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2. '' Those wishing something sensual ; " a 
Jesus of Nazareth was the identical man-that Messiah that they can see, and converse with 
" he must increase," but ·that John himself &c. 
" These are large classes, and 
such 
"must decrease." 
minds will be quite sure to be influenced by 
The text is the cr origin of the delusion." such fanaticism." 
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3. "Another fact that gives" Johnism "a 
when he said " ~ill~rism " 
com~enc~,d i~ the great. pro~elyting ~?wer, is t~at it is adapted to 
Five Church at Thessilomca.-Jude gives 
Mil.er-self righteousness. 
There iS a natural desire 
ism" a much earlier date; Jude 14-19 verses in the heart for men to think they are the ·spe-
inclusive:) 
He then could have easily traced cial favorites of heaven. 
Now for these poor 
"the delusion "through the different ages up deluded ones to suppose that they have "found 
to his own day; showing how it distracted the him of whom Moses in the law and the proph-
churches, and ho"": thei'r peace an~ harm~ny ets .did w~ite, while God's intelligent and sci-
were destroyed by it; and that notw1thstandmg netific priesthood, even the whole sanhedrim, 
all the efforts made to put it down, "yet the remain ignorant of Him, is peculiarly calcula-
infection was not entirely cureu." 
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He probably would have farther taught, that IS to set themselves up as wiser and better than 
the recent introduction of the sentiment into the whole nation of Israel. This gives this de-
Palestine,-but only in a lhtle differ?nt for_m, llusion a t~emendo~s proselyting power. 
was by Theudas. 
He preached awhile, gam-
4. Agair, Johmsm "adapts itself to the im-
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ed a few followers, but soon was slain, and patience of ardent minds, that cannot wait the 
=:=:::;-================:===II" all as many followed him, were scattered slow progress" of divine Providence. They 
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abroad and came to nought." 
are anxious to see and converse with theMes-
The next was by one Judas, who made a lit-siah, &c. 
Occupy till 1 come.-Luke xix. 131 
LoRD! how long wilt thou remain 
Far from us, thy scatlered flock? 
Hasten, Lord, thy promised reign-
For we prize, while others mock 
Thy command ;-tho' wide we roam-
"Occupy until I come." 
Lord! hqw long ere Thy return 
To thine owu who watch aml pray 1 
GladJening hearts that silect mourn, 
Longing for thy glorious day: 
Thy command fulfiliing here-
" Occupy tilll appear." 
Lord ! how long ere Thou shalt call 
Us thy servants, to declare 
Where are now those " talents" all 
Once committed to our care? 
Thy behest we dared not spurn, 
"Occupy till I return." 
Y tlt, 0 Lortl, if Thuu'rt extreme 
Our iniquity ta mark, 
Faithles-5-heedless-most I deem 
Will be proved iu moment dark. 
Now's the day of grace! oh hear! 
"Occupy till I appear! " 
tle more noise than Thettdas: but he also per-
5. Again, Johnism " adapts itstlf to those 
ished and his follower;; soon were dispersed, &c. impatient of the restraints of the covenants" or 
That Johnism is identical '~ith Theudasism and vows of the sanctuary. 
Many have been pros-
Juda~ism, is evident f~om the fact, that." only elyted into the worship at the temple, "but not 
the si_mpl~r part of be!Ie;~rs are dra~n mto the really converte_d; yet h~ting the odium of being 
delusiOn. 
And agam 
thes~ fanatics refuse turned out, se1ze readily upon this pretence 
to aid the great moral enterpri·es ofthe day." afforded for withdrawing," &c. 
Even. the man wHom they c_In~m as th? ~lessi-
6. J ohnism " ~dapts itself to the prejudices 
ah hnnself has spoken a?,~ms~ the rni_ssiOna_ry J of the ~oor agamst ·the rich." 
Hence they 
cause. 
Matt. 23 : 15. 
This estabhshes Its went mamly to that class to preach and espe-
identity with" Judasism. 
cially did Jesus take this course. 
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Theudas, failing to carry his ~oints bJ: ot~er 
7. "Fanaticism is iu itself contagious, and 
means, took the. sword and perished With it ; some mn1ds are as much in danger when ex-
" and no doubt if these had the power they posed to fanaticism, as their bodies would be if 
would follow his example,· and probably come exposed to the small pox." 
to a similar end. Why, one of'' these deluded 
fanatics," a poor ignorant fisherman, whose 
name I believe was Peter, actually took the 
sword and cut off the ear of Malchus, one of 
the servants that went out to take their Leader 
into custody: besides, when they were about 
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preaching, they spoke against the priesthood 
and the temple, &c. 
They called the scribes 
and pharisees " hypocrites," a " generation of 
vipers:" and sent them all to hell, i. e. all that 
REMARKS. 
1. We see the bad effects of J ohnism on 
those that are deluded by it. 
Call the scribes 
and pharisees hypocrites, and the Jewish nation 
a generation of vipers, &c. It is difficult to tell 
what will be the final result on such minds. 
did not believe just as they did.-These things 
Frum the Voice of Truth. 
establish their identity with Theudasism.-But 
"Millerism"--Johnism. 
John has been beheaded, and Jesus lies in the 
2. " The History and Philosophy of this er-
ror, teaches us to beware of spiritual pride." 
Keep in. t~e worship at the temple, be humble 
and retmng, and not think yourselves wiser 
and better than the learned and the experl-
€nced, &c. 
BR. MARSH-Last Lord's day, I heard a ser-tomb, and we could now hope that their delu-
mon on "The History and Philosophy of Mil-ded followers w~ul? come back_ to the temple 
lerism;" While reflecting on the various posi-and _engage. again m the worship of God, and 
tions of the Speaker, it occured to me, that if serviCe of lns ~ouse.' &c. 
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he had lived about eighteen hundred years 
But a que~twn a~i~es here, whicn we propose 
since, he might have pleased the populace by n_ext to consi~Cr ; 1t Is, hol~ could such a delu-
preaching a sermon on the 
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s10n have gamed such an mfluence among the 
people? How could they have gained so many 
proselytes to their fanaticism? 
"Their lead-
ers were not the most thoroughly versed in the 
science of biblical literature :" Jesus was a 
poor, uneducated mechanic, and John was as 
near being a farmer as anything else. 
These 
questions we will try to answer. 
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF JOHNISM. 
Of course, he would have preached it the Sab-
bath after the Crucifixion. His text might have 
been taken from Deut. 18: 15-" The Lord 
thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from 
the midst of thee, of thy brethren ; like unto 
me: unto him shall ye hearken." His sermon 
would probably have been something like the 
following: 
JoHNISM is a beliefthat God would raise up 
" The sentiment has a proselyting power 
over two classes of minds : 
1. Those having a natural curiosity to lmow 
who the Messiah is-what kind of a man he is, 
and 
3. "We are taught the importance of implic-
it confid~~ce in God to keep us fr·om falling in-
to errOt'. 
In this last remark, at least, I presume we 
shall all most heartily unite. It is truly impor-
tant, and as important fm· the learned and the 
great, as for fishermen, farmers and mechau.-
ics. 
If the above sermon had been preached on 
the Sabbath after the Crucifixion, I think it 
would have conta~ned as much truth and as 
correct logic as did the sermon I he~rd from 
the desk of the third Presbyterian Church in 
this city last Sabbath evening. 
But I remember that these very. times were 
predicted in the blessed book that reveals to us 
the glorious hope of the true Israel of God. 
Let us be humble and thank God that we were 
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not left to fulfill those sa~e prophecies, but 
" lift up our heads and rejoice, that the day of 
our redemption draweth nigh." 
Yours in the blessed Hope, 
L. P. JunsoN 
Rochester, .9.pril 19, 1844. 
Pilate & Herod made Friends 
reading the Scriptures," because they prophesied 
more peace than before. The little horn he makes 
Nero, and as he persecuted the saints three or four 
years, he thinks it is near enough to the time. God 
is not very particular. 
Dr. Green. We should get along very well with 
the Prof's expo~ition, ha<! not that angel been so 
officious and said, ''That the fourth beast shall be 
the fourth kingdom upon the ear~h, which shall be 
diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the 
but we confess with a stron!f misgiving that we 
shall have to YIELD our convictions to this little 
book. 
WE ADVISE all who are curious in such 
matters, to get a copy without delay. 
It is not often 
that we can say there is SOMETHING NEW in the 
prophecies, and at the' same time PROBABLY TRUE." 
It is highly gratifying to see a Methodist take a 
Baptist by the hand and wish him God speed in 
proving the Son of man is not at the doors. 
BY M1ss E. C. CLEMoNs. 
whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in 
PART III. 
pieces. Now, how can a third be a fourth, for the 
(Enter Prof. Brown, Elder White, Dr. Green, Far-Grecian kingdom eertainly preceded this, and we 
mer Cleaveland and Dr. Proudfit.) 
have said that the first half of the Grecian kingdom 
Dr. Green. Well, Gentlemen, I am most happy was the third, corresponding to the third kingdom 
to see you. I trust we shall be as abundantly edified of brass, and the other part was the fourth, corres-
by comparing Prof. Stuart's views with those of ponding to the iron part of the image, and to the 
others, as we have been in attending to Prof. goat of chap. 8th. 
Bush's! 
Farmer C. It was diverse from all the beasts that 
Prof. Brown. The hints on the Interpretation of were before it. 
In what respect was the divided 
prophecy,by Prof. Stuart, were certainly very timely Greek Empire different from those before it. Where 
-and effectually checked the tide of error, which was the wide difference between the Syrian and 
was fast rolling in, as all will remember. (Aside, I the other three kingdoms, into which Alexander's 
suppose I must eulogize him as he is a Congrega-was divided? Dan. viii. 21. The rough goat is the 
tionalist.) Farmer Cleveland, what say you to the kingdom of Grecia, and the horn that is between his 
"Hints." 
eyes is the first king. 
Now we might admit that 
Farmer C. Stuart's rules of interpretation are they were divic.led, if there were no contradictions 
good, and &o are his general remarks on the nature and absurdities involved in the supposition, and if 
of prophecy .-He says, "Every passage of ~crip· the "plain, primary, and literal sense" reading, did 
ture, or of any other book, is to be interpreted as not teach us otherwise. 
bearing its plain and primary, and literal sense, 
Hear what admissions Rollin, the Catholic histori-
unless good reasons can be given, why it should an,makes: "It is generally agree(!," he says, in his re-
be tropically understood;" this is very well, but it flections on the Prophecies of Daniel, (see Rollin's 
were better if the lE:arned man observed his rules. 
Ancient Hist. in 6 vols., vol. 1, p. 352,) "that these 
Dr. Green. Well, well, we shall see. I consider two visions, the one of the image com;wsed of dif-
that applying the little horn to Antioch us a mas-ferent metals, the other of the four beasts that came 
terly hint, decidedly. Mr', Morris thinks so too-he upout of the sea, signified so many different mon:ir· 
supposes the 2300 days must be literal days-the chies, which were to succeed one another,-were 
length of the vision, "covering the whole time of to be successively destroyed by each other, and 
the persecutions of the Jews by .Antiochus," from were all to give place to the eternal empire of Jesus 
August 5, 171 to Dec. 25, 165, B. C. i.e. for 2333 Christ, for whom alone they had subsisted. (Sime-
days, rather more than 2300, but sufficiently near, on hath declared how God at the first did visit the 
Mr. M. thinks, no matter if every jot and tittle of Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.) 
