoned up in order unto thee : if I would 
declare and speak of them, they are more than can 
be numbered," lb. 4:5. " Who shall not fear thee, 
0 Lord, and glorify thy name ? for thou only art 
holy." Rev. 15:4. 
Isaiah says of Jehovah's glorious majesty : " I saw 
also the Lord, sitting upon a throne, high and lifted 
up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood 
the seraphims : each one had six wings ; with twain 
he covered his face, and with twain he covered his 
feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried un-
to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord 
of hosts : the whole earth is full of his glory. And 
the posts of the door moved at the voice of him 
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 
Then said I, Woe is me ! for I am undone ; because 
I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst 
of a people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen 
the King, the Lord of hosts," Isaiah 6:1-5. 
When Moses turned aside to see the great sight, 
-when " the bush burned with fire, and the bush 
was not consumed"-the Lord said to him, " Draw 
not nigh hither : put off thy shoes from off thy feet, 
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 
. . And Moses hid his face ; for he was afraid to look 
upon God," Ex. 3:4-6. When the Angel of the 
Lord departed out of Gideon's sight, he said, " Alas, 
0 Lord God ! fur because I have seen an Angel of 
the Lord face to face," Jud. 6:22. When Daniel 
beheld him whose body " was like the beryl, and his 
face as the appearance of lightning," there remained 
no strength in him, his comeliness was turned into 
corruption, and he retained no strength, Dan. 
10:8. And when John saw the same, he " fell at 
his feet as dead." Rev. 1:17. But the live coal 
from off the altar, touching the lips of the prophet, 
revived him ; the gracious words, " Peace be unto 
thee, fear not," reassured Gideon ; " 0 Daniel a 
man greatly beloved," spoken to the captive Seer, 
re-animated him ; and that " right hand," which 
was so gently laid on John, and the words of com-
fort that were spoken, enabled him to contemplate 
with composure the wonderful visions about to be 
unfolded. 
Thus " the Lord most high is terrible ; he is a 
great King over all the earth," Pea. 47:2. " Thou 
hest made the heaven and the earth, by thy great 
power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing 
too great for thee." Jer. 32:17. " Who in the 
heavens can be compared unto the Lord ? Who 
among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto 
the turd ? God is greatly to be feared and to be had 
in reverence of all them that are round about him." 
Psa. 89:6,7. He is also to be greatly loved, and may 
be approached with humble trust and confidence : 
" Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; who healeth 
all thy diseases ; who redeemeth thy life from des-
truction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness 
and tender mercies ; who satisfieth thy mouth with 
good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the 
eagle's . . . The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow 
to anger, and plenteous in mercy. . . . For as the heav-
en is high above the earth, so great is his mercy to-
wards them that fear him. As far as the east is 
from the west, so far bath he removed our transgres-
sions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, 
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him," Pea. 103: 
3-13. And therefore, in our Savior's name we may 
come to God in prayer, fearing, loving, reverencing 
land adoring him. Even so, " our Father which art 
in heaven," may we hallow thy great and holy 
name. 
Three Days-The Third Day. 
Bro. Bliss, Dear Sir :-In Matthew 12:40 we read 
" For as Jonas was three days and three nights in 
the whale's belly : so shall the Son of man be three 
days and three nights in the heart of the earth." 
How was this prophecy fulfilled, if Jesus was cruci-
fied on Friday afternoon, and rose on Sabbath morn-
ing ? Yours with respect, 
M. P. WALLACE. 
Cabot, Vt. Jany. 16, 1860. 
Our Savior repeatedly affirmed that he must " be 
killed and be raised again the third day," Matt.'16: 
21. �
" They shall kill him, and the third day he 
shall be raised again," Ib. 17:23 ;-" shall crucify 
him ; and the third day he shall rise again," Ib. 
20:19 " They shall kill him ; and after that he is 
killed he shall rise the third day," Mark 9:31.-
" And after three days rise again," Ib. 8:31. "And 
the third day he shall rise again," lb. 10:34. �
He 
must " be slain, and be raised the third day," Luke 
9:22. " They shall scourge him and put him to 
death : and the third day he shall rise again," Ib. 
18:33. 
Because of the crucifixion, the Pharisees, remem-
bering that Christ had said, " After three days I will 
rise again," requested Pilate to command " that the 
sepulchre be made sure until the third day," Matt. 
27:63,4. 
" Upon the first day of the week, very early in the 
morning" when the women from Galilee visited the 
sepulchre, and found not our Lord's body, celestial 
visitants said to them, " Remember how he spake 
unto you when he was yet in Galilee, saying, The 
Sun of man must be delivered into the hands of sin-
ful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise 
again. And they remembered his words," Luke 24: 
6-8. As the two disciples walked to Emmaus, on 
that first day of the week,they said to the mysterious 
Stringer who joined their company, after speaking 
of the crucifixion, and " We trusted that it had been 
he which should have redeemed Israel : and beside 
all this, to day is the third day since these things were 
done," Ib. v. 21. 
He said unto them, "Thus it is written, and 
thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the 
dead the third day." Ib. 46. 
And Paul taught that Christ " was buried, and 
that he rose again the third day according to the 
Scriptures" 1 Cor. 15:4. 
Thus, twelve times, it is recorded in the scriptures 
that our Savior should rise on " the third day ;" 
whilst it is twice said that he should rise " after 
three days," and once, that he should " be three 
days and three nights in the heart of the earth."-
The question then, is, How may these statements be 
reconciled ? 
" After three days," and " on the third day," are 
easily shown by Jewish usage to be alike expressive 
of any part of three days. �
It is also admitted by 
all who are familiar with Jewish idioms, that the 
original of that rendered "day and night," is simply 
equivalent to the term day and is also expressive of 
any part of that period. The text quoted is there-
fore an idiom precisely equivalent either to our three 
days, or to our third day. 
Thus in 1 Sam. 30:12, 13 David found an Egyp-
tian slave in a field, of whom it is said, " he had ea-
ten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and 
three nights ;" and yet he says to David, " My mas-
ter left me, becatse three days agone I tell sick ;" or 
as the Heb. is, according to Pr. Scott, he " fell sick 
on the third day" before David found him. �
Jere- 
boam said to Israel, " Come again to me after three 
days," 2 Ch. 10:5 ; but in v. 13, it is affirmed that 
he said, " Come again to me on the third day."-
Joseph put his brethren " into ward three days ;" 
but he " said unto them the third day, This do and 
live." Gcn. 42:17,18. Queen Esther commanded 
the Jews to fast " and neither eat nor drink three 
days, night or day," Esth. 4:16 ; but on the third 
day, she went into the king's presence, lb. 5:1. 
When Israel and the Syrians fought " they pitched 
on over against the other seven days ; and so it was 
that in the seventh day the battle was joined," 1 K. 
20:29. See also Luke 2:21, " When eight days were 
accomplished for the circumcision of the child ;" 
and yet invariably " on the eighth day they came to 
circumcise the child," Luke 1:59. This illustrates 
what Dr. Whitby says in commenting on this pas-
sage, that " It is a received rule among the Jews, 
that a part of a day is put for the whole ; so that 
whatsoever is done in any part of the day, is proper-
ly said to be done that day." 
Now it is certain that our Savior was crucified on 
Friday ; because it was the preparation, that is, the 
day before the Sabbath, Mark 15:42. The reason 
the women did not embalm him on the day of his 
burial, was because the sundown preceding the Sab-
bath intervened, and they " rested the Sabbath day 
according to the commandment," Luke 23:56, and 
when the Sabbath was past, at the earliest moment 
they could perform that service, they hastened to the 
sepulchre and found Christ had risen. 
