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THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE. 
BY HETTA D. LEWIF. 
Great Father, Friend, to Thee 
We come, and earnestly 
Implore thy holy might, 
To guide our feet aright 
Through sin's and sorrow's night, 
Up to the realms of light. 
Thou art the Way. 
Our place is in the dust, 
Yet, God, in Thee we trust, 
Thy word shall aye endure ; 
When seas shall be no more, 
When even death is o'er, 
We'll own Thy sovereign power. 
Thou art the Truth. 
When clouds around us lower, 
And life's rough tempests roar, 
The darkness we'll abide, 
Stemming the angry tide, 
We'll seek Thy sheltering side, 
And in our fortress hide. 
Thou art the Life. 
The Life, the Truth, the Way, 
We ask no other stay 
By sin and anguish tossed, 
Without this we were lost, 
And ne'er could join that host 
Who in their Saviour boast— 
The All in All. 
Journal and Messenger. 
Translation of Zechariah. 
BY PROF. N. N. WHITING. 
(Continued from our last.) 
[CHAPTER VI.] 
1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and 
looked, and behold, there came four chariots 
out from between the two mountains; and 
2 the mountains were mountains of brass. In 
the first chariot were red horses; and in the 
3 second chariot black horses; and in the third 
chariot white horses ; and in the fourth char- 
4 iot spotted and swift horses. Then I spoke 
and said to the messenger who talked with 
5 me, What are these my lord ? And the 
messenger answered and said to me, These 
are the four winds of the heavens, which go 
forth from standing before the Lord of all 
6 the earth. The black horses which are in 
it go forth unto the north country ; and the 
white go forth after them ; and the spotted 
7 go forth to the south country. And the 
swift went forth, and sought to go that they 
might walk about in the earth : and he said, 
Go, walk about in the earth. And they 
8 walked about in the earth. And he cried to 
me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these 
that go towards the north country abase 
quieted my spirit in the north country.- 
9 And the word of Jehovah was to me saying, 
10 Take from the captivity, from Heldai, from 
Tobijah, and from Jeclaiah, who are come 
from Babylon, and come thou the same day, 
and go into the house of Josiah the son of 
11 Zephaniah ; and take silver and gold, and 
make crowns, and set them on the head of 
Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; 
12 and speak to him, saying, Thus saith Jeho-
vah of hosts, Behold the man, Branch is his 
name, and from his place he shall spring up, b 
and he shall build the temple of Jehovah : 
13 even he shall build the temple of Jehovah ; 
and he shall bear glory, and shall sit and 
'Jule on his throne : and he shall be a priest 
on his throne : and the counsel of peace 
14 shall be between them both c. 
And the 
crowns shall be to Helem, and toTobijah,and 
toJedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, 
for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah. 
a Or, " have mine anger to rest in the north coun-
try." b Or, " Sprout is his name, from his place lie 
shall sprout up." c I. e. " the office of king and 
priest shall be united in him." 
15 And those far off shall come and build in 
the temple of Jehovah ; and ye shall know 
that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to you. 
And this shall come to pass, if ye will dili-
gently hearken to the voice of Jehovah your 
[CHAPTER YII.] 
1 God. And it came to pass in the fourth 
year of king Darius, that the word of Jeho-
vah was to Zechariah on the fourth of the 
2 ninth month, in Chisfeu ; And they had 
sent to the house of God, Sherezer and Re-
gem-melech, and their men, to intreat the 
3 face of Jehovah, and to speak to the priests 
who belonged to the house of Jehovah of 
hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I 
weep in the fifth month, separating myself, 
4 as I have done these many years ? And 
the word of Jehovah of hosts was to me, 
5 saying, Speak to all the people of the land, 
and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted 
and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, 
even those seventy years, did ye surely fast 
6 for me, even for me ? And when ye did eat, 
and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for 
7 yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 
Were 
not these the words which Jehovah hath 
cried by the former prophets when Jerusa-
lem was inhabited and in prosperity, and 
her cities around her, when men inhabited 
8 the south and the plain ? And the word of 
9 Jehovah was to Zechariah, saying, Thus 
speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Judge 
true judgment, and praetise mercy and corn- 
10 passion each man to his brother : and op-
press not the widow, nor the fatherless, the 
stranger, nor the poor; and let no one of 
you contrive evil against his brother in your 
11 heart. And they refused to hearken, and 
refused to obey. and stopped their ears, that 
12 they might not hear. Yea, they set their 
hearts like an adamant, lest they should 
hear the law, and the words which Jehovah 
of hosts bath sent. by his Spirit by the for-
mer prophets : and there was great wrath 
13 from Jehovah of hosts. And it came to 
pass, as he cried, and they would not hear; 
so they cried, and I would not hear, saith 
14 Jehovah of hosts : but I scattered them with 
a whirlwind among all the nations whom 
they had not known. And the land was in 
desolation behind them, that no man passed 
through nor returned : for they made the 
[CHAPTER VIII.] 
1 desirable land a desolation. And the word 
2 of Jehovah of hosts was to me, saying, Thus 
saith Jehovah of hosts ; I was jealous for 
Zion with great jealousy, and I was jeal- 
3 ous for her with great fury. Thus saith 
Jehovah ; I have returned to Zion, and will 
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem : and Jeru-
salem shall be called, A city of truth ; and 
the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The 
4 mountain of holiness. Thus saith Jehovah 
of hosts, Old men and old women shall yet 
dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and man 
with his staff in his hand through multitude 
5 of days. And the streets of the city shall 
- be full of boys and girlsplaying in thestreets. 
6 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ; If it be diffi-
cult in the eyes of the remnant of this peo-
ple in these days, must it also be difficult in 
7 mine eyes ? saith Jehovah of hosts. Thus 
saith Jehovah of hosts ; Behold, I will save 
my people from the east country, and from 
8 the country of the going down of the sun. And 
I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the 
midst of Jerusalem : and they shall be to 
me for a people, and I will be to them for a 
9 God, in truth and in right. Thus saith Je-
hovah of hosts ; Let your hands be strong, 
ye who hear in these days these words by the 
mouth of the prophets, who were in the day that 
the foundation of the house ofJehovah of hosts 
was laid, that the temple might be built. 
10 For before these days there was no hire for 
man, nor any hire for beast ; there being no 
peace for him who went out or for him who 
came in, because of the affliction : for I sent 
all men every one against his neighbor. 
11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this 
people as in the former days, saith Jehovah 
12 of hosts. For the seed shall be prosperous ; 
the vine shall give its fruit, and the earth 
shall give its produce, and the heavens shall 
give their dew ; and I will cause the rem-
nant of this people to possess all these things. 
13 And it shall be, that as ye were a curse 
among the heathen, 0 house of Judah, and 
house of Israel ; so will I save you, and ye 
shall be a blessing : fear not, let your hands 
14 be strong. For thus saith Jehovah of hosts; 
As I purposed to do evil to you, because 
your fathers provoked me, saith Jehovah of 
15 hosts, and I repented not : so again have I 
purposed in these days to do good to Jeru-
salem and to the house of Judah : fear ye 
16 not. These are the things which ye shall 
do ; Speak truth each man to his neighbor ; 
judge the judgment of truth and goodness 
17 in your gates. And let no one of you plan 
evil in your hearts against his neighbor; 
and love no false oath : for all these are 
18 things which I hate, saith Jehovah. And 
the word of Jehovah of hosts was to me, 
19 saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ; the 
fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the 
fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the 
fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of 
Judah for joy and for gladness, and cheerful 
feasts ; now love the truth and the goodness. 
20 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ; Then it is 
that there shall come people, and the in- 
91 habitants of many cities ; and the inhabit-
ants of one city shall go to another, saying, 
Let us go speedily to intreat the face of Je-
hovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts : I will 
22 go also. And many people and strong na-
tions shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts 
in Jerusalem, and to pray before Jehovah.a 
23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts ; In those days 
it shall come to pass, that ten men shall 
take hold, out of all languages of the nations, 
even they shall take hold of the skirt of a 
man, a Jew, saying, We will go with you : 
for we have heard that God is with you.— 
[CHAPTER IX.] 
1 The burden of the word of Jehovah con-
cerning the land of Hadrach, b and Damas-
cus its rest : when the eyes of man, and all 
the tribes of Israel, shall be towards Jeho- 
2 vah. And Harrah also shall border on it ; 
3 Tyre and Zidon, for it is very wise. And 
Tyre did build herself a strong hold, and 
heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold 
4 like the mire of the streets. Behold the 
Lord will cast her out, and he will smite 
her power in the sea ; and she shall be de- 
5 voured with fire. Ashkelon shall see it, and 
fear ; Gaza also, and be in anguish, and 
Ekron ; for her expectation shall be disap-
pointed ; arid a king shall perish from Gaza, 
6 Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. And a 
foreigner shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will 
7 cut off the pride of the Philistines. And I 
will take away his blood out of his mouth, 
and his abominations from between his 
teeth : but he that remaineth, even he, shall 
be for our God, and he shall be like a chief 
in Judah, and Ekron like the Jebusites.- 
8 And I will encamp around my house because 
of the army, because of him that passeth by, 
and because of him that returneth : and no 
oppressor shall pass over them any more : 
9 for now I have seen with mine eyes. Re-
joice greatly, 0 daughter of Zion ; shout, 
0 daughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy King 
cometh unto the he is just, arid c having 
salvation ; d lowly, and riding on an ass, 
10 and on a colt the foal of a she-ass. And I 
will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and 
the horse from Jerusalem. and the battle- 
a Or, " to supplicate the face of Jehovah."—
b " Hadrach is probably a proper name of a place. 
It literally signifies" strong-weak "—a land which, 
at the time of the prophecy, was strong, but when 
the threatened judgment should take place, it would 
become weak. So we find the name Dumah (silence) 
applied to Edom (lsa. 21:11), and Ariel (Lion of 
God) and " valley of vision," to Jerusalem. It is 
supposed that Hadrach refers to Persia. 
cMore 
properly," victorious." d Or," afflicted." 
bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak 
peace to the a heathen : and his dominion 
shall be from sea to sea, and from the river b 
11 to the ends of the earth. And thou,c by the 
blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy 
prisoners out of the pit, wherein isno water. 
12 Turn to the strong hold, ye prisoners of 
the hope ; even to-day do I declare that I 
13 will render double to thee ; for I have bent 
Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, 
and raised up thy sons, 0 Zion, against thy 
sons, 0 Greece, and made thee like the 
14 sword of a mighty man. And Jehovah 
shall he seen above them, and his arrow 
shall go forth like the lightning : and the 
Lord Jehovah shall blow the trumpet, and 
15 shall go with tempests of the south. Jeho-
vah of hosts shall defend them ; and they 
shall eat and trample under foot sling-stones; 
and they shall drink, and make a noise as 
through wine ; and they shall be filled like 
16 bowls, like the corners of the altar. Arid 
Jehovah their God shall save them in that 
day as the flock of his people : as the stones 
of a crown, lifting themselves up over his 
17 land. For how great is his goodness, and 
how great is his beauty ! corn shall make 
the young men grow, and new wine the 
[CHAPTER X.] 
1 maids. Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time 
of the latter rain ; so Jehovah shall make 
lightnings, and give them showers of rain, 
2 to each ou •reoe =n the field. For the. 
idols d have spoken vanity, and the diviners 
have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; 
they comfort in vain : therefore they wan-
dered away like a flock. they were afflicted 
3 because there was no shepherd. Mine an-
ger was kindled against the shepherds, and 
I will punish the he-aoats : for Jehovah of 
hosts bath visited his flock the house of Ju-
dah, and bath made them like his majestic 
4 horse in the battle. From him will come 
forth the ruler, from him the chief, from him 
the battle-bow, from him every oppressor 
5 together. And they shall be like mighty 
men, trampling in the mire of the streets, 
in the battle : and they shall fight, for Jeho-
vah is with them, and the riders on horses 
6 shall be put to shame. And I will strengthen 
the house of Judah, and I will save the house 
of Joseph, and will cause them to dwell ; 
for I have mercy on them : and they shall 
be as though I had not cast them off: for 
I am Jehovah their God, and will hear 
7 them. And Ephraim shall be like a mighty 
man, and their heart shall rejoice as if 
through wine : and their children shall see 
and be glad ; their heart shall exult in Je- 
8 hovah. I will hiss to them, and gather 
them : for I have redeemed them : and they 
shall be numerous as they were numerous. 
9 And I will sow them among the people : 
and they shall remember me in distant 
places, and live again with their children 
10 and return. I will bring them back from 
the land of Egypt, and gather them from 
Assyria ; and 1 will cause them to come to 
the land of Gilead and Lebanon ; and it 
11 shall not he sufficient for them. And he 
shall pass throngh the sea in affliction, and 
shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the 
depths of a river shall dry up: and the pride 
of Assyria shall be brought down, and the 
12 sceptre of Egypt shall depart. And I will 
strengthen them in Jehovah ; and they shall 
[CHAPTER XI.] 
I walk in his name, saith Jehovah. Open 
thy doors, 0 Lebanon, that the fire may de- 
2 your thy cedars. Howl, 0 cypress-tree, for 
the cedar is fallen ; because the mighty are 
laid waste : howl, 0 ye oaks-of Bashan ; 
3 for the lofty forest is come down. A sound 
of the howling of the shepherds; for their 
splendor is laid waste : a sound of the roar-
ing of young lions ; for the pride of Jordon 
a Or," nations." b I. e. the Euphrates. c In this 
passage, " thou," (Heb at) is feminine—as the suf—
fix pronoun thy (prisoners), hence, not Christ, but 
the daughter of Zion is addressed. dHeb., Teraphim• 
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a Or, " are not punished." b Or, " nations." 
4 is laid waste. Thus saith Jehovah my God ; 
5 Feed the flock of the 'slaughter; whose buy-
ers slay them, and hold themselves not 
guilty : a and whose sellers say, Blessed be 
Jehovah ; for I am rich : and their shepherds 
6 spare them not. For I will no more spare 
the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah : 
but lo, I will deliver the men each one into 
the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand 
of his king : and they shall smite the land, 
7 and I will deliver out of their hand. And 
I fed the flock of slaughter, on account of 
the afflicted of the flock. and I took for 
myself two staves ; the one I called Grace, 
and the other I called Bands ; and 1 fed the 
8 flock. And I destroyed the three shepherds 
in one month ; and my soul was vexed on 
account of them, and their soul also abhorred 
9 me. Then said I, I will not feed you ; 
that that dieth, let it die ; and that that is 
to be destroyed, let it be destroyed ; and let 
the rest eat, each one the flesh of another. 
10 And I took my staff, Grace, and cut it asun-
der, that I might break my covenant which 
11 I made with all my people.b And it was 
broken in that day : and so the afflicted of 
the flock who observed me knew that it was 
12 the voice of Jehovah. And I said to them, 
If ye think good, give me my reward; and 
if not, forbear. And they weighed my re- 
13 ward thirty pieces of silver. And Jehovah 
said to me, Cast it to the potter. : a splendid 
price that I was prized at by them ! And I 
took the thirty pieces of, silver and cast them 
in the house of Jehovah, to the potter.- 
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even 
The Bands, to break the brotherhood be-
tween Judah and Israel. And Jehovah 
said to me, Take to thyself again instru- 
16 ments of a foolish shepherd. For lo, I will 
raise up a shepherd in the land, who will 
not visit the dispersed, neither will seek the 
young, nor heal that that is wounded, nor 
feed that that standeth still : but he will 
eat the flesh of the fat, and break their hoofs 
17 in pieces. Wo to the worthless shepherd 
that forsaketh the flock ! a sword shall be on 
his arm, and on his right eye: his arm shall 
be entirely dried up ; and his right eye shall 
be entirely darkened.—(To be continued.) 
The Fellowship : 
The Substance of an Address 
TO THE TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, DETROIT, 
On the Lord's Day "--"—.•IWIUaI y ..m.,1851, 
On the Scriptural Rule of Maintaining the Revenue of the Church, 
(Continued from our last.) 
The Church, then, needs pecuniary resources, 
first for the great work of promoting the spir- 
itual interests of the body, and propagating the 
gospel—and secondly, for doing good generally, 
and in particular for the relief of the poor saints. 
It accordingly has a treasury and a class of 
office bearers, who are to take charge of its re-
sources, and attend to their disbursement. The 
question to which your attention is now par- 
ticularly directed is, How is the treasury to be 
replenished ? Have we any direction as to the 
manner in which funds are to he collected—as 
to the proportion in which they are to be con-
tributed, or are these questions left to the dis-
cretion of individuals and societies ? 
These may seem unimportant questions to 
be discussed in this place, and at this time, yet 
I am persuaded that few things have proved 
more corrupting to the churches, or more de-
structive of their religious influence, than mis-
takes on these points. You may see the proofs of 
this everywhere ; whether you look at the over-
grown hierarchies of the old world grasping the 
wealth of empires—or to voluntary societies 
rearing luxurious meeting-houses, where places 
are sold to the highest bidder, and in support. 
of which money is extorted from carnal men by 
carnal appliances. To how great an extent 
have the energies of such societies been directed 
to sustain ostentatious meeting-hous( s, a popu-
lar ministry, and an accomplished musician—
while the funds necessary to send the gospel 
abroad, have been left to be wrung out of the 
people by a kind of agency, that has made the 
very name of Christian benevolence offensive, 
and while the poor saints are left to the casual 
alms of the benevolent. However lamentable 
it may be, it is not surprising that in such a 
state of things, societies of human origin should 
rise up and compare themselves with the pro-
fessing churches of Him who, though He was 
rich, for our sakes became poor. Again, to 
what littleness, I had almost said buffoonery, 
have not such bodies condescended to collect 
money for avowedly religious purposes. How 
much do embarrassment and perplexity about 
debt hamper the energies, and impair the credit 
of churches, that profess to believe that God 
has said " owe no man anything but to love 
one another." And to what a lamentable ex-
tent have love arid zeal thereby been extin-
guished in the hearts of professing Christians. 
RI, REV. JAMES INOLIS4 
But without dwelling upon the evil and im-
rpefection of human devices, let us return to 
seek direction of the word of God. Have we 
any law upon the subject ? The fact that a 
class of office-bearers are divinely appointed in 
the Church, to take charge of its funds, might 
lead us to expect that the collection of the funds 
would not be left entirely at large. Accord-
ingly we find scattered throughout the acts of 
the apostles, and the apostolic epistles, hints 
and allusions which intimate to us, that the 
collection of such funds, was an established ar-
rangement among the first Christians. Wher-
ever a Church was instituted, it would appear 
that this was provided for on a regular and well 
understood plan. The first trace of this is found 
in the account that is given us, of the establishd 
order amongst the thousands who embraced the 
truth, on Peter's publication of it on the day of 
Pentecost. Amongst the stated observances there 
enumerated, is " the fellowship." In common 
with other particulars in the enumeration, this 
expression has been obscured by the departure 
of the churches from primitive simplicity. We 
have formerly had occasion to examine the pas-
sage somewhat minutely, and shall now only 
say that the grammatical construction and ra-
tional connection of the passage, alike forbid us 
to understand it as expressing their fraternal 
communion. That is implied in all their asso-
ciated acts—and the use of the definite article 
in the Greek, though omitted by the translators, 
indicates its specific and appropriate sense. It 
is not the apostle's doctrine and fellowship—but 
" the apostle's doctrine, and the fellowship "—
and " so express their constant contributions 
towards the support of the apostles, as ministers 
of the word, and of the poor members of the 
Church." The same word occurs in Romans, 
15:26, where it is translated " contribution," 
in 2 Cor. 9:13, where it is translated " distribu- 
tion," and in Hebrews 13:16, where it is ren-
dered " to communicate." From the connections 
in which it stands in these passages, there is 
no room for doubt that it was the word appro-
priated to their contributions or collections to-
wards the common fund of the Church to be 
used for the above mentioned purposes. 
From these incidental allusions to it, we may 
gather, first, that the duty of such contributions 
was generally recognized—second, that it was 
a duty which had a place amongst their stated 
observances—aad lastly, that it was a voluntary 
contribution by each, according to his ability. 
I might. add the remark, that there is no allu-
sion to any other mode of collecting funds for 
Church purposes. The extraordinary contribu- 
tions made in the extraordinary circumstances 
of the Church at Jerusalem, were singular only 
in the amount contributed. For if those who 
had possessions sold them and poured the price 
into the treasury, it was still a voluntary offer- 
ing, as appears from the rebuke which Peter 
addressed to Ananias, " While it remained was 
it not thine own, and after it was sold was it 
riot in thine own power ?" Neither then nor 
at any other time did a community of property, 
or any stated exaction, become the law of the 
Christian Church. The treasury was replen- 
ished by voluntary contributions, in which lib• 
erality is mentioned as praiseworthy and well 
pleasing to God. This Was in harmony with 
the genius of a dispensation under which the 
law is written in the heart. The exaction of 
tithes and stated taxes belonged rather to a for-
mal dispensation, whose observance was in the 
letter. 
It may beasked, then, is this the whole law of 
the New Testament ? And we answer, no !—
While the amount is thrown back upon the en-
larged and liberal spirit of the man whose heart 
is warmed by the love of that God whose good-
ness is over all, and upon the fidelity of the 
man who is not his own, but bought with a 
price—divine wisdom has provided for the regu-
lar and systematic operation of Christian prin-
ciple by giving us precise directions as to the 
time, the occasion, and proportion in which the 
stated contribution is to be made. We have it 
expressly enjoined upon Christians, that they 
should not neglect the stated assemblies of the 
Church, and we gather from the acts of the 
apostles that the time of such stated assemblies 
was on the first day of the week. It is true 
that we cannot quote a great number of pas-
sages in support of this assertion. When we 
look for evidence of a merely human practice, 
in the writings of a merely human historian, 
we may require numerous quotations to give 
certainty. But when we search an inspired 
record, for evidence of the practice of men un-
der the infallible guidance of the spirit of God, 
one instance is as good as a thousand. We do 
not demand that God should speak oftener than 
once, to give us assurance of a truth. Hence 
the confidence with which all Christendom re-
lies upon the solitary example of the Church at 
Troas as establishing the duty of assembling 
for public worship on the Lord's day. It is not 
for me to explain how they set aside the avowed 
object of such a meeting " to break bread."—
These two facts that "the fellowship," or col-
lection, was one of their stated observances, and 
that the Lord's day was the time of their stated 
assembling, will prepare you for the directions 
which I now quote from Paul's epistle to the 
Corinthians, as constituting the express law of 
the Lord Jesus on the point now before us—
" Now concerning the collection for the saints, 
as I have given order to the churches of Gala-
tia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the 
week let every one of you lay by him in store, 
as God hath prospered him, that there be no 
gatherings when I come." 
A.—I did. rot although I had been deluded 
into his religious opinions, and was considered 
a Roman Catholic, yet provoked by this arro-
gant pontiff, I resolved to turn my arms against 
him, and if possible to overthrow the power of 
Rome. That my design might be clearly un-
derstood, I ordered a medal to he struck with a 
menacing inscription, representing Rome by the 
title of Babylon on the coin. 
Several cardinals also, encouraged by the pro- 
Regarding the application of this passage to tection of the Emperor Maximilian I. and rne, 
our present purpose, let me remark in the first 
place, that the apostle is speaking concerning 
the public contribution, and gives his directions 
with the avowed object of avoiding hurried col-
lections after his arrival, and then it will be 
evident that the directions cannot be fulfilled 
by each privately laying aside a portion of his 
income to be used for charitable purposes.—
Doddridge accordingly translates and para- 
phrases the passage Let every one of you lay 
something by in proportion to the degree in 
which he bath been prospered—and let him 
bring it with him to the place where you meet 
for public worship, treasuring it up in the corna 
mons tock." Macknight translates it, " Let each 
of you lay somewhat by itself, according as he 
may have prospered, putting it into the trea. 
sury." In addition to these, it may at least be 
a matter of interest to you, to learn the testi-
mony of ecclesiastical history, as to the general 
practice of the early churches.—(To be contin, 
ued.) 
assembled a Council at Pisa in the year 1511, 
with the design of setting bounds to the prison-
er, so formidable by this warlike name. He 
on the other hand gave orders for a Council to 
meet in the palace of Lateran in the year 1512, 
in which the decrees of the Council of Pisa 
were condemned and annulled in the most inju-
rious and insulting terms. He likewise pre-
pared to proclaim his usurped power as the Vic-
ar of Christ, and thunder out the most dire 
and tremendous anathemas on my head, but 
which he had scarcely accomplished, before he 
was compelled to change this audacious name, 
in the midst of his ambitious and vindictive 
career. 
The Trial of Antichrist. 
(Continued front our last ) 
The Proceedings at a Special Commission, held 
at the Sessions House of Truth ; in order to 
the Trial of Antichrist, for High Treason 
against His Most Sacred Majesty, King oj. 
Heaven and Earth. 
Mr. Historical Truth again called. 
Q.—Do you know the hand-writing of the 
prisoner by the name of Pope Martin V.? 
A.—I am well acquainted with it. 
Q.—Is this his writing ? (Here it was shown 
him.) 
A.—It is. 
Q.—(From a juror.) Did you ever see it 
printed ? 
A.—I have. It is inserted in the Council of 
Siena, held a little after, and was printed in 
Paris, in the year 1612. 
Lewis XIL, King of France, sworn. 
Q.—Look at the prisoner at the bar. Have 
you been acquainted with him ? 
A.—I have been acquainted with him. He 
lived at Rome when I knew him, and was called 
Pope Julius II., Vicar of Christ, and the Prince 
of the Apostles. 
Henry V III., King of England, sworn. 
Q.—Are you the same King Henry that re-
ceived from the prisoner the title of Defender 
of the Faith ? 
am, 
Q.—How came he to bestow on you that 
title ? 
A.—At the time I owned his supremacy in 
England, I wrote a book against Luther, and 
the reformation in Germany, This I published 
in the year 1521, with intent to defend the pow-
er and government of the Roman pontiff: He 
then in return gave me the title, which has been 
used from that day. 
Q.—Did he not after this, anathematize, ex-
communicate and deprive you, for rejecting his 
supremacy in England ? 
A.—He did. Being instructed in the princi-
ples of popery, I constantly looked to the pris-
oner's absolving power, and unlimited indulg-
ences. In the year 1533, I published a divorce 
with Queen Catharine, and married Ann Boleyn, 
without his consent : not but he would have 
granted my request, however criminal in its na-
ture, but for fear of displeasing the Emperor of 
Germany, to whom Catharine was aunt. The 
prisoner then gave judgment against me, not for 
doing what I did, but for doing it without his 
authority as Vicar of Christ: 
This proved the cause of my separation from 
him, for in the beginning of the year 1534, I 
issued out an edict, rejecting his supremacy, 
forbidding any of my subjects to carry any 
money to Rome, or to pay the Peter's Pence—
(a common tax laid on countries that acknowl-
edge the Roman pontiff's authority). I soon af-
ter chased out of England all the collectors of 
this tax, and otherwise injured the coffers of the 
prisoner at the bar, 
Q.— W hat name 
then ? 
A.—By the name of Pope Clement VII.— 
Afterwards Pope Paul III. By this name he 
issued out his thunderbolt of excommunication, 
to deprive me of the kingdom, all my subjects 
of whatever they possessed, and anathematize 
Q.—Did he not by this name assume a mili-
tary appearance, and look more like a warrior 
than a priest. 
A.—He did.—His delight was in carnage and 
blood. 
Q.—Was it to support his usurped authority 
that he became a warrior ? 
A.—The reason he appeared as a military 
pontiff, was not only to support what power and 
authority he had unjustly acquired, but to ex-
tend his territories and government over all na- I all my adherents. He also commanded all my 
tions and kingdoms, agreeable to his title, prince subjects to deny me obedience, strangers to hold 
over all nations and kingdoms. 
any commerce with the kingdom ; and all to 
Q.—Will you relate to the court, what you take up arms against me and my people, prom-
recollect of his character and conduct, as the ising all who did, our property for a prey, and 
pretended Vicegerent of Christ ? 
our persons for slaves. 
 