God's word is not fulfilled-only build up our It is also agreed that these four monarchies were 
theory. 
those of the Babylonians, of the Persians and Medes 
Eld. White. So do I, when I read the powerful united, of the Macedonians, and of the Romans.-
wor ks of Chase and Dowling; but then others say This is plainly demonstrated by-the very order of 
that it is the papacy, and sustain their position just their succession." He also says, (ib. p. 351,) "that 
as ably; as the slave said, 'some people tangle the in the third year of Cyrus, in the first month of that 
Bible so!' 
year,Danjel gave himself up to mourning and fasting 
Farmer C. Would it not be wPll to remember the for three 'weeks together. 
He was then near the 
assertion of Daniel, when interpreting N ebuchad-river Tigris, in Persia. (Observe that this occurred 
nezzar's dream,-that there is a God in Heaven, after the dominior;wof the first beast, Babylon, was 
that revealetl1 secrets, and maketh-known to the taken away.) When this time of fasting was end-
king what shall be in the latter davs. 
ed! he saw the vision concerning the succession of 
P1·of. Brown. It is gratifying that we all agree the kings of Persia, the empire of the Greeks, and 
as to the first two beasts, which correspond with the conquests of the Romans. 
This revelation is 
the two first divisions of the image-the difference related in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth chapters 
of opinion seems to commence with the third em-of the prophecies of Daniel.'' Thus Rollin allows all 
pire. 
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we wish him to allow, for if this is true, the days 
Dr. Green. Let us see; Prof. Stuart reasons very must be years. But to return to the childish views 
justly, in his inestimable and timely "Hints," that of Prof. Chase. 
the fourth beast is the divided Grecian Empire, and 
Read the 7th verse of the 8th chapter; there we find 
its little horn, Antiochus, whom he also makes the the goat, the fourth kingdom, according t'' Stuart 
horn of Daniel eighth. Let us refer to the law at!d and Chase, coming in the great fury of his power, 
to the testimony, and having a theory in our hearls from the west, casting down and stamping upon the 
to sustain, I doubt not we shall find it accommoda-ram, (which the angel said was Medo-Persia,) and 
ting as usual. Dan. vii. 7, reads, ''After this, I then waxing very great. Here is the interesting 
saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, spectacle of the fourth kingdom flying with the 
dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and speed of wrath from Europe, over the Hellespont, 
it had great iron teeth-it devoured, and brake in Asia-Minor, and the Euphrates, "charging upon, 
pieces, and st~~;mpe4 the residue with the feet of it; and vanquishing the second kingdom." The third 
it was diversel"rom all the beasts that were before kingdom of brass, which was to bear rule over all 
it; and it had ten hor:ns." Now there is a diflicul-the earth, where was it all this time? Evidently a 
ty, it must be allowed, in disposing of this fourth nonentity, an abstraction, a fi~ure of speech-a 
beast, which Stuart makes the fifth kingdom. 
spiritual kingdom forsooth. as some suppose God's 
Eld. White. How the fifth kingdom ? 
everlasting kingdom will be. 
Dr. Green. w·hy, if the symbol of the Grecian 
Dr. Proudfit. Oh, nonsense; you are not quali-
Farmer C. But Hengstenberg, one of the evan-
ge!ical school in Germany, ohjects verv much to 
the dividing one kingdom into two. He savs, in 
Dan. vii. 6, it is said ofthe third kingdom, "After-
wards I beheld! and lo another beast like a leopard, 
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl: 
and the beast had also four heads; and dominion 
was given to it." Here the kingdom of Alexander 
manifestly is symbolized, together with that of his 
principal successors. Compare this passage d the 
seventh with vii!. 8: The he-goat, which the angel 
says, ver. 21, is Grecia, waxed very great, and when 
he was strong, the great horn or kingdom was bro-
ken, and for it came up four notable ones, to-
wards the four winds of heaven." Dan. viii. 22, 
"Now that being broken, whereas lour stood up for 
it, four kingdoms shall arise out of the nation, but 
not with his power." If now the four horns here 
symbolize the four kingdoms (Egypt. Syria, 'fhrace 
and Macedonia,) arising out of Alexander's kingdom, 
how can it fail to be perceived that the four heads, 
mentioned in Dan. vii. 6. symbolize the same king-
dom? 
I:Iengstenberg secondly orjects, that the 
manner in which the fourth kingdom is described, 
makes the assumption impossiblr·, that it is the 
kingdom of Alexander's successors. 
From Dan. ii. 
33, 40, he says it is evident that a kingdom is de-
scribed, which at first formed a whole, and only at a 
later period was divided. 
This is especially clear 
in ver. 41. 
That the feet and toes of the Colossus 
are partly of iron, and partly of clay, is bert! ex-
plained-the fourth kingdom shall be divided. But 
if the division is symbolical by this mixture, then 
the entirely iron legs must symbolize an undivided 
kingdom." Such are his views, in accordance with 
the lon; established opinion that the Roman Empire 
is the tourth kin!J,dom of the prophet. 
Dr. Green. How is this 1 You a Millerite, and 
quote from a German author ? absurd ! 
Farmer C. You will remember that Germany 
has yet a few, who are stemming the tifle of error 
which is coming in on the great majority of he; 
writers. And Hengstenberg is not the least among 
her evangelical theologians. He says, finther, "If 
we consider the fourth kingdom to be that of the 
Greeks, we cannot point out the ten kings or king-
doms, which, according to the 5th .chapter, vs. 7, 8, 
24! were to anse from the fourth kmgdom, nor the . 
king who was to annihilate three ot them. 
Dr. Proudfit. Cannot poiut out the ten kings? 
why yes we can; we reckon up the kings that 
reigned on one of the horns, Svria-before Antio-
chus, and they make ten, and tliese must make ten 
horns of the vision ! 
. Farmer C. Why not reckon up the kings, and the 
aspirants, too, of the four dynasties, if they consti-
tutPd the fourth emDire ? 
Dr. Proudfit. For the very good reason, you ig-
noramus, 
tha~ they would make too many. We 
agree with Dr. Bond, that there is 80mething new in 
the prophecies which is probably true. 
Prof. Prawn I do not quite approve of Prof. 
Empire is divided, and the first part commencing fied to judge. Dr. Bond, the ahle editor of the 
with Alexander, made the third kingdom, and the Christian Advocate and Journal, t~peah very highly 
remainder, consisting of the divisions of his king-of Prof. Ch<~ se's work. The Dr. says, speal;ing of 
dom, ruled by his successors, is the fourth dominion, a 11 the g:>od Methodists, the followers of W ~sley and 
then the beast, dreadful and terrible, of fierce coun-Fletcher, 11We entreat our readers not to take the 
tenance, (Deut. xxviii. 50,) Rome, which succeeds, alarm at the title of this book. 
The writer does not 
must be the fifth. 
pretentJ to prophesy, nor has the least squinting to-
Eld. White. Oh, no great difficulty ; easily dis-
wards any of tl.te Millerisms of the day. 
Yet if his 
posed of by the ingenious student. It is doubtless views in regard to the prophecies of Daniel be cor-
only a prosopopeire-a figure of speech, thrown in rect, the long estahluhed opinion that the Roman em-
to make up harmony of number, and richness of pire is the fourth kingdom of tbe prophet, must give 
style. Such incongruities abound in the Bible.-wa'IJ to the more successful researches of Dr. Chase. 
We shall find little trouble, however; for no man Some other opinions which have been thought to 
yet, with a good strong theory in his head, ever be settled be-~Jond doubt, are terribly shaken. We 
fails to build it up from the Bible. In this, Mr. confess we are STAGGERED though not overthrown. 
Colver was eminently successful. So satisfactory We must read again, and compare our author's 
was the construction of his theory, that several per· views and arguments with Rollin and the com men-
sons had, in consequence, "·increased pleasure in tators whom we had followed. 
This we must do, 
Chase's construction of the passage under consider-
ation. Bishop Newton,and also Sir Isaac Newton, 
both lay it down as an 
e~tablisbed princip]P that a 
horn in the style of Daniel, doth not signify any 
particular kin!?, but is an emblem of a kingdom.-
This is a principle settled beyond a doubt, and I 
cannot say with Dr. Bond that, in mr mind, it is 
terribly &haken. Besides, as I understand it the 
brother takes his one horn, ~yria, anti plants' ten 
horns upon it, whereas, in the pr()phecy, they are 
firmly rooted in the head of the fourth beast. I am 
a little suspicious of the consPquences of givincr 
away the long established opinions to the more sue": 
£essful researches of Prof. Chase. 
Dr. Proudfit. (Aside to Prof. Brown.) Never 
mind. We thus escape the conclusion that the great 
event at the close of the prophetic periods is the 
coming of Christ, and the setting up of God's ever-
lasting Kingdom, anJ that is very important to be 
established to prevent delusion. 
Prof. Bro,on. Of course-of course. Well, I am 
:villing to hear candidly on both sides, and then 
JUdge. 
Dr. Proudfit. There is a very great objection to 
carrying down the vision for so long a period, as 
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we must if we uo not call the little horn Antiochus. any more pain, for the former things have 
Let it be understood, that the vision is. closed up, passed away. "-N. H. Bap. Reg. 
by that very illustriou-; tributarr, and :t. .cvmylacent 
satisfaction steals over the mmd. It mspues the 
THE CHURCH.-The divine command says, 
agreeable faith, all things re~ain as they were from "Lay not up h·easu1·es on earth;" yet, as a 
the beginning of the creatwn,. effectually so?thes body, the church has become rich. 
From the 
the a(Titation and trouble of lookmg the fearfuiJudg-
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mother down to the youngest daughter, t ey 
Bologna are not sufficient to prevent the night-
ly depredations to which that city is exposed. 
The leading Italian political refugees in Paris 
have been sent for by the Prefect of Police, 
and cautioned against carrying on or entering 
into any conspiracy for revolutionizing Italy. 
:nP.nt in the face. 
With Dr. Bond 
am most ap· 
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PY to be staggered in the advent belief of those su-have their t1·easu1·e on ea'rlh, ega ly 
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IBLE.-A French officer, who was a 
perstitious men, Wesley and Fle.tcher. 
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bodies corporate, and incorporate, from the prisoner, on his parole at Reading, met with a 
Prof. Brown. I am pleased wtth the tact d;splay-enormous sum of millions, down to hundreds Bible. He read it, and was so struck with its 
eJ by Stuart; he asserts that the little horn, (be~ond and tens of dollars. The same may .b~ said o~ contents that he was convinced as to the truth of 
all doubt) Antiochus, made war. upon the.sawts, many individual members and 1ntntsters of Christianity,andresolvdtobecomeaProtestant. 
and prevailed a.gainst them, u~tll the AncJ~nt 
0~ churches.-They are as eager to lay up treas-When his gay associates rallied him for taking 
days came, ~nd JUdgment.was given to ti.H• sawt~ ot ures on earth as the unconverted worldling. so serious a turn, he said in his vindication, 
the Most Htgh and the time rame that the samts , 
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e ween "I have done no more than my sc oo -1e ow, 
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shan~ the same fate at his han~s, as i!l the case ~he church ~nd the wo~ . 
It t e c. urc ,I BarnadJtte, who is become a ut eran. 