Were there any discrepancy between " the third 
day," " after three days," and " three days and 
three nights," the unbelieving Jews would have de-
tected it; but they never base any objection on that 
ground, to Christ's Messiahship. �
Had our Savior 
been dead three whole days and three whole nights, 
lie could not have risen before the fourth day; which 
could never have been reconciled with his oft repeat-
ed prediction that he should rise on the third day ; 
whilst to the fact of his resurrection on the third 
day, those idiomatic expressions interpose no contra- 
diction. �
Now as those expressions are not in con- 
flict with the fact of his resurrection on the third 
day ; as the declaration of his resurrection on that 
day, could not be reconciled with a resurrection on 
the fourth ; and as the historical record cannot be 
interpreted so as to admit of more than the interval 
of the Sabbath, between the day of the crucifixion,-
which was " the preparation, that is, the day before 
the Sabbath,"-and the day of the resurrection,-
which was early on the morning of the " first day of 
the week," that is the day after the Sabbath-it fol-
lows that the harmony of language and fact both 
require us to believe our Savior to have been dead on-
ly parts of three days ; a part of Friday, the whole 
of Saturday, and a part of Sunday ; which was three 
day-nights,or "three days and nights," according to 
Jewish usage. 
Tartarus. 
What is the meaning of Tartarus-its classical 
and Biblical use? �
INQUIRER. 
Its only place in the Bible is in 2 Pet. 2:4, where 
its verb, tartaroo, is rendered " cast (them) down 
to hell." Tartarus, the noun, is defined by Donne-
gan to be " the lowest and darkest part of the infer-
nal regions"-i. e. of the inferior, lower, or under-
world ; for which hades was used. In classical 
usage, it denoted the lowest and darkest part of ha-
des,-the place where the rich man was-in dis-
tinction from its light and upper portion, where 
Lazarus was in Abraham's bosom. 
Robinson says, it, " in Greek mythology, was the 
lower part or abyss of Hades, where the shades of 
the wicked were imprisoned and tormented." In 
Jewish usage, according to Robinson, it signified the 
same as Gehenna : " Beneath was the abyss, or Ge-
henna, Tartarus, in which the souls of the wicked 
were subject to punishment "-the " region of the 
blessed during this interval "-between death and 
the resurrection, being by the Jews "supposed to be 
in the upper part of this receptacle." 
North Attleboro', Jan. 29, 1860. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-Can you reconcile Acts 7:16 
with Josh. 24:32 ? Yours, &c. 
Member of a Bible Class. 
It is historically true that when " Jacob came to 
Shalem, a city of Shechein, which is in the land of 
Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram and pitch-
ed his tent before the city," that " he bought a par-
cel of a field, where lie had spread his tent, at the 
hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, 
for an hundred pieces of money." Gen. 33:18, 19. 
It appears from Josh. 24:32, that there the bones of 
Joseph found their last rrsting place ; and it is 
thought probable that all the twelve patriarchs were 
there buried. 
Jacob, on the contrary, who also went down into 
Egypt, was buried in Canaan, but in the cave of 
Machpelah, which Abraham bought of Ephron the 
Hittite. Compare Gen. 23, and 50:13. 
In Acts, these two purchases are mixed up in such 
a manner as to indicate that some transcriber has 
made an error at some time in transcribing. The 
facts seem to be these : " And were carried over into 
Sychem, and laid [he, Jacob] in the sepulchre that 
Abraham bought for a sum of money [of Ephron 
the Hittite ; and they in the field that Jacob bought] 
of the sons of Emmor, the father of Sychem." 
The Stream still Flowing. 
Bro. Bliss-I am sorry to see the current into 
your treasury run so low as it has done for a week 
or two past. I therefore inclose three dollars to 
raise the stream, and hope it will prove to be but 
the precursor of a plentiful shower. 
Yours, most trimly, 
SCHUYLER L. CARROLL. 
Providence, Feb. 6, 1860. 
The above, and a few other cheering epistles of 
the same kind, are an earnest of a continued supply 
from the pockets that are located near the benevo-
lent hearts of our brethren, and of sisters who are 
equally determined, that the needed sum ehall be 
speedily met. The last week has been a more en-
couraging one than were the two previous weeks. 
hen a few more dollars are received we shall make 
payment of the second hundred on the Note. And 
shall not the next week be even more encouraging 
than this? Each one who gives, encourages each 
other. If the giving should now stop, we should 
have no hope of the note's being paid hereafter.-
We have several in our mind, from whom we are 
expecting to hear. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE LOST BOY. The notice we gave a few weeks 
since, of a lost boy of Bro. Craig's, attracted the 
attention of a brother who had seen the boy. He 
wrote to the father, and the boy has been recovered. 
It seems that he ran away—causing his father much 
anxiety, and distress of mind, and putting him to 
much needless expense. Boys, do you never think 
how much pain is sometimes caused by children to 
their parents, which might be avoided ? 
Eld. Edwin Burnham commenced a series of meet-
ings in the Chapel, on Sunday last, with encourag-
ing prospects of good resulting from the effort. 
Precept and Example. 
It is universally conceded, that precept without 
example has but little practical effect. 
When I penned the words for the Herald, and to 
meet the eye of the friends of the cause generally 
(perhaps without mature consideration in reference 
to sitting over the treasury,—words which are only 
appropriate to the Infinite), I expected that the 
friends in this place would give their proportion of 
means to take up those two notes, and I find by ob-
serving that I did not reckon without my host.—
Making the number of subscribers to the Herald the 
basis of my calculation, allowing an average fifty 
cents' donation from each subscriber, the Associa-
tion would soon be entirely out of debt. 
Providence has paid sixty dollars. There are 
eighty copies of the Herald taken here. On an av-
erage that would be seventy-five cents for each sub-
scriber.* Should the stream continue to flow, and 
reach this point,—which I hope may be the case,—
we should have the means to pay the $240 balance 
due on the last note, and a surplus of $700, to ex-
tend our operations in enlightening and blessing 
others. Let there be a little sacrifice on the part of 
some, if need be, to bring about so desirable a re-
sult. 1 think you will agree with me that Provi-
dence has done her part. 
Let me here relate a remark, which I heard made 
at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion, sometime since. They were then talking about 
raising means for the support of Mission Sunday 
Schools, in different parts of the city. " Why," 
said a young man, " the expense of cigars smoked 
by members of the Association would more than pay 
all that is needed to support these schools." 
The friends of this Association may not be guilty 
of such a pernicious practice ; but should there be 
one, I trust a word of advice, kindly administered, 
will not give offence. My advice, in such case, is, 
that you save your cigar money to help along the 
Lord's cause. 
The sisters, as a matter of course, are always 
good-natured, and they have done nobly for us in 
aid of the Association. But there may be some 
that have not responded to the call for help, that 
need a word of advice. Hay n't you put on an extra 
ribbon, or some useless ornament, that doesnot hon-
or God, nor speak well for religion ? If so, let us 
have a little of the surplus money that goes for 
these extras, and in this way be a double blessing—
a blessing to yourself and a blessing to others. 
Brethren and sisters, let the stream flow right on, 
so that there will be enough in the reservoir, in the 
summer months, when hot weather comes. There 
are many interested, and watching, with myself. 
Awaiting the flow of the stream, 
I am yours, in Christian bonds, 
ANTHONY PEARCE. 
Our Missionary. 
Bro. Bliss :—I fear the item in the report of the 
A. M. Association with reference to our employing 
brother G. W. Burnham, as Missionary and agent 
for the Herald and the Association at a stipulated 
salary, may be misunderstood by some—especially 
those among whom he labors. 
They may think they are released from any obli-
gation to assist in sustaining him, as he is paid by 
the Association. Such do labor under a mistake. 
The object of employing him was for him to assist 
the Association by obtaining new subscribers for the 
Herald and advocating the cause of the Association 
in connection with his missionary labors, and thus 
avoid the expense of an agent in soliciting and col-
lecting for it. The Association have obligated them-
selves to pay his salary, but it is expected, as hereto-
fore, that he will receive his pay in part from those 
among whom he labors, (when .they are not able to 
pay the whole) and the balanee be made up by collec-
tions and penny subscriptions from the churches. We 
havea regular organized system of collecting for this 
object. We have two male and two female collectors, 
who collect from individual subscribers from one to 
five cents per week. Then we take up a collection 
in the church once or twice a year besides. 