A.—When I first became acquainted with Q.—In what year was this bull issued ?• 
him, I understood that it was common for him A.—On the 17th of December, in the year 
1538, 
every few years, if riot weeks, to assume a new 
title. He, therefore, had been known by a pro- 
Joan, Queen of Navarre, sworn 
digious number of names before he went by that Q.—Did not the prisoner at the bar presume 
of Julius II. By this name he was guilty of to arrogate authority over you as Vicar of Christ 
the most odious vices, too detestable to be on earth ? 
named, but which he committed without the A.—He did. During the sitting of the Conn- 
least limitation or restraint. To his truly hor- cil of Trent, he frequently designed to accuse 
rid list of vices, I must add, the most savage me as a favorer of heretics, but as he met with 
ferocity, audacious arrogance, and the most ex- some opposition from the Emperor's Arnbassa,-
travagant passions for war. He, therefore, lived dors in the case of Queen Elizabeth of England, 
in camps, amidst the din of arms, and was evei he omitted to bring the cause into the Council : 
ambitious for that fame which is acquired from but it, the year 1563, he caused a citation to be 
battles won and cities laid desolate. 
affixed on the gate of St. Peter's church in Rome, 
The prisoner had kept a standing army, to and other public places, against me ; ordered 
fight his battles, from the year 1054, when he me within six months to appear before his tri-
was known by the name of Pope Leo IX., and bunal, to defend myself, and show cause why I 
often laid towns and villages in ruins, and del- should not be deprived of all my dignities, states 
uged nations in human gore. 
and dominions ; my marriage made void, and 
By the name of Julius, he entered on his my children illegitimate. And also incurred 
military enterprise by declaring war against the other penalties, declared by the canons against 
Venetians, and being strengthened by the Ern- heretics. He was then called Pope Pius 1V. 
peror, in alliance with me, he afterwards laid I did not obey his orders ; the King of France 
siege to Ferara. After this he turned his arms protected me. 
against France, and engaged the Venetians, Elizabeth, Queen of England, sworn. 
Spaniards, and Swiss to support him in this cam- 
paign. In shoat, the whole time he went by Q.—Are you not the Queen of England. 
 