~' es, 
mentioned. This means, accorumg to his construe-IS an easy thmg ~or a r1~h m.an to enter mto the but he became so," said his associates, "to 
tion that the Ancient of days came and rendered kingdom; but w1th Christ, It was hard, nearly obtain a crown." "My object," said the Chris-
judgment to Jhe Saints, vindicat~d the cause. of the or quite impossible. With the church, covet-tian officer " is the same," We only differ ns 
pious, and restored to them. the kmgdom which h~d ousness is no sin, it is not rebuked in its mem-to the plac~. The object of Barnadotte is to 
been taken away ~y Anl~ochu~. Now who will hers; but with Paul it was idolatry, and would obtain a crowu in Sweden; mine, mine to ob-
no~ allow t0hatVthJs I~d~ery1mgemodu~ al t lpehst. ou, at exclude its possessor from the kingdom of God. tain one in HEAVEN .-Eng. Paper . 
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are four are four kinrrdoms which shall arise out ltve and the present church. The first was poor 
"WITHOUT REMEDY,"-" He that bemg 
of the e~rth. He do;s not ~ay 1hat the three first but benevolent, despised, persecuted, and co~-often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall be 
arEJ four, by dividing the third, to tht! last. part of posed of strangers and pilgrims on earth. ~hde suddenly destroyed, and that without remedy." 
which the fourth beast, dreadful and ternble ~x-the latter is covetous, and at least as rich as -Prov. xxix : 1. 
ceedingly, J?Ust correspo~d, for the ac~omm.odatwo the world around them ; is highly esteemed, not 
Destruction without remedy ! Fearful con-
of the admuers of the fmihser~ble hSykr~andmbutary · persecuted, but persecutes! and has its treasu1·e, clition for a thinking sensitive, deathless spirit. 
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plucked up by the roots; and IJehold in this of members. 
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a doom ! Through all the trymg VlCISSlt.~des 
horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a 
As a gener~l re~ark, the prtnc.tplts of com~ of his mortal life ; when cares press upo~ h~m ; 
mouth speaking great things. And he waxed exceed mon deal are Identically the same m the church providences frown ; friends desert ; affilChons 
ing ly great, and cast some of the stars to .the and the world. "The love of money, the root beat, and terrors appal, he shall have no sub-
gr o~nd and st~mped upon them_. 
And. preva~le~ of all evil," originates and comple~es ~he bar-stantial remedy. He has no Almighty friend 
agamst the Samt~ of the Most H•gh,, unlll the time gains contracts deeds bonds obhgatwns and to whom he can appeal · no gracions succor on 
came that the samts posses&ed the kmudom.-25th 
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ver. of 7th Chap. And he (Antiochus, ~ccording to busmess engag~m~nts 0 t ~ c urc 
an 
e wh.ICh he can rely. 
Alo~e, unsuppo.rte , un-
Stuart and Chase,} shall speak grea~ words agawst world. The prmciple of dotng t~ other~ as we gmded., he goes down to h1s grave, Without ?ne 
the Most High, and_think to ch~nge times a~d 1a~s; tvo.uld that they ~hould do unto .us, of lovu~g our reflec~wn t~ sooth~, or one h?pe. to cheer htm. 
and they shall be give~ .i~to lus.h~nd, until a t1me ne.tg_hbor as ones self; .has giv~n pl~c~ m the Lonel~ness IS)the history of hts hfe-darknes~, 
and times, and the d1v1dmg of times. 
But t~e mmistry and church to Its oppos~t.e, VIZ · love of desertion, and terror, are the attendants of ~,Is 
judgment shall sit, and they shall tak.e away his money and self. 
These are pamful facts, to death. In life there is for him no '' remedy. 
dominion, to 
con~ume and destroy .1t unto the whtch the cries of the down-trodden ~laves, the 
He has no remedy in death ! He h~s lived 
end. 
And the k~ugdom and dommiJnl and the suffering moans ot the defrauded widows and without God so without God must he d1e. The 
rrreatness of the kmrrdom under the who e heavens 
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everlast:nrr 'KI·nodom and all domin-pressed poor of our world, and the datly trans-struggle s1ezes him. 
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actiOns of ?us.mess m~n o t e c urc ' ear .e covers h1m ; h1s ey~ glazes and fixes .m eat ; 
'I o be continued. 
most convmcmg testimony. 
And the . case Js his form stiffens ; lus senses reel ; h1s soul de-
rendered doubly painful, when we reahze that parts. But in this strange and terrible expe-
" 'Tts THROUGH MUCH TRIBULATION",'' &c.-there is no hope of a reformation: .your on!y rience, there is for him ''no remedy." 
The greatest favorites of heaven have to wade safety then, is, to leave a body wh~ch .acts m 
He has no remedy in judgment ! Aghast, and 
through affiictions.-Trials of various kinds such open violation to the sacred prmc1ples of convulsed with fear, he draws nigh the throne 
press close upon their being. 
'Tis thro~gh equity and truth, and neglects to correct her of destiny. 
He sees the glorious Advocate, 
much tribulation that any saint enters the Kmg-wrongs. 
. 
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with the throng, which no man can number, of 
dom of God. Our sun may shine brightly for a 
Pride is anothe: ~rymg sm ?fthe church. ~t those washed by his blood, and ~edeemed by 
season, and our way be marked with. c~lmness is true that the mmistry occasiOnally rebuke 1t his love. 
He sees the scroll of hfe unrolled ; 
and tranquility, but how suddenly ts It often in p~·ecept ; but with the. ~?ass, precept is W_Ith-every disguise removed ; the rec.ord of every 
overcast with portentous clouds i and our out example. They ar~ hvmg examples ot prt~e, secret sin, every passion, and ever! shame set 
course ruffled with troubles, inward and out-ostentation, and vamty. 
Compare them With forth in characters of fire. 
There IS no blood 
ward, personal and relative ! How ?ften is bit-Christ, or the primitive mi~istry, and oh ! how to wash ; no voice of intercession to excuse ; 
terness mingled with the sweets of hfe! Troops wide the contrast-there Is n?. resemblance. no friend or helper to assist. He hears from 
of diseases stand ready to attack our persons, The church, also, talks of hu~mhty, and pray every voice, and sees in every glance, t~at 
and floods of sorrow t~ break in upon our souls, for more; but at the same time her members there is" no remedy." New Yo1·k Evangeltst. 
or grief, at the loss of those, bound to us by the are found, as it were, standing in the corners 
tenderest ties, may cut us to the heart .. '·We of the street inquirin~ f?r the latest fashions of 
STATE OF THE CAUSE.-The Lord is with us 
that are in this tabernacle do groan bemg bur-the w~rld, eager to Imitate them. 
Instead of in this city. 
Never have we witnessed a more 
dened." 
not bemg conformed ~o the world, as God re-unshaken faith in the speedy coming of Christ 
There ia nothing strange in the fact, that quires the great desire seems to be to conform 
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has babtized a number at Scottsville and Fow-
This world is not the place of their rest.-God, 
What but pride rears the costly domes, and 1 
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no -York, and Boston. He de'signs, the Lord will-
rendered the right to lay on them whatsoever mg. I~ pr1de does not rei&n m the church, then ing, to return soon. The good cause is pros-
He pleases, and deal with them as shall best she retgns no where. 
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or 100 happy children commemorated the suf-
ness. God never leads the saints through deep world. 
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rious end. 
How often do the ransomed go eth the proud, 
and will soon destroy them.-
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God's people are coming out of 
mourning all the way to Mount Zion-with de-
Voice of Truth. 
iia~~lo:~ a:Jr;ejoicing in hope of soon re~gning 
sires thwarted-hopes dashed and comforts em-
. 
l yon the new earth. The work lS the 
bittered But the Covenant of the God of peace 
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with th~m shall not be broken. They shall tri-
lTALY.-The last letters from ~taly are full of Lord's and w1ll prevai .-,. ou-e D.! 
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umphantly enter the rest above with songs of accounts oft?e armed ba~ds which ~ave oflate 
A FOLLOWER OF JEsus !-The salary of the 
everlasting joy. "And God shall wipe away re-appeared m the Appemnes a~d .m the low 
db 
500 
all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no country on the coast of the Adrt.atlc! and that Bishop of Canterbury Eng. is 'fP 76. 
pr. an-
more sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be all the troops the Pope has at h1s disposal at num. 
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124 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
. 
1utnt li)trnlh & ltteportcr. 
"THE LORD IS AT RAND." 
J offers of mercy which have been ex~endeJ t~ the 
'j Jew: ~ince the commen~ernent of t~eu seven ttmes 
cap11v11y.· In the evenmg, bro. L1tch lectured at 
In the afternoon bro. Litch lectured at Franklin 
Hall on the necessity of a preparation for the Lord's 
coming, and the certainty of the Father's good 
pleasure to give the kingdom to his children. He 
showed that Christ nevt•r designed his people should 
look to this world for ease, or wealth, or honor, I ut 
enjoined upon them to lay t1p their treasures in 
heaven, that their hearts might be 
~here. And as 
Israel,(m that memorabli' night, when they came out 
of Egypt, eat the passover with their loins girded 
about, their shoes on tl1eir feet, and their staves in 
their hand, ready to depart at the first signal; so 
should we now live with our loins girded about and 
our lamps burning, like unto men that wait for 
their Lord, that when he cometh and knocketh we 
we may open unto him immediately. 
BOSTON, !flAY ~2, 1844. 
I 
Delancy st. church, on the three woe trumpets of 
Rev. He showed the accuracy of the fulfillment of 
the five months-150 years-that the 1\lahomedans 
FUNDAMENTAL P:RlN(;ll'LES 
ON WHlCH THE 
SECOND ADVENT CAUSE IS BASED. 
1.-The word of God teaches that this earth is to be re-
generated, in the restitution of all things, and restond to 
its Eden state a!f it camefi'om the hand of its Makt!r be-
fore the fall, and ill to be the eternal abode of the right· 
eou~ in their resurrection 1tate. 
IL-The only .Milleniumfound tn the word of God, is 
the 1000 year.! which are to intervene between the first and 
second resurrections,as brought to view in the :.:Oth of Rev-
elations. And the various portion11 of Scripture which 
are adduced as et idwce of such a period in time, are to 
have their fulfilment only in the New Earth, wherein du•ell-
eth rigllteou11ness. 
III -'l'he only restoratton of Israel yet future, is there-
storation of the Saints to the New Earth, when the Lord 
my God shall come, and £J/l his saints with him. 
IV.-The signs which were to precede the coming of our 
Sauior, have all been given; and the prophecieiJ have all 
been fulfilled but tho11e which relate to the coming of Christ, 
the end of this world, and the restitution of all things. 
V.-ThPre are none of the prophetic periods, as we un-
derlltand them, extending beyond the [Jewish] year 1843. 
OCT The above we shall ever maintain a/J the immutable 
truths of the word of God, and therefore, till our Lord 
come, wr shall ever look for his return as the next euent 
in historical prophecy. 
N flTF..-7he above was written in the Jewi11h year 1843 
which has now expired. Acco1·ding to the best c.l!.ronolo-
ger• the captiuity of Manasseh, the commencement of the 
11even times, or 2520 years of Levit. 26th. was B. C. 677; 
also the ca;ptirity of /flwiakim. the comnencement of the 
Grpat Jubilee, or 2-!50 years, 1ca1 B. C. 607 ; also the 
decree to rebuild Jerusalem in the seventh of Artaxerxe.•, 
the commencement of the 70 weeki and 2::00 days, of Dan. 