It is to be hoped, that the churches generally will 
take hold of this matter, as the success of the mission 
* Donations from Providence this week, bring it 
up to more than a dollar a subscriber. �
ED. 
to a considerable extent, devolves on them. If they do 
not sustain it, it will have to be abandoned, as the 
Association cannot do it, without their aid. Do what 
you have to do with your might ; for life is the time 
to serve the Lord, and to do what we can for his 
cause. �
ANTHONY PEARCE. 
Providence, R. I., Feb., 1860. 
Note from Bro. Erastus Parker. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I think the effort to pay the 
other $400 note at this time, is decidedly the wisest 
course to pursue. The money will he more cheer-
fully contributed while the brethren and sisters are 
enjoying a kind of social conference around the 
Lord's treasury, with Bro. Pearce in the chair, than 
after they have all retired and the interesting com-
munications have ceased. I have enjoyed the con-
ference much. Yours for the cause of Jesus, 
E. PARKER. 
Waitsfield, Vt., Jan. 26, 1860. 
This social interchange of thoughts, feelings, 
hopes, and wishes, has been mutually agreeable to 
all interested. Let the conference continue, and the 
stream of assistance flow on, until the needed amount 
is raised. 
Foreign News. 
Halifax, Feb. 2. The Cunard steamship America, 
which left Liverpool, Jan. 14, arrived at this port 
to-day. She encountered a very stormy passage. 
M. Villemaire is publishing a pamphlet in which 
he advocates the territorial rights of the Pope. 
It is rumored that a majority of the French bish-
ops have expressed themselves ready to launch into 
public opposition, but Rome hesitates to give the 
signal. 
At Vienna it is fully believed that the government 
intends openly and actively to interfere in Central 
Italy, in favor of the exiled Dukes and the Papal 
government. The Pastoral of the Arch-Bishop, pub-
lished in the Weimar Zeitung of the 11th, confirms 
this fear. 
The Univers announces that the Bishop of Perig-
nen is about to publish a pamphlet in answer to the 
" Pope and the Congress." 
The United Service Gazette says that a rumor 
gains credit in military circles that it is the inten-
tion of the government to disband the militia em-
bodied, very early in the spring. 
Paris, Saturday. The Pays this evening says, 
should our information be correct, the state of affairs 
is daily improving, not only as regards the relations 
of the French government with the Holy See, but al-
so in reference to those of England, which are con-
tinually becoming more intimate. 
The Vienna Gazette has published an imperial de-
cree, enacting that the testimony of Jews shall be 
regarded as of the same value as that of Christians. 
This measure is considered as preliminary to accord-
ing full civil and political rights. 
The Diet of Denmark has decided, by a large ma-
jority, that the bill for the separation of Church and 
State be read the second time. 
The Independence Beige retracts the statement 
that Prince Metternich had left for Vienna. 
Renter's telegrams state that the object of Lord 
Cowley's mission to London was to resume negotia-
tions between England and France, which were in-
dicated by the former, but interrupted by the oppos-
ition of Count Walewski. The basis of those nego-
tiations was the principle of non-intervention in the 
affairs of Central Italy. France, adopting the same 
basis, is desirous that the whole of Europe should 
give its formal adhesion to that principle. With 
this view Lord Cowley was solicited to sound the 
feelings of the British Cabinet, as to the advisibili-
ty of addressing a collective note to the European 
Cabinets. In this note an infraction of the princi-
ple of non-intervention was to be treated as a casus 
belli. 
The British Cabinet, while expressing its readiness 
to support the principle of non-intervention either 
at the Congress or in its communications with for-
eign powers, pointed out the impossibility of pledg-
ing the nation, without the consent of Parliament, 
to a course of policy which might probably involve 
hostility. The feeling of the Northern Courts gave 
rise to some fear that Europe would not tacitly sub-
mit to so threatening an information, and which al-
so implied the adoption of principles opposed to the 
independence of every State which possesses the right 
of forming such alliances as it may think proper, 
and at its own risk and peril. The British Cabinet 
having thus declined to enter into engagements hav-
ing such an important hearing, the question of an 
early meeting of the Congress is again revived. 
It is rumored, but is doubtful, that the Emperor 
of Austria has invited Russia and Prussia to form 
an alliance to defend the legitimate rights of mon-
archs. 
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce have me-
morialized Lord Palmerston to bring the subject of 
international maritime law before the European 
Congress. 
At the latest accounts, the Spanish army was 
near 'Tetuan, the position of affairs being unchanged. 
The Paris correspondent of the London Morning 
Post reports that the Papal Nuncio has said that 
the Pope will give up the Romagna, provided that 
the rest of his dominions shall be secured to him. 
A submarine telegraph cable had been successful-
ly laid between the Channel Islands and France. 
The government dispatch from Oude confirms the 
report of the complete overthrow and dispersion of 
the remainder of the rebel army. All the leading 
rebels had been taken prisoners except the Begum, 
and she could not hold out alone. 
At Japan, trade progressed favorably. 
A Bombay telegram of Dec. 27, via Aden, reports 
the campaign against the rebels in Nepaul all over, 
the rebels having all surrendered except the Begum. 
It is said that the Chinese have addressed a de-
mand to Russia that she shall evacuate all the coun-
try of the Ainoor. 
The Times, in a leader on the Italian question, 
says that it is now announced, almost in official lan-
guage, that England and France have fully agreed 
to recognize and protect Central Italian States, and 
it rejoices at the liberal course pursued by Napoleon. 
Calamity in New York. 
A tenement building in Elm St. occupied by about 
twenty families, was burned on Thursday night of 
last week, and some twenty or more persona were 
burned to death. 
The Tribune says : 
" One of those immense human packing-boxes, 
called tenement houses, six stories high above the 
sidewalk, 100 feet deep, and 50 feet front and made 
to hive 22 families, took fire, and before the unfortu-
nate inmates could escape, a great many of them 
were suffocated. The building was No. 142 Elm 
street. The first floor was divided into stores—a 
baker occupying that on one side, and a grocer the 
other—the entrance to the tenements being between 
the stores. 
A narrow staircase led to the upper part of the 
building from the street, and another stair-way de-
scending from the second story to the yard in the 
rear. The upper stories were reached by the stair-
case in the centre of the btiilding—a narrow, ill 
lighted and dangerous passage. Each floor was ar-
ranged for four families, the doors of the apartments 
opening upon a narrow ball. There were at the 
time of the fire nineteen families in the house, exclu- 
sive of those who occupied the stores. �
The hack 
apartments on the sixth story were set apart for 
washrooms for the use of the various families, and 
the roof was arranged for drying purposes. 
About 7 1-2 o'clock in the evening, a little girl in 
the bakery, while filling a fluid lamp, set the fluid on 
fire, and, dropping the burning vessel upon the floor, 
its blazing contents spread over the floor, and com-
municated with a pile of shavings under the stair-
case. In an instant the store was enveloped in flames 
and almost before the alarm could be sounded, or 
the people up stairs warned of their terrible danger, 
the blaze had burst through the stairway, and leap-
ing upward, cut off their escape." 
The flames ran up the stairways, from story to 
story, with almost incredible swiftness, cutting off 
the only means of egress to the wretched occupants 
of the building. �
Those who lived in the lower sto- 
ries escaped in comparative safety, but those in the 
upper stories, it is feared, mostly perished in the 
flames. The windows in nearly all the upper stories 
were seen to be filled with human beings, imploring 
those in the street for aid, but no ladders of sufficient 
length were to be had, and the poor creatures either 
precipitated themselves to the ground, to be picked 
up badly injured, or fell back to perish by fire. The 
weather was intensely cold, so that the hand engines 
were almost useless, but the steamers worked with 
their usual force and power. 