this name, was one continual scene of militar A —1 am. I was crowned queen after the 
y death of my cruel half-sister, Mary, in the year 
tumult, nor did he allow Europe to enjoy a mo- 1558. 
meat's tranquillity. 
Q.—Did the prisoner at the bar exercise any 
Q.—Did you not endeavor to check his mill- authority over you as the pretended Vicar of 
tary career, and set bounds to his ambition, Christ. 
after the alliance was broken between you and A.—He did. I had seen so much of the ty- 
him ? 
did the prisoner go by 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
rannv and cruel conduct of the prisoner during 
the reign of Mary, that I could not but detest 
both his name and government. However, my 
sister's ambassador being yet at Rome, he was 
ordered to make it known that 1 had ascended 
the throne. 
The prisoner, then called Pope Paul IV., ac-
cording to his usual arrogance, declared that 
England was held in fee to the Apostolic See 
of Rome, and I could not succeed, as he had, 
by the name of clement VII. and Paul III., de-
clared me illegitimate. He also asserted, that 
it was great boldness in me to assume the gov-
ernment of England without his consent ; but 
said, that as he was always desirous to show a 
fatherly affection, if I would renounce my pre-
tensions, and leave it entirely to him, he would 
do all he could for me with honor to the Apos-
tolic See. 
I treated his pretended fatherly affection with 
that contempt it merited. The Parliament met. 
All the laws made by Mary in favor of the Po-
pish religion were abolished. The prisoner's 
supremacy denied,images taken out of churches, 
and the revenues arising from monasteries un-
der the power of Rome, forfeited to the nation. 
I was then considered a heretic ; yet such was 
his dissembling conduct, that in the year 1560 
he invited me and my Bishops to attend the 
Council of Trent. This he did when he was 
called by the name of Pope Pius IV. 
After this he grew outrageous, and would 
have proceeded against me in this Council, in 
the year 1563, but was prevented by the ambas-
sadors of the Emperor. However, he issued out 
his bull to anathematize and excommunicate 
me, and to deprive me of my crown, dominions, 
and title, and to absolve all my subjects from 
their allegiance. He also pretended to raise 
Ireland to an independent kingdom, and many 
other things highly prejudicial to the British 
nation. He issued out his bulls in the name of 
the Vicar of Christ, Prince over all nations and 
kingdoms, and arrogated authority both in 
heaven and earth. 
Q.—Did he change his name again, after he 
had assumed that of Pope Pius IV ? 
A.—Yes, several times. His bull to deprive 
me was signed by the name of Pope Pius V., 
and afterwards by that of Pope Gregory X111. 
Henry III., King of France, sworn. 
Q.—Are you Henry III., Sovereign of France, 
who was assassinated by one of the prisoner's 
emissaries called a Monk? 
A.—I am. The monk's name was Clement. 
Q.—When did you ascend the throne of 
France ? 
A.—On the death of my brother, who is 
known in history by the name of the sanguin-
ary Charles IX. I had, previous to my ascen-
sion to the crown of France, been chosen King 
of Poland, but hearing of my brother's death, I 
with difficulty escaped to France, and quietly 
took possession of the throne, by the name of 
Henry III. 
Q—Were you not king, when what was 
called the Holy League was formed by several 
princes, under the government of the prisoner, 
to attempt to annihilate the people called Huge-
nots from off the face of the earth, arid at the 
head of whom was that noted agent of the pris-
oner, who spilt rivers of human blood, the Duke 
of Guise? 
A.—I was. I remember the league called the 
Holy League, and recollect the infamous con-
duct of the Duke of Critise. 
Q—Were you not supposed to favor the 
Hugenots or Protestants, in opposition to the 
orders of the prisoner, and the league of the 
princes ? 
A.—Yes ; and the consequence was, one 
Clement, a monk, under the authority of the 
prisoner, assassinated me in the year 1589.—
And the common report throughout Europe was, 
that I died of the wound. 
Q.—Do you believe that what this priest did 
was by order of and with the prisoner's appro-
bation ? 
A.—I do believe it, for when he was known 
by the title of Pope Sixtus V., he delivered a 
famous oration, in which he applauded this 
act of the monk, as both admirable and merito-
rious. 
Henry IV., King of France, sworn. 
Q.—Did you succeed Henry Ill. to the throne 
of France ? 
A.—I did. 
Q.—Did not the prisoner at the bar manifest 
considerable opposition to you, after you came 
to the. throne ? 
A.—He did. I professed to be an enemy to 
his government, and he viewed me as a heretic. 
The consequence was, I had to wade through 
almost innumerable difficulties, and was often 
driven with my little court to the greatest dis-
tress for the common necessaries of life. The 
prisoner wished one of the cardinals to be pro-
claimed king, and the prince in league with him 
(through my being considered a Hugenot,) ap-
peared ready to obey his mandate. I, therefore, 
had to dispute every inch of ground with their 
combined forces, but at last was established on 
the throne. 
Q.—Were you not compelled to own the au-
thority of the prisoner, and profess to be a Roman 
Catholic ? 
A.-1 was. I had experienced such a variety 
of successful and unsuccessful events, and had 
so many enemies to encounter with, that. I was 
led into this measure from what was recom-
mended to me as prudent, my religion being 
the only obstacle in the way to the enjoyment 
of the crown of France in peace. Thus delu-
ded, I went publicly to mass, and with great 
difficulty obtained absolution frolic the prisoner. 
This, however, produced wonders among the 
people : all France submitted to my sceptre, and 
I had only Spain to contend with; which was 
soon silenced by my victorious army. 
Q.—Was it not supposed afterwards, that 
your profession of attachment to the prisoner's 
government was not sincere, and that you had 
relapsed again into heresy ? 
A.—It was. Having re-established tranquil-
lity among my people, I caused an edict to be 
proclaimed to secure my old friends, the Protes-
tants, the free exercise of their religion, which 
decree is known by the Edict of Nantes. The 
prisoner was much offended at this, and after-
wards I was assassinated in the streets of Pa-
ris, by one of his domestic servants—one Ra-
villiac, a friar, in the year 1610. A corpse was 
interred which all France was given to under-
stand was mine, and from the report of this, 
the prisoner supposed I was really dead.—( To be 
continued.) 
From the " Ladies' Keepsake." 
Mothers and Daughters of the Bible. 
BATHSHEBA. 
Long and dreadful have been the wars of 
Palestine. On the one side, there is the youth-
ful nation of Israel to contend for its birthright 
in the land sworn to them by the God of heaven 
from the days of Noah. Upon the other side, 
we have a multitude of petty nations to con- 
tend for their fire-sides and altars against the in-
vaders of the land where their fathers have lived 
and died since the division of the earth among 
the sons of Noah. Both contend for their very 
existence, through centuries of battles and sieges 
that have thrown an eclipse over the wars of 
the contemporary nations about Ilium or Thebes. 
Nor should those days have been judged un-
worthy of an epic more lofty than those that 
celebrate the wrath of Achilles, or the sufferings 
of YEnwas, but that the spirit of the Hebrew 
bards was averse to dwelling upon the battles 
and wounds and heroes; and all that are most 
capable among Christians, prefer other themes 
for song. 
The streams of Jordan part before the sons of 
Israel ; and next, the walls of Jericho ruin upon 
the dusty plain. The hosts of Midian flee be-
fore a blast of horns by night, and leave Jerub-
baal lord of the battle-field through the cow-
ardice of his foes. The stars grow red with 
wrath above the doomed hosts of Sisera—and, 
amid a night of clouds unseen of men, the Al-
mighty shakes his blackening thunders. The 
hordes of Ammon flee before the phalanx of 
Jephthah, and obscene Chernosh shames his 
worshippers overthrown in battle. The invin-
cible Eanite with his single arm drives before 
him the chosen heroes of Philistine armies, and 
earns his meed of immortal glory by delivering 
his betrayers from the dread of their tyrants. 
With feats of arms the whole land resounds, 
and Saul with his chosen heroes makes long 
amends for the partial enslavement of Israel 
among barbarian foes. 
At length the predestined hour approaches 
when the young son of Jesse shall begin to 
grow famous in battle. The city gates pour 
fourth their multitudes in arms, as when winds 
above the sea pile clouds on clouds, and pour 
down storms of wreathed hail ; or as when mil-
lions of migratory fowl forsake their haunts by 
the shores of the northern sea, and drive before 
the autumnal year to far-off lands. From 
Gaxa's watery bounds, by Besor's stream—from 
Ascalon, or Accaron, or Ashdod, the house of 
Dagon—and from the giant towers of Gath, 
the Philistine youth crowd gazed eagerly to 
join the standard of their lords, arid signalize 
their bravery in war; forgetful all how costly a 
victory brought them the insupportable ark of 
the Almighty's covenant, when Hophni and 
Phinehas fell at the head of their heroes in Eb-
enezer. 
The sons of Israel also, at the call of their 
king, come trooping by myriads from Paneas 
and the snowy ridges of Hermon or Lebanon 
rough with cedars and rocks of ice—from the 
wild glades of the south by Beersheba and the 
Asphaltic lake—from Gilead and the borders of 
Moab or Ammon, or from the sea shore; and to 
the sound of the trumpet respond hosannas, as 
the voice of the sea. 
On opposing hills the foes spread their pha-
lanx with mooned wings, and pitch their covered 
camps. Long time delaying to strike, they 
stand surveying each other with hostile eyes—
and Goliath each day presents his mighty stat-
ure. At length the son of Jesse, in his ruddy 
youth, advances, and, with a sling and a stone, 
fells the blasphemer to the earth at a blow.—
The spouting blood pours forth to stain all his 
armor, erewhile so bright when he stood tower-
ing before the hosts in brass and steel and bur-
nished gold, and from his nodding plume, as 
from a comet flaming in the sky of the north, 
scattered terror and flight among his foes. The 
giant falls—yet he stands again, and, with lift-
ed arm, shakes his terrible lance at large. His 
sightless orbs suffused, flash fire mingled with 
blood. Again he falls to the earth ; but, reluct-
ant to die, attempts once more to stand, and, 
half raised on his bended knees, he invokes his 
gods with a curse, and calls his armed heroes 
to avenge his disgrace upon the circumcised 
crew. Again he sinks upon the earth, and with 
deep groans yields up his fierce and bloody soul 
to the angels to death. 
The ruddy youth stands upon his dead body, 
and, drawing from the scabbard his keenly flash-
ing sabre, with a blow cuts off his head, and 
bears it to the 'king. The multitude, with joy 
and shouts, gaze on the grim features scarcely 
less terrible even in death than those of Gervon 
or Cacus. The Most High approving, gives his 
signal of thunder in a clear sky, and the uncir-
cumcised nations turn their backs to flee from 
the hostile plain, where their champion lies 
headless and despoiled of all his armor—a prey 
to jackals. But, vainly will they flee, for the 
anointed armies sing "Hosanna to the High-
est!" and hang like a tempest upon the re-
treating foe with terror and infinite slaughter. 
The fields redden and the rivers choke with 
multitudes of slain, while they roll bloody to 
the sea with the gore of heroes. The infernal 
seats are stirred; and all their kings rise up to 
meet the pale and sighing ghosts fallen by doom 
of battle. 
Then returning from conquest, they come to 
their native cities, where Peace now shall long 
wave her olive branch ; and the young-eyed 
damsels of their tribes come forth to meet them, 
singing, " Saul hath slain his thousands, but 
David his ten thousands !" At the head of her 
companions, the youthful Bathsheba leads the 
dance, and holds-in her fair hands garlands of 
fragrant flowers, wherewith they strew the path 
of the heroes, and crown the brows of the brave 
with victorious boughs. Unrivalled in beauty 
and grace, the daughter of Eliam is crowned 
with flowers by her maids as they dance and 
sing, " Blest be the mother of the hero, and 
blest be his father ; blest be his sister that shall 
be spouse to the kingdom's heir ; and blest be 
the maiden in her royal harem that shall call 
him her lord ! " The queenly daughter of Saul 
joins in the giddy dance before her father and 
his heroes, and counts herself happiest among 
women, that she may now become the spouse 
of the youthful shepherd that has come to ex-
cel the giants of the earth in feats of arms. 
Alas, that so fair a morning cannot be with-
out clouds! that such unquestioned joy should 
not for once be left unmingled with sorrow !— 
The malignant spirit of Saul is roused to hate 
the deliverer of his empire, and he is driven 
into exile, with a price set upon his head, al- 
though he is the king's son-in-law, and anointed 
by Divine command as the future king of Israel, 
that there may be at least one king on the earth 
that can himself excel in statesmanship and 
feats of arms, and live without jealousy of such 
as rival him in either. Saul proves himself 
unfit to reign, by his hatred f the loftiest vir-
tue; while David shall show all kings unwor-
thy of comparison with him, for his magna-
nimity in sparing his deadliest foe, and treating 
with distinguished regard the poor remains of 
his family after he has fallen upon his sword in 
the rout of his army. 
Years pass, and the ruddy swain, whose harp 
has proved too charming for one of hell's black-
est spirits, as his arm has been shown too strong 
for the mightiest among the sons of Anak, sits 
in an uncontested throne, surrounded by his 
millions of heroes, and too powerful for the 
mightiest tyrannies of earth. The exile of Ra-
mah, and Nob, and Gath, and Keilah, and En-
gaddi, and Hachilah, and Maon, and Ziglag, is 
now the king of Israel, and the head of a dy-
nasty that shall rule all lands and ail ages from 
the throne of God. Yet is David a man of 
sorrowful spirit, and his noblest triumphs cost 
him woe. He is afflicted beyond measure at 
the death of Saul, his mortal foe, and breaks 
his mighty heart at the assassination of that foe's 
worthless son, after he has wept behind the fu-
neral of the mighty son of Neri. The strong-
holds of the mountain fortress of Sion yield to 
his arms, and he makes Jerusalem the seat of 
his empire. The Tyrians become his allies, 
and send him trees of cedar from Lebanon. to 
rear him a palace worthy of his state, under the 
direction of their noblest architects. Then he 
resolves to rear a magnificent temple to Jeho-
vah that shall be the glory of his reign and the 
wonder of the world ; but this is denied him, 
and referred to a son not yet born. The Phi-
listines and Moabites, and the men of Rehob 
and Damascus, the sons of Edom and Amalek, 
with the Ammonites, everywhere fall before his 
arms, and leave him master of all the regions 
sworn to the sons of Israel, from the river Egypt 
to the fountains of upper Lebanon, and from 
the sea to the river of Babylon. 
Alas ! that prosperity should he able to take 
in its deceitful snare such as the storms of ad-
verse fortune cannot bend ! While his invin-
cible general (red with the blood of Abner, but 
reprieved till he can be better spared,) is besieg-
ing Rabbah, and reducing the myrmidons of 
impudent Hanun to the last straits, the son of 
Jesse becomes ensnared with the fair looks of 
Eliain's daughter, now the spouse of the brave 
Uriah, and joins murder to adultery, that she 
may add her charms to his harem,already over-
stocked, and encumbered with a multitude of 
wives and concubines, with their lawless brood 
of sons and daughters, ready to raise seditious 
against their father while he lives, and to mur-
der each other, without remorse, when he is 
dead. Such is the fortune of exalted state.—
The children of the poor dread the loss of their 
father ; and his single wife, humble and labori-
ous and unknown to the world, will watch the 
stars out by the side of his couch of pain, and 
weep inconsolable at his grave. But the sons 
and daughters of the rich desire his death, that 
without hinderance they may first contend like 
wolves for the remains of his estate, and then 
spend his dearly-earned wealth in riotous liv-
ing ; nor will his widow long weep after the 
weary pageantry of his funeral is over, and the 
tomb has shut upon his mortal corse her gloomy 
doors. 
Thus he that never wronged a rival, and 
never envied one of his most renowned heroes 
his well-earned fame—he who wept when his 
bitterest foes perished, and vexed his soul for 
the distress of the most ungrateful wretches 
that dishonored the human form—is found, 
when left to himself, what the best man now 
living would be in like circumstances, a miser-
able criminal, too frail to resist the most ordi-
nary temptation, and too callous to regret the 
wrongs he has inflicted upon his most faithful 
servants and the world, or the insults where-
with he has offended the injured majesty of 
Heaven. 
The widow's tears are few and brief, and she 
hastens to lay aside her weeds for the robes of 
the favorite sultana, to blaze in diamonds and 
gold, and gems, and exercise capricious tyranny 
in the harem of the mightiest monarch in the 
world. But, short and partial shall prove her 
triumph—the triumph of beauty and pride.—
The alliance begun in adultery and consumma-
ted Ly murder, is odious to men and cursed of 
God. The slighted wives of her lord and their 
children will abhor intrusion, and rejoice in 
whatever calamity may befall her,,or whatever 
sons and daughters may call her mother. The 
insulted angels of her nuptial chamber have 
gone away, shamed and covered with blushes, 
to accuse her before Heaven's Chancery, that 
writes its decrees in tables of brass, and not in 
rose-leaves ; hut they shall soon return, with 
commission to call her sin to. remembrance, by 
slaying her first-born. Bathsheba, however, 
thinks little of the woes that await her, and 
what more may befall her sons long after she is 
dead, through her fault ; but gives herself up to 
the intoxications of her new splendors, and 
deems a court the happiest place this side of 
heaven—a court where all faces wear forced 
smiles, and all words are chosen to flatter the 
great, while they are envied and waylaid with 
poisons and poniards in every path where they 
may walk, whether in public or in their most 
secret retirements, by night or by day. What 
to her is the evident murder of her husband ? • 
what are the secret execrations of all mothers, 
and the real contempt of every father in Israel? 
She sits a queen, and her spouse is the hero 
whose deeds she sung long ago among the 
damsels of her train, when he bore in his hand 
the head of the giant, the terror and scourge of 
the most powerful princes of Asia. 0 ! with 
what sharpness and desire has she envied 
the women that have filled his harem even 
when he was in exile and danger ! With what 
exultation has she come to be their superior now 
that he sits upon an insuperable throne, and all 
his enemies have come to lick the dust of his 
feet. 
But, if neither Bathsheba nor her kingly 
paramour will look into the consequences of 
their actions, there is One that sees far down 
the path of future ages,and notes all the crimes 
and calamities of her race. A bald and stern 
old minstrel is at hand, that can make the run-
ning brooks delay to the sound of his harmo-
nious strings, and the kid will leave her un-
cropped twigs to listen, when he trills his sub-
lime madrigal, and sings of the stars and the 
wind and the sun's unwearied course, the glory of 
kings, and the judgments of Heaven against the 
godless, that disdain to live according to just 
and equitable laws, or the glorious meeds that 
await the just in the resurrection world. Ever 
welcome and honored as a sacred character at 
the courts of kings and the palaces of the 
great, either in Palestine or in other lands, he 
goes and comes at his will, and is everywhere 
alike at home. Such were the bards of ancient 
latissomoromli, 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
times, before prophecy became mercenary, and thee, upon the nations that are under the whole said in his heart that, " there is no Goo," if taken live in the water are excepted : and so can several 
gold could ennoble things by nature mean and heaven." 
alone, would contradict what is said of the existence creatures beside fishes. Secondly, That all those of 
 
Other writers in the Old Testament use such phis- 
the species of beasts, including also serpents, there 
low—when a mule had not become the " illus- 
of the Divine Being. In the same way is this pas- 
 
seology in a similar manner. " All the earth," or 
are not certainly known and described above one 
trious foal of steeds whose feet are winds," and 
sage perverted. Taken in its connection , it will be hundred and fifty (as Mr. Ray bath observed), arid 
all the land," is applied to Palestine in Ps. 7:24, 
when a man was better in prison and chains Jer. 1:18, 4:20, 8:46, and in subsequent chapters. seen that the waters prevailed 45 feet above the top's the number of birds about five hundred. Thirdly, 
than a horse contending for the prize of swift- So it is used in Zeph. and Zech. In Jeremiah, 51st of the highest mountains : " And the flood was forty That there are but a few species of very vast crea- 
ness and strength at Olympic games. Often chapter, it is repeatedly used in reference to Chaldea. 
tures, such as elephants, horses, &c. And fourthly, 
days upon the earth : and the waters increased, and 
has he sung before the king of Israel, who ac- Dan. 2:39 says, referring to Alexander the Great, 
That birds generally are of so small a bulk that they 
bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. take up but a little room. And, fifthly, That if we 
knowledges there is at least one prophet that "which shall hear rule over all the earth." 
can warble extemporaneous hymns to rival his If we look at the 6th of Genesis, we shall find And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly suppose creeping insects ought to be included, they 
that God has nowhere declared that he would bring upon the earth : and the ark went upon the face of take up less, though very numerous. And, lastly, 
own.—( To be continued,) 
a flood upon all the earth, but only, " I will destroy 
the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly were shut up close, arid did not spend themselves by 
That less provision would serve them all, when they 
man , whom I have created from the face of the earth, 
lac luent tjeralb. 
But this is only the beginning of the difficulty.— earth, but that he would destroy man, with the beast commanded NOAH. -Gen. 7:7,-9. "P." has how-
DENIAL OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE Did Noah carefully preserve the exact number re- „ 
DELUGE. 
 