8th and 9rh, was g-iven. B. C. 457; and also the taking 
away of Pagani&m in Ron.e, the commencement of the 1335 
days of Dan. 12th, was about A. D. 508. Reckoning 
from thoiJe sevet al dates, tlte t·e~rpective periods can extend 
only to about the Jewish Year l!J-. 
This being ended, 
our published time is now pa~t ; but as we can find no new 
date.~ for the events fi·om which we have reckoned those 
periods, we cannot extend them beyor.d the ttme specified, 
which has been our only timP; and yet our faith is as 
strong as ever, that at the end of tho/Je periods the Lord 
will surely come ; while we can only wait for hill coming 
./JU.Ch time as human chronology may have variedfi·om the 
exact-~e,-continttally looking for, and momentarily ex-
pecting his cppem•ing. 
1'/tis we do in accordanre with 
Hab. ii. 3,-•• For the vision is yet for an appointed time, 
but at the end" [of the prophetic periods] •·it shall speak 
and not lie ; though it tarry," [beyond their appm·ent 
termination] ••waitfor it; beciJuse" [when they arefulfill-
ed]" it will surely come, it will not tar1·y,'' 
E~itorial Correspondence. 
Dear Bro. Hale,-Our ,!.Qvent Confwmc~ com-
menced at Franklin Hall, on :Mo.nJay. The lore-
noon was occupied by a consideration of the 23d 
chapter of Jeremiah, and parallel portions of Scrip-
ture, the brethren having formed themselves into a 
Bible-class. In the afternoon, the brethren had a 
conference and prayer-meeting, brn. Teal, Mat-
thias and Snow addressed the meeting. In the eve-
ning, bro. Battersby lectured on the 2d of Daniel at 
DeLancy street. 
Tuesday forenoon was occupied in a Bible class, 
in the consideration of the events of the 1000 vears, 
and the question, "Who will have part in th.e first 
resurrection?" and also, "What promise is there to 
the carnal Jews?" At the conference and prayer-
meeting, brn. Curry, Mitchell, and Canfield address-
ed the meeting on the necessity of preparation for 
the Lord's coming, and the scriptural ground of our 
:views. In the ~vening bro. Mitchell preached a 
discourse on waitin!{ for his Son from heaven. 
W-ednesday morning was devoted as usual to Bi-
ble-class eKercises. 
The question considered, was, 
th~ "Desolation of Zion, and the prospect of her 
coming deliNeranee." 
The 7th chapter of Micah 
was particularly examined, in connection with the 
parallel portions of ·Scripture. In the afternoon I 
lectured on the _parahle of our Savior in Luke x~. 
9-16, showing that the :sending the servants and 
Son to the husbandmen correspond with four great 
were to have power to hurt men: and also, the 
hour, day, month, and vear-391 years and 15 days 
-that they were to have power to kill one third 
part of men, reckonin~ from the time Decaozes 
asked permi~sicn of Amurath, to reign, and fulfilled 
Aug. 11th, 1840, '"hen that event was responded to 
by a like surrender of the Sultan's supremacy to 
the allied powers. He then rE:ferred to the proba-
bility that, as the voluntary passin~ away of the 
Grecian supremacy was responded to with such 
accuracy, at the end of 391 years anrl15 days, by 
the voluntary passing away of the Turkish suprem-
acv so the final end of the Grecian empire in the 
co~~uest of Constantinople by the Tur~s on the 
27th day of May, 1453, may be responded to with 
the same accuracy at the end of 391 years and 15 
days from that event by the final end of the Turk-
ish empire in the conquest of its capital by some of 
the Christian powers of Europe. This prohability 
was strengthened by the present aspect of affairs in 
In the evening bro. Himes lectured at the church 
in Delancy street, on the assurance of our Savior 
that he will be with his children to the end of the 
world. He showed first that God had owned and 
blessed us thus far, an evidence that he had been 
with us. 
Second, that he is still with 'JS-the 
cause is his; and third, that we need have no fears 
tor the future, for He who has been with us thus 
far has promised to be with us to tile end. In haste, 
s. BLISS. 
El!rope. The whole of that continent is in a very 
NEw-YoRK, May 9, 1844. 
unsettled state; and Russia, in addition to her 
Bro. Hafe,-The conference was continued on Fri-
force in the Black Sea, is at this moment collecting day-the brethren and sisters held a meeting as a 
an army of 200,000 men on her southeastern fron-Bible-class in the forenoon at Franklin Hall. The 
tier, noll_linally for t~e purpose of warrin~ with the question under consideration was th.c tarn~of 
Caucaiistans, but whtch looks far more hkely to~~ l.mu"ision, and our duty_ i.2.Jhis ernerg~ncy. In ref-
destined against long-coveted Turl>ey. 
He also al-leren"Ce 0 t-, b. 2u of Hab. and the lOth of Reb. 
luded to the present excited sr.ate of the world as with other kindred texts w;re very fully c.on~idered, 
evidence that the nations are indeed angry. Our and decided to be written in reference to such an 
Conference, we expect, will continue through the 
week. Yours in haste. 
S. Buss. 
NEw-YoRK, l
ay ?.!.. 1844. 
Dear Bro. Hale,-The Conference again met on 
Thursday nwrning, at Fraiilflin Hall. as a Bible-
Class, and considered the nature of the two cove-
nants, or rather the New Covenant which God wiil 
make with his pe0ple "after those days." As il-
lustrative of this, the 31st of Jer. was considered in 
connection with Ezek. 3Gth, Gal. 3d and 4th, and 
Heb. 8th, 9th, and lOth, with parallel passage~.­
The general opinion seemed to be, that the New 
Covenant will only be cot:'summated in the "New 
Earth wherein dwellet.h righteousness." 
A spirit of harmony and love prevails with all 
present. No clashing views are canvassed, and no 
conflictinu interests arise. All are strong in the 
farth, and patitcont)y Waiting for his appearing, WhO 
will not long tarry. 
There are no symptoms of 
going back ; but all are pressing onward, looking 
for the Son from Heaven. 
We learn from those 
from the country that there is no faltering there ; 
but in all places the brethren remain steadfast, 
grounded upon the word of God. 
Great exciterr.ent prevai!s in this city, on_ account 
of the riots in Philadelphia. This (Wednesday) 
aftf>rnoon, the native Americans we1e to have a 
mass meeting in the Park to sympathise with the 
friends uf those whr> have been murdered by the 
Irish, but feared violence and postponed it. Accor-
ding to the last reports the city i!1 in possession of 
the mob, who h:t'e burned ahout one hundred 
buildings, includmg four Catholic churches, with 
other public buildings, and seem resolved to exter-
minate all that pertains to th~ Catholic Irish. A 
dozen or more Americans were shot down by the 
Irish. It was the remark of a Philadelphia divine 
a year or two since, that during the millenium all 
the men in the world would not be christians ; but 
the state of society would be every where similar to 
the present state of society in Philadelphia. Tiley 
now can have a foretaste of their expected "latter 
day glory!!!" 
emergency, that the hearts of those looking for the 
Lord might be encouraged to patient waiting. The 
question then arose as to where we could gu back,if 
we were so disposed : and on a review of the whole 
question, it was the unanimous opinion of tho:;e 
present, that there could be no going back only ro 
perdition. Anti tbe Conference wish to have it un-
derstcood every when•, that they nave nothing to give 
up, or to go back to-not being of the number of 
those who draw back unto perdition, but intend to 
believe to· the saving of their souls. 
After these 
exercises several reports were made from tho3e 
abroad, ofthe state of the cau:;e in various placeo;; 
and while quite a number of conversions were re-
ported since the passing by of the time; yet there 
were no known desertions. 
In the afternoon bro. I. H. Shi man lectured at 
the same place, on the parable of the supper in 
Luke 14th. This he showed to be the marriage 
supper of the Lamb, when those who are recom· 
pensed at the resurrection of the just, will eat 
bread in _the Kingdom of God. He also showed 
that God was now sending his ~ervants to those 
who have been biddP.n, to inform them that all 
things are now ready; but that the various sects, 
as in the parable, have begun with one consent to 
say," I pray thee have me excusrd,"-some turn-
ing to their farms, others to their merchandize, and 
others to their pleasures,-so that they cannot 
come; and therefure, the Master of 1he house is 
again sending forth his servants quickly into the 
streets and lanes of the city, that they may Lring 
in the larue, the halt, and the blind, that !:is house 
may be furnished with guests; for not one of tho~e 
who were bidden and have rejected the summons 
to come in, shall taste of his supper. 
In the evening, bro. S. S. Snow lectured at the 
church on the corner of Delancy and Chrystie sts.-
His subject was the sounding of the seventh trum-
pet as the ushering in of God's Everlasting King-
dom. 
He spoke uf the angel in R~!v. x. 1, as the 
Advent angel, and the "little book" which he held 
"open in his hand," as the book of Dlniel, which 
A .• D. 1844. 
AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES REPORTER. 
125 
was to be "closed np a-ad sealed," till the time of 
The latest advices.state that tran9uility wasl 
A Par.is paper a~nounces .that t~e E~peror 
the end and which consequently would then be everywhere re-estabhshed. 
The prtsoners ar-of Austrta has pubhshed an tmpertal ordmance 
open. 
The conference closed with the exercises of rested and in custody in Rome and Naples had interdicting, under the severest penalties of fine 
the evening. 
In haste, 
s. Br.rss. 
been, or were about to be, liberated. 
The and imprisonment, any Catholic subject of his 
NEw-YoRK, May ll, 1842. 
.D.ugsburg Gazette has the following from Rome, majesty to embrace Protestantism, without hav-
April 2:-The special tribunal of Bolog-ing previously obtained an express permission 
na has just delivered its judgment against from the government, which permission will 
some of the recent promoters of dtsturbance of not be granted except in s<>rious cit·cumstances, 
Foreign News 
1 the second class. 
Some have been sentenced and until the competent authorities shall have 
The news from the OJd World is of a to perpetual imprisonment, and others to va-admitted the necessity of such a change. 
rious periods of confinement, of from 5 to 25 
It would appear that murders are alarmingly 
BY TilE BRITANNIA. 
very interesting character, particularly from 
Turkey. 
It would seem that she is rousing 
herself for a last desperate effort. 
"The news from Turkey is. at once startling 
and characteristic. 
The government had is-
sued a summons to its Musselmen subjects, 
commanding their attendance in their mosques 
on a stated day, to hear an imperial dect·ee 
which materially affected their interests. 
All 
the troops in the garrison were got under arms, 
and, with their assistance, the mosques were 
surrounded, and some 15,000 men, including 
the survivors of the famotJS Jamssary corps, 
were seized under pretence of military service, 
and transported in steamers and ships of wat· 
to the islands in the sea of Marmora. 
They 
were then rigidly examined; many of those 
who 
wer-e known to 
be living 
in service 
were sent back to their masters, while the rest 
were ordered to be enlisted in the naval or mil-
itary services. This extraordinary measure is 
attributed not to any actual necessity for fresh 
conscripts, but to a prevailin_g rumor that a 
conspiracy was in progress for the purpose of 
making a general attack upon the Franks, as a 
retaliation for the late concessions to France 
and England in regard to renegades. 
On the 
28th ultimo the Porte added '8000 men to its 
army ; and it was said that a levy of 10,000 
Armenians, 7500 Greeks, and 3000 Jews, was 
about to take place i.n the arsenal, rope-works, 
tanneries, the cloth factories, &.c., in order to 
strengthen the naval and military force of the 
empire ; 8000 men being about to be sent to 
Syria. The Porte has given way on the sub-
ject of converts to Mahomedanism. 