ANOTHER CALAMITY.—" Disasters never come sing-
ly." Scarcely had the news of the great fire in Elm 
street been received, when it was followed by the re-
port that a hat factory in East Brooklyn had blown 
It was Ames' and Moulton's ; and some of the 
workmen were buried in the ruins. The building 
was an immense structure, and usually contained 
about 220 employees, including 100 females. Very 
few of the operatives were on the premises, the ca-
tastrophe having happened before the hour for com-
mencing work. 
The building was of brick, three stories high, 
about 30 feet wide, and 250 to 300 feet long. About 
50 to 60 feet is left standing? The rest is a heap of 
ruins. The factory was but just started—this week 
being the first time the machinery has been put in 
motion. The engine was driven by two flue boilers 
with a steam dome in front. 
The engine was started this morning at 6 1-2 ; at 
20 minutes to 8 the boilers exploded, throwing one 
of them through the centre of the building to the 
other side, and making a wreck of the building. 
The fire alarm was sounded, and the firemen in- 
stantly commenced removing the ruins in search of 
workmen. Fortunately it was so early that but few 
were at their work—an hour later the consequences 
would have been much more disastrous. �
At it is, 
six dead bodies have been taken out, and some ten or 
twelve are more or less injured. 
ITEMS AND NEWS. 
A clergyman in Salem, N. J., says the Standard, 
recently announced from his pulpit that upon the 
next Sabbath evening he would preach a sermon to 
" moral men." Upon the occasi'in the house was 
crowded in every part, and a large proportion of the 
congregation was made up of those who had not 
" darkened a church door" for years. 
A Winsted (Conn.) widow, whose dear departed 
left her thelife use of $1400 so long as she remained 
unmarried, but which was to go to a third party at 
her marriage, has, after some years' siege, succumbed. 
A compromise was effected between herself and ulti-
mate legatees, by which they received the $1400 by 
paying her $650 to get married. 
The excitement in North-western Pennsylvania, 
where valuable oil springs have been found within 
a few months, is constantly on the increase. New 
and inexhaustible springs are being constantly opened 
and the greatest trouble seems to be to get barrels 
to hold the oil which so freely flows out. 
Iowa had a large sorghum crop last year, and sir-
up of the value of over a million of dollars will be 
manufactured from it. 
About the beginning of November last a little girl 
named Melissa Carharl, of Hickory Grove Town-
ship, Iowa, was bitten on the arm by a dog, and 
last week hydrophobia developed itself and she died 
of the dreadful disease. 
On Friday night last the house of Mr. Luther 
Briggs, of Davenport Del., was consumed by fire, 
and five of his children perished in the flames. Mr. 
Briggs and his wife were away from home at the 
time. , A sixth child, a lad of fifteen, saved himself 
by jumping out of the window. The fire broke out 
after the children retired to bed, and is supposed to 
have caught from the stove. 
Providence, Feb. 2. Miss Rebecca Blodgett, a 
very estimable lady, was burned to death this morn-
ing. Her clothing accidentally caught fire, and be-
fore relief could be rendered she died in extreme 
agony. She is very respectably connected. 
W. D. Ray, editor of the Vicksburg Southern sun, 
was murdered recently by Shippard, his defaulting 
clerk. He was shot through the heart. 
Two white men, disguised as negroes, broke into 
the house of Mr. Steel, in Harrison county, Va., 
last Monday night, for the purpose of robbery, but 
were driven off by Mrs. Steel, who loaded a rifle and 
fired upon them bravely. Her husband was absent. 
A London wine merchant, who has a large pro-
prietary in the island of Madeira, says that the ac-
counts from the Island respecting the vine disease 
are worse than ever, as the new vines are attacked 
in the same manner as the old vineyards. He has no 
Madeira wine to sell, and therefore his statement 
may be fully relied upon. 
The Portland Advertiser reports the death of two 
worthy and respectable females in that city. They 
were Misses Penelope and Catherine Martin, sisters, 
and for many years they kept a high school for 
young ladies, where a thorough education was im-
parted. Their school attracted many scholars from 
abroad, and there are hundreds now living who re-
ceived their finished education at this school. Pene-
lope died on Thnrsday, aged 87, and Catherine died 
on Friday, aged 96. 
A judge, after hearing a florid discourse from a 
young lawyer, advised him to pluck out some feath-
ers from the wings of his imagination, and put them 
in the tail of his judgment. 
A fanatical [Endo° cultivated for forty years the 
growth of a finger nail, and he found its measure to 
be thirteen inches and a half. The finger nails grow 
their whole length in a few months. 
Last winter the Michigan Legislature enacted a 
law, which in fact, really abolished the grand jury 
system, having made it optional either to indict upon 
information or to empannel a jury, and the former 
is receiving the decided preference. �
Already Ver- 
mont has followed in her footsteps, and now the 
proper committee of the Wisconsin Senate has been 
instructed by a unanimous vote, to bring in a simi-
lar bill, which will without doubt pass into a law. 
The house of Mr. Solomon Beals, of North Mid-
dleboro,' was entered one night last week, and rob-
bed of $115, the proceeds of the late fair of the Bap-
tist Society in that town. 
The number of births in Springfield last year was 
484 ; marriages, 177 ; deaths, 387. There was a de-
crease of 44 in the number of births, 12 in the num-
ber of marriages, and an increase of 43 in the num-
ber of deaths, as compared with 1858. 
The Christian may be almost lost, yet saved at 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as eisentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
Germany, to the crowns of Rome and Lombardy, 
has never since been disputed." Ib. 150. 
There were two codes of law, inculcating the doc-
trine of the universality of authority of civil and 
ecclesiastic Rome. The colleges of Italy and Eng-
land made the knowledge of the law upon the prin-
ciple of these two codes, one of the chief objects of 
education until it became generally conceded that 
these codes were the only source of law throughout 
the Roman empire, of which Germany was a part, 
and all other European territories subordinate de-
pendencies." Ib. p. 203. 
Says Duganne, " Austrian dominion is a continu-
ation of the Roman or German empire." 
Says Smucker, " The revolution of 1830 in 
France re-kindled the flames of popular discontent 
in Italy. The tyranny of Austria was then, as now, 
[in 1858] both a shame and a curse to the land of 
the conquerors of the world." 
1. Then, that in Germany and Austria the Roman 
empire was continued, is shown in the name " Holy 
Roman Empire," by the custom of diplomacy, by 
the schools of the middle ages and by a special law 
of nations, &c. Besides every emperor was elected 
" king of the Romans ;" and as Rome was in the 
south, he was most literally king of the South. 
Constantine and Justinian and Phocas were kings 
or emperors of Rome, and resided farther from that 
city than did the German emperors. Valentinian 
and others resided at Milan, Theodoric at Ravenna, 
and Constans at Syracuse. 
In conclusion. " The kings of the north and 
south are the divisions of Alex.'s empire. ED." 5. 
Well, as the prophet don't say so—The kings of the 
north and south are not the divisions of Alexander's 
empire. BROWN. A king is a man, and not a divis-
ion of any empire. Try it—" the division of Alex-
ander's empire's daughter," &c. v. 6. Again, "both 
these divisions or kingdoms' hearts shall be to do 
mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table,"—
two fragments of an empire at lunch, and then one 
of them " returns to his own land" ! 27, 28. 
Besides these divisions ceased when Rome became 
universal, but the subjects of this prophecy flourish 
in the latter days and at the time of the end. 
Cotemporary kingdoms are always named, as Ba-
bylon in chap. 2, and Medo-Persia and Greece in 
chaps. 8 and 11. Egypt is a familiar subject of 
prophecy throughout the Bible, and always named, 
unless for some unaccountable reason, and for the 
evident purpose of obscurity this is an exception. 
But Egypt is here named, so as to forbid its be-
ing identical with the south. The king of the south 
goes into Egypt, and afterwards returns to his own 
country, 7, 8. —6. 
Again, vs. 40-42. The king of the north first 
comes against the south, then also through the 
countries into Palestine, passing Edom and Moab, 
and " also the land of Egypt shall not escape." 
A. BROWN. 
Louisville, Ky. 