 
quired, not only of each of the thousands of species azc! Suppose it is not thus predicted in the 6th ? is ever not noticed that in the construction of the ark, 
of birds and animals, but also of the hundreds of 
not its occurrence declared in the 7th 1 and because NOAH was commanded to make " rooms " in it for 
the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water 
the separation of the several beasts. Gen. 6:14. 
" FOr this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God thousands of species of insect, one male and one a chapter can be found in which there is not evidence 
and in the water: whereby the world that their was, being over- female, according to the (supposed) command ? The of a fact, does that invalidate the evidence that does 3. Again" P." wishes to know if Noan wascareful 
flowed with water, peliShed t but the heavens and the earth, which hornet, wasp, mosquito, flee, beetle, ant, etc., etc. ? 
are now; by the saute word are kept in store, reserved unto fire 
exist ? It is true that it is not predicted in the sixth ; to observe the exact number required, and indulges 
against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men "- What a curious collection, throwing in the deepest 
S l'et. 3:s-7. 
shade any modern collector of curiosities in this or but if the explicit declarations in the seventh can he in some levity respecting the incongruous collection 
The fact of the universal deluge, is one so expli- any other country. Bet with a literal construction, so cavalierly set aside, would not any express decla- there present. Whether NOAH could recall the exact 
citly stated in the word of God, and its marks are all this is requisite, arid that upon a surface only rations in the sixth have been equally disregarded ? number there to be present, is immaterial, so long as 
plainly indicated in all parts of the earth's surface, about eighteen times as large as a good sized church. a, 
God forbid that I should pronounce this impossible, 
 
 
the Architect who contrived their residence, and who 
The writer admits that the sixth chapter teaches 
that a denial of it, and the claim that in such respect but unless inspiration has in fact declared it, it can, the destruction of roan, from the thce of the earth ; inclined the needed ones to enter that abode, was 
all things continue as they were from the beginning hardly obtain my belief. I scarcely need to add, but it is no more explicit of man, than of beast, and fully able to plan, arrange, and adapt, according to 
of the creation, is attributed by the apostle solely to that those who can voluntarily digest all this, must the earth : " And the LORD said, I will destroy man the wisest purposes, whether " P.," can believe it or 
the willing ignorance of those who deny. In the also swallow a huge amount of food to sustain these whom 1 have created from the face of the earth ; both not. 
ferocious animals for many months. flow much 
Congregational Journal of May 22(1, is the following
man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls 
space would these arrangements require? 
4. Again " P." fancies another miracle requisite to 
article, headed " SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY," in which Again, was another miracle also necessary in of the air ; for it repenteth me that I have made them. produce water sufficient to cover the earth's surface 
is mooted the question, " Was the flood universal ?" producing water enough to cover the whole world And Goo said unto NOAH, the end of all flesh is come above the mountains ! Here he manifests a want of 
As usual, those who deny the affirmation of such four or five miles deep? This too is demanded by a before me ; for the earth is filled with violence knowledge in several things. He does not seem to 
questions, a most profound reverence is expressed for literal construction of the narrative. All the water through them :and behold, I will destroy them with 
now floating in the atmosphere would fill but a small
know that water can be made of air, that 85 parts of 
the word of God ; but a greater reverence is plainly fraction of this depth. Twice or thrice the quantity the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it oxygen, and fifteen of hydrogen, will make 100 parts 
seen for the "opposition of science, falsely so called." now on the globe would be required to accomplish to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights : of water ; and that GOD had only to send his lightning, 
The article is over the signature of " P.," whom we all this, in addition to that now in being. 
and every living substance that I have made will I the electric spark through these airs, to decompose 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1851. 
the lion already become the lamb ; the cow and the The language is thus clear and explicit and is not wives, with him, into the ark, because of the waters 
bear feeding together? No intimation is given in analogous to the passages adduced to justify a hypers. of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give it either Testament, of any such miracle as this.— 
room in their Prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and Would not some allusion have been made to it 1-- bolical understanding of it. 
not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creep- 
with sobriety of judgment. and discernment of the tenth, in nothing Would it not have been referred to as a type of the But " P." says 
eth upon the earth, there went in two arid two unto 
hi, truth advanced ;also, that it may be conducted in faith and love, 
that it is not declared in the 6th 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly din- promise hereafter to be fulfilled ? 
chapter that GOD would bring a flood upon all the NOAH into the ark, the male and the female, as GOD had 
putation. 
both man and beast, and the creeping thing or the fowls upon the earth : and all the high Inns that were tin- motion ; and besides, were in a continual confused 
_ad as-a-t..a. , of the air." Mari was the occasion of this terrible der the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits agitation, which palled their appetites. From all 
s.a---aa , , , : 
upward did the waters prevail :and the mountains which, and many more considerations, it is easy to 
a-,..-saassa•• 
SATs
----5r----,-_--.1-i-- ,...,4., ,. judgment, and so severe was its character, that it even 
aaae--- 
involved lower animals in the general ruin. were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon demonstrate, that there was more than room enough 
-a 
• . , 
The arrangements made by Noah, under the ex- 
 
command of God, leads almost of necessity to 
 
 
for all sorts of creatures that God commanded to be 
the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, brought into the ark ; and for their food, during the 
the same conclusion. The ark contained three sto- and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon time they stayed in it."—Patrick's Corn. vol. 1. p. 35. 
ries, all of which would contain little more than 100,- the earth, and every man : all in whose nostrils was 2. " P." next fanciesthat a miracle would have been 
000 square feet of surface. 
the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. necessary to make the lion and the lamb lie down 
Width' this space were to he collected two of each 
species of unclean, and fourteen of each of the clean And every living substance was destroyed which was together in the ark, subject to the management of 
animals. Among these, of course, would be lions,
NOAH and his sons ; and he says there is no intima-
upon the face of the ground, both of man, and cattle, 
tigers, elephants, buffaloes, wild boars, panthers, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; tion of such a miracle! Was there no miracle when 
hears, arid other huge monsters, neither few in num- and they were destroyed from the earth ; and NOAH the animals, of their own accord, left their dens and 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" tier, nor easy to control. Why resort, but from ab- 
solute necessity, to the supposition that Noah and his only remained alive, and they that were with him in forest retreats, and went into the ark I " And NOAH 
sons managed all these as a shepherd does his flocks, the ark."—Gen. 7:17-23. 
went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' 
suppose to be Prof. PARK, of the Andover Theo- Such miracles certainly are possible. But, cvi destroy from off the face of the earth. Gen. 6:7, 
 
bono ? 
Why submerge a whole world as a judgment 
them and convert them into water ; and thus it rained 
logical Seminary,—he being one of the published co- on a race covering but a small portion of its surface? 13, 17 ; 7:4. 
as if the windows or flood gates of heaven were 
operators with the editors of that paper. 
Almighty power is exerted only for some object wor- It is thus explicitly predicted that every animal opened, or as theUX-Ytranslate 
---. 
 it cataracts. 
WAS NOAH'S FLOOD UNIVERSAL. — A cursory tiny of such interference. 
 
under heaven, in which there was the breath of life, " P." seems to have forgotten that during the 
reading, of the Bible would, no doubt, lead to an af- But one more suggestion is necessary to accom-should be destroyed ; which as much settles the 
question, as if it was predicted that all the world eruption Gon had to gather together the waters under 
firmative answer to this question. Such, in fact, is plish my design. If we look at the physical geog- 
the letter of the text " and all the high hills that raptly of that part of the world which was the abode 
the heaven into one place, before the dry land could 
were coveted," " and all flesh died that moved upon of our first parents, and their immediate descendants, should have been covered with water. It will there- appear—that previous to that, the entire earth's sur-
the earth," " and every living substance was de- we shall discover a condition of things going far to fore be seen that " P." has denied in the 6th chapter face was submerged, and was only made visible by 
stroyed which was upon the face of the ground," confirm, the doctrine of a limited flood. 
what is virtual]
a
y there ; and then based an argument the elevation of the land, and the depression of the 
" arid they were destroyed from the earth." 
Modern toutists have discovered that a huge aa- 
Whatever the Bible is designed to teach will be sin exists, including Mesopotamia, Persia, and a on that assumed omission, when the following chap- bed of the ocean, thus producing the inequalities in 
found, at last, perfectly in accordance with facts and part of Affghanistan and Turkistan, the level of ter is explicit, even if there had been such an orris- the earth's surface. And that the fiat of the Al-
with common sense, and if a careful investigation of which is considerably below that of the sea. The Dead 
its language leads us to any conclusion, that conclu- Sea is within these limits, and this, the late survey sion' 
mighty which could produce those inequalities at the 
sion must stand. God's Word is true: It demands by Lieut. Wilkes, proved to be 1,311 feet below the Of the testimony appealed to, to prove a hyper- creation, which could divide the waters above the 
level of the Mediterranean. Here too is the Black boiical meaning, very little of it is at allto the put- firmament from those beneath, excavate the deep 
our entire confidence. What then with the Scrip- 
tures ? is the only inquiry: 
Sea, which, says Guyot, " seems to partake of the pose. Of the famine upon all the earth, there is ocean caverns, and elevate the high hills then ; could 
The first intimation that a different construction character of a sunk basin." The valley of the Jor- 
i 
was intended b the sacred penman, is found in the don, says another writer, is " exceedingly depressed, nothing to show thatt was not thus extensive. It also, at the deluge, open those windows of heaven, 
same connectio
y 
 n with the passages above cited, viz lying 1,380 feet below the Mediterranean, and 1,410 is the same respecting the scattering of the Jews and break up those foundations of the great deep, 
"Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and feet below the Red Sea." 
among all nations, the extended fame of DAVID'S and depress those hills so that all the high hills 
the mountains were covered." Does not this imply Nor am I aware that this region is or ever has valor, and of SOLOMON'S wisdom. There is nothing to tinder the whole heaven should again be covered in 
that the mountains thus submerged were less than been the home of the lion, or tiger, or any other of restrict the language, or to indicate that it should the abyss of waters, as they were when the Spirit of 
" fifteen cubits " high 1 If this is not its meaning, those huge and fierce beasts of prey, to which alto- 
does it assert? And if this is its meaning, sion has before been made. Nor is it traversed by not be taken in the explicit sense ascribed to such Goo first moved on the waters of the great deep,— 
then " the high hills under the whole heaven " must lofty mountains, but only hemmed in by them on all phraseology. The only reference at all pertinent to reversing this process again at the termination of the 
have been very unlike the mountains, in some coon- sides. No one passage of the Bible, so far as I this case is that respecting the cattle of Egypt. we deluge. 
tries now descried by geopraphers. This apparent know, unless it be those under discussion, militate in 
Again, a small rise7of water would overflow the 
the least with this construction. The race was de- read, that of the murrain, " all the cattle of Egypt 
difficulty requires us to examine the use, made by the 
same writer, of any or all of the phrases used in stroyed by a flood, not the result of any natural law, died ;" but " P." doubtless knows that the word most of the earth's surface. All those vast plains 
this connection. Let us then turn to the testimony. in consequence of its guilt. That whole region of " all" in that connection is expounded by DRUMS, watered by the Orinoco of South America, are only 
Gen. 12:56, 57 : " And the famine was upon all country above described, must have been submerged. 
PATRICK and others, to denote "all kinds "—not all fifty fathoms above the sea level. A rise of two 
the face of the earth." Did this famine literally ex- " The fountains of the great deep were broken up." 
tend over the whole world ? Or was it even as ex- The waters of the ocean were driven in, by volcanic the cattle of Egypt died ; but some of all kinds.— hundred to three hundred feet in the waters of the 
tensive as the inhabited parts of the earth ? If not action perhaps, upon this devoted land. if the flood Thus Dr. CLARK says : " All the cattle that did die, Mediterranean, would overflow all the steppes of 
absolutely universal, the language is figurative Ex. was universal, this would not have increased the ex- • belonged to the Egyptians," which is perfectly con- Russia, and connect that sea with the Baltic. An 
9:6, " And all the cattle of Egypt died " of the tent of the flood. Every land animal living upon 
elevation of five hundred feet would cause the great 
sistent with the subsequent existence of cattle in 
murrain.) But at a subsequent period, in verse 19, this territory, not preserved inn the ark, was destroyed. Egypt, and furnishes no authority for restricting the lakes to ,overflow from the gulf of Mexico to the 
it is said of the hail, " upon every naan and beast— God's word is true. He will keep his promise in all 
the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall times, and will again destroy the wicked and all the langauge respecting the deluge. The SAVIOUR said, Arctic ocean. A very small elevation would flood the 
die "—and verse 25, and the hail smote both man nations that ()bey not his law. An ark is provided. " If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me," whole of the north of Asia to the foot of the Him- 
and beast." 
It was not intended then, that we should Its doors are open. Sinner, enter the ark and be 
malah mountains, the whole of the desert of Sahara, 
understand literally, that " all, the cattle of Egypt saved. " There yet is room. " 
P. which simply includes all kinds of men. 
and the eastern slope of South America. 
 
, Leaving the Scriptural argument, " P. next pro- 
died " of the murrain." 
Are the words in the pas- We propose to examine the arguments advance(' 
sages last cited, intended to he taken in a literal 
 
 
ceeds to speculative considerations, and advances the But, " P." asks, why submerge a whole world, 
and show their 
of 
the universality 
the flood, 
sense ? Did the hail destroy " every man and beast ?" against
same kinds of arguments that Infidels urge against when a limited part would have answered all pur-
insufficiency. 
Surely all the men were not thus destroyed, for we 
poses? Will " P." then answer why an ark was 
hear much of them after this, and as to " the beasts," It is admitted that the letter of the text gives an other revealed facts. And, 
1st " P." finds a difficulty in the size of the ark, necessary, when GOD could have removed NOAH
a subsequent plague is said, verse 29, to have des affirmative answer to this question; but it is claimed 
 
stroyed . all the first born of the cattle." It is very 
there being only 100,000 square feet of surface. 300 from the doomed spot, as he did LOT from Sodom? 
thus 
what 
h 
t 
is us 
to teach 
clear then that " all flesh," and " every living sub- that the Bible is not designed
cubits long, and 50 wide, it being three stories in Why oblige the spared animals to take refuge therein, 
stance," etc., as used in Ex. 9:6, and in similar pas- conveyed in its letter. The writer says, " The first height, there was 101,250 feet of floor room ; of when they could have been directed beyond its devas- 
sages, are to he taken only as figurative expressions, intimation that a different construction was intended 
denoting- extensive destruction. 
 
 
which Bishop WILKINS says : " Of the two, it is hating influence ? " P." has, however, to show that 
by the sacred penman is found in Gen. 7:20, " Fifteen 
 
Similar use is made of the same phraseology in 
more difficult to assign a number and bulk of neces- mankind did not extend as universally over the earth's 
different connections. Dent. 28:64 : " And the Lord cubits upward did the waters prevail : and the moun- sary things to answer to the capacity of the ark, than surface as now. Living to six times the present age 
shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of tains were covered," which " P." of The Congre- to find sufficient room for the several species of ani- of man, they might have increased at six times the 
the earth even to the other.' 1 Chr. 14:17, " Arid gationalist interprets to mean, that the highest sum- 
the fame of David went out into all lands, and the 
trials and their food already known to have been same ratio that they do now ; so that in more than a 
Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations." 1 
there." Speaking of those who conceive a want of millenary and a half from creation the numbers of 
mits submerged were only 45 feet high—which he 
Kings 10:24, " And all the earth sought to Solomon considers an apparent difficulty. 
room in the ark, Bishop PATRICK says : 
the race might have been as great, and as widely 
to hear his wisdom." Deut. 2:25,
I begin to taut the dread of thee, and the 
y 
fear of' may be distorted in any v,-ay. What the fool hath 
diffused as at present, after a period of less than three 
 