A commu-
nication to this effect had been made to the 
British Ambassador. 
In future, seceding con-
verts at·e not to be punished on the spot, in the 
provinces, as heretofore, but are to be sent to 
Constantinople, to be dealt with by the govern-
ment according to circumstances-that is to 
say, are not to be put to death. 
The Porte is 
about sending Fuad Effendi on a special mis-
sion to Madrid, nominally to congratulate the 
young Queen on her majority, but really to 
treat ofthe existing differences between Spain 
and the 8mperor ofMorocco. 
Reschid Pasha 
the Pasha of Roumelia, has been ordered to 
send troops to repress the excesses of the Alba-
nians. 
The excesses committed have been 
much exaggerated. 
A letter dated Constantinople, April 17, 
says :-The Porte has sent 2000 men in steam-
ers to Snlonica, for the purpose of keeping in 
check the rwtous Albanians. As is customary 
at Constautinople, Russian agents are said to 
be at work exciting these disorders. 
A report 
has been presented to the Sultan by the Greek 
Patriarch, detailing in vivid terms the atroci-
ties r.ommitted by the Albanians. The English 
and Frt3nch Ambassadors have had frequent 
conferences with the Porte.-Liverpool .l'V"ews 
Letter. 
ITALY. 
The accounts from Italy are somewhat con-
tradictory; but matters are evidently in a pre-
carious state. 
The a-ecounts from Italy mention another in-
surrectionary outbreak in Calabria ; but the 
precautions taken by Austria, in conjunction 
with the local governments, arc expected to 
check any general rising for the present. 
years. 
frequent in Paris. ." On Sunday morning," 
A sergeant in the royal guard, at Naples, has s~~s the Commerce, "the body ~f a mu-
been apprehended on suspicion of an intention mctpa! guard was t~ken out o~ the Se.me, near 
to assassinate the King. 
the brtdge of lnvahds. 
The mspectwn of the 
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body showed that he had been murdered. 
It is 
. Some out~a~es have taken place .m t~e lega-said that, five days previously, the bodies of 
hon of Forh, m l~aly, and the pubh.c mmd was two other municipal guards were found in the 
unea~y '·a~ expectmg some extraordmary eve?t. river; and the guards who yesterday identified 
At Rtmtm, an attempt by a company of pontifi-their comrade dedared that in the last fort-
cal volunteers t~ disperse a crowd of people wa8 night, six mdnicipal gu"'ros' perished in the 
successfully resisted. 
same manner." 
Disturbances continued in Sicily. The in-
The Irish repeal agitation, and the govern-
surgents had abandoned the cities and large ment endeavoring to effect its suppression, are 
towns, but it does not appear that many have again occupying a lat·ge share of the public at-
been reduced to obedience. 
tention." 
Later accounts from Palermo speak of the 
famine in Sicily a:s being almost beyond prece-
dent in that Island. 
Thousands of people were 
wandering among the hills, and many had ab-
solutely died of hunger. 
In the Valais, Switzerland, much agitation 
continued to prevail, at the last accounts, in 
consequence of a growing disaffection with the 
government, but no immediately serious results 
were apprehended. 
From Spain we learn that the government 
has began to interfere with the constitution of 
the municipal bodies, and that the councillors 
of Madrid have been entirely changed at the 
dictation of the Ministry. 
Several Carlist 
movements are mentioned, and much activity 
has been observed of late among the refugees 
on the French frontier. 
The quarrel between 
Spain and Morocco is not adjusted, and the Em-
peror, having been informed of the hostile in-
tentions of the Spanish Government, is said to 
have proclaimed the " holy war " against the 
infidels. 
Preparations for the invasion of Mo-
rocco were making at Puerto de Santa l\Iaria, 
where a fine brigade of artillery, destined for 
the expedition,has been already organized. M. 
Castillo was about to leave on a special mission 
to the Court of Rome. 
A letter from Barcelona, of the 18th, states 
that seven unfortunates, suspected of being Car-
list refugees~ were shot within the Spanish fron-
tiers, a few days previously. 
Letters from Gibraltar of the 17th, state that 
Abdel-Kader is putting forward pretensions to 
the throne of Morocco. 
From Portugal we have further accounts of 
the insurrection at Almeida, by which it ap-
pears that no impression had been made on the 
citadel by the bombardment, and that orders 
have been given to stot·m the place. It is, 
however, very doubtful whether the Queen's 
forces are strong enough to carry even so fee-
ble a fortress, not outnumbering those of the 
garrison more than three-fold. 
The JJ.ugsbw·g Gazelle states ft·om St. Peters-
burg that the Circassians are making great 
preparations to resist the forces of Russia, and 
that the troops of the former amount to 90,000 
men, commanded by French and Polish offi-
THE BIBLE.-lt pains me to see the Bible 
treated as it is now-a-days, by many who are 
called learned and good men. 
I am one ot the 
common people. We need and want the Bi-
ble. 
If our veneration and reverence for, and 
our faith in it, is destroyed, we are miserable 
creatures. We cannot draw our consolation 
from the Koran, nor from the wells of philoso-
phy. 
Our minds are weak, and much of our 
time must be spent in earning our daily bread. 
1 would respectfully and earnestly say_, 0, ye 
Biblical crittcs, philologists, theologians, and 
philosophers, take heed what you say and do. 
It may be sport to you ; it is death to us. 
Take not our holy Bible away from us, till you 
have made another yourselycs, better, and bet-
ter suited to meet all our moral and spiritual 
wants ! When you are writing books full of 
learning and genius, remember the poor. If 
you teach them to think lightly of the Bible, 
you will make theit· degradation and wretched-
ness complete.-Ch,·is. Wm·ld. 
"GtvE us ouR DAILY BREAD." 
This is a part of that beautiful and compre,.. 
bensive prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. 
But 0, how many say it in a heartless manner, 
how many say it that have bread enough and 
some to spare to others, and how many there 
are that make this prayer in solemn mockery 
while their bread is wasting. 
But how many, 
0 how many, it is to be regretted, in this land 
of plenty, are under the necessity of saying ~t 
in sober earnest. 
And would it not be well for 
those that have their daily and yearly bread 
prepared, to take a morning walk, and vi:~it the 
places of poverty which surround them, and 
see if there are not some poor little starving 
children, who are praying 'Give us this day 
our daily bread.' Not long since, a benevo-
lent gentleman in the city of Boston, in one of 
hts morning walks, stepped into a poor looking 
tenement, and as be entered the room, all was 
still excepting the voice of a little boy in prayer, 
and that prayer was, 'Give us this day our 
daily bread.' When the little suppliant arose, 
the gentleman said, 'Why do you pray thus ?
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'Because, answered the boy, ' I have nothing 
to eat, and mother who has gone out to wash, 
told me to pray this prayer, and God would 
send me some bread. The gentleman left, 
deeply affected, and sent in a quantity of bread 
cer:~. 
to the little boy . ..:_Soon after, calling again, he 
We learn from Belgrade, April 6, that 60 of found the little fellow satisfying the cravings of 
the persons in Snrvia for political offences, the hunger. He looked up to the gentleman with 
total number of whom is said to be nearly 700, a beaming eye, saying, mother told me if I 
have been condemned to death. 
Among them would pray, 'Give us this day our daily bread,' 
are the ex-Minister Rajewitsch, and several God would send me some bread, and see what 
senators. 
he has sent me. ' 0 how glad I am.' M. Star. 
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Modern Commercial Embarrass-
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feelings oi their clients, and personal rencontres, that lovely but ill-fated land! 
This despotism bas 
rluels, and deaths WE're not unfrequently the result8. crushed :md ruined lovely and unhappy llaly. 
One 
Thousands of men having no connection with of her writers ~ays,-'·If the Christian republics had 
THE CAUSE ASSIGNED BT THE WORD OF GOD. 
the original jndebtedness of the community, be-preserved the religion of Christ as he believt:d it, we 
•• This know also, t71at in the last days perilous came sureties tor others, and imbibing the common should have been in a different state; but by the 
idea, that such liabilities imposed no obligation on Court of Rome the Italians have been made a most 
times shall come, for men shall he · • • TRUCE· BREAK· the conscience, conveyed their property for the ben-irreligious people -
'nearest Rome, the least reli-
ERs." 
efit of their fami!ies, relying upon the sympathies of gion,' is the Italian motto." 
"'Vhoever," says 
Every body has participated more or Jess deeply jurors for protection, on a question of fraudulent another, "considers well the law of the gospel, will 
in the suffering which has resulted from the sus-transfer. In various ways some creditors obtained ~ee that the Popes, though bearing the name of Vi-
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their debts, a few obtained a small part, and many cars of Christ, have introduced another religion, 
pens10n and fluctuatiOn of busmess. for a few years obtained nothing. 
The people Jailed-the merchants which has nothing of Christ but the name. Christ 
past. Every class of the commumty has felt and failed-the sperulators Jailed-the slave-dealcrsfailed, taught his discipleb to be poor-they aspired to be 
bewailed the condition of thir.as, as the limited tor-
the court~ decided that notes given in payment for rich; he taught them to be humble-they are puffed 
nado or the wide-sweeping te;pest have prostrated negroes unlawfully sold were void-the hanks Jailed, up with the lordship of the world and the love of 
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and the bankrupt act balanced the acconnt; and that dominion; be taught them to obey; they to break 
all before them' and the !e gtslatlve halJ, the pul.ptt, the grandeur and symmetrical prorortions of the all oaths." This is the despotiEm, not of the Pope 
the exchange, the countmg-room and the fire-s1de, affair might not be disturbed, the state has repudiated -the poor old man is a cypher-but of the Cardin-
have endeavored to point out the cause of tLe evil, its bonds, and the people, who obtai"!ed. the .money upon als, Princes and Bisbt-ps. .Mr. Kirk then went on 
and to devise a remedy. 
Bad administration of t~e fatth of them,. by P?Pul~r ~~Jonty. m the elec-to speak of the vigilance of Rome. The spirit of 
O'OVernment bad financial systems bad social oraan-t10ns, have sanct%oned tt; mdivtdual 
I~deLtedness old Rome never slumbered. The Bishop of Rome 
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has been swept away by bankrupt certificates, and claimed to be the head of the Church-then go to 
1zat10ns, bad management of the several branches public indebtedness by repudiation-twin brethers the Cardinals and the Priests-and it has destroyed 
of business-all these causes have been dwelt up· of a common paternity-both having claims to a the independence of the Church. In all the recent 
on, and the corresponding remedy has been sugges-favorable consideration in the judgment of some, meetings about Rome, they found that her efforts 
ted, perhaps attempted to be applied. 
But granting when applied to future debts contracted in view of were to e~tablish a politico-religious Roman power 
them, but both infamous as applicable to the past. especially. E\u2022ery feeling of this kmd was mani· 
that all these ha,I causes maY have done something 
What has been said of the indebtedness of Mis· fested in popery. The design, aim and object of 
in producing the result, the grand secret of the trou-sissippi and its causes, is true to a great extent in the present movement was to subdue it m this 
ble, after all, however those most deeply interested Alabama, and to some extent in Louisiana, and an nation. They were determed to oppose its move· 
have been conscious of it, has not bee1.1 so publicly examination of the subject will show, that the ments, and to stand or fall together. 
(Applause.) 
domestic slave trade was the chief cause, not only They mu.>t expect a tremendous conflict m the pres-
spoken of. 