All very true ; but then you say : 
" The import of the record evidently is that in 
sinning they became naked—not from the loss of ar-
tificial clothing—but of some natural enrobement," 
&c. 
Now when I read the Word, or any other writing, 
I wish to understand it according to the natural 
meaning and laws of language (as the Herald has 
very forcibly insisted upon from time to time) ; and 
when before that man had sinned the Word says 
that the man and his wife were both naked and were 
not ashamed, I do not wish to believe that man was 
clothed in any " halo of glory"—any " luminous 
enrobement," except that glorious innocence in 
which he was created. When Adam and his wife 
hid themselves from the presence of their Maker,and 
in their sin and shame made the excuse that they 
were naked, the reply of God, so to speak, was a 
forcible admission that they were really so,—only 
they did not know it, or in other words saw no rea-
son of shame because of it, until eating of that for-
bidden fruit opened their eyes to a sense of naked-
ness, shame and disgrace. I hope you will examine 
this once more, and tell what makes you " assured 
of the appropriate vestment with which man, when 
first created, must have been enrobed." 
As to the future robes of the glorified I doubt not 
they will be clothed. The redeemed are so repre-
sented ; ar:d while white garments may be symbolic 
of righteousness, still the numerous passages seem 
to imply something more ; and the examples, such 
as the transfiguration, seem to vivify a reality of en-
robement not to be mistaken. But I do not remem-
ber a single text of Scripture that seems to justify 
the expression, " the future robes of the glorified 
will be such as man lost by his fall." Yours truly, 
W. C. BORDEN. 
Stanbridge, C. W., Dec. 18, 1859. 
NOTE. There is point in the above. Man was 
" naked" before he fell. He was naked in respect 
to any artificial enrobement, and so are all animals 
now ; but he may nevertheless, we think, have been 
enrobed with a halo of glory, analogous to the fu- 
ture enrobement of the glorified. �
ED. 
A Test Medium Tested. 
Some time in the month of August last, I believe, 
there was in Philadelphia, a man professing to be a 
test medium, called Professor Bond, who publicly 
responded to mental or written questions known on-
ly to the writer or questioner. What is meant by 
test medium and test question, will be apparent as 
we proceed with the narrative. 
At a meeting field in Phenix Hall, in Kensington, 
Philadelphia, on one occasion, Mr. C. Patterson, a 
believer in the Bible and in the power of Jesus' 
name to control demons, having previously con-
fronted Spiritualism in its strongholds, and avowed 
his faith in Jesus and the resurrection, determined 
to test the medium or his familiar on the character 
us what is the meaning of the word demon?" Re-
turning to the platform, he said, " If I am correct-
ly informed, it means a knowing one,' and was 
applied by the ancient philosophers to the departed 
spirits of men. But Christ and the apostles only 
used the word to designate the spirits of wicked 
men." 
To this no reply was made, and he sat down. So 
according to the acknowledgment of the test medium 
or his familiar, Christ is not glorified by such pro-
ceedings, and the familiar spirits are demons in the 
bad sense of that word. And such the word of God 
declares they are. �
J. LITCIi. 
Oct. 25, 1859. 
The New Covenant. 
Hob. 8:8-12. " Behold the days come, saith the 
Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the 
house of Israel and with the house of Judah." 
Here we have a thus saith the Lord, some thirty 
years after Christ had suffered on the cross, of anew 
covenant to be made with the house of Israel and 
Judah, and still spoken of as yet in the future. 1. 
" When I will make a new covenant"—thus cut-
ting off the argument that this new covenant was 
the gospel to the gentiles. See Dan. 9:27, "And he 
shall confirm the covenant with many for one week." 
What covenant will he confirm? The only one that 
had been made, namely, the Abrahamic covenant ! 
showing conclusively that no new one was then 
made. 
Again, the apostle says, v. 6, " But now bath he 
obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much 
he is the mediator of a better covenant. . . Not ac-
cording to the covenant that I made with their fath-
ers. . . I will put my laws into their mind, and 
write them in their hearts ; and 1 will be to them a 
God, and they shall be to me a people." Mark 
who this covenant is to be made with,—the same 
people that the first was confirmed with, Israel and 
Judah. 
V. 11. " And they shall not teach every man 
his neighbor, and every man his brother (as we are 
now doing) saying, Know the Lord ; for all shall 
know me from the least to the greatest." Why 
shall all know the Lord? Because he will then be 
personally among them. V. 12. " I will be merci-
ful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their 
iniquities will I remember no more." If this is af-
ter they are changed in a moment in the twinkling 
of an eye, what need of this covenant and this for-
giveness ; and why say, " They shall be to me a 
people ? 2. 
The apostle goes on with the argument, in the 
10th chapter, 12-17 verses, speaking of Christ mak-
ing an offering of himself to God. V. 14, " For 
Ltre sanctified," i. e. the gentile Christians.—
by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that 
Geography of Dan. 11. 
Why must north and south, in this chapter, be 
more exactly so than elsewhere? 
The Medo-Persian seat of empire was almost due 
east of Babylon, and yet it is written of them, Jer. 
50, " Behold a people shall come from the north . . 
against thee, 0 daughter of Babylon." 1. 
Syria was neither due north of Egypt, nor in the 
extreme north of Alexander's empire, any more 
than Paris is of Western Europe. 2. 
But suppose our Union were to dissolve, and a 
free and slave monarchy result, and that after vari-
ous changes the respective capitols should be located 
at Columbus, 0., and Baltimore, Md., their respec-
tive monarchs could and would be denominated 
king of the north and king of the south. 3. 
Parallel. " In the year 414' two German tribes 
obtained settlements in the south of Gaul, while 
the northern parts were seized on by the Franks." 
Taylor's France. 
These Germans, with others, soon possessed all 
southern Gaul ; and the country " south of the 
Danube and west of the Ems became the nucleus 
of the Austrian empire." Colton. 
The original seat of the House of Austria was in 
the " canton of Aargan (or Argoric) in Switzer-
land :" while the original capitol of the Franks, 
was almost due north, at Treves, and their possess-
ions extended from east of the Rhine through the 
north of France to the ocean. 
But the following is my position : 
The " south" in Dan. 11:5, is Rome. 
That the Roman empire was perpetuated in 
the German. 
Now all of Daniel's latter-day scenery is laid in 
western Europe. Let any one deny this, and then 
locate the decem-regal prophecies anywhere. The 
vision of this 11th chapter, confined almost entirely 
to the kings of the north and south, is most posi-
tively located in " the latter days," (10-14) and 
connected with the " time of the end," 11:27, 35, 
40 ; 12:1. 
Again, the uniform course of empire in this book 
is from Greece to Rome ; but in this chapter it is 
from Greece to the " south" (chs. 3-5), and there-
fore the " south" means Rome. 4. 
Then follows an empire which becomes strong 
above the south. (5.) The language applied to it 
is nearly as expressive of great imperial power as 
that applied to Greece. Of the latter it is said : 
" He shall rule with great dominion ;" and of the 
former, " His dominion shall be a great dominion." 
2. After his dominion two monarchies appear, in 
one of which the " south," or Roman empire is per-
petuated. 
Charlemagne was as really, and as rightfully Ro-
man emperor as was Caesar himself—by conquest, 
by the voice of the people, by the coronation of the 
Pope and by the consent of the emperor Niephorus. 
So of Otho the Great and his successors. Says Pot-
ter (Constitution of Germany, p. 477, v. 2) : "The 
conquest of Lombardy by Charlemagne, laid the 
basis which exists even now [1790] between the Ger-
man empire and Italy. . . . 
" The dignity of the Roman empire, extinct at 
Rome since 476, and only continued at Constantino-
ple, was revived in his person : an event which laid 
the basis of the imperial dignity being at present 
annexed to Germany." Vol. 1, p. 58. 
" Otho and his successors claimed whatever at any 
time was claimed by the ancient Roman emperors. 
. . . . That as Roman emperors they could exercise 
certain sovereignty over foreign kings." 