" This da will Taking a text from its connection, its meaning 
" Such persons never distinctly consider such 
things as these: First, That all those which could times the duration of that. So that a limited flood 
'•• 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
would have been insufficient. Says Bishop PATRICK: 
"It is a strange weakness to fancy, that only Pales-
tine, Syria, or Mesopotamia, or some such country, 
was drowned by the flood ; DO more of the earth 
being then inhabited : for those countries could not 
have held the fortieth part of the inhabitants which 
were produced between the creation and the flood ; 
no, all the earth was not more than sufficient to con-
tain them ; as many have clearly proved." 
The great basin to which " P." alludes, it is true 
exists ; but there is evidence that it was once more 
elevated ; and its present depressed condition may 
have been the result of that subsequent destruction 
which Sodom endured. Sodom was once higher 
than the Red Sea; for a valley has been traced by 
BUCHART horn that Sea to the Dead Sea, in which 
the Jordan doubtless flowed, before the face of the 
country was sunk down by the horrible tempest which 
the LORD rained upon it. 
P." speaks of that country not being the home 
of the lion, &c. We cannot answer respecting the 
truth of that ; but does he wish to be understood that. 
those animals were not in the ark? 
The closing admonition of " P's" article would 
be very well in some other connection; but is not in 
good taste when in connection with an attempt to 
question the letter of Scripture. If the ark was 
less capacious than was needed for its inmates, what 
evidence is there that this other ark will accommodate 
all who may seek access there ? 
We purposed taking up another branch of this 
subject, and showing that there are traces of a uni-
versal deluge all over the earth ; that the masses of 
the remains of animals from warm climates in cold 
latitudes could have been accumulated only by some 
such catastrophe ; but we have only space for a single 
quotation : 
" Some very eminent philosophers are of the 
opinion that, by the breaking up of the fountains of 
the great deep, we are to understand an eruption of 
waters from the Southern Ocean.' 
Mr. Kirwan sup-
poses that this is pretty evident from such animals 
as the elephant and rhinoceros being found in great 
masses in Siberia, mixed with different marine sub-
stances; whereas no animals or other substances 
belonging to the northern regions have ever been 
found in southern climates. Had these animals died 
natural deaths in their proper climates, their bodies 
would not have been found in such masses.'"—
Clarke's Com., vol. 1. V. 72. 
ON the 21st, 1 visited the friends in Abington, and 
.the 22d,:preached in the Christian Chapel, Plymouth, 
Mass., erected for me twenty-four years ago. 1 had 
not visited thisplace for the last fifteen years ; but I 
found many families enjoying the fruits of my labors 
in that place twenty-four years ago. Great changes 
'have taken place : some beloved ones sleep in JESUS, 
a few remain faithful, some of whom rejoice in the 
blessed hope. 
,1 had a full house, and the best atten-
tion, and can but hope good was done. Bro. H. L. 
HASTINGS is laboring with them at present, and is 
much liked. May the LORD bless and build them 
up. On the 25th was at borne, in the Chardon-street 
Church, but was unable to speak. Bin. BILLINGS 
and HALE kindly supplied my place. Since which 
I have been confined a: home by a very bad sore 
throat, and prostrated by fiitigue ; but hope, by the 
blessing of Goe, to be able to attend the Conference 
next week. 
J. V. H. 
THE BIG TENT will be pitched this season, Provi-
dence permitting, on Cape Cod, according to notice 
in another column. Also at Concord, or vicinity, in 
New Hampshire, about the first of August. We 
may have other meetings, if our health permit. 
Good and efficient lecturers will be provided at 
these meetings, and the first principles of the Advent 
faith will be clearly set forth, in regard to both the 
mariner and time of the Advent. 
CORRECTION. — III " M 1CHA EL'S " exposition of 
.prophecy, in the Herald two or three weeks since, 
the following typographical errors occur para- 
graph 8---for " promised," read, " premised." Par. 
11—for " they," in the last tine, read, " men." Par. 
17—for " purity of spirit," read, " poverty of spi-
rit." Par. 21—for " invincendas," read, " inveni-
endas ;" and fur " sine," read, " sive." 
BOSTON CONFERENCE.—Let all remember the Con-
ference next week, Wednesday, June 4th, commenc-
ing at 10 A.M. 
Let all expect a good time. 
WE are requested by R. V. Lyon to give notice, 
that he and W . D. Gliostin will hold a Tent-meeting 
at Champlain, N. Y., to commence the 12th of June, 
and continue over the Sabbath. 
SECOND ADVENT ANNIVERSARY CON- 
FERENCE, 
Held in New York, May 16th, 1851. 
fluence for the cause in Canada East, as well as in 
northern Vermont. Brn. Clark, Reynolds, Thurber, 
Green, Gibson, and others, were doing what they 
could to sustain the churches. 
BIM. LITTLE, of Shrewsbury, .N. J., said they 
had no Advent church in his place, and souls were 
perishing for lack of knowledge. He thought a 
door would be opened there to proclaim the truth. 
BRO. SHIPMAN said that the church with which he 
was associated in Worcester was young, having com-
menced in September last. They have about forty 
members, who are living in great harmony, and 
are making progress. A good influence is being ex-
erted on those without. God has smiled upon them. 
BRO. D. I. ROBINSON spoke of the church in 
Chardon-street, Boston. When he was there last he 
thought the trials that had befallen them had turned 
to their advantage. They have increased in numbers, 
and in graces. 
BRO. 0. D. EASTMAN spoke of the churches in 
Newburyport, Mass., under the care of Elder John 
Pearson, as being in a prosperous condition. He 
also spoke of Salisbury, Amesbury, Kensington, and 
Rye, N. H., where the interest was kept up. 
BRO. STARK, of Hartford, Ct., gave some account 
of the Advent Church in that city ; they were now 
living in harmony, and for the last month they have 
been more prosperous than for some time past. Brn. 
Matthewson and Grant were spoken .of in Newfield, 
Winsted, New Hartford, and many other places. 
BRO. GATES, of Lawrence, Mass., said they had a 
pleasant little church there, under the pastoral care 
of Elder Ezra Crowell. They have had deep trials, 
but are relieved from them now, and are prospering 
in the Lord. 
BRO. MORLEY spoke of the Advent Church in 
Lowell, Mass. ; they had held meetings about two 
months, and were prospering beyond their expecta-
tions. They meet in Masonic Hall, which is well 
filled. Bno. MORLEA also spoke of the Northboro' 
Church, who were holding on in the good way, and not 
in any wise turned away from the hope of the gospel. 
BRO. J. D. GUILD spoke of the happy influence 
of Elder Fassett's labors in Wrentham for 'the last 
year or more. But a spirit of bitterness had sprung 
up among them of late. They were, however, trust-
ing in God for better days. 
Bno. Lum, of Newark, N. J., said a few remain 
faithful in that place, in the midst of trials. 
BRO. J. KELSY, of the Hartford Church, expressed 
his high gratification with the exercises, and the 
meetings of the Conference. God is for us, and who 
can be against us? Difference of opinion does not 
separate us, since we are united in the one hope 'of 
the gospel. 
Bao. ROBINSON thought we should now labor 
much easier, and effect more, since we Were united, 
and were all pulling one way. Some, in times past, 
had pursued a course to distract, throwing out every 
sort of notion to divide. Those who attended the 
Salem Conference, resolved to live together as 
brethren, and respect each other's rights, and act in 
harmony. Bro. R. said that the church in Ports-
mouth, N. H., had been tried of late by adverse cir- 
cumstances, but were resolved to maintain the cause. 
They were about to erect a place of worship, and 
call a new pastor, as he, (Bro. R.) was called to the 
aid of the Hester-street Church in New York. 
BRO. JONES said there were two ways to form a 
union. 1. By compression—selfish propensities and 
interests. 2. By adhesion—love. This was the case 
with the early Christians ;—it is so with us ; espe-
cially those of us who still remain steadfast in the 
Advent faith. Union and love had characterized this 
Conference as they had those of '43. May it always 
be so. 
At this point, Bro. Nimes, the chairman, being 
sick and exhausted, took leave of the Conference, by 
expressing his unfeigned gratification to God for his 
mercy towards us in this happy session, and craving 
the continuance of God's blessing. Prayer by Bro. 
Daniel Cambell. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
After prayer, Sister Philips, of Williamsburgh, L. 
I., said it was the first Conference she had attended. 
She was converted to the faith in '42, and had seen 
severe trials since, but still looked for, and loved 
Christ's appearing. She had been comforted under 
the preaching of Brn. Whiting„ Jones, LITCH, and 
others, and rejoiced in the promises of God. She 
felt to shout, " Glory to God ! " Our all was cen-
tered on the coming of the Saviour, to receive us to 
himself. We are almost home. 
BRO. ROBINSON said that Bro. INGHAM was still 
laboring in Nova Scotia with acceptance, and some 
success. Bro. RICE also has done much to help on 
the work. It is a field of deep interest, and they 
need more help. 
BRO. C. B. TURNER made some interesting state-
ments in respect to the late proclamation of the speedy 
coming of CHRIST in Africa, and the island of St 
Helena, by a missionary. This will be given in an-
other place. 
BRO. GATES gave some account of his visit to Cape 
Cod, in the towns of Wellfleet, Truro, &c., Mass., 
where a goodly number have embraced the faith.—
They intend holding a tent meeting the first of July, 
which Bro. LITCH is expected to attend. 
BRO. L. KIMBALL, of the Church in Providence, 
R. I., said they were prospering in the Loan. They 
had been blessed with some conversions, and have 
had several seasons of baptizing of late. They are 
much encouraged. 
Prayer was then offered up by Bro. WHITING. 
SERMON BY B. MORLEY. 
Text.-2 Tim. 4:18—" And the LORD shall deliver 
me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto 
his heavenly kingdom." 
The apostle has uttered a similar sentiment in the 
first chapter of this epistle and 12th verse : " For I 
know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that 
he is able to keep that which I have committed unto 
him against that day." Some persons think it un-
safe to know or have the conviction that they are 
Christians, and that they shall be preserved unto the 
kingdom of GOD. 
It. is even regarded as fanaticism. 
This is what would be called the assurance of faith—
consisting in a full conviction of acceptance with 
Goo now, and a strong expectation of eternal salva-
tion. 
Is this state attainable ? We think it is, and offer 
for evidence the experience of patriarchs, prophets, 
apostles, and martyrs. These did not attain to the 
assurance of faith, in consequence of being inspired, 
but they attained as other men may attain it. 
Job 18:25-27 :—" For I know that my Redeemer 
lived', and that he shall stand in the latter day upon 
the earth ; and though after my skin worms destroy 
this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I 
shall see for myself, and not another." JOB had 
this assurance,—he knew that his Redeemer lived ; 
and this was not all, his heart was fixed on immor-
tality. It is well for us to hold the personal advent, 
resurrection, &c., but there are other truths that we 
must connect with the advent theory,—the grand 
moral motives of the gospel. 
The Psalmist had this faith when he exclaimed : 
" I shall behold thy face in righteousness ; I shall be 
salisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." 
The prophet ISAIAH expressed the same : " Thy 
dead men shall live, together with my dead body 
shall they arise."—He thus gives utterance to his 
hope and confidence, that he shall have a resurrection 
with the people of GOD. 
The apostle has expressed himself in a similar 
manner in all his epistles. In 1 Cor. 9:24-27 he 
says : " Know ye not, that they which run in a race, 
run all, but one receiveth the prize! So run, that 
ye may attain, And every man that striveth for the 
mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it 
to obtain a corruptible crown ; hut we an incorrupti-
ble. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight 
I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under 
my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by 
any means, when I have preached to others, I Myself 
should he a cast-away." The allusion is to the an-
cient games. It was requisite before exercising: in 
these public games, that a man should be abstemious 
for ten mouths. 'One of the exercises was that of 
pugilism, to which the apostle alludes : " So fight I, 
not as one that beateth the air ;"—that is to say, in 
his Christian contest, he did not spend his blows upon 
the air, as an inexperienced boxer would do, failing 
to hit his antagonist ; but his blows all counted,—
they were effective. He did not get overcome in the 
contest with his spiritual foes. How is it with you, 
my brethren ? Do you encounter the devil and get 
defeated? or do you wield your weapons success-
fully ? 
Faith is requisite,—nothing short of this will an-
swer the purpose. Reading the Bible and prayer 
merely will not do.—One grain of faith will do more 
than all these without faith. The Christian need 
not make a great ado, but in quiet confidence in 
CHRIST'S name let him meet the enemy and conquer. 
insisted in their doing what was necessary,— not in 
unbelief, but in faith. So there is a moral certainty 
that those who trust in GOD will he saved ; but they 
must use the means, and trust in Goo to keep them 
to the end. 'Grip has a providential care for his 
Church, and nothing occurs without his direct or in-
direct interposition. 
The faith of assurance was also expressed by John 
(1 John 3:2) : " Now are we the sons of GOD, and 
it doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we 
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like 
him ; for we shall see him as he is." Is this ortho-
dox or not? Is it Christian experience, or is it not? 
I entreat all my brethren to get this happy experience. 
Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles attained this state 
simply as pious men; and so may we. 'C'H'RIST re-
quires it, and so does the apostle, when he says, 
" Follow me as I follow CHRIST." Peter says, 
" Give diligence to make your calling and election 
sure." It may be some time after the Christian is 
converted before he attains to this ; all do not attain 
at once to the assurance of faith. Our election is 
sure in the mind of Goo, but we are exhorted to 
make 'it sure in our own minds. 
Why do Christians have so many barren seasons 
at the family altar and in the closet?
' 
 It is because 
they 'have riot this faith. We should labor for the 
"full assurance of hope to the 'end." Some persons 
say, " If I had ,this assurance of salvation, 1 would 
go on in sin and take my fill of sin." But no Chris-
tian feels thus ;—he abhors sin, and desires to escape 
from it ; Ire will not sin, simply because the penalty 
Of the law is not hanging over him. 
'2. The second point which we notice, is the 
ground of this faith of assurance. It is the atone-
ment of Christ—' He is the propitiation for our 
sins, arid not for ours only, but also for the sins of 
the whole world." Christ has died as a vicarious 
sacrifice for our sins ; by his death God is propitia-
ted, and his anger appeased. Not such anger as 
men feel, but God's holy displeasure at sin. Some 
scoff at this doctrine, but I would ask, how could 
God help being displeased at the violation of his law, 
until the proper sacrifice is made ? 
In 2 Thess. 2:13 Paul says : " God has chosen 
us through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of 
the truth." This doctrine I love, but I hate antino-
mianism. It is " through belief of the truth " that 
we are to be saved. Paul says (Rom. 10:9) : " If 
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, 
and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from 
the dead, thou shalt he saved." 
a. In order to the faith of which I speak, we must 
cheerfully and constantly feel and acknowledge that 
we belong to Christ. " Ye are not your own, ye 
are bought with a price," says the apostle, and this 
recognition of the purchaser of our souls by Christ, 
is indispensable to the assurance of faith. Like John 
Newton, we should tell the adversary when hecomes 
with his temptations, that we are pre-engaged. 
Eph. 2:8—" By grace are ye saved, through faith, 
and that not of yourself; it is the gift of God."— 
Some tell us that the " grace " is the gift of God ; 
but it seems to me to be the " faith ; " however, I 
will not dwell on that point. Christ is both "the 
author and finisher of our faith," and when he pours 
his love into our hearts, we exclaim, " How can we 
sin against God? " 
But I will notice some of the fruits of the faith of 
assurance.
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Liberty.—While we have this faith, in the 
language of Bunyan, we shall keep out of " Doubt-
ing Castle," and the hands of " Giant Despair."— 
Christian found that he had a key that would unlock 
his dreary prison house—and that key was Faith.— 
Professed Christians, placed in that position, will do 
almost everything before applying their key—i.'e., 
pray in faith. Christians need not be in bondage to 
the fear of death. Christ "showed them the path 
of life," and rising from the dead, has left atorcli in 
the tomb to illuminate its darkness. 
2. Another fruit of this 'faith is courage.—The 
believing saint goes on boldly, is not easily intimi-
dated—he makes progress. I sometimes liken the 
two classes of Christians—or professed Christians—
one to a steam, and the other to a sailing vessel.— 
l'he former moves steadily forward through storm 
and calm, but the latter is dependent upon the winds, 
and is at the caprice of the external influences which 
activity
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, 
 should
nd 
 not result from a fear of being lost, 
results from this state of mind. Our 
. 
but from the hope of being saved. This activity is not 
of the bustling-, moving, kind ; it may be quiet arid 
unobtrusive, but it will surely make the Christian ac-
tive to feel this assurance in his soul. 
4. Perseverance in he service of God. This'flows 
from hope. We could hardly expect to;serve God 
without a hope of salvation. " For a helmet the 
hope of salvation," says Paul, this .hope arms the 
Christian against the danger of 'falling by the adver-
sary. Without hope we can do nothing. A man above 
the Falls of Niagara could not move a muscle for his 
vation if there was no hope in 'his 'breast. 
May the Lord strengthen us. We, as. Adventists, 
have had every thing to encounter, but the heavy bil-
lows are passed. Let us hold on our cause. I be-
lieve Christ's people will be saved—all of his family 
will be gathered. Let us continue in the school of 
Christ, and learn of him. 
At the close of the sermon, Bro. Jones suggested 
THURSDAY, MAY 18TH.—MORNING SESSION. 
The meeting was opened with prayer by BRO. 
SHIPMAN, who afterwards gave some account of the 
state of the cause in the north part of Vermont, his 
former field of labor. He spoke of Mount Holly, 
Waterbury, Cabot, Derby Line, Montgomery, Lower 
Canada, and other places, where the Advent doctrine 
had been proclaimed, and where it still was being 
preached. Bro. Hutchinson had exerted a good in- 
PAUL kept under his body," not because he 
feared he should be a cast-away, but because he feared 
being a cast-away ; and he knew that if he kept his 
body in subjection, he should escape from the danger 
of being such. This distinction may not be at once 
perceived, but I would ask, Is there no difference 
between fearing that the building will fall upon 
us, and fearing to have it fall upon us? I think 
there is. A man examines his fires carefully before 
retiring to rest. Why I—Because he is in fear of 
being burnt out ? No ; lie does it that he may have 
no occasion to fear. PAUL kept under his body, that 
he might be secure against being a cast-away. 
Why has the Bible so manly exhortations to hold 
out, and not apostatize? Because they are calculated sal 
to secure the end. To illustrate. PAUL told the 
people on board ship, that there would be no hope of 
any man's life: and yet when they thought of getting 
off the small boat, he told them that unless they 
remained they could not be saved. There was a 
moral certainty of their being saved, but the apostle 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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the appointment of a committee of three to prepare 
an Address, to be presented at the adjourned meet-
ing at Boston, to he held June 4th. Brn. Robinson, 
Gross, and Morley were appointed as the committee. 
EVENING SESSION.—SERMON BY BRO. KIMBALL. 
TEXT.—Tim. 5:5—" Having a form of godliness, 
but denying the power thereof." Eph. 6:10—" Fi-
nally, my brethren, he strong in the Lord, and in the 
power of his might." 
The question arises, what are we to understand by 
the power of God, " or the power of godliness? " 
There has been and still is a variety of views. The 
common opinion seems to be, that it means a mighty 
overwhelming internal influence, which sometimes 
takes away our physical strength even ; but this is a 
false notion, and one that has led many persons to 
act more like insane people than anything else. 
But let us appeal to the Bible. Rom. 1:6—" For 
am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of 
God unto salvation to every one that believeth."— 
Here we have direct testimony that it is " the gos-
pel ; " this becomes " the power of God " by being 
believed. 
1 Cor. 1:18, 23, 24—"For the preaching of the 
cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us 
which are saved it is the power of God. . . We preach 
Christ crucified . . . . unto them which are called, 
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the wisdom of God, 
and the power of God." The gospel of Christ is, 
therefore, the " power of God." 
Let us notice the power which is attributed to the 
gospel. John 17:17—" Sanctify them through the 
truth, thy word is truth." 2 Thess 2:13—"Through 
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.'' 
If we do not believe the truth we shall not he sancti-
fied. Heb. 4:12—" The word of God is quick and 
powerful." Jer. 23:28,29—"My word is like the fire 
arid the hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces." 
This figure will be appreciated by those who have 
seen large rocks broken and removed by alternately 
applying fire and water, and then using the hammer 
to scale off the outside, until the whole is removed. 
The words of our text—" Having a form of god-
liness, but denying the power thereof "—refer to " the 
last days," as will be seen by the context. This will 
make the times perilous. These perils are not occa-
sioned by persecution, but by the evil influences which 
prevail, leading men to a denial of the true gospel, 
and to run after " fables,"—as the apostle says,—
" and shall tern away from the truth, and he turned 
unto fables." And again : " Ever leaning, and never 
able to come to a knowledge of the truth." 
I wish now to show what constitutes the power of 
God in the present age of the world. Peter estab-
lished the minds of his brethren in " the present 
truth." All the scriptures are true, but not all pres-
ent truths." There have been special truths for dif-
ferent ages, and these have been " present truths," 
in those times. All divine truth is connected like 
the links of a chain ; but each link has its appropri-
ate place; you cannot make the first the twentieth, 
nor the twentieth the first. So all the various truths 
of the gospel have their places. God's revelation to 
Noah, and through him to the antediluvians, consti-
tuted the " present truth " to that age. Noah and 
his believed, and were saved, while the world per-
ished. This " was the power of God " to the old 
patriarch. You will find that those of any age, 
who have rejected God's " present truth," have per-
ished in their iniquity : while to those who have re-
ceived it, it has been " tile power of God." 
'To allude again to the figure of the chain. The 
last link, or development of truth, is for the last 
generation, and the " present truth " will be to that 
generation the " power of God to their salvation," 
or the instrument of their ruin. 
Christ predicts the preaching of the " gospel of 
the kingdom in all the world " before the end of the 
world. John sees it thus proclaimed by an angel 
"flying through the midst of heaven, having the 
everlasting gospel to preach to every nation, kindred, 
and tongue, and people."—Rev. 14. This is the 
gospel, or announcement of the everlasting kingdom, 
therefore called the " everlasting gospel." This is 
the final message of the gospel—God's " present 
truth." Has this been preached ? 'Who can deny 
it? The other signs of Christ's coming are already 
fulfilled. This is being fulfilled. It is not a long 
work—the angel " flies through the midst of heav-
en." All abroad there is more or less inquiry on 
this great subject. Bro. K. closed by referring to 
two cases which illustrated the extent to which this 
gospel was preached—having been preached in South 
America and in France. 
Bro. Mansfield mentioned two other incidents, 
showing that the gospel had been preached in Ger-
many and in the West Indies. 
After the sermon, interesting remarks were made 
by Elders J. J. Porter, Robinson, Kimball, and 
others. All were reluctant to leave the place. 
Conference adjourned to meet in Chardon-street 
Chapel, June 4th, 1851. 
N. N. WHITING, President. 
J. V. H1MES, Vice President. 
C. B. TURNER, 
L. D. MANSFIELD, 
Secretaries. 
FAITH IN GODS WORD. 
3:3, 4. 'There will be but little faith on earth.—
Luke 18:8. The nations angry.—Rev. 11.18 
Of course characters such as here described, would 
have no interest in the proclamation of the Lord's 
corning. Their treasure being in this world, their 
affections are consequently here also. Such a mes-
sage strikes the death knell to all their ambitious 
schemes and earthly hopes, and they love it not ; and, 
unwilling to believe it true, they can easily persuade 
themselves that it is not so. Connected with this 
proclamation is the cross, persecution, and the re-
proach, so that the popular religionist, who is seek-
ing to go to heaven in " silver slippers," will think 
to rid himself of the responsibility connected with 
an understanding of the matter, by shutting his eyes, 
arid closing his ears, while he quiets his conscience 
by saying, " It is none of my business !" But the 
willingly ignorant " must share the same doom of 
those who knew and yet rejected. 
Now it is clearly made manifest who are in sym-
pathy with God and his truth, who indeed " love the 
appearing " of tile Saviour. To that individual 
whose hope centres in his coming and kingdom, the 
tokens of its proximity will be hailed with joy. 
They love to enjoy the presence of the Comforter, 
but they would rather have the companionship of 
their divine Lord and Master. The earnest of the 
inheritance is blessed, but the full fruition of glory 
is far more desirable. They have sympathy for a 
perishing world, but they have more for Christ, and 
well knowing that " evil men and seducers shall wax 
worse and worse, even to the end," they pray as the 
Saviour has taught them " Thy kingdom come. 
'Thy will be done in earth as it is done in heaven." 
The Church has long worn her garments of widow-
hood, and she longs to exchange them for her bridal 
robes. Hers has been a toilsome pilgrimage, and 
she ardently desires to reach the heavenly country, 
the blessed mansion, and enter into rest. She has 
been a long time afflicted and down-trodden, and she 
eagerly pants to be comforted, and exalted to the 
position appointed her by God. Although a co-equal 
heir with Christ to a kingdom and crown, she is now 
" considered the offscouring of all things," and she 
sighs, yea, " groans for the manifestation of the sons 
of God," when her disguise will be thrown off, and 
she shine forth in her true and glorious character. 
Long has her harp been attuned to notes of sadness, 
arid she looks forward with ardent anticipations for 
the period to arrive when she will strike the glad-
some notes of victory and joy. 
Such is the position of the bride, and when the 
proclamation is heard : " Behold, the Bridegroom 
cometh, go ye out to meet him !" and the truthful-
ness of the message is confirmed by signs in heaven, 
and on earth, how does her heart kindle with holy 
rapture and love, and with what diligence does she 
seek to have all things ready, that when he arrives 
she may be prepared to welcome him with joy. 
What thought many deridingly inquire, " 'Where 
is the promise of his coining ?" enough for her she 
has it in possession, written in characters not to be 
misunderstood; site grasps it by faith, and patiently 
overcomes the world's cold scorn. Many who were 
once the chosen bride, have turned to other lovers ; 
they have sought for earthly pleasure and honor, and 
they look for a happy period to arrive, suited to their 
carnal hearts ; a reign without Christ, without per-
secution, without reproach, and without the partici-
pation of the faithful who have gone before. To 
sustain then) in their anticipations, they appeal to 
the sacred oracles, arid say, " Thus it is written !" 
But the cry of " peace arid safety " only tends to 
strengthen the faith of the waiting Church ; for well 
she knows it to be a " peril " of the " last days." 
Her hope may he deferred longer than she anticipates 
—the Bridegroom may tarry beyond the expected 
time—the proverb may be heard on every hand, 
" The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth !" 
—but she can answer back from the word of the 
Lord, " The days are at hand, and the effect of every 
vision !" Sustained by the precious promise, " Yet 
a little while, and he that is to conic will come, and 
will not tarry," she will still gaze with anxious eye 
to catch the first glimmer of the day-star—the first 
beam of the meriting light—ushering in the long-
wished for day of joy, w hen the night of weeping 
will be past, and she be presented, a chaste virgin, to 
Christ, forever to reign with him in glory. Her 
faith has enabled her to overcome the world, to resist 
its allurements, to turn away from its vanities, to 
trample its glittering baubles in the dust, to refuse 
its honors, disregard its scorn, turn a deaf ear to the 
syren song of peace, and separate herself from those 
who " love pleasure more than God, having the form 
of godliness, but denying the power thereof." 
She has chosen the humble path which leads to 
glory, honor, and immortality. She is willing to 
bear the cross, and suffer shame, in hope of the 
crown of life, white robe, and victor's palm. Cheer-
fully she accounts herself a stranger and a pilgrim, 
knowing that she has a mansion in the golden city, 
and an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and un-
fading, in the beautiful earth. Such is the'hope, 
such the reward of all who obtain the victory through 
that faith which overcomes the world. 
But we will turn our attention now, for a moment, 
to the other side of the picture. We will briefly 
contemplate the tearful doom of those who professed 
to be the church of God, but had no true love for 
him, nor faith in his truth. They are represented 
by the man who came to the wedding without the 
garment prepared for that occasion. The king said 
to his servants, " Bind him hand and foot and take 
him away, and cast him into outer darkness : there 
shall he weeping and gnashing of teeth." Again, 
they are represented by the evil servant saying in his 
heart, " My Lord delayeth Iris coming. The Lord 
of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh 
not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 
and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion 
with the hypocrites." They are also represented by 
the foolish virgins, who outwardly manifested faith 
in the coming of the bridegroom, but had not oil 
sufficient to enable them to abide in the light until he 
came. 'They sought admittance to the marriage fes-
tival, but were forbidden to enter. 
Says the Saviour: "Many will say unto me in 
that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy 
name ? and in thy name have cast out devils? arid in 
thy name done may wonderful works? And then 
will I profess unto diem, I never knew you ; depart 
from me, ye that work iniquity." Such is the por-
tion of hypocrites and unbelievers. May the Lord 
save us from so fearful a doom. 
From this subject we may learn the value of faith. 
Without it we cannot please God. 'Without it we 
cannot overcome the world. Not a faith that is con-
fined to a few detached portions of the 'Word, relat-
ing to the sufferings of Christ, and justification. It 
should take a broader range, arid strike out into the 
open field of prophecy, not only that portion of it 
which refers to past generations, but that also which 
has a bearing upon our own time, and likewise that 
which is connected with the future glory. There is 
too much indefiniteness to our faith. It is too touch 
contracted. Many confound feeling with faith, and 
when their emotional exercises are deep, they think 
they have a good deal of faith, and yet if interrogated, 
why they believed ? or what they believed? they 
would be unable to reply. Again, they will talk 
about the happiness of heaven, and be very much 
animated by the prospect of it, and yet if they were 
asked where their future home was to be located, or 
in what its glory was to consist, they could not tell. 
" Enough for us to know," say they, " that we shall 
be very happy somewhere !" They seem to be 
afraid of having an intellectual faith ; a faith that 
they can give the reason of. Thus large portions of 
the Bible remain untouched by them ; those which 
clearly describe tile nature of tile Christian's hope, 
they have no interest in ; they have so much confi-
dence in the Lord that they can very willingly leave 
all that with him, without acquainting themselves 
with it, and thus they remain willingly ignorant of 
many " exceeding great and precious promises," 
which, if they lout understood, would aflOrd them a 
solid basis upon which to rest, and enable them 
understandingly to give the " reason of their hope." 
Although this is a land of Bibles, and q11 have the 
privilege of reading the Word of God for themselves, 
vet there is, after all, but a limited acquaintance with 
its most precious truths, and very little genuine faith 
in its teachings. How few believe it to be tile 
word of the Lord to us, just as much as though we 
heard an audible voice from him, uttering those 
truths in our ears. Yet we ought thus to regard it. 
" And if they escaped not who refused him that spake 
on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn 
away from him that speaketh from heaven. See, 
then, that ye refuse not him who speaketh." But it 
is often said by those who wish apparently to evade 
the force of truth," It is no matter what we believe, 
if we only live right." 'We find, however, by an 
examination of the sacred oracles, that we must have 
correct faith in order to produce right action. We 
see this plainly illustrated in the cases of Noah and 
of Lot. The Jews, we think, found to their sorrow 
that it was of some consequence what they believed, 
and so also will tile Gentiles, if they refuse to 
hearken unto the voice of the Lord, and through fear 
of reproach turn away from the messages of the 
gospel. 
It also becomes our duty to search the Scriptures, 
that we may understand what the specific message is 
to us, and what is tine present truth for our day, that 
we may keep pace with prophecy,—that we may 
follow the " shining light," and walk in harmony 
with the developments of the divine plan, and by 
living, active, intellectual faith in the Word of the 
Lord, be enabled to overcome the world. 
M. D. WELLCOME. 
LETTER FROM II. H. GROSS. 
tier, Albany, Scoliarrie, and Green Cos., there are 
many doors open, and the Macedonian cry is heard, 
" Come over and help us." I have been deeply 
anxious that the cause should be sustained in Otsego 
Co. There are many tried friends there. 
Moore able laborers are needed in maintaining and 
forwarding the cause in this extensive field. 
The friends in Albany are united, strong in faith, 
determined to see the " conflict o'er." They much 
need a chapel, and I trust they will build one this 
season. They have had a discouraging winter, arid 
have found it difficult to sustain their expenses, bunt 
as spring opens, and business comes on, the cause 
springs up afresh and bears fruit to God. One item 
of encouragement to them, and interest to the cause, 
I wish to relate. In the early part of the winter, 
four Indians of the Stockbridge tribe, of Wisconsin, 
appeared in our meetings; one of whom, John W. 
Abram, became deeply interested in the thrilling and 
glorious truth concerning the faith and hope of the 
gospel, and began to take an active but unassuming 
part in our meetings. 1 made his acquaintance, 
enjoyed his godly society, associated him in labor 
and social intercourse with others, and after finally 
spending several weeks at my house, as a member of 
toy family, and receiving a good supply of Harps, 
Tracts, &c., he departed about the 22d ult. for his 
home, his family, and his people, full of thankfulness 
and praise to God for tine precious truths of his word, 
for Christian fellowship and sympathy, for tine pros-
pect of interesting his people in, and saving them 
through, tile same blessed word, and for the glorious 
prospect of soon realizing the faith and hope of the 
gospel. Thus a missionary has been qualified, under 
God, and sent forth to Wisconsin, efficient, devoted, 
and the best calculated to interest that people in the 
subject of the corning and kingdom of Christ, and to 
seek a preparation therefor. I value the prayers of 
that righteous brother, in our behalf, as being effec-
tual at tile throne or grace in helping us on to the 
eternal dwelling places. We have no " secret work-
ers " in the camp, no sympathizers in the aggressive 
movements of tine year past, and even the " Harbin-
ger " is not received by more than (one, to my knowl-
edge, except in the case of two or three who take it 
to know what the enemy is about, since its editor 
went over into the embrace of its Pilate-friends. In 
West Troy the friends unanimously refuse to hear 
those men preach whose names are associated together 
in sanctioning the late hypocritical conventions in 
New York, &c., called by Elders Marsh and Need-
ham. In Albany, we possessed a strong sympathy 
for Elders Needham and Weethee, but no past friend-
ship and sympathy are permitted to swerve us from 
principle,—though we have been called to cut off the 
right arm, we.have yielded to the blow, in order to 
save the whole body. Had Elder Himes, or any 
other prominent brother, been found equally guilty, 
we should have pursued the-same course. 
Brethren and sisters scattered abroad ! may our 
motto ever be, All for truth and righteousness, while 
we cease from man ! May the prevailing sentiment 
of all our labor and words be, " The Bridegroom is 
coming, go ye forth to meet him !" 
Our Conferencein New York has been of unusual 
interest ; a deep and pervading sense of God's pres-
ence was constantly felt, and these was but one heart, 
one mind, and one judgment,—no constrained effort to 
be united and happy, but all were together " with 
one accord." 
P. S.-2 o'clock P. M. Have called on Bro. Himes, 
who lies sick at Bro. W. Ide's, in Norfolk-st. He 
was obliged to leave the meetings Thursday noon,—
has had good medical and other care, and is sur-
rounded by true and affectionate friends ; but Ile is 
quite low, and should he get no worse, it mast be 
some time before he can engage in labor. His sys-
tem is greatly prostrated, and lie has a dangerous 
affection of the throat ; he seems like a soldier who 
has stood and battled at his post until the entire 
system re-acts, and painful prostration ensues. We. 
trust he will soon recover, and encourage the friends 
of the Advent cause by his presence and counsel. 
He being too weak to write, I would add a word 
more in reference to the Conference, which has elosed. 
It was strikingly evident the first forenoon, that the 
Lord was with us to bless us,—deep, humble, fer-
vent prayers were offered to the throne of grace, one 
after another, till the hour of noon,--a deep solem-
nity pervaded the assembly, and all would have 
rsponded with one hearty accord, " The Lord is 
here." All the services were_highly devotional and 
edifying, especially the reports of tile condition and 
prospects of the cause in various parts of this coun-
try and the world ; no efforts to hind up discordant 
elements, but all were bound by God's Spirit in one 
bundle of love ; and such mutual confidence, such 
absence of distrust, was never before witnessed in 
our annual Conferences. The discordant elements 
which have been so manifest, and so in the way of 
harmonious action, at times, heretofore, had now 
been gathered to their own people and place, and it 
is to be hoped they will continue thus, having gone 
" out from us," until time shall end, unless they 
become converted from their evil ways. 
Yours, waiting fur Christ. 
New York, May 10th, 1851. 
LETTER. FROM E. HARDY. 
BRO. HIMES,—DEAR Slit am a firm believer 
in the Second Advent. Can the Bible teach, as 
some say, that " the gospel of Jesus is to prevail in 
all the earth," when its prophecies and plain teach-
ing oppose the idea? Matt. 13th. 24-42 : The tares 
grow together with the wheat,— how long? 'Till a 
thousand years before " the end of the world?" 
Our blessed Lord has answered : " Let both grow 
together till the harvest—the harvest is the end of 
the world." This is the point in duration to which 
" This is the victory that overcometh the world, 
even our faith."-1 JOHN 5:4. 
(Concluded from the " Herald" of May lith.) 
What does the Bible teach us respecting the state 
of the world when the Lord comes? " As it was in 
the days of Noah and Lot."—Luke 17:26-28. The 
man of sin prevailing against the saints.—Dan. 
7:21,22 ; 2 Thess. 2:4-8 ; Rev. 19:19, 20. The 
cry of " peace and safety " sounding through the 
land."-1 Thess. 5:3. " Some departing from the 
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines 
of devils ; speaking lies in hypocrisy ; forbidding to 
marry," &c.-1 Tim. 4:1-3. " Perilous times; for 
men shall be lovers of their own selves, coveteous, 
proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, unthank-
ful, unholy, lovers of pleas-de more than lovers of 
God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the 
power thereof."-2 Tim. 3:1-5. Scoffers, saying, 
" Where is the promise of his coming?"-2 Pet. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The vicinity of Albany, 
where I have devoted much labor within eight years 
past, embraces a large and highly interesting field. 
I have now neither the time nor health to do much 
for the cause in that region ; but many friends are 
scattered throughout it, and proving to all who know 
them, that " the spirit which is in man is the candle 
of the soul." 1 visited some of the friends in Sara-
toga County last week. They are generally " hold-
ing fast the faithful word," and contemplate making 
a 'Waterloo effort in some central location, by a pro-
tracted meeting, this season. A deceiver has passed 
that way of late, by the name of — Holt, of Au-
burn, insidiously teaching from house to house, that 
the third angel's message (Rev. 14) is, "Keep the 
seventh day for the Sabbath :" for to keep the first 
day is to obey the Pope, and hence have " the mark 
of the beast "—thus all who observe the first (lay 
shall be damned ; and, strange to say, some have 
been led captive into Judaism, for that is the inevita-
ble result. That person was finally asked, why he 
did not go to Albany, where he could reach larger 
congregations, if his doctrine was really so important 
as that it decided the salvation of all ! And his re-
ply was, that Bro. Himes had advertised him in the 
" Herald." Strange, a man so sanctimonious, and 
so conscientious in . the work of sowing his old cove-
nant seed, and yet so lacking in valor as to skulk along 
through a back country, taking in the simple-hearted 
by guile, and not daring to come out before those 
who would be sure to expose his fallacious teachings 
to the world ! I only add, whoever asserts that any 
ruler, either emperor or pope, or any earthly power, 
has ever changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the 
first day of the week, asserts that which he cannot 
prove from history. 
In Fulton county, much might yet be done. I 
know of places where the people are anxious to hear, 
but we have no laborers to go into the destitute 
fields. 
In Herkimer county, I devoted much labor for 
about six months, ending in June of last year. A 
good laborer was much needed, and would have been 
well sustained in that region—Little Falls, Brockett's 
Bridge, and vicinity—and several new places were 
ready to receive the gospel ; but for want of laborers, I the wicked grow, side by side with the righteous. 
arid my own health failing, butt little has been donelThis is neither " learned criticism,)tor doubtful 
since. 
argumentation ;" but the plain wor of the Lord." 
In Mechanicsville, the way has been open for al" All flesh is as grass—but the word of the Lord 
year and a half for labor, but nobody to go, and in l abideth for ever." 
Waterford and Lansingburg the cause ought to be Isa. 2:10-21 : " In that day, the lofty looks of man 
sustained ; these are quite a number of true friends shall be humbled ; idols shall be cast to the moles 
there, and I can but hope that the cause will soon and bats." What for ? To come to Jesus? No—
rise and be maintained. In various places in Renssa- " to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops 
 
 
 
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127 
of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the 
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terri-
bly the earth." Up to " the day of the Lord of 
hosts," there will be idols,—amid the terrible splen-
dors of the opening scenes of that day, idolaters may 
run to them for succor, but as the burning terrors 
increase upon them, they cast away their idols, and 
rush for safety to the clefts of the rocks. Now, can 
the fulfilment of the Lord's prayer he applied to a 
state of things where idols, idolaters, and their accom-
panying abominations, exist? "Thy kingdom come. 
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven ;" but 
are idols, death, and the devil, in heaven ? Ncr 
one can bend or torture this language into a shape 
that will be adapted to a condition where idolaters 
worship, or tares grow. The first Adam lost his 
dominion,—the second Adam, at his " glorious ap-
pearing," will restore it. The redeemed shall pos-
sess it " forever, even forever and ever." There 
are some, like the virgins, slumbering. But we 
exert ourselves to arouse them ; but they turn and 
resist, as if it were a calamity to hear of Paul's 
heavenly consolation, (1 Thess. 4:18,) and " be 
ready." Though they renounce and denounce me, 
I must cry, " Awake, thou that sleepest !" My 
solemn conviction is, that the prophetic periods ter-
minate shortly. They are sustained by types, signs, 
scriptural influences, and astronomical facts. " Be-
hold, he cometh with clouds." Have you, reader, 
faith and love to ascend and join his retinue, or shall 
you be left to " wail because of him !" 
Lexington, (Ind.), April 5th, 1851. 
TO THE BEREAVED. 
" It is well."-2 Kings 4:26. 
Lines written on the death of an only daughter of 
Bro. and Sister Cutter, of Newburyport, Mass., who 
died May 8th, 2851, aged 22 months. 
Though the loved one is taken and laid in the grave, 
And thy heart is o'erwhelmed with afflictions' dark 
wave, 
Although here forbidden to see its sweet smile, 
Yet assurance is given, " It is well with the child." 
While that prattling tongue now no longer we hear, 
Nor behold those bright eyes as they once did 
appear, 
With intelligence beaming both lovely and mild, 
There is sweet consolation, " It is well with the 
child." 
And when thoughts of the lost one shall rush on thy 
mind, 
Be thy heart round the Saviour still closer entwined, 
Since the promise is sure in a brief little while, 
The faithful shall see, " It is well with the child." 
For the day is at hand when the trumpet shall sound, 
Arid infants unnumbered shall spring from the 
ground, 
Then shall the fond parents behold its sweet smile, 
And know evermore, "It is well with the child." 
G. 
LETTER FROM 0. R. FASSETT. 
I am glad to see that you have bound these valua-
ble series of tracts, that you have published and is-
sued from the office the last few years. They are 
now in a form to he preserved, not only, but in a 
most convenient form to be put into the hands of un-
believers, and those unenlightened on the subject 
of our hope. A more valuable collection of tracts, 
I conceive, has never issued from the American press. 
A fund of information on scriptural subjectsconnect-
ed with our faith, is now given to the public in a 
small compass, and at a cheap rate. 
For the information of those who have not seen 
the " Advent Tracts," as thus bound, I would say, 
that they consist of two volumes. The contents of 
the first one are the following : 
ADVENT TRACTS.—VOLUME I. 
1.—Looking Forward. 
2.—Present Dispensation—Its Course. 
3.—Present Dispensation—Its End. 
4.—What did Paul Teach the Thessalonian Church 
about the Second Coming 1 
5.—The Great Image. 
6.—If 1 Will that He Tarry Till I Come. 
7.—What shall be the Sign of Thy Coming 1 
8.—The New Heavens and New Earth. 
9.—Christ our King. 
10.—Behold, He Cometh with Clouds. 
11.—That Blessed Hope. 
12.—The Saviour Nigh. 
13.—The True Israel. 
VOLUME IT. 
Win. Miller's Apology and Defence. 
First Principles of the Advent Faith ; with Scripture 
Proofs, by L. D. Fleming. 
'he World to Come ! The Present Earth to be Destroyed 
‘by Fire at the tnil of the Gospel Age. 
The Lord's Coming a Great Practical Doctrine, by the 
Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., Chaplain to the Bath Peniten-
tiary. 
Glorification, by the Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., Chap-
lain to the Bath Penitentiary. 
The Second Advent Introductory to the World's Jubilee : 
A letter to the Rev. Dr. Raffles, on the Subject of His 
" Jubilee Hymn." 
The Duty of Prayer and Watchfulness in the Prospect 
of the Lord's Coming. 
These volumes are got up in a neat and pretty 
form, and no family or individual could well refuse 
to receive and read them were they proffered them. 
Were they circulated generally throughout the 
country, as they should be, much good would then 
result. Churches that would distribute them in fam-
ilies in their respective vicinities, would soon see the 
fruits of their sacrifice and efforts, in an increase of 
their congregations, and a new and increased interest 
to hear on the subject of which they treat. And 
could they be distributed in new localities where the 
truth has never been preached, they would make way 
for the living preacher. 
Come, brethren, let us arouse to the work anew, 
for if we sow bountifully, we shall reap bountifully ; 
and so contrariwise. We have in days past been 
diligent in circulating publications not so free from 
error as these. Now let us put into the hands of 
the public those which we can contribute with the 
assurance that the doctrines they teach cannot be 
overthrown. These tracts are written by competent 
and pious men of both continents, and will recom-
mend themselves to all sincere seekers and lovers of 
the truth. In all our labor let us feel as in the past, 
" The judge standeth before the door." 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. THOMAS SMITH writes from Washington 
(Me.), May 14th, 1851: 
DEAR BRO. HIMES now some sixty or 
seventy miles in the" far East," front the Penobscot 
river, on the banks of which my family reside, which 
place I left about two weeks since. I have spent one 
Sabbath in the county of Hancock, town of Trenton, 
where the Sunday being stormy, we had but few who 
attended meetings, yet there are a few who sympa-
thize with us. 
On Wednesday, the storm having subsided, 1 
started for the East, and called upon a brother in the 
town of Hancock, to whom you send the" Herald." 
From the commencement of the Advent movement, 
he has remained steadfast, immovable, and has been 
anxiously waiting and praying that some of God's 
servants might be sent to his assistance in spreading 
this last message to a perishing world. Although lie 
is not rich in the things of this world, yet with what 
he has, he is willing to do what he can to enlighten 
his fellow men on this important subject. Under-
standing from him that the Town House might he 
obtained for the purpose, I gave him encouragement 
that I would preach the word to the people on the 
second Sabbath of June, which I purpose, the Lord 
willing, to do. The same evening, I arrived at East 
Harrington, and was hospitably entertained by a 
good brother of the Baptist order, who appeared to 
possess a very free, liberal spirit. The next day I 
rode to Addison, a town situated on what is called 
Pleasant River. Here, and on the opposite side of 
the river, in Harrington, I found a few who were 
deeply interested in the Advent near, having been 
favored with the labors of Brn. N. G. Reed and J. 
Clifford the past winter for a short time. These 
persons are of the Episcopal Methodist, yet have, 
and are receiving the doctrine of the speedy coming 
of Christ to this world, to set up his everlasting 
kingdom. They are, in the general, an honest, 
humble, devoted people, and anxious for the whole 
truth as it is in Jesus. In these places I have preached 
to a few, who appear to prize the privilege of hear-
ing the word of life dispensed. On the Sabbath I 
had a good audience of candid, attentive hearers, 
who appeared to receive the word with all readiness 
of mind, and who, I trust, will search the Scriptures 
to see whether these things are so. 
I purpose in a day or two to tour eartward as far, at 
least, as East Machias, where, and in the vicinity, I 
hope to be beneficial for a few weeks, and from which 
place yott may hear from me again. This part of 
the State of Maine is most certainly an interesting 
part of our country, and presents a large field for 
missionary labor, as many young and flourishing 
villages are springing up on the various rivers and 
harbors with which this section of the country 
abounds. 
Still soliciting an interest in the prayers of the 
people of God, that I may not run nor labor in vain, 
I subscribe myself your brother, in hope, of eternal 
life at Jesus' coming. 
A KIND LETTER.—DEAR BRO. RIMES :—I hope 
this will find you in the fear, service, and approba-
tion of God. I have had many fears for you and 
about you. So much has been said and done to your 
prejudice, that I feared there might be some reason, 
founded in right, fur those actions and words. Again, 
I have feared that if they were all originated in error, 
that you might have your mind and temper so soured 
as to act unchristianly, and indeed it seems perfectly 
impossible to be otherwise, unless you are guarded 
every moment by an unearthly power. In so arduous 
and continuous a conflict as has been your portion of 
late, it requires much grace, patience, and humble 
reliance on divine aid. I pray the Lord to grant all 
these and all things to fit you for his service. I pray 
God to make you and keep you humble. I expect 
the conflict will grow fiercer and still more fierce 
with all God's faithful ones, until the Saviour shall 
come to their rescue. Lord, I pray thee to prepare 
us for the battle, for conqnest and final triumph. 
J. W. S. NAPIER. 
NOTE.—We assure our brother that we fully ap- 
preciate his views and feelings in this matter. Were 
we guilty of the things laid to our charge, we should 
not hold the position we do before the public. The 
treatment we have received is riot strange. We ex- 
pected it, and by the grace of God have been 
measurably prepared for it. We crave the prayers 
of the people of God, that we may be kept from 
turning aside either from truth ot duty. 
Bro. W. G. RUGGLES writes from Moline (Ill.), 
May 12th, 1851 : 
-DEAR BRO. HIMES :—We are now pleasantly lo-
cated in the great valley of the Mississippi. This 
is indeed a beautiful country ; in regard to the fertil-
ity of its soil, probably there is no country in the 
world before it. And although this is the case, yet 
there are visibly to be seen the marks of the curse in 
every direction, so that even here we hear the mutter-
ing groans of creation. 
In regard to doing good in this section of country, 
I would say that I think that there is no field that 
would be more productive of good by the preaching 
of Advent truths than this, providing that it could be 
done with judicious effOrts. 1 understand that there 
has been no lectures given in this section on the sub-
ject. There are quite a number of large places up 
and down the river from this place, and are very easy 
to be reached by steamboat conveyance. I feel that 
-something ought to be done by Adventists for this 
valley of the West, and I hope that some one will 
visit us the coming season should time remain. 
Yours, in hope. 
. Bro. SAMUEL V. NASON writes from Newpoi 
(Me.), May 19th, 1851: 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have been for a long time 
desirous to write a few lines to you, having long 
been a reader of your paper. I like the move that 
was mentioned in a late paper, to send it to all evan-
gelical preachers. I will try to help a little toward 
such a course. I give my paper to a brother every 
week, after I read it, and I wish I was able to pay 
for and give six papers a week. I should be happy 
to have any Advent brother travelling East on the 
cars, call on me at Newport. 
I am your brother, in tribulation. 
Obituary. 
" I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me, Will NEVER die."—John it 25, 26. 
DIED, in Lockport, N. Y., May 2d, 1851. in hope 
of a better resurrection, MARY A. BROWN, daughter 
of GEo. W. BROWN, aged 18 years, 10 months, and 
seven days. 
DIED, at Newton Upper Falls, Mass., April 27th, 
SAMUEL WARREN, eldest son of Samuel and Lydia 
Scott, aged 13 years and five months. His disease 
was dropsy, which was first visibly apparent in his 
feet and legs, and then spread over his entire system. 
After reaching his brain, it affected his nerves to 
that degree, as to occasion violent convulsions, caus-
ing him great distress, which continued, at intervals, 
for four days, and terminated his earthly existence. 
He was deprived of his senses the most of the time ; 
but the day before he died, his reason returned a few 
minutes, when he looked up to his mother, with the 
question, " Mother, do you think I shall be saved?" 
She replied, " Do you love the Saviour, Warren ?" 
He answered, " Yes." She asked him if lie could 
trust himself in the arms of the Saviour ? He replied 
that he could. She said, " Warren, if you are a 
Christian, you will not have long to sleep in the 
grave." He replied, " Mother, you know we have 
had many good talks about that." This gave his 
parents great consolation, and the assurance that 
they should meet him again in the resurrection morn-
ing, never more to be separated. Therefore they 
sorrow not as those without hope. Amen. 
L. T. CUNNINGHAM, 
FELL ASLEEP, in the arms of that Saviour, in whom 
she had trusted from the nineteenth to the sixty 
fourth year of her age, MRS. MARY A. SEVERANCE. 
of Northfield Farms, Mass.,—formerly MARY A. 
STARKWEATHER, of Brandon, Vt. It was on the 
tenth of the present month, (May, 1851), when 
spring, with its green fields and beautiful flowers ; 
its refreshing air, and the singing birds had come, 
that she closed her eyes on the scenes of this earth 
but she will open them again, (as we firmly trust) 
upon the new earth, 
" Where everlasting spring abides, 
And never withering flowers ;" 
when the Lord shall descend from heaven with a 
shout of triumph, and the dead in Christ shall rise—
an event which for the last eight years of her life she 
believed to be near at hand. On being asked if she 
had any dread of death she replied, " No, I desire 
to depart, for I believe I shall be with my blessed 
Saviour." And she earnestly exhorted her family to 
strive to get into the kingdom of God, cost what it 
may.'' 
" Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from 
henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, for they shall rest 
from their labors and their works do follow them." 
And these were the words from which our dear 
brother Griggs preached the funeral discourse. 
A. M. 
DIED, of measles, at his father's residence at Kent, 
Ct., April 22d, 1851, CHARLES E. BURROUGHS, aged 
25 years, son of Samuel and Sally Burroughs. Bro. 
Burroughs was an exemplary Christian, one who 
adorned his profession by a well ordered life and a 
godly conversation. He experienced religion, and 
embraced the Second Advent doctrine in the great 
revival at Kent,.in 1842, under the labors of Bro. 
Matthewson and myself. His sickness was of short 
duration, his mind was clear and tranquil, and he 
talked with perfect composure of the prospect of 
death ; his physician, who was with him when he 
died, remarked, that he never before witnessed a 
person so composed at the prospect before him. Be-
ing very thirsty, the writer remarked, " You will 
drink of the water of life soon ! " " Yes," said he, 
" the river of life will be there." He said to his 
weeping father who stood by his bed-side, " How 
joyful it will be to meet father and mother and sis-
ter's in the kingdom of heaven, to part no more ! " 
In his death, the family are deeply afflicted, but they 
mourn not as those who have no hope : for their loss 
is his gain. They believe that he sleeps in Jesus, 
and such will God bring with him when the last 
trumpet sounds. The writer attended the funeral, 
and addressed an afflicted congregation in the Second 
Advent chapel in this place, from Rev. 14:13—
" And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Write, 
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." 
" A few short months of evil past, 
We reach the happy shore, 
Where death divided friends at last 
Shall meet to part no more." 
IRA MORGAN 
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NEW WORKS. 
He soon got into the rapids, and the father hurried to 
rescue biro ; but in vain—the boy went over the Falls. 
Great consternation and horror prevailed in every quarter, 
and this distressing incident has created such an excitement 
as seldom arises from such a cause. But few cases of this 
kind have occurred at Niagara Falls. 
" The Authority of God ; or, The True Barrier against 
Romish and Infidel Aggression. Four Discourses, by the 
Rev. J. H. Merle D'Aubigne, D.P., President of the Theo-
logical Institute, Geneva. New York : Robert Carter & 
Brothers, No. 285 Broadway. 1851." 
This is one of D'Aubigne's best works. The following 
extract respecting Servetus affords a specimen of the here-
sies encountered by the reformers : 
Michael Servetus had escaped from the archiepiscopal 
prisons of Vienne in Dauphine, where, as they could not burn 
hint in person, they did so in effigy, June 17, 1563. He 
arrived in Geneva in the middle if July, proposing to himself 
to overthrow Calvin, and to accomplish in Geneva the resto- 
ration of true Christianity (restitutio Christianismi). He 
attacked the authority and necessity of the Holy Scriptures, 
and pretended that after the enfranchisement which he medi-
tated, the Holy Spirit would take that place in the Church 
which belonged to it. " The true Church of Christ," he 
said, " can exist without the Scriptures. Preaching, inter-
pretation, the living voice of the Church, is worth more than 
the dead Scriptures (vox viva prefcrtur scripture mortue)." 
" The doctrine of Christ," he says again, " is altogether 
spiritual : should we not be ashamed, then, of thus ap-
pealing to a letter which kills (ceque vocare litteram occiden-
tern)." 
Servetus, very much taken up with himself, and imagining 
himself to be the restorer of Christianity, placed himself 
above the Romish and Protestant Churches ; and for the 
system of these two he substituted a third, his own, which, 
according to him, united what remained of truth in the two 
other Churches, at the stone time rsjecting their errors. He 
spoke strongly against orthodoxy, pretending that it was but 
a kind of intellectualism. "Faith," he said, " is a confi- 
dence, and not an intelligence ; it is a living energy (vivens 
energia),a continuous action (actio continua)." 
He covered 
these deeterious doctrines with words apparently spiritual, 
which threw dust in the eyes of the simple. In rasing up 
against a dogmatic Christianity, he showed hunself an advo-
cate of the internal voice. He spoke touch of emanations, 
and desired that the ideal of Christ sh Uhl be imprinted upon 
all our being. " By faith," he said, " Christ takes a form 
its us ; His essential image, His true idea, His luminous 
finnt, is imprinted in our soul (veram in nobis imprimit ideam 
Filii)." Before this, Peter in his second epistle had said 
more : he had said that Christians are made partakers of the 
Divine mature; but it is, according to him, by the exceeding 
great and precious promises of the Word, that this communi-
cation operates. In spite of all his pretensions to a sublime 
spirituality, it is evident to whoever has read the writings of 
Servetus, that, as indeed everywhere that respect for the 
testimonies of God is wanting, faith was fitr him essentially 
a theoretical belief, philosophical ideas coveted with a false 
spirituality. You know the sad errors that were spread by 
this pretended restorer of Christianity. What characterized 
hint was not merely a stirring mind, a mystical tendency, art 
obscure language, hut principally his use of offensive, destruc-
tive, monstrous words, which even his friends condemned 
thus he called the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy 
Spirit, a Cerberus with three heads. The Genevese gov-
ernment, having taken counsel with Berne, Zurich, Basle, 
and Schaffhausen, believed that if it housed a heretic, con-
demned to the fire by the papists, it would justify the accusa-
tions of heresy preferred by them against the Reformation ; 
and after Calvin liad vainly interceded for a commutation of 
the sentence, Servetus was put to death by fire. This death 
is a stain, a remains of Popery, in our history. 
a a a a a a a a a a 
A German historian, speaking of the false spiritualists 
who appeared after the Reformation, has said : " The rise 
of a new principle always brings something extraordinary. 
When the human mind is stirred up by great things, it darts 
forward with the same boldness that it had formerly, in over-
throwing human idols, and easily gives itself up to ideas 
which make a breach upon all established order." We 
should not be astonished that what had happened in the six-
teenth century, after the Retorination, should re-appear in 
the nineteenth, after the revival. You all know the words 
of Luther, who compared hiumanity to a drunken man on 
horseback : he falls on one side, and is put. straight—imme-
dlately he falls on the other. This is what the comparison 
signifies. There are two spheres in religion : the objective 
sphere, which comprehends all that is out of us (for example, 
Scripture, and the expiatory work of Christ), and the sub-
jective sphere, comprehending all that is in us (the work of 
the Spirit and regeneration). That religion may be true and 
salutary, there should be an equilibrium between these two 
spheres ; but as soon as the equilibrium is broken on one 
side or the other, religion runs great risks. The Reforma-
tion established them in perfect harmony. But in the same 
way that the corruptions of the Papacy arose from its having 
taken hold of the objective side, and perverting it, so the 
evil of the doctrines which we combat arises from their 
throwing themselves into the subjective side, and misconstru-
ing it. The subjective tendency, if it becomes exclusive, is 
a sickly tendency,—a fever. This disorder proceeds from a 
want of health In the individual ; either that he has not 
been converted, or that his conversion has not been deep 
enough. The I, not having been sufficiently humped,—suffi-
ciently crucified, rises all at once, and places itself above the 
Scriptures of God. 
" Sacred Scenes and Characters. By Rev. J. T. Headley. 
New York : John S. Taylor, 143 Nassau-street. 1851." 
In the style in which he has written his Sacred Mountains, 
Mr. Headley has taken up the Red Sea passage, Eli, Ruth, 
the handwriting on the wall, Samuel and Saul, the nameless 
prophet, Jacob, Joseph's dream, the Star of Bethlehem, the 
disciple that Jesus loved, Paul, and the tomb of Christ, arid 
by the inimitable touches of his pen has thrown around them 
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" Napoleon and his Marshals. By Rev. J. T. Headley. 
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This work of Headley's is splendidly written, but is full of 
faults. His heroes are all equally great and brilliant ; and 
never more so than when their swords are dripping with gore. 
When thousands of souls are hurled into their Maker's pres-
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dreds to leave their bones now whitening on the plains and 
in the mountain defiles of Mexico. 
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The Michigan Conspiracy. 
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chapter frotn the history of the late conspiracy of the desper-
adoes in that State. The story seems almost incredible. Is 
not some one practising upon public credulity for some sinister 
purpose 
The schemes concocted, and the system under which the 
gang of ruffians recently arrested along the line of the Central 
Railroad, were drilled, and the depths to which they were 
ready to sink themselves in crime and depravity, may 
be partly inferred from 'the following leaf in the history of 
their conspiracy. 
At one of the regular meetings, which they were in the 
habit of holding periodically at the place of rendezvous, for 
the purpose of consultation as to future movements, and the 
division of plunder, it was reported by some, in the order of 
business, that one of their sworn number, whose name was 
stated, had been detected in revealing some of the secrets 
that should have been known only to the initiated. Sus-
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tion as to how the guilty one should be silenced, one of the 
conclave made the significant remark that " dead men tell no 
tales !" 
Acting upon this hint, it was unanimously agreed that the 
punishment should he death ; and that the duty of carrying 
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bidder fur the job ! The first offer was named at three hun-
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went on till the stun was lowered to one hundred dollars—the 
bidder reserving the right to put the victim out of the way in 
his own place and manner, and the time allotted not to exceed 
four days. This offer was the price finally agreed upon, arid 
the money was immediately counted out and paid over to the 
fiend who had. agreed to steep his hand in the murder. The 
individual complained of, and thus singled out as the victim 
of their 
v 
vens, ance, was one of the two who, for eighteen 
months, has-been under pay of the Central Railroad Com-
pany, for the purpose of detecting and bringing to justice this 
most abandoned gang of desperadoes. Fearing he had be-
come suspected of treachery, he disguised himself, and in 
the capacity of one of their more western accomplices, had 
presented himself by the proper passwords, and was present 
throughout this interesting council,where his life had become 
a price ! At the first opportunity after these interesting pre-
liminaries had been settled, our " marked Mile withdrew 
front the infernal cabal, little relishing, as may be supposed, 
the warm position in which he found himself placed—making 
it the last time he ever met the precious gang in council, and 
being but a day or two before their official escort to our city, 
under the guidance of the Sheriff and his posse. 
FATAL MISTAKE IN CUMBERLAND,. E.NG.—A case 
has recently occurred in Cumberland, Eng., which, in some 
of its features, bears a striking. resemblance to the tragical 
affair at the Danvers Bank, in this State. It appears that 
Rev. Joseph Smith, incumbent of Walton, near Brompten, 
in the East of Cumberland, was about retiring for the night, 
on the evening of the 16th ult., when he became alarmed by 
a loud knocking at his study window. Under the impression 
that it was some vagrants who had previously molested him, 
but without, however, waiting for any further noise, he took 
a revolver, unlocked and opened his front door, and discharged 
the pistol two or three times, without aiming at any object. 
The next morning a man was found dead at the gate, with 
wounds upon his body apparently produced by pistol bullets, 
who was recognized as a respectable farmer of Baileyhead, 
named Armstrong. 
At the examination before the coroner, it appeared in evi-
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it being market day, and after indulging rather freely in strong 
drink, started on his return home with two or three coins 
panions at about nine o'clock in the everting. They had not 
ridden far together, when the deceased urged his horse into 
a canter, and left his companions behind. They overtook 
him at a roadside inn, but scon after rejoining them he again 
started rapidly forward and left them behind. They saw no 
more of him alive. It is supposed that after leaving them 
he turned down a cross road leading to the house of Rev. 
Mr. Smith, and while in a state of intoxication knocked 
upon the window as above stated. 
Upon these facts, the coroner's jury found the Rev. Mr. 
Smith " guilty of manslaughter." He was greatly affected 
upon the announcement of the verdict, and under the circum-
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Traveller. 
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—Linton W. Pettibone, of Dela-
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cide by shooting, last week. He was betrothed to a young 
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before his death, that she was in ill health, and might not 
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she did not, he was prepared to leave the world also." The 
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her recovery having become extinct in his mind, he was lea 
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directing " that Mr. Howard should receive a reasonable 
compensation for his rifle," which he had hired, as the 
event proved, for the purpose of his own destruction.—
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534-each $3.—T. Wilcox, 542-$4 —Rev. Mr. Cunningham, 515, 
and postage.-$1 59.—D. Sproul, 534.-$1 50. 
Receipts from May 21st to the 27th. 
AGENTS FOR THE HERALD. 
As Miss Caroline A. Stephenson, of Ossibee, N. II., was 
dressing her hair in the factory in Dover, the 17th inst., it 
was caught by a horizontal shaft, around which she was 
carried several times. One of her feet was badly bruised, 
the skin was loosened from the skull, and the bone in one of 
her legs was dreadfully crushed. Hopes are entertained of 
her recovery. 
J. Mott, S. Wells-Have cancelled your accounts, and will send. 
J. W. Barnum-You did not say where A. Taylor's paper now 
goes. Whenever changes are to he made, it is necessary that the 
Post-office where it is then taken should be given, or we cannot 
make the required change. 
J. Cummings-Your appointment was not received in time to 
appear in last week's Herald. 
Clary Foster-Bro. Farrar will explain to you, upon his return, 
how far, and when you have made payments for the Herald. We 
now credit you to 534. 
E. Woodworth-We could only get the brokers to pay us $169 
for the money you sent for Mr. Cunningham, which you will find to 
his credit in the list of receipts. 
M. Lowry, $125-Sent books. 
As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednesday, appoint-
Melds mast be received, at the latest, by Tuesday eveithig, ; other-
wise, they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
Advent Meetings. -If providence permit there will be an Advent 
meeting at the Outte.t, C. E., to begin on Thursday, 12th of June, 
and continue over the Sabbath ; also at Waterloo, ,Shejfard, to begin 
on Wednesday, the 18111 of .lute, and continue oRvriithi jeTcSkiabiNbas(t)tNi.. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
III behalf of the Church, 
Bro. I. R. Gates will preach in Clarence Monday, June 21 ; Dur-
ham Flats, C. E., 3d u Waterloo, (where Bro. Hutchinson may ap-
point,) 4th and 5th ; Richliird, Vt., 6th ; Derby Line, 7th and 8th ; 
Lisbon (or.
SJguaie .
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will 
t , from the 14th to the 16 th 
Bro. 1. H. Shipman will preach at Sugar Hill the second and third 
Sabbaths 
i Sherwin 
 
Bru A. 
preach in Worcester the second and third 
Sabbaths in June. 
There will he a Tent-meeting at East Andover, N. H., to com-
inebrbicaeW
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Wednesday, June 11th, at 1 P. M., and continue
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I). T. Taylor,Jr., will preach at Newton Upper Mass., on 
Sunday, 
Craig 
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Bro.
will preach at the house of Bro. Bucklin, in North-
hors', Sabbath, June 1st. 
Bro. 1. Adrian will preach in Haydenville the first Tuesday in 
June, in the evening. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR HARTFORD, CT.-III the old Fourth Church, 
where we have met for a year past, Bro. 0. R. Fassett is expected 
to preach the last Sabbath in May ; I. E. Jones, the first Sabbath in 
June ; B. Morley, the second and third Sabbaths in June ; I,. Osier, 
'the fourth and fifth Sabbaths in .1une ; O. It. Fassett, the first and 
second Sabbaths in July ; I. 11. Shipman, the third Sabbath in July. 
Brim. Edwin Burnham and F. It. Berick are to hold aAC.,ociLifeArPe,n.ce 
commencing' first Sabbath in August, and continuing over the fol- 
owing Sabbath. 
Bro."). Campbell will preach in the Powely Neighborhood, May 
28th. 5 p m ; Asa Spencer's, June 1st, 11 A ii, and at Yong School-
house, at 3 P M; Haybay, 5th, 5 P m ; Scrimshaw's, on the 6th, 
5 p m-Bro. Bronson try to be present ; Kitclipaw, 81.11, 11 A M ; at 
Bro. Lomme's, 8th, 4 p M; Philips, 9th, 5 p m: Sidney, 10th, 5 r m; 
Smithville, 11th, 5 P m; Brighton, 12th, 6 P m-Friend Marsh see to 
this appointment ; Colburn, 13th, 6 P M ; Coburg, 15th, It A M ; Port 
Hope, lath, 4 P M, or as Bro. Elvitis thinks best, in the afternoon ; 
Bro. Pearce's, Hilt, 6 p m-if convenient, I wish Bee.. Pearce to 
send his son on the above date with conveyance to meet me at 
Perry's Corners, Elsworth, 12 o'clock ; Bro. Jackson's, 14th ; To-
ronto, 18th, 6 P M ; Bro. Gregg's 19th, 6 p m ; Bro. Trusdell, 20th, 
6 P m u Bro. Burrows' 22d, Iti A M, 2 P TM, amid 6 P m—the above will 
be a field meeting-Brn. Thompson and Trusdell please to be pre-
sent; Father Campbell's, ;24th, 6 P st ; Nelson, 25th, 6 P 51. I want 
the brethren to pray that the above meetings may be blessed of God 
in the salvation of souls. 
D. C. 
Bro. S. W. Thurber will preach in Melbourne, June 11th, and in 
Shipton the t8111, and over Sunday in both pluces. If the brethren 
wish to have the Tent they will give notice by writing to Stan- 
stead to 
a. W'. THURBER. 
Bro. T. Smith will preach in Franklin Co., Hancock, Me., Sab-
bath, June 8th; Orrington, On the School house at Mill Creek) 
Sabbath, June 22d ; Windsor, (in the Advent meeting house) Sab-
bath, June 29th. 
The Second Advent Church in Providence, R. I., under the pas-
toral care of Elder I. Kimball, meet for worship three times on the 
Sabbath, anti on Tuesday and sometimes Thursday evenings, at 
Second Advent (Newmarket( Hall, No. 4 High-street. Friends 
visiting the city are invited to call. 
By order of the Church, ANTHONY PEARCE. 
BIG TENT MEETING.-The Big Tent will be raised at South 
Truro, Cape Cod, Mass., one mile from Pelmet Arbor, about one 
third of a mile from Atwood's new wharf, a quarter of a mile south-
west of the Episcopal. Chapel, and near the School House in the 8th 
District, on the second day of July, and meetings contioue over the 
thllowing Sabbath. Elders .1. V. Hinies, J. latch, and others, will be 
present to labor. la behalf of the Committee, 
I. R. GATES, 
JOEL ATWOOD, 
NOAH MAYO. 
Morrisville, Pa.-Stool. G. Allen. 
Albany, N. Y.-H. II. Grot,o, 441.tilwaukee, Wis.-Sarni. Brown. 
Auburn, N. V.-H. L. Smith. :Ve iv Bedford, Mass.-11.1r . Davis 
theiram, " W. M. Palmer. .Vewburyport, " Deui..1. Pear- 
Brattleboro',Vt.- B. Perham. son, sr., Water-street. 
Elm-street. 
0.-Joseph Wilson. New York City.—Wm. Tracy, 75 
Clinton, Mass.-H ...R. Gray. Delancey-street. 
Derby Line, Vt.-S. Foster, jr. 
Philadelphia, Pa. — J • Litch, M 
Detroit, Mich.-1.. Armstrong. North [nth street. 
Eddington, Me.-Thos. Smith. 
Portland, Me.-Peter Johnson, 37 
Providence, R.I.-G. R. Cladding. 
Glanville Anitap., N. S.-Elias Summer-street. 
Hallowell, Me.-I. C. Wellcome. Rochester, N. Y.-Wrn Busby. 
Hartford, Ct.-Aaron Clapp. Salem, Mass.-L. Osier. 
Woodworth. 
Heuvelton, N. Y.-W. D. Ghoslin Toronto, (.; . W.-D. Campbell. 
Homer, N. Y.-J. L. Clasp. Wardsboro', Pt.—Ira Wyman. 
Lockport,N.1 .—II. Robbins. Waterloo, Shelton], C. E. - R. 
Hutchinson. 
LL°.Hwam
ell'piN'tolans,s1V.-.YE..-11D A. Bosworth Worcester, Ms.-D. F.Wetherbee. 
ELAND.-R. Robertson, Esq., No. 1. 
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