The apostle predicted the fact, and of the overthrow of the prosperity of the south-ent struggle, and it was designed by Providence, 
assigned the cause. It is this. 
The personal dis-western states, but of the financial embarrassments who had selected this to be the last battle field of 
honesty of the age has destroyed the confidence of men of the whole country. It created debts by hundreds Christianity. The religious despotisms of the earth 
in each oth~;r. To use the phrase of business-men, of millions-it exhausted the capital of banks-it were detested as Romish despotisms. In Italy 
issued fifty or sixty millions of state bonds to ere-
there was a crying debt at present in existence, 
"they don't knO'W "'ho to trust." 
ate new banks, and consumed their entire avails-which, like that of England, crippled the resourses 
We give below some facts, which will illustrate it made the nation a nation of bankrupts-it provok· of the country; and taxes which but last year were 
the evil in its operation; yes, "operation!" that is ed the vengeance of Almighty God." 
24, were now 45 a head. The Duke of Tuscany, 
the word by which these legalized villanies are de-
"INsOLVENCY IN ENGLAND. Durin~ the month of who possesses a large fortune, refused to invest it 
signaled. 
March there appeared in the Gazette 97 bankrupts; in stocks at Rome last year, s•ating there was no 
432 insolvents, who have received vesting orders, by security in tLt: place. There was also over the 
Let it be remembered, however, that these give which their persons are protected against their cred-whole country an unquenchable spirit of resistence 
only a small part of the dark picture. 
itors; and 42 assignments to trustees; making a to Roman power, and the Church of .Milan would 
And it ~hould not be forgotten, that many who total of 571 cases of insolvency. There is'-\ gradu-have long since burst out but for an undue inter. 
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ave been engaged in 1 ese operations, are professed were 98 bankrupts, 368 vesting orders granted, and 
Christians, as they must be to fulfil the prophecy-28 assignments-a total of 494. 
Jt may be assum-
"having a form of godliness." 
ed that not more than 011e case in ten is gazetted ; tb is 
The extract which refers to this country is taken would make the insolvencies for March, 1844, 5,710; 
and if there be a deficiency of only £200 in each, 
from the Christian Advocate and Journal of May 1, the monthly loss would be £1,142,000. 
On these 
that which refers to England, from the Liverpool assumed data, the loss during the year 1843 was 
Europtan Times. 
£12,000,000, or considerably more than double the 
poor rates, and three-!evenths of ~be interest of the 
"Dear Dr. Bond :-In my last letter 1 showed you national debt.'' 
that. as the result of speculations, chiefly in lands 
and negroes, the people of Mississippi became in-
volved in debts to the amount of $150,000,000, a "Meeting of the Christian Alliance." 
part of which, by the system of banking adopted 
This Society, the object of which is to circulate 
here, bad been converted into debts to the banks, in the Bible, and promote religious liberty in Italy, 
the expectation that all would be paid from future met at the New York Tabernacle on the evenin!! 
crops of cot ton. 
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The vast debts of these men came into the hands of April lOth, to solicit funds for that purpose. 
of the lawyers, and the extent of the litigation This society has been in existence about ten years, 
which ensued, is probably without parallel in any and is cow exhausted of funds. 
The result of the 
country. In the United States Circuit Court for the meeting was very un<successful, uno gentleman 
soUihem district, comprehending only one half of 
the State, over four thousand suits in favor of credi-came forward to respond to the repeated calls of the 
tors from other states, were brought in a single speaker to hand in subscriptions." 
year, and in the t~o or three ~ucceeding years be-
1\IR. SPENCER H. CoVE said that the apathy of the 
twP.en three and four thousand more, making the people on the subject they had met upon was most 
suits within the period named, in that court alone, discouraging-they bad been working some eight 
between seven and eight thousand. In the county months and could do nothing; not even get as 
of Hines, and against defendants in the county, much as would pay fot' the lights-not even the 
with a white population of less than seven thou-printing. 
sand, and where the white male inllabitants over 
twenty-one years of age did not exceed sixteen 
'Ve make the following extract from the remarks 
hundred, more than five thousand suits were bro't of 1\iR. KIRK on that occasion. 
in the Circuit Court for the county in one year;-
"The character of Papacy interferE's with the 
and in the two or three years succeeding, more whole spiritual headship and kingship of the Lord 
NoDIFFERNCE Now.-While some represent 
the doctrine of the immediate coming of Christ 
as an error, a delusion, and are bringing all 
their powers into requsition to expose its fallacy, 
not a few are throwing out 1 heir bait to decoy 
from the right path. They say, there is nu differ-
ence now between us, since " the time is past ; " 
we all believe in the coming of Christ, and do 
not know but that he may come at any moment ; 
therefore let us cease contending about these 
non-essentials-unite our efforts for doing good, 
and live in peace with each other. 
than eight thousand more, making more tban tbir-Jesus Chri11t. It is oppose<! to Hi<; sacred rights 
teen thousand suits during the same period in one and the highest intt:rests of mankind-tbe right of 
county. A distinguished member of the bar in-conscience. It dictates who and what and when 
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formed me that be had himself instituted five Lun-man shall worship. It takes away from the Savior 
dred suits in the U. S. Court, and one thou!'and in and says, "offer to me your incense-here bow 
WAITING.-Many have now reached that 
the County Court at one term. There are fifty-sev-down in the dust-here seek salvation." It also point where they expected to meet their Lord. 
en_co';lnties in the state, but the relative nu~nber of de_Prives men of their civil rights. Look at Italy, He has ?ot come, and the inquiry is made, 
smts m them aU was not as great, though 1D some , w1thout commt'rce, without aO'riculture, without What will you do now ? Do ? why, just what. 
?f th~m lt was gr~ter. !n the rati? of ~he suits the right of changing her ruler~. no matter ~bat he has told us to do. 
He has told us to wait 
1D thts one COUnty, JDC]udtng the acttons lD the U. lhey do-and see to what decrradation of serVItude , "to watch and pray " and be "ready 
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S. Court, th_e numbe~ of ~uits in this state, OTI and bondage this Papacy red;ces them. Oh! Italy, know not at what hour" your Lord will come. 
causes of actton occurnng between 1833 and 1838, Italy, what a noble mind lies crushed beneath that 
Beware that no mau beguile you with enti-
cing and deceptive words. If there is no dif-
ference between us, why do they trent with ut-
ter neglect, ifnot -vith contempt, those Advent 
hym~s found m their own hymn-books, to say 
nothmg of ours ? Why do th~y not preach the 
near commg of the resurrectaon-the creation 
of new heavens and earth, on which the saints 
with Christ, are to reign forever '? Why d~ 
they_ not expose the fables of a temporal mil-
lennmm, and the return to the land of Palestine 
oft_he carnal Jews; aud why do they not pro-
clatm the fulfilment of the signs of Christ's 
coming, expose the corruptions of the church 
and the world, and come out of Babylon. as 
<?od commands? Let thf'rn answer these ques-
taons before you agree that there is no differ-
ence between us, or be deceived by their flat-
tery.-Voice of Truth. 
mmt have been. three hundred and fifty thlJwand. 
iron foot, and yet men stand and look on in coltl We now stand where we should look for him 
In the confttcts at the bar, counsel partook of the blood, and let Jesuits play their desperate game in "hoUrly."-Voice of Truth. 
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Moral Cause of Insanity. 
The ?'tligiuus press have been fond of making 
it appear that the doctrine of the Advent has 
been a fertile cause of insanity-using the same 
argument that infidels have so long made use 
of against Christianity. 
And every instance 
which could in the most remote manner be tra-
ced to ".Millerism" as the supposed cause, has 
gone the entire rounds of the evangelical press. 
However just they may suppose such a course 
may be in reference to the doctrine of the Ad-
vent, may be seen by the indignation which 
they manifest, when any of their own measures 
are referred to as the cause of the same evil. 
As an illustration, we give the following from 
the Hartford Christian Secretary:-
lated to mislead. We admit that the author of half a cent a week for each communicant. This 
that report has as much knowledge of insanity is the way in which that Church which the Son 
as any other man who has had the same amount of God has purchased with his own blood is 
of experience, but we think quite as egotistical consecrating itself to the work of converting the 
as learned. 
\V e do not believe the cause of world. 
A half a cent a tveek ! "Tell it not in 
insanity can be ascertained sufficiently clear to Gath," &c. 
To those who are looking for the 
warrant a classification of "followers of Knapp, ushering in of the later day glory through the 
Phinney, Kirk," &c. 
instrumentalities now employed, the prospect is 
It would be a very nice discrimination to be gloomy enough. For myself, I thank God for 
able to tell whether an undue religious excite-not having been led to entertain such a view of 
ment is the cause or tjfect of insanity, and still the matter." 
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more difficult to distinguish the " followers" of 
the different religious leaders. 
Religious ma-
LETTER FROM Bao. ELAM BuRNHAM. 
nia usually assumes a melancholic character,-
Bro. Bliss,-! do rejoice every day of my life, 
nothing can be elicited from the patient which that God, wl'.o commnded the light to shine out of 
can be depended upon-the subject upon which darkness, was pleased to s3ine into my heart, to 
the mind dwells seldom gives any clue to the give me some knowledge of his glory, through the 
cause. The friends of the patient are seldom merits of His Son, Jesus Christ; and teaching me 
able to give any account of the cause that led that through his hlood was to be found, by faith, the 
to his insanity, for the simple reason that they forgiveness of all my sins, and then leading me to 
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" In looking over the report of the Massa-know nothing about it. 
Besides, friends are and after he led me to it, that he gave me light to un-
chusetts State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, often as guarded in their answers as the Doc-Jerstand, so far as to esteem it above all other books 
we were surprised to find in the table o{ 'Mor-tor is in his questions; and if he should chance in the world; and especially when my eyes were 
al Causes of Insanity,' the 'followers of Knapp' to ask whether the patient were a ''follower of I opened t.o see that it ~pake of Christ's coming again 
set down as a class. Why he was selected Knapp,'' it would be quite uncertain what an-, S'> soon m glory. Tbts seemed to be the most bless-
from among many other revival preachers, the swer he would receive. 
led, from the fact tha~ ~ben he shall appe~r, we 
learned Doctor does not inform his readers. 
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and Btrchard are le~s exe1tmg. preachers tba~ statlshc.s 1~ th~ books and reports of thts Mo-sion some months ago, that the only way for me to 
1\Ir. Knapp, or that they have fewer 'followers dellnsttlulwn. 
be comforted is to forsake rhe world,and hope unto 
nor that those followers are destitute of the 
the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto us 
zeal which would give them a place in the table 
THE CoNVERSION OF THE WoRLD.-The fol-at the revelation of Jes.us Chrst; and while th.is is 
of causes according to the classification there lowing article, which we copy from the '' Epis-~y comfort, I am !emmded of .what ,~aul satd to 
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bts breth~en at Conntb. 2 Cor. 1. 4, 
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~hat place eVtdently has some stgmficant .mean-
forteth us in all our tribulation,that we may be able, 
mg. . To attack a cler~ym~n wh~ has. hts ere-the selj'-denying efforts which are now being to comfort them which are in any troul::le, by the 
denhals from a denommauon whtch IS as re-made by the various ecclesiastical denomina-comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of 
spectable in nurubers and influence as any in tions,for the toorld's conversion. Beginning with God." 