Page 129. " Other kingdoms, otherwise inde-
pendent, were required to acknowledge a degree of 
sovereignty of the German emperors. . Even Spain 
and France and England did not deny their superi-
ority. In fact this gave rise to a particular law of 
the nations of the middle ages which placed all 
Christian kingdoms and countries in a similar rela-
tion to the Roman empire, as every Christian church 
stood to the Roman church." " Conrad II. pre-
served the connection between Germany and Italy 
which has continued to the present day." " A 
right of the king of Rome, once legally elected in 
A people coming from the north, and their 
being located in the north, are different conditions. 
It was the king of the Medes who commenced the 
war with Babylon, calling in the king of the Per-
sians to Isis aid. Ecbatana the capital of the Medes 
was 150 miles to the north, as far to the north as it 
was to the east of Babylon ; and in marching to 
that city, they would not unlikely strike the Euphra-
tes above Babylon, and so literally fulfill the scrip-
ture by coining from the north. 
The Syrian kingdom embraced the provinces 
that were due north of Egypt ; so that the territories 
of the two countries were respectively north and 
south to each other. 
This is a supposition. But were they thus 
called, it would be not because of their capitals,but 
of the relative position of the two territories, which 
would be absolutely north and south to each other. 
4 IIIII 
This should read, kingdoms of the north and 
south ; or, the kings of the divisions of the north 
and south. 
Nay, my dear sir. His carrying captives into 
Egypt, is shown by the context to be the king of the 
south coming into his kingdom, and returning into 
his own land—thus making the south Egypt, and 
Egypt only. �
En. 
Robes of the Glorified. 
Sir : In your issue of Nov. 26 is an article under 
the head of the Robes.of the Glorified, which is in 
part, I think, a good deal visionary. You ask why 
it is " that man is an exception to other animals to 
need to be provided with a covering which is so gen-
erously supplied to them." And you answer, that 
" doubtless it is to be found in the fact that man is 
not in the condition in which he was created. It 
was not till Adam and Eve had sinned that they 
knew they were naked,' and then it was they sew-
ed fig leaves,' &c." 
loonsumew �
 
ence. He replied, that he did not care to read it,as 
it was only written for his own satisfaction ; they 
would probably regret it if he should read it. But 
the demand for reading being continued and urged, 
he at length read the following proposition, which 
he took from his pocket. 
" If tho things which I see are done by the spir-
its of departed just and holy men, or if Christ be 
glorified by the same, then in his name I desire the 
medium to place my hand upon my head. But if 
they are done by clairvoyant agency, or by the spir- 
command the spirit to place the medium's hands on 
his own head." 
" And you have seen," said Mr. P., " the re-
sult. Ladies and gentlemen, pardon me while I 
give expression to the sentiments of my heart. I 
thank God, who has this night given me the victory 
in the name of Jesus Christ." 
While he was retiring from the platform, a gen-
tleman in the audience said, " I doubt whether the 
gentleman understands his own question. For the 
satisfaction of the audience, will he please inform 
of the spirits who communicate. Accordingly at 
the proper time he went forward to the platform 
with his written proposition in his pocket. After a 
brief explanation of his position on the subject of 
Spiritualism, by referring to his former remarks, he 
said he had written a question for his own satisfac-
tion, but did not care to make it public unless it 
should be demanded. The medium then went into 
a state of trance, and took Mr. P. by the hand. He 
first led him down from the platform toward the au-
dience ; then held his hand awhile over the head of 
one of the audience. He then returned to the plat-
form, and after several other movements, the medi-
um, taming to the audience, put both his hands on 
his own head, pressing them down with great ear-
nestness ; and then let go of Mr. P.'s hand. Mr. 
P. then stated to the audience that he was perfectly 
satisfied. " You know," he said, " what my senti- 
ments were on the subject ; they remain unchang- (in person) saith the Lord, to save thee : though I 
ed." The question was then called for by the audi- make a full end of all nations whither I have scat-
tered thee (and show me the nation where they are 
not found) in chap. 46:27, 28, he declares he will 
make a full end of all nations ; " yet will I not 
make a full end of thee : but I will correct thee in 
measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpun-
ished." See verses 16-24 : " Thus saith the Lord, 
Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's 
tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places ; and 
the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and 
the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.. . 
its of demons, then in the name of Jesus Christ I and I will multiply them and they shall not be few. 
I will also glorify Chem and they shall not, be small. 
And their children also shall be as aforetime." See 
also 31, 33:6-36. " The voice of joy and the voice 
of gladness, the 'voice of the bridegroom and the 
voice of the bride." Jesus has told us that the chil-
dren of the resurrection neither marry nor are given 
in marriage, but are like unto the angels. The pro-
phet then adds, vs. 20, 21, " thus saith the Lord : 
Nye can break my covenant of the day, and my cov-
enant of the night, and that there should not he day 
and night in their season ; then also may my cove- 
V. 15. �
" Wherefore the Holy Ghost also is 
a witness to us : for after that (i. e., the 
perfecting of the gentile Christians ; or in 
other words the fullness of the gentiles be come in;) 
he had said before, v. 16, this is the covenant that I 
will make with them after those days, saith the 
Lord." Question, what days ? The gospel days. 
See Jer. 30:3-11, " For lo, the days come, saith the 
Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my 
people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord ; and I will 
cause them to return to the land of their fathers, 
and they shall possess it. . V. 7. Alas, for that day 
is great, so that there is none like it. It is even the 
time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall he saved out of 
it." The prophet then says, " I will break his yoke 
from off thy neck and burst thy bonds, and stran-
gers shall no more serve themselves of him. But 
they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their 
king, whom 1 will raise up unto them." And then, 
after confirming the promise to Jacob and his seed 
of their sure return. V. 11 : " For I am with thee 
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tism of the Holy Ghost. A few weeks ago two 
Baptist ministers stated in a meeting, that it was a 
sin for any one to ask God to baptize them with the 
Holy Ghost. They said such a prayer was offered 
through ignorance; for such a prayer had not been 
answered since the apostles' days, and never would 
be. Yours in love, �
I. CARPENTER. 
Spring Valley, Wis., Jan. 26, 1860. 
What we understand by the baptism of the Iloly 
Ghost, is to be endowed with the character and spi-
rit which that communicates, which renovates the 
heart, changes the affections, and makes of the sin-
ner a new man in Christ Jesus. In addition to this, 
the apostles were supernaturally endowed by such 
baptism, and miraculously empowered. �
ED. 
To a Friend. 
May Wisdom be thy friend, 
And Virtue thy companion ; 
Reflection thy mind attend, 
In hours of thy devotion ; 
Ever prayerful and faithful 
To thy heavenly Father ; 
Then thy life will be peaceful, 
Even, pure as a river. 
Shrewsbury, Vt. 
S.E.G. 
Lines for the blank leaf of a Young Lady's Bible. 
When the vigor of youth shall have wasted away, 
And the roseate bloom of thy cheek shall decay ; 
When life's waning taper burns dim o'er the grave, 
From the doom that awaits you no mortal can save, 
0 then may the precepts these pages impart 
Serve to strengthen thy hope, and to cheer up thy 
heart ; 
The blest Star of life gild mortality's even, 
And thy pathway illume to the portals of heaven. 
An infidel, who had been attempting to prove that 
men have no souls, asked a lady, with an air of tri-
umph, what she thought of his philosophy. " It 
appears to me," she uplied, " that you have been 
employing a good deal of talent to prove yourself a 
beast." 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, at Lawrence, Mass., Nov. 5, 1859, REBEC-
CA ANN, wife of Richard SAVORY, and daughter of 
Larkin and Rebecca Moore, aged 30 years. 
Mrs. Savory, in early youth, gave her heart to 
Christ, and was a firm and consistent believer in the 
speedy return of the Redeemer, to immortalize the 
saints, restore all things, and personally reign as 
King over all the earth. After a most distressing 
illness, she breathed out her mortal existence in the 
arms of her Saviour, triumphantly anticipating a 
glorious resurrection to life everlasting. 
While her departure down the dark valley of 
death is deeply deplored, the remembrance of her is 
sweet and pleasant to her friends. It is not too 
much to say, that she was a true friend, a dutiful 
child, an affectionate and faithful wife, and a relia-
ble and devoted Christian. 
Thus are our beloved friends, one after another, 
stricken down by the unrelenting foe of our race : 
" yet in the midst of death and grief," the blessed 
promises of the gospel subdue the mourner's bitter-
est sigh, with the assurance,- 
" That the Redeemer lives ; 
And, from the bending skies, 
Still watches o'er the sleeping dust 
Till he shall bid it rise." 
M. M. R. 
DIED, in Philadelphia, Jan. 11th, in the 89th yr. 
of his age, WALTER SWOPE. 
The subject of this notice was the oldest member 
of our church in this city. He was never a man of 
many words, and hence was little known in the 
church except as a faithful and constant attendant 
on the house of God, whenever it was possible con-
sistently with his advanced years and growing in-
firmities to do so ; and even beyond his strength.-
For the last few years, however, our meetings have 
been so far removed as to render it impossible to at-
tend. But this deprivation has never abated his 
interest in the cause of Christ, his love of truth, or 
communion with the Lord. But I have observed in 
each successive visit, a growing attachment to the 
Saviour and ripening for the harvest, so that at last 
he was prepared to be gathered into the heavenly 
garner, as a shock of corn fully ripe. His end was 
not merely peace, but glorious triumph, in prospect 
of departing to be with Christ, which he said he 
believed would be far better than to remain longer 
in the flesh. He lived and died in the blessed hope 
of the soon coming of the King of kings, to bring 
with him those who sleep in Jesus, to share his king- 
dom. �
J. LIT CH. 
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Prayer and Watchfulness �
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The Lord's Coming a Practical Doctrine 04 
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W
THITTEN'S GOLDEN SALVE is a step by way of 
progress in the healing art. It is adapted to all the 
purposes of a family Salve. It effectually cures piles, 
wounds, bruises, sprains, cuts, chilblains, corns, burns, 
fever-sores, scrofulous humors, erysipelas, salt-rheum, 
king's evil, rheumatism, spinal difficulties, chafings in 
warm weather, &c. &c., and is believed by many experi-
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Every farmer should have it for horses ; foE the cure of 
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cows. It cures felons. It cures warts. 
Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cured 
of a bad case of piles by the use of one box of the Salve. 
Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
of Lowell, was relieved of piles which had afflicted him 
for many years, and remarked to a friend that it was worth 
a hundred dollars a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N.H., says: "I 
have been afflicted with piles for over twenty years. The 
last seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
1 never expect to be well, yet to be relieved as I am from 
na a be broken with David my servant, that he 
should not have a son to reign upon his throne and 
with the Levitos the priests my ministers." 3. 
CASTLE CHURCHILL. 
New Hartford, Iowa. 
1. Paul does not speak this as being future in his 
day ; but quotes what God had spoken by Jeremiah. 
He says of the Jews, under the old covenant, that, 
" Finding fault with them, he Baal:), Behold the 
days come," &c. ; which prophecy Paul quotes in 
support of " the better covenant" of which Christ 
is the Mediator. This quoting Jeremiah's words, 
no more makes it then future, than our quoting it in 
support of the past makes us authority for its being 
now future. But its full consummation will un-
doubtedly be in the resurrection, which is its com-
pletion. 
Because,were their sins unforgiven, they would 
not attain to the first resurrection. They are not 
forgiven after they are changed, but that they may 
be changed. 
To get the true meaning of the Scriptures here 
quoted, they need to be examined in their connec-
tion ; which we have not space here to do. 
ED. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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not know how Janet can get home alive." 
He set out directly with his dog, and one 
or two of his neighbors, in the steps ofJa-
net. With difficulty they made their way 
up the glen ; the drifting snow clouded in 
still more the dying light, and they could 
not decide at what point Janet would have 
left the glen. The men took different paths 
and Donald followed one path, which his 
dog, who seemed to understand the object 
of their search, eagerly led him upon.—
Yet even the dog seemed uncertain, for 
Janet had lost her usual course, and had 
been wandering blindly through the snow. 
At length, Donald himself reached the 
cottage, and found that Janet had not been 
there. The poor mother was almost dis-
tracted, and had been calling Janet's name 
in every direction, and herself having 
searched in vain among the drifts, Donald 
went back upon the search again, with his 
dog, and just as the faithful animal had 
started forward, as if he had come upon 
the scent, Donald heard a voice in the dis-
tance. He hastened on, and found Janet 
sinking in the snow, her breath almost 
gone, but still singing out the words of her 
hymn. She was hardly conscious when 
Donald took her in his arms. �
carried 
her to the cottage, and by the warmth 
from the fire, she opened her eyes and said 
—" Ah, mother, God was there as well as 
here. I had no fear in His arms, and I 
trusted that you, too, felt Him near."—
Girl's Treasury. 
day to day by the use of your Golden Salve, fills my heart 
with gratitude." 
From Mr. J. 0. Merriam, Tewksbury, Mass. : "I have 
a large milk farm. I have used a great deal of your Gol-
den Salve for sore teats on my cows. I have used many 
other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
have also used it for sprains and scratches on my horses. 
It cures them in a snort time. I recommend it to all who 
keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
good. It will have a great sale." 
From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn. : " Your 
Golden Salve is a great thing for chilblains. I have also 
used it in afflicting cases of salt rheum, erysipelas, and 
sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have severa 
friends who have been cured of sof ofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may recommend it from me as a val-
uable Salve." 
From Mr. Morris Fuller, of North Creek, N. Y. : "We 
find your Golden Salve to be good for everything that we 
have tried it for. Among other things for which we have 
used it, is a bad case of ' scald head' of our little girl. 
Its effect in this case was also favorable." 
" We like your Golden Salve very much in this place. 
Among other things I knew a lady who was cured of a 
very bad case of sore eyes."—Walter S. Plummer, Lake 
Village, N. II. 
" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
reason of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
den Salve was applied, it relieved the pain in a short time, 
and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."—
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. II. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
Marion, Ill., says, " Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, &c., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE—A GREAT HEALING REMEbY.—It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved—a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved—
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years—cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.—Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, '1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used your 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. �
J. V. RIMES. 
Made only by C. P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer-
rimack street, Lowell, Mass. Sold by druggists, and at 
country stores. Price 25 cts. per box. Price as above, or 
$2 per dozen. 
I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
count will be made to agents. �
aug 13—pd to jan 1 '60 
For sale at this office. 
The Snow Storm. 
Janet Ray lived with her mother in a 
lonely cottage on the mountain-side. It 
was far away from the rest of the world, 
but they had not always lived alone there. 
Mrs. Ray's two sons went away from their 
mother, to go to sea, and Mrs. Ray intend-
ed to leave her solitary cottage, and before 
winter find a home among the little cotta-
ges at the foot of the mountain. But she 
was so much attached to her own pleasant 
home where she had lived many years, 
that she delayed leaving it as long as pos-
sible. All through the lingering autumn 
there was more freedom for Janet, who was 
enterprising, and fond of mounting some 
of the greatest heights in search of flow-
ers. She would go, too, every day down 
to the glen, where their friends lived, who 
would fill her basket with some delicacy 
to take to her mother, and every day ask-
ed when she was coining down to live 
among them. 
One day, as Janet left her mother's house 
for one of these daily visits, both she and 
her mother saw how threateningly the 
clouds were gathering. 
" I fear there is going to be a storm," 
said Mrs. Ray; " I am almost afraid to let 
you go down through the glen. It it should 
surprise you, and delay you in coming 
home, it would give me great anxiety." 
" �
h, do not be afraid," said Janet ; " if 
there is going to be a storm, there is more 
need we should have something to eat in 
the house, and 1 shall be back before you 
have time to be anxious." 
Janet set forth ; but among the moun-
tains it began to snow before she had been 
long gone. She, meanwhile, had passed 
through the glen, and had reached the lit-
tle huts in the valley. 