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the United States, seems to be,to say the le~st, the Episcopal church, he says:-
Now ;vhat does Paul mean by comfort, m t~t.s 
very impolitic ; and how the sh~ewd, far-s~e~g 
passage. ~oes. he .not mean 
tha~ the ~oly Spu~t 
Superintendent wai betrayed mto such mdts-
"We find the number of its communicants, w~s dw.ellttJg In hts heart, teac~•.ng h1m t.hat hts 
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1ss1ons, to. be 60,000 ; these sufferings f1 r Christ cheerfully, it would make 
pres~me, however, .he 1~ ~o much m the hab1t and ~he a~o~nt expended for Fore1gn and Do-others bold to the enduring of the same sufferings, 
of bemg told tha.t his op!mons are law, that he I 
me~llc .M1ss10ns, to ~e $80,0<?0 per annum. giving them to understand that if they suffered With 
does not give htmself time to. reflect upo~ ~he Thts gJVes a proportion of a httle more than 1 Christ, they should also reign with him? . Hence 
bearing of much that he wr1tes. 
If exctltng one dollar and a quarter a year for each com-we can see what he meant, 1 Thess. IV. 18, 
preaching is bad in its influence, why not come municant; or about two cents and a half per I' "\Vherefore comfort one another with these words." 
out and say that all kinds of excitements are I week. 
Not ?nly becau:.e they wcr~ to be caught up togetJ~. 
so and give each a place in these tables ? Is 
The Presbyterian (Old School) Churcl1 con-,er wuh those who should nse. from the dea~, bu~ 1t 
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the ex<:ttement of a b~ ~-room ess ur.ttu t an t~ms, accor .mg tot e ast report o.fthetr 
ts-cident to this probationary state,and introduce"'them 
preachmg ? Are poht~cal mass-mee~mgs, and stona~y Socwty, 170,000 com~u.Dlcants, and where faith and patienc~ will be no longer needed ; 
songs of revelry, shoutmg and huzzamg, more I contrtbutes about 80,0:)0 to missiOnary purpo-where the cross will be exchan~ed for the crown 
soothing to the mind pre-disposed to insanity ses. This makes an average for each commu-and groans for joys, and all our prayers into eternai 
than the truths and doctrines of Christianity ? . nicant of about fifty cents a year: or one cent fruition; when Chr.i.st will remo\u00b7e the cause of aU 
Why does he not say that camp-meeting~ are I a week. 
our tears, Rev. xxu.3, "And there shall be no more 
a cause ? He knows full well that some bish-1 The New School Presbyterian Church con-
~urse," consequ~n.tly no more death. I am as to~-· 
op or the whole Methodist denomination would tribute their funds to the American Board and tsh~d at the posi~ton that many ha~e taken on this 
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make h1mfeel hts md1~cret10n. 
1 here seems as the operations. o ~ 1s . o~r are sustat~ed with these words,as Paul gave corom:odment,many 
to be .a want of candor m the state.ment of caus-11 by severa~ denommatwns, It ~~ hardly poss1ble &eem to be tr~ing to torment one another with taQnts 
es which does not become a pubhc man occu-to determm~ the amount fur01s~ed by each. 
and jeers, or remt~in silent on the question, gi•.iog 
pying the station that Dr. \Voodward now
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The Baptist Church, accordmg to the Bap-us to under~tand that they are determined not to 
does; he being" at the head of the modPl insti-tist Almanac an~ Register for 1844-numbers have the subjPct agitated,any farther than is profit-
tution of the country." 
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600,000 commumcants-and contribute& about able for the present state of the proud and popular 
How has the Doctor been able to ascertain 'I.JOO,OOO per annum for Missionary purposes. chore~. 
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the cause and find a niche for the "followers This gives an average for each communicant 
Wk ~tie I wahs adt Plymoutfh,1a Cfebw. d.aysHsmc1
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of~napp.?" The most earne aut ors on m-· o . a 1tt e over stx een cen 8 a year; or one-paper which 1 have paid for cheerfully, for so~e 
samty umformly agree that the ca~ses ~r~ very tln;d of a cent ~ week. 
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years, that my family might have a welcome vis-
obscure. 
" The mo ·t accurate mqumes ex-
fhe l\Iethod1st Church, accordmg to the last itor every week to instruct them in the wav of holi-
posina nothing that could have contributed to Reports of Annual Conferences, numbers up-ne s; but 0 how my heart sickened within me 
that e~ent." 
wards of one million of communicants ; and con-'when I ~a w the piriL of con ten Lion. Alas, thought 
"The causes of many disea es are obscut·e tributes about 
150,000 per annum for Mis-I, mu t my family fe~d on such food. no~, while 
-those of immnity arc peculiarly so. 
Hence sionary purposes ; which gives an average of the la~t moments of ttme · eem to be hngenng that 
we find few authorities attempt to give any-about tltirlun c-ents a year; or one-quarter of a we may prepare ~0 .meet the Judg~ of all the earth? 
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Many of my chnsttan brethren, 10 years gone by 
thmg more than t e supposed or probable caus-cent a week 10r eac 
commu01ca~t ! 
have a ked me if I wa. not afraid the wicked would 
es." The Doctor, .by ":ay ?f apology, ~ays, 
If what we h.av_e 
spoke~ of. iS really the laugh at me if Christ did not come at the time we 
"that if we have fatled 10. nghtly ascertammg measure of ChriStian zeal 1~ th1s wor~, when thought he would. • I told them no; but if they 
causes, we have only fallen mto common error." may we look for the worlds converswn ? I did, it was no more than ther had done, a11d what 
Again, '' It may not be improper to remark' suppose the societies mentioned in the forego-:, th~ ~avior said they would do. 
~he w?rld wo.uld 
that in almost all the tables a large proportion ing estimate may be regarded as affording a 1. reJOice, but ye shall w.eep. 
B~t little d1d I thmk 
are stated as cause un1."1l0tcn." The statistical fair representation of the Christian Church.' tb(} e wh? were r afratd the Wicke() 'Yo~ld laugh. 
tables of Dr. W. have more than once been The aggregate number of communicant!! men-
wouldldhbe .hethveur~hotnethsatto commence fin'. and whbo 
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a paper pro essmg to e 
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e aggregate amou~t Advent would ever have taken sides with the scof-
~C1enti~C k~owledge w11l no~ ~uffer m co!Dpar-of annual. contr1bu!1on~ for that number, IS fing world, as the Chriatian Herald has done for a 
JSon With hts. _,!any phys1ctans now d1scard 
410,000. 
And this gtves a general average few weeks past. I hope my brethren will think 
those tables as useless, erroneous, and calcu-of about 22 1-2 cents a year ; or less than "-better of it, and lay aside contention on this sub-
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
ject. To think bow many poor ~ittle childre~ willl yior. And twhy shoul.d w~ be firm, when ~i.ller· 
have their minds prejud;ced agatnst the com~ng of Jsr:n, i>O ca!Jed, flas faded? 
Beeau.se that ~athue 
rhe glo-rious and blessed Jesus, at any tzme m the makes our whole system, now Bzblezsm; and when 
future; and marry ~dolts, too, ~vho have been loo~· he does eome, it ~il! be. as a snare on th~ world, 
i·no ft>r and expecllng the Savwr would come, w11! and all the glory Will oe g1ven to God. It IS chro-
f.aU asleep over the subject, and be overtaken in the nology that has failed. 
da-rk, and when they open tLeir e} es at the . 
~ think all ~he error that can pos5ibly be supposed, 
blast of the trump of God, and are not ready to en-
IS m not findmg exactly what year of the a.ccount 
ter · 0 brethren, to whom will they lay the blame, called A. D., was numbered, at the Bapt1sm of 
but'to those who have cried peace and safety. Tho' Christ. So I think it is hest for Adventists not to 
I do not charge the writers of thP Herald with mak-be trying any more to fix any future pe_riod for the 
ing this crv 
I am· afraid that many among end of the 2300 days, but should steadily look for 
us who cali' themselves 
chri~tians will so un-our Lord and Savior till he is revealed, that we 
derstand them ; and rertainly our Bible tells us to should diligently examine what the day of the Lord 
leave off contention befnre it he meddled with; and will be to us; that it be not a day of vengeance 
the ap•lStle Paul charged his brethren, Eph. IV. 30, upon us, but of admiration and praise. 
saying, "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God 
C. J. KEE. 
whNet>y ye are sealed unto the day of redemption;" 
'CHESTER DISTRJCT, S.C. April27, 1844. 
and then tells them what would grieye the Holy 
LETTER FROM ENGLAND. 
Spirit. 
11Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, 
Dear Bro. Himes,-Since my last letter I have 
a:nd clamor, and evil speaking be pu·. away from had to pass through manv trials and much opposi-
you with all malice;" then he tells them l;uw they tion from the world and'the church. 
After Bro. 
might keep tl}e Holy Spirit. "And be ye kind one Winter, Gunner and myself had lectured at the 
to another, tender-hearted, forgivi~g one another, Bazaar at Norwich, I labored in that neighborhood 
even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." for nearly two months, and thence to Chiches1Pr. 
If 1 know my own heart, I have, and do still feel I then went to Portsmouth, where I met with the 
that I could rejoice to see my Savior return from "Plymouth· Brethren." They kindly afforded me a 
Heaven to the middle air, preceded by a muiltitude place to give a course of lectures in. I visited sev-
of angels, who shall reap the last harvest and give eral of the friends, and with reference to the time, 
the last warning, and say, time shall be no lon-they sPem to think it is near, though they do not 
ger. 
ELAll"l BuRNHA~I. 
believe we can know the year when the prophetic 
KINGSTON, May 8, 1844. 
periods will terminate, and they are firm believers 
State of the Cause. 
in the conversion of the Jews when the Messiah 
comes the second time; yet many seem open to 
conviction, and are reading on the subject. 
I then 
GREAT CINCINNATI TENT MEETING.-Having as-went to the Isle of Wight; many seem favorable to 
certained that we ere to be deprived of the use of the doctrine there; I have sin::e been lecturing on 
College Hall on Sabbath last, the l::rethren met on the sea-coast from town to town, until I came to 
the Thursday previous, and determined to erect the Brighton, where I gave nine lectures. I intend to 
Great Tent. 
On Saturday evening the work was return in two weeks~ God willing. When I go in-
completed. The tent is erected on the same ground to a town or city, I hang up my chart in the street, 
where it stood last season, and also two smaller and commence lecturing, "Behold the Bridegroom 
tents for the aecommoda:tion of the brethren who cometh," and I am sure to have a congregation;-
have charge of the large one. 
and I think I can say, with few exceptions, good 
The Sabbath was very pleasant-bro. Fitch has been done. 
I have met with many ministers 
preached three times, and the tent was thronged by who are favorable except the time, but they are in· 
thousands. 
In the afternoon, it was judged that vesti~ating the subjec!, and seem desirous to know 
from oce to two thousand were unable to obtain the truth. 
I think as many as twelve or fifteen 
seats. In the evening the throng was increased.-are now preaching the doctrine. 
Excellent order prevailed, and deep impressions 
Brothers Winter and Gunner are at Bristol, and 
seemed to be made on many minds. 
they say grPat good has been done in that neigh-
The ordinance of Baptism was attended to on borhood. 
Brother Burgess is in Liverpool, and 
Volume. VII. 
tl1e followi-ng suhjt>r.ts-"The 1\lillrriu·'~ ConfP~i•r.n, 11nd Ad-
ventist's Arwlogy," hy A Hale.-"Trll~ Ri>e and J•r .. ~re;sof 
Adventism," hy J·. Litdt.-" Prophel i~ Chron•.l .. g~," Ly N. 
N. \I hiting.-••The Fall uf B":.tb) lun,'' by S. Bli,~, &c. &r.. 
The~e subjects ar~ treated of atjjrf'at len~~oth, and their merits 
fully inve$tigatt!d, lt will C0111ain abut~t 156 htrllP Jlll)!e~, on 
One paper and new type. 'flwre l'><'t"g a h mnrd unu.ber 
pt·intel1, those "hu wi~h to ~f'l:ttre a r.opv wall do l'iPI! 10 ~l'n1l 
111 their orders immediately. Prin·, 50 
<'t~ t~in!(le, S.f per 
dozen, $30 pet· hundred. 
J. V. IHMF.S. 
Qtouftrenrts. 
f' 
Anniversary Week in Boston. 
CONFERENCE AT THE TAI3E { 1ACLE. 
Pro,·idencevermrttifl!!, tllere will he a ineJ a conference 
uf believers in the @peeily adi'Pnt ol our Lure , i!fl Savior Je-
;;ns Christ, nt Boston, in the 'faherna<~le, to rommenr.e on 
Monday e\u2022ening, MJ•y.-27 ,.a~•d \ill be continued lhrouglr the 
Wl'ek. 
The ohject of the Conference is to prepare the way of the 
Lord-to r.omlurt one auotlier with the promi,;es of his com-
ing-to call the attention of t.he Chun·h to tlte rid1es of her 
inherit11nce, not in th!s \orkl, hut in 1he world 10 come; not 
in a carnal Jerusalem, Lut in the New JerusaiPm, which 
comes down from above, ¥.•hidl has mansions for all, whether 
Jews or Greeks, who are by f:.tith the children of Abraham. 
The Conference ill not be a place for contro,f'r8y or par-
ty strife, but for a season of rPfresh ing to the pilgrims of the 
desert nnd of the wilderness, with the promise and prospect 
ot the hea'enly kingdom now "at the door." 
A Second Advent Conference will be held,iftinie continue, 
at the Ba))tist meeting house in 
Da.~tille Vt., commeoc·ing 
on Tliurl!da-y, June 20th, at one o'clock, J>. 
• to continue 
over the Sabbath. Bro. I. H. Shipman and myself may be 
P.xpected to a !lend. Other Ad,·ent lecturP.rs are invited; we 
hope the brethren and 11isters, all thr!Jugh that ~ection, will 
attend. 
By request, 
L. KIMBALL. 
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There will be a Cunfe~:.epce of believers in the srwe•h·..-
coming of Chri11t, at Ja•muca Vt._ to commenfe, the L(lret 

 illing, Tue!tlay, May 281h, and continue u'er the Sabbllth. 
We hope a good gathering of Advent. mini;;ters !IIlii lriend'<l' 
will be present. 
For the brethren, -s. P. CHANDLEJR. 
Qtamp--Jlltttings. 
A Camp-meeting will be held at Gilfllanton, N.H. on the 
ground occup1ed last Jear, to r.omm,..n•·e June 25, Providence 
permitting, and continue O'er the Sal.lmth. 
All 
ne1~es~ary 
preparations wili he made !Jy the Conunitt<·e li•t' the comfort 
of those who nttencl. Brn. Cole, Litc:h, H ime11, and others 
will he in a1tendance. 
COllllliTn:E.-lsaiah Clough. Chs A, Hackett, Arche-
laus 1\loore, John Celie, Langtlon W l
organ, E. C. Drew. 
Wednesday, P.M., at the canal opposite the city Brothers Dealtry and Mickleworth are in Sheffield. 
Hospital. 
Six .candidates. were baptised. 
B~o. 
Let us keep our loins girt about with truth, and 
Tbe Second Advent hrethrcn are he,.ehy notified that there 
Fitch preached In the evenmg, and God was Wlth our lamps burning, and we ourselves like unto w1ll be a camp-meeling l1eld on the ll•h June nfxt, if 1ime 
us.-Western Midnight Cry. 
those waiting for their Lord. Yours in the hope of continue~, t1atfa mile ea~t of Chipman's Lanrlwg, on Lake 
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soon seein!Z Jesus. 
Wr.r. BARKER. 
Champlain, iu Orwell, on the land of Bro. J. Rhulell. It is 
BRo. E. BuRNHAM wntes rom 
mgston :-' le 
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expected that all that conlC wi:ll hri-ng tents, 11s far as pmc-
Advent brethren in this place are strong in the 
SHoREH.Alii, Eng. April 9, 1844~ 
tieahle, pr~>pan~d to lite on the ground. 
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Lord, and giving \he cry, '~behold he cometh!"-
The fiJIIowin~ brethren are selected tu make arrllngements: 
About twenty-five, or perhaps more, have been ex-
{J(rCONFERE~CE ON ANNIVERSARY WEEK. 
Brn. C. Wnws, Vngenne~, Vt.-D. Smith, Ticonderoaa, 
eluded from the Baptist church, because they were 
Next week, our brethren will come up to the Feas1. Let N. Y.-n. 8mith, Adtlison, Vt.-H. Shipmlln, Furt A~n-, 
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there be a general gatl~ering. We exper.t Brn. Miller, Whi-
N. Y.-L. Wilcox, Orwell, Vt -R. l
ill .. r, low Hampton, 
expectmg esus soon, or 
e ore t e wor 
was con-ting, Litch, and Rro. Galusha, if he is able to come, with a N. Y .-E. Martin and M. Willi11mson, Benson, Vt.-Bro. 
verted. We meet in the Town House, and have ho8t of other11, of the faithful, brethren and sisters, who are Fancher, Sand)hill, N. Y.-lJr. A. Smith, Ca,tleton. 
from sixty to eighty in attendance on the Sabbath, looking for the speetly coming of the Lord. 
W M. 1
 ILLER, 
and if faithful, are in a fair way to prosper until the 
!ay 9, 1844. 
l
. WILLIAMSON. 
Lord comes." 
1'.& BER!fACLE. Meetings were fully attended at this place 
The abo,·e ~onunittee are. reque!tt'd to Dlf'et on the ground, 
laFt Sahhath. Br. Himes lectured in the morn•ng and eve-
at Orwell, on the 3d tlay ol June next, t•1 make definite ar-
EXT.BACT OF A LETTER FRO?ri BRo. G. MoRGAN. 
ning. Br. Jones in the afternoon. The interest 011 the Ad-
rangements. 
Bro. Himes,--There is a little band in this place vent question is rising amoHg us at this time. 
NoTE. Some of the friends de~ired to have tile meeting 
who are waiting patiently to receive the promise, 
[tJM. HuLL BARTON We have no fellowship with this commence on the 25th of Jnne. But we cannot atte11d at that 
knowing that ''he that shall come, will come, and person, or his mo'ement~:o. \Ve ha1•e gil·en him our reasons, time, on account of •he Gilmanton meeting, ar•·eady appoint-
d I 
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ptrlonally, and he ought not to use our name a11 a passport ed. The committee will cnn:::iJe•· 
thi~, ancl wake the 11r-
will not tarry·" Bro. Stoddard lecture 
1e1e ast 
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rangements for the lith ofJt111e, aecur<J,,l!!iy. "r
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Sabbath, on t e 9t verse of Rev. 14," 
any man wherever recetved. 
Litth, Cole, and Himl's, 1'1o1idence pf'rmutiug, "ill lit! in 
worship the Beast," &c. 
The truth cut its way 
at~endance. 
J. V. Hli\IE:S. 
amidst all opposition, and many of the congregation 
CnRRECTtON. The imprint of the "Message'' reads II=========:=====:=:============ 
were bathed in tears tosee and think what the "Mi,C.:S.l\linor;·'itehouldreadMr•. 
Letters received to May 18, 1844. 
Beastly power had done in this place, to ruin 
Bro. Himes arrive•! from Philadelphia last Saturday morn-
I'm New Gluuecilter Me; Edward Leonard; E C Clem-
sauls. The winter past, we had a glorious time ing. The Conlertnce which was held there the previous ona; Wm Miller; A A Sawin; pm J;u·k.l•m M•eh; pm St 
here Under tile Ml.dnJ·ght Cry. 
Al..out seventy, 1·t wweeeekk.' w.t~~ t»f a very interestine: character. Particulars next All 
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waa thought, were converted; and it is supposed 
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fronil one to two 
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\~'"tnter. He u•rt"tes tll·,tt 'I deeJl l"nt!!l'est prev·.t'tls IIJlOn tile H k 
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when the mark of the beast appeared in the profess-
Advent qut'!ition, that the labors llnd meana which God in Horne bv pm $~; Mary Ann Can $1; w B Slart $4; pm 
ed church of God in tbis place, and the revival his providence hall raised up, are all employed in the work: Bolton, V_t; C Stevens by pm 81 }. H Wanljr hy pm 81; 
stopped. 
May Ggd forgive them, they know not aud, as with us, throu~:h the calla of tbnse anxious to hear, Mr• E Rtcbtmyer by pm $1; L h.unllall; J Hick nell by pm 
what they do. 
We bad fifty to the Communion and the acliJiiY of.qppoe~:rs, the brethren lm~e as much as $1; Mr11 W Walker by pm'f!,l; l11D Jack80n l\Jkh; J Har-
here, from different places, last Sabbath, and en-
~4eycan do. We have not room·for his letter this week. 
ring ton by pm Sl; J G Rlanehard by pm $1; J V Him~s. 
f c d 
T L Tullock;~ Bliss; E H Wilcox; prn E wa~hiu~tun N 
joyed much of the presence 0 
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H; KS Hall Cor Sect.; pm Low Hampton N Y $2; E c 
GEORGE MORG:tJf: 
THE Avn:r~x MESSAGE To THE DAUGHTERS OJ' Z1-Dre\; Lyrlia Wooster; \V H B Rol:.erts, by pm $2; pm 
KENT, Conn. April 2, 1844. 
oN. This w~rk !s designed to meet the ":ants ef ~large AlbRny NY; Dr. Crary; pm Wolpole M~; 0 I{ !HanEfi:eld 
ExTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BRo. C. J.;kEE. 
class of inqu1rers 10 the churciJPs, It compmes a vanety of by pm $1; Rev, J W I>ant! hy pm $1; pm_ HRnford, N '; 
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PAlling by pm $10, books sent; E Hlllcluns h.v J)Ol $1 ,· J 
Dear Bro. Bliss,-Perhaps a few line 
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adelphia, and Clemons, of Rochester. 
Boden by pm $1; Nanr.y Hollon hy pm $"1; H ~ E Gifford 
portion of t e e d would .be a?cepta. e iWit 
you. 
The above work is now ready for delivery. Price 10 cts. by pm $1; R Stuhbs; pm CamhnJge Vt. 
I must state, that the time m whJCh* e all ex-
11ingle. $1 for 12 Numbers. 
Packages Sent. 
pected the Lord to appear, is run out; anp the few 
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THE A.DVEN-T SHIELD.... 
J V 'Himes, 9 Sprucest NY; J Litch, 41 Arcade, Phila; 
Adventists that are in this section, still re~in firm 
Will be published about tbe 25th of this month, a work E Hale jr Haverhill MH; Anthony Pierce, 66 Arcade, Prov-
in the daily expectation of the appearing oft~ Sa-with the above title, containining, among others, articles oo idence, RI. 
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