" I'm surprised to see you," said her mo-
ther's friend, Ama Ross, " or rather, I wish 
your mother had come with you. Donald 
was saying this morning your mother 
ought to be safely housed among us. Arid 
to-day it looks 'quite threatening." 
Janet promised that she would urge her 
mother's moving away directly, and she 
did not linger long, but exchanged some of 
her own and her mother's work, for the 
little supplies they should need, and set out 
homeward. 
Her path led up the glen, and she could 
not help stopping to admire how the swol-
len stream dashed over the rocks. Pres-
ently, her way was impeded by the rush-
ing current, and she soori met the storm of 
snow that was fast increasing. She hur- 
ried on through the blinding flakes, and by 
the rising stream, and then she had to 
leave the water-course, and climb up the 
hill-side. She found the snow had been 
fast increasing for some hours, and it was 
difficult to keep her footing in the midst of 
the deepening drifts. She kept courage-
ously on, till at last her strength failed her. 
" My mother, how frightened she will 
be for me !" she thought, " and am I quite 
without help ?" 
Then she remembered how, in stormy 
nights, when she and her mother had fan- 
cied her two brothers were struggling 
against storms upon the sea, her mother 
had always ended in saying, " God is there 
as well as here. They are in His hands, 
and I could not ask a better protection, 
even were they close by my side." 
" And so she is praying for me now," 
said Janet to herself. " God is here as well 
as there, and His arms will uphold me, 
even in death," she added; for the snow 
was folding about her chillingly. 
Then she began to sing with a loud 
voice,— 
" The Lord my refuge is ! 
For she was beginning to be benumbed 
with the cold ; and she thought if her 
mother should come out to find her, she 
would send out her voice to meet her. 
Meantime, Donald Ross had returned 
home toward evening, and when he found 
that Janet had been down into the glen, 
and had set out to return, he was very 
much alarmed. 
" You should not have let her go hack," 
he said to his wife; " the snow is gather-
ing fast among the mountains, and I do 
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Gale 997, M S Whiting 997, W P Woodworth 997, Rev 
W L Lennert 997, J Horner 997, C Elkins, jr. 997, Eld L S 
Thompson 1023, H Phelps 945, $1 due; Mrs A Harlow 
978, A Clapp 971, N Hale 976, Eld B Locke I023—each $1 
Mrs J B Atwell 1029, E Baker 1002, E G Hatch 1036, 
E L Curtis 997, M S Somers 1023, M F Burwell 1001, II S 
Ross 1023, Wm Watkins 1052, to July 1861; R Watson 
1023, Laura Darbee 1008 and book—we know nothing of 
that doctor—don't like what he styles himself; J E Hast-
ings 1023, T Dudley 1023, N Woodman 1023, N Peck 997, 
Lois Barker 1023, Mrs A C Abell 1028, A Houghton 1028 
—each $2. 
D E Atwood 1023, II Andrews 1023—each $3. 
Prices low and terms easy. All orders or letters of inqui-
ry promptly attended to, by addressing the Proprietor, B. 
W. Leonard, Bridgport, Conn., or J. A. Reed, No. 203 
Broadway, New York. 
State or shop rights for Leonard's Patent Burr stone Grist 
Mill for sale or exchange for good property. 
Pd to Feb. 20—'60 �
B.W.L. 
"I have visited Bro. Leonard's shop, and examined his 
Mills, and I think them admirably adapted to the uses 
they are designed for. �9 �
J. V. HIMES." 
Important to You and Me. 
We risk the remark to the afflicted that WELLCOME'S 
GREAT GERMAN REMEDY, for colds, coughs, bronchitis, in-
flammation of throat and lungs, influenza, croup, phthisic, 
&c., is effecting greater cures than any other known reme-
dy in the New England markets. The various and nume-
rous cases it has cured have fully established its reputation 
wherever known, above all others. I have many such cer-
tificates as the following, and they are multiplying fast. 
From Eld. S. K. Partridge. 
Bro. Wellcome—I was badly afflicted with bronchitis 
and cough a long time, which threatened to prevent my 
preaching. I took Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and many oth-
er remedies, all to no effect. I finally obtained the Great 
German Remedy, which entirely cured me. I believe it 
the best medicine in use for such complaints, and other 
affections of throat and lungs. �
S. K. PARTRIDGE. 
Whitefiold, Me., Aug. 28, 1858. 
From J. Morrill, Druggzst. 
Mr. Wellcome—I can furnish you four first-rate certifi-
cates of cures effected by your G. G. Remedy, after trying 
almost every thing else without effect. Send along three 
or four dozens more of each size. I can sell a large lot of 
it. 
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J. MORRILL & Co. 
Livermore, Me., Oct. 12, 1859. 
It is cheaper than any other. Prices, 4 oz. 25 cts.; 16 
oz. 75 cts. Agents wanted. Sells well. Terms liberal. 
Call for a circular. Sold in Boston by Dr. Dillingham, 
next door to Herald office. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Richmond, Me. 
(No. 969 tf.) �
pd to 971 
SOMETHING NEW AND VERY DESIRABLE !—
PEARSON'S PATENT-RESPIRATORY COOKING-STOVE.—The 
superiority of this over every other Cooking Stove consists 
in the means by which we accomplish that most desirable 
end in Stove Cooking, viz. : A combination of 
let, Roasting meats in currents of heated fresh air, pro-
ducing the same effects as roasting on a Spitjack, or in a 
tin kitchen before the open fire ; 
2d, The virtues of the Brick oven ; 
3d, The economy of the heat ; 
4th, An arrangement by which we heat the room in 
Winter, and dispense with heating it in Summer. 
Convinced by the working of the Stoves in use, the Pa-
tentee and the subscriber offer their new stove to the Pub-
lic, with entire confidence that it will fill a vacuum in gen-
eral house-keeping. Without fear, we proclaim it : THIS 
IS THE ONLY STOVE WHICH COMBINES THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY 
OF COOKING. Patented Oct. 26, 1858. 
Books with diagrams describing the invention, and its 
merits over all other Stoves, sent, on application, to 
JAMES W OLSTENHOLME, 
General Agent and Manufacturer, 29 Dorrance street, 
(954, pd. to 990) �
Providence, R. I. 
411.1,..... 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON. FEBRUARY 11, 1860. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Elder Himes will preach in the Seminary in West Town-
send, Saturday evening, 11th; and on the Sabbath, 12th, 
in the Brick Chapel there, day and evening. 
Elder E. Burnham preached with us Sabbath last, as per 
previous appointment, and will preach every evening this 
week, over the Sabbath, and longer, if God shall prosper 
us. The beginning is auspicious, and we ask the prayers 
of our brethren all abroad that this series of meetings may 
result in an ingathering of souls. �J. V. Hums. 
The Lord willing, I shall comply with request of the 
brethren, to preach to them in South Waterford, and 
Stoneham, Me., Feb. 12th, 19th and 26th, as they may 
arrange. Severe sickness of my boy prevented my filling 
the appointment in Hartford, Me., last week. Will try to 
visit them in March. �
I. C. WELLCOME. 
The New York Advent Mission Church meet at Room 
No. 24 Cooper's Institute. • Sabbath services at 10 1-2 a.m. 
and 3 1-2 p. m. Seats free. Social meetings on Wednes-
day evening, at 156 Delancey street, and 6 Horatio street, 
and on Thursday evening in Brooklyn at 66 Lawrence st. 
D. I. ROBINSON, Pastor. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
MISSING FROM OUR LIBRARY, " Birks' Visions of 
Daniel." If any brother has borrowed these, will 
he be kind enough to inform us ? We wish to refer 
to them in the preparation of our articles on Daniel. 
RECEIPTS. 
UP TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1860. 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD to 
which the money credited pays. No. 971 was the closing 
number of 1859 ; No. 997 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1860; and No. 1023 is to the 
close of 1860. Notice of any failure to give due credit, 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent.