"Occupy till I come." 
"IEtehold, I come quickly." 
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VraliraMITITE 
TEM, AMERICAN 
PtrEMEEME 
[For Terms, too., see Fourth Page.] 
Gommunirationo. 
[Original.] 
REMEMBER THY CREATOR. 
BY L. N. C. 
"Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth." 
In Life's morning, remember thy God, 
Ere the pathway of sorrow thy young feet have trod, 
Ere the shadows of darkness gather thick o'er thy way, 
And hide from thy vision the brightness of day. 
While the roses of health on thy fair cheek are blooming, 
Ere the death-angel all thy fond visions are dooming, 
While the Father in mercy withholdeth the rod, 
In Life's early morning, remember thy God. 
Remember thy God while the sun gives its light, 
While the moon sits enthron'd on the broad brow of night, 
While the glittering stars in the firmament move, 
Breathing low, in sweet music, " our Maker is Love." 
While the dew-drops of youth in thy pathway are 
shining, 
While Hope a glad wreath round thy brow is entwining, 
Is spreading with rapture its glories abroad, 
Ah, then in Life's morning, remember thy God. 
Magog, C. E. 
[Original.] 
IS THE WORLD IMPROVING? 
BY A PEDESTRIAN MISSIONARY. 
ANTITHESIS. 
Having at some length looked at the 
question, Is the world improving? from one 
point of view, let us now change our stand-
point, and look at it from another. We 
have considered it manward let us now re-
gard it Godward. Imperfectly as the matter 
may have been stated, I trust sufficient has 
been said to show that the world is in a 
much better condition than it was three cen-
turies ago, and that the improvement begun 
at the Reformation, although often retarded 
by the sins and follies of mankind, has on 
the whole, been progressive, and has in 
particular made rapid strides during the 
nineteenth century. In considering the 
question it will materially aid us if we treat 
it antithetically, and briefly glance at mat-
ters as they are. 
Before the Reformation, the Bible was a 
sealed book, regarding which the great mass 
of the community were compelled to say, 
We cannot read it, for we are unlearned. 
Now the great majority of the community 
have received at least a rudimentary educa-
tion, and since the translation of the Bible, 
have been enabled to read in its blessed 
pages the wonderful works of God. 
Then, it was a dangerous matter to obey 
the command of the Saviour, "Search the 
Scriptures ;" for to have done so would 
have led them, if conscientious, to abandon the 
worship of the Virgin Mary and "the round 
dept god ;" an act which inferred the faggot 
and the stake. Now, they are at perfect 
liberty to obey the commands of God, being 
protected in their right to do so by just and 
equitable laws. 
Both before and many years after the re-
formation, such a thing as civil and religious 
liberty had no existence ; the lives and prop-
erty of the lieg'es being to a great extent at 
the disposal of those in power, which the 
rulers not only claimed, but exercised the 
right of dictating to their subjects what re-
ligion they were to believe. Now, civil and 
religious liberty is the right of every man, as 
much as the air he breathes or the light he 
sees by. 
Two hundred years ago, even Christians 
did not admit the rights of conscience. '.11- ey, 
indeed, demanded liberty for themselves, 
but when in power refused to concede it to 
others. The Puritans in England thought 
that very hard measure was dealt to them 
when they were fined by the Star Chamber, 
or had their ears cropped for worshipping 
God according to their conscience ; yet these 
same Puritans when in America, thought 
it the right thing to hang Quakers for ex-
ercising the same right. Now the man 
who would act on such a principle, would 
be regarded as a bigotted fool, and would 
subject himself, if within the reach of the 
law, to condign punishment. 
Formerly, human life was nothing ac-
counted of. Henry VIII. hanged, burned 
or beheaded upwards of 8,000 of his sub-
jects, including a couple of his queens, 
and even within forty years the statute 
book of Great Britain contained upwards of 
300 capital offences, and men were hung by 
the score. Now, the penalty of death is con-
fined to murder and high treason ; and in the 
My P. 0. address in England is No. 4, 
Warwick Terrace, Willow Walk, Bermond-
sey, London, England. 
[Original.] 
DEFENCE 
DEFENCE IN FAVOR OF THE AUTHEN-
TICITY OF THE BIBLE. 
Continued. 
In my last on the defense of the infallible 
Word of God, against modern Atheism, De-
ism, spirit-rapping, Universalism, &c,. &c., 
I promised to give the readers of the Herald 
some extracts from the spiritualistic Testa-
ment lately from the press, which is inten-
ded as the Statute Book of a "New Dispen-
sation," or perhaps more properly a revised 
edition of the last will and Testament of our 
most Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
This issue has been made under the super-
vision of Abaddon and his sub-devils. En-
tered according to Act of Congress in the 
year of our blessed Lord 1861, by Leonard 
Thorn, and published in a pleasing form, in 
New York City. It claims to have been 
dictated and written by the spirit of Jesus 
Christ, who came in spirit bodily, and re-
vised and corrected the first four books of 
the "New Testament" and the Revelations. 
Of Paul it is said, that he came personally 
in the spirit and corrected all his writings. 
So also James, Peter, John, and Jude all 
came (as this new fable teaches) in the 
spirit personally, and corrected their own 
books. It is said that the added book, fol-
lowing the book of Revelation, is called the 
"New Dispensation," from which I quote 
the following from a writer who was in 
possession of the book, as himself states, (in 
No., 17 of the Herald,) when he prepared 
the article, announcing this daring presump-
tion and blasphemy. Here is a quotation 
from the first chapter of said book : 
"By the spirit of Christ." "I Jesus, ap-
peared in spirit in 1861, and do say and de-
clare unto the world, that the new era or 
dispensation has commenced, called the com-
ing of Christ. It commenced about the 
year 1847, and as represented and spoken of 
by the prophet Daniel, and others, �
 
by my coming as a cloud in the heavens, 
with tens of thousands of angels or spirits to 
commune with the children of men, to es-
tablish God's everlasting spiritual kingdom 
on the earth, of which there shall be no 
end. And now in different ways to com-
mune with, and make ourselves known unto 
the children of men ; and many who are now 
in the flesh have seen some of us, and 
talked with us face to face, and we rejoice 
that the day is come. And if you will 
listen to us, we will do you all much good. 
Through our mediums we heal the sick, cure 
the lame, and cast out evil spirits, and aid 
those who seek after knowledge in the arts 
and sciences ; the same as was done when I 
and, my apostles lived in the flesh on earth. 
The work, as it were, has but just com-
menced ; it will roll on with power until the 
earth is filled with my glory." 
Thus I have given you the quotation as 
second-handed from the pen of C. P. Dow, 
as seen in No. 17, of the Herald, headed 
"A Counterfeit Corning." I would very 
specially recommend the reading of said ar-
ticle by all who have preserved that No. of 
the Herald. 
Now, kind readers, we have most conclu-
sively shown in several previous articles, 
that the Bible is the infallible Word of God, 
and that it has fully proved its truthfulness 
in the three grand divisions into which it is 
divided. To wit : Historical, doctrinal, and 
prophetical truth. We gave you facts, over-
whelming facts, in each division, which most 
fully confirm the truthfulness and infallibili-
ty of the blessed Bible. But in corrobora-
tion of the truthfulness of the prophetical 
division of the holy Nok of God, I would 
state that nothing predicted and fulfilled up 
till this day, more fully confirms its veracity 
or truth than the following prophecy does. 
2 Peter 2: 1, 2, 3 : "But there were false 
prophets among the people, even as there 
shall be false teachers among you, who pri-
vily shall bring in damnable heresies, even 
denying the Lord that bought them, and 
bring upon themselves swift destruction. 
And many shall follow their pernicious 
ways ; by reason of whom the way of truth 
shall be evil spoken of. And though cove-
tousness shall they with feigned words make 
merchandise of you ; whose judgment now 
of a long time lingereth not, and their dam-
nation slumbereth." Peter says "they shall 
bring in damnable heresies, even denying 
the Lord that bought them." Now when, 
and where, on this side of hell, or in hell, or 
out of it, was ever such a blasphemous, 
hypocritical, and deistical denial of Jesus 
Christ the Son of the "living God" invented, 
as this denial of the authenticity, nority, di-
vinity, and infallibility of our "New Testa-
ment," through means of which, tens of 
thousands have been led to Christ and 
saved, for almost two thousand years, which 
spiritualistic blasphemers are now aiming to 
to overthrow by a work entered by Act of 
Congress, dictated by the devil, and fabrica-
ted in Pandemonium ? 
Denying the truthfulness and divinity of 
our "New Testament," is virtually, or in ef-
fect denying Jesus Christ the "Son of God," 
which is now done with impunity by the 
Atheistic and infidel hordes, whose above 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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mercy is everlasting." Psalm 100: 5. "The 
Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy." 
James 5 : 11. 
11th. He is a God of truth and faithful-
ness. "Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the 
'clouds." Psalm 36: 5. "His truth endureth 
to all generations." Psalm 100: 5. Again, 
"God is faithful." 1 Cor. 1 : 9. 
12th. He is unchangeable ; hear what he 
says : ."I am the Lord ; I change not." Mal. 
3 : t. "With whom is no variableness, neith-
er shadow of turning." James 1 : 17. 
Why is God called Father ? 1st : because 
from eternity he beget a Son of his own es-
sential nature, and is Father of all who are 
called children, iii heaven and on earth-
Eph. 3: 15. In what act of goodness did 
God particularly reveal Himself' as Father? 
2d, in Creation, and hence he is described in 
the Holy Scriptures, the maker of heaven and 
earth-Gen. 1st chapter. 
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L. °SLIM, J. PICARSON, R. R. KNOWLES. 
under the form of a roaring lion-and third-
ly, under the form of an angel of light, under 
which last form he is doing an amount of 
harm in these "last days," far beyond any 
thing in the long annals of ages, to which 
the masses of the clergy and laity of the pro-, 
fessed church seem about as blind as "Nic-
odemas" was to the new birth, and like him 
seem ready to ask "how can these things be ?" 
why the world "is getting better and bettef, 
and we hope for its speedy converson to 
God, the millennial having commenced to 
dawn." 
Here, then, we have two, great sources of 
all good, and of all evil before us, and now, 
if we would always enjoy the pleasure, and 
possess the ability to judge precisely right on 
all subjects, on all occasions and under all 
circumstances, we must possess the love and 
spirit of Christ, which prompt and lead into 
all truth. Having these, we shall not only 
be able lo "try the spirits" but know in very 
deed from whence they are. Glory to God 
(I must again exclaim) for the light of truth. 
In all great enterprizes of devilishness in 
the mom-al world, there are principals and 
abettors in crime. As for instance, in the 
sufferings and death of the world's blessed 
and divine Redeemer, this fact is as clear as 
the rays of solar light. Some of the mot- 
ley party amongst the betrayers, merciless 
tormentors, and heartless murderers of the 
"Son of God," (my sweet and blessed Re- 
deemer,) were engaged in this work of hell, 
another in that, and a third class of them, in 
something else ; all tending to accomplish 
the indescribable suffering and death of 
Jesus. See the account in the four evan- 
gelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 
Now just so the ungodly and infidel enter-
prize of "wresting the Scriptures" is carried 
forward with empty triumph at earth's clos- 
ing scenes. �
Atheistical, deistical, infidel, 
fanatical cliques are the principals in this 
God-defying abomination, and othodox sects 
(as they are called) are accessories in the 
crime, which I will prove in my next. 
JOHN HINKLE. 
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Pa. 
[Original.] 
ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. 
word-God. It was God working through 
the instrumentality of good men that scat-
tered the seeds of Divine truth throughout 
England, and then prepared the way for 
the Reformation. It was God, who through 
the instrumentality of a wicked king, first 
introduced the Reformation into England. 
It was God who through the instrumentality 
of a foolish king gave it the Bible in the 
English tongue, and thus established it upon 
a stable foundation. It was God who by 
means of English valor and stormy tempests 
destroyed the Spanish Armada, and preserved 
it in its infancy. In the words of the inscrip-
tion on the medal struck in commemoration 
of that great event, "Jehovah blew, and they 
were scattered." It was God who wafted 
the fleet of William of Orange to Tarbary, 
and by effecting the Revolution of 1688, 
placed it beyond the reach of danger. It 
was God who carried the little Mayflower 
in safety across the stormy Atlantic, and 
landed the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth 
Rock. It was God who raised up George 
Washington, and thus effected the American 
Revolution. It was God who gave to the 
United States the vast and fertile valley 
of the Mississippi, where, even now, not-
withstanding its already vast population, 
men are "listening for the footsteps of the 
coming millions." 
Was it not so ? Ask the Bible who con-
ferred these and other benefits upon the 
Anglo-Saxon race, and through them upon 
the world, and the Bible replies, "Every 
good gift and every perfect gift is from 
above, and cometh down from the Father of 
lights with whom is no variableness, neither 
shadow of turning." Ask the works of na-
ture who conferred them ? 
God, let the torrents with a voice of thunder 
Answer, and let the mountains echo-God. 
Ask the solid earth itself, 
Earth with its thousand voices thunders, God. 
If, then, it should appear that, notwith-
standing these great benefits, man. has for-
gotten God, can it be maintained that the 
world is improving ? 
TO THE 
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FRIENDS OF THE ITALIAN 
MISSION. 
ELI). GEO. EYSTER. 
load_
Clued a erryir
' itmal being, .a3ciating_ of 
self, from whom all things proceed, on whom 
all things depend, and who governs all. 
Hear what the psalmist says : "The heavens 
declare the glory of God," Psalm 19: 1. 
Again : "He left not himself without wit-
ness, in that he gave us rain from heaven." 
Acts 14: 17. "For the invisible things of 
him are clearly seen, being understood by 
the things that are made," Rom. 1: 20. 
As God hath more particularly revealed his 
character in the holy Scriptures of divine 
truth we shall show Isis attributes. 
1st. That He is eternal. "From ever-
lasting to everlasting thou art God." 
Psalm 90 : 2. "Thy name is from everlast-
ing." Isa. 63 : 16. "According to the com-
mandment of the everlasting God." Rom. 
16 : 26. "I am Alpha and omega, the be-
ginning and the ending." Rev. 1: 8. 
2d. �
He is invisible. "No man bath seen 
God at any time." John 1 : 18. "Now 
unto the King eternal, immortal and invisi-
ble." 
1 Tim. 1 : 17. "Whom no man hath 
seen, nor can see." 1 Tim. 6: 16. 
3d. He is incomprehensible. "Canst thou 
by searching find out God ?" Job 11 : 7. 
"Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him 
out." Job 37: 23. "Great is the Lord, 
his greatness is unsearchable." Psalm. 145 : 
3. �
"How unsearchable are his judgments, 
LONDON, June 8, 1864. 
Dear _Brethren and Sisters-Thinking 
that you may be interested to hear of our 
journey hither and safe arrival in this great 
city, I take the earliest opportunity to write 
you, that through the kind providence of our 
heavenly Father we reached London on 
the 6th inst., after a voyage of twenty-three 
days on the mighty deep. The weather was 
for the most part unpleasant, and more than 
half the time we had head winds that re-
tarded our progress. My wife suffered much 
from sea sickness the entire voyage, the rest 
of us only a few days, the first of the passage. 
However, after we reached the coast of 
England, we had beautiful weather and end-
ed our voyage very pleasantly. Our pas-
sengers were of many nations, and we formed 
some very agreeable acquaintances during 
the passage and did what we could to spread 
the truth. There was an intelligent French-
man on board with whom I had considera-
ble conversation, and who seemed much in-
terested as I talked with him upon the ful-
fillment of prophecy and other religious sub-
jects. He confessed that he had never read 
the New Testament, but said he would buy 
a Bible and read it. 
There were on board four cies gymen from 
the United States ; two from Massachusetts, 
F. A. Reed, Congregationalist, and Elder 
Howe, Baptist ; S. M. Dickens, of George-
town, D. C., and I. N. Effengen, of Virginia, 
of the M. E. Church, and we had good 
meetings every Sunday ; (after the first, on 
which day nearly everyhody on board was 
sick ;) in the afternoon, on the last one, we 
had a very interesting service for the chil-
dren, in which we had singing in four differ-
ent languages, much to the gratification of 
the congregation. 
Here in London, we were received with 
much Christian kindness by Bro. R. Robert-
son, who entertained us with true English 
nobility, and assisted us in finding cheap, 
quiet and agreeable lodgings, which we felt 
much the need of after our fatiguing journey. 
We shall be compelled to remain here un-
til we receive means from our brethren in 
the United States, to enable us to proceed 
to Italy ; and while here, I shall do all in 
my power, with the help of God, to spread the 
everlasting Gospel as I have opportunity, 
and will send you a report, Providence per-
mitting, before we leave London. 
My dear brethren and sisters, pray much 
for this important mission, that many may 
be brought through this humble instrumen-
tality to the knowledge of the truths and a 
preparation for the kingdoin of God. 
Will the Voice of the West, and other 
evangelical Advent papers, that are interest-
ed in the Italian Mission, please publish 
this letter as soon as possible, as for the 
sake of economy I can send to the United 
States but two copies. With much love I 
am your brother and servant in Cnrist. 
M. B. CZECHOWSKI. 
P. S.-Editors who will be so kind as to 
publish this letter, and send me a copy to the 
care of Mr. N. Ianowski, 18 Rue des Foss6s, 
St. Jaques, Paris, France, will oblige me 
very ranch. �
M. B. C. 
latter case is not always inflicted. See the 
case of Smith O'Brien of the Cabbage Gar-
den, and Meagher ofthe Sword, both of whom 
might have been hanged if Government had 
thought them worth hanging. 
Formerly, our prisons were dens of horror, 
the abodes of gaol fever and death, and the 
fruitful nurseries of crime ; while the lower 
classes of society were left to fester in one 
vast mass of corruption, resulting in a fear-
ful increase to the sum total of human mis-
ery. Now, all this is reversed. Our pris-
oners, even although guilty of the most 
heinous crimes, are treated with the utmost 
humanity ; while the most arduous efforts 
are being made by private benficence and 
legislative enactment, for the physical and 
moral well-being of those classes from whom 
the great mass of our criminals spring. 
In a word, the age in which we live is 
possessed of a far greater amount of rational 
freedom than any preceding one ; it is much 
more humane in its feelings and proclivities ; 
it is much more enlightened, and is possessed 
of a far greater amount of the means of en-
lightenment. It follows, therefore, that in 
Christianized countries, at least, the suns to-
tal of human happiness must be increased, 
"for mercy is twice blessed ; it blesseth 
him that gives and him that takes ;" and 
that, therefore, the world is a much more 
desirable habitation than it was, one, two or 
three centuries ago. It follows, too, that 
the opportunities for mental improvement 
and moral culture, which we in the present 
day enjoy, exceed those of our forefathers 
beyond all calculation. 
To expect that men would give themselves 
up to the serious consideration of the future 
when they were harrassed With the thought 
of the present, when their very lives hung in 
doubt before them, and when they were left 
to grope their way in darkness without the 
light of life, is expecting too much from 
frail human nature. But very different is 
ithe case of those who repose beneath the 
I shadow of their own vine and fig-tree, none 
making them afraid and having the Word of 
God in their hearts, to be a light to their 
feet and a lamp to ther path. 
But to whom much is given from them 
much will be required. No man in his 
senses would ever think of putting an edu-
cated Englishman and an ignorant Hotten-
tot upon a par, and deeming that the Eng-
lishman came up to the mark because in 
point of morality be may equal or even 
be somewhat superior to the Hottentot. 
Unless he was infinitely superior to him in 
all respects, we would deem that he came 
far short of being what he ought to be ; un-
less he was immeasurably better, we would 
scoff at the idea of him being improved. 
"Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song 
of my beloved touching his vineyard. My 
well-beloved hath a vineyard On a very fruit-
ful hill. And he fenced it and gathered out 
the tares thereof, and planted it with the 
choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst 
of it, and also made a winepress therein ; 
and he looked that it should bring forth 
grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." 
Such is the beautiful parable in which the 
Lord depicts the care he had bestowed upon 
his ancient people, and such the nature of 
expectations. It is strictly applicable to the 
Anglo-Saxon race in the present day ; for 
after all, to them almost exclusively, belong 
the advantages which have already been al-
luded to. The other parts of the world are 
yet in darkness, or at best, in .twilight. It 
is the Anglo-Saxon race, and they alone, 
who can properly be said to be in light. But 
on this favored portion of mankind, God has 
showered blessings, which although not be-
stowed through the agency of miracles, but 
solely through the use of means, have been 
in reality as great and as wonderful as those 
which he bestowed upon the ancient Jews. 
Who was it that formed England as 
A fortress built by nature for herself, 
Against infection and the band of war, 
surounding it with the waves of ocean, 
Which serves it in the office of a wall, 
Or as a moat, defensive to a house 
Against the envy of less happier lands ? 
Was it not God ? And who bestowed upon 
its inhabitants that indomitable energy and 
dauntless courage by which they have ever 
been distinguished ? Who gave them their 
unconquerable love of liberty, and subject-
ed them to so many fiery trials in their pur-
suit of it, until that love of theirs was brand-
ed into their very being and became a sec-
ond nature ? Who gave them the blessed 
Bible, thus communicating to them the 
knowledge of the one living and true God, 
and thus placing all their blessings upon a 
firm and solid foundation, by teaching them 
the fear of the Lord which is the be-
ginning of wisdom? Who put it into the 
hearts of the sons and daughters of England, 
"that precious gem set in the silver sea," 
to leave the cradle of liberty and go forth to 
other lands, carrying their Bibles and their 
love of freedom along with them, there to 
war with the wilderness and become the 
founders of mighty nations ? And who 
blessed them with success and crowned them 
with material prosperity to a degree un-
known before, until the Anglo-Saxon race 
has become the most powerful upon the face 
of the earth ? To each and all of these 
questions, only one answer can be returned, 
and that answer is contained in the single 
and his ways past finding out." Rom. 
11 : 33. 
4th. He is omnipresent. "The heaven of 
heavens cannot contain thee." 1 Kings 8 : 
27. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or 
whither shall I flee from thy presence ? if 
I ascend up into the heavens thou art there ; 
if I make my bed in hell behold thou art 
there ; if I take the wings Of the morning 
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 
even there shall thy hand lead me, and 
thy right hand shall hold me." Psalm. 139 : 
7-10. 
5th. He is omniscient. "The eyes of the 
Lord are in every place, beholding the evil 
and the good." Psalm 139: 4. "But all 
things are naked and opened unto the eyes 
of him with whom we have to do." Heb. 
14: 13. 
6th. He is Almighty. "I am the almigh-
ty God." Gen. 17 : 1. "Holy, holy, holy, 
Lord God Almighty." Rev. 4: 8. "The 
Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Rev. 
19 : 6. 
7th. He is holy. "Ye shall be holy, for I 
am holy." Rev. 11 : 45. "Thou art of purer 
eyes than to behold evil." Heb. 1 : 13. 
"One cried, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of 
hosts." Isa. 6: 3. 
8th. He is just. "Just and right is he." 
Lev. 32: 4. "I the Lord, a just God and a 
Saviour." Isa. 45: 21. "He is faithful 
and just to forgive us our sins." 1 Joins 
1 : 9. 
8th. He is a God of love. "God so loved 
the world that he gave his only begotten 
Son." John 3 : 16. "Behold what manner 
of love the Father bath bestowed on us." 1 
John 3 : 1. "God is love." 4 : 8. 
10th. He is merciful. "The Lord God, mer-
ciful and gracious." Exodus 34: 6. "His 
board blasphemy most fully fills up the pro-
phecies of our blessed New Testament Scrip-
tures, and most conclusively proves the 
authenticity of its teachings, and the super-
lative falsity, and deeply seated hypocrisy of 
the one which seeks its overthrow, which 
puts the speedy coming of Christ beyond a 
doubt, with other most powerful Scripture 
testimony on that subject. But do these not 
flatly deny that Jesus is the divine Son of 
God, and the only Saviour of the world ? 
Do they not claim to be all the "sons of 
God" without distinction, as much so as 
Christ, and is this not a most positive denial 
of Jesus Christ's Messiahship ? I answer it 
is, and my God esteems it as such, which is 
self-evident from the teachings of the Bible 
on this, as well as on other subjects taught 
in the sacred volume, which teaches nothing 
but self-evident and common sense truths. 
Well, what is the result of this "denying 
the Lord that bought them ?" I answer the 
present result is that "many shall follow 
their pernicious ways, by reason of whom 
the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." 
Look at the multitudes that have entered 
the circles of lewd and obscene Mormonism, 
tame Universalism, and God-insulting and 
truth-blaspheming, rapping, Spiritism, all of 
which, with many other "isms," have had 
their origin in the devil, the only source 
from whence they could take origin in God's 
universal, unlimited empire. For I do here 
boldly aver, and challenge successful contra-
diction, that all the physical, intellectual, 
moral and spiritual evil, whatsoever has 
been endured, is now endured, and shall be 
endured in the eternal world, has its origin 
in the introduction of sin by the devil, and 
as I boldly assert (and stand ready to prove 
my position,) the eternal, unchangable Jeho-
vah, never had anything -to do with the 
origin or perpetuation of sin, nor the above 
evils consequent upon its commission, which 
evils were but the necessary and unavoid-
able effects of a cause. I say that God, the 
holy, the pure and infinite Spirit, had noth-
ing to do with the origin or perpetuation of 
sin and it; results, but merely to permit it, 
and all that most perfectly unwilling, as Him-
self declare sin various portions of Holy 'Writ. 
I do hope that all my readers have had time 
enough and advantages sufficient afforded 
them, -to learn -theao-law.,...3cra 
ing truths. 
To Wit : That there is but one 
single solitary source of all physical good, 
intellectual happiness, moral purity and 
spiritual bliss, and that God, my God, and 
their God, is THE source of all this good-
I do hope I say, that this is a settled point 
in the heart of all my readers, but if not, 
may my God settle it as a fixed principle, in 
their heart at once, because the destitute of 
this firm fixed principle, is the rock on which 
thousands upon thousands are now wrecked 
on the tempest tossed ocean of infidelity. 
Wrong views of divine character, attributes, 
and government of the gm-eat God are the 
grand sources of the devil's triumph in mod-
dern infidelity. And had I the intellectual 
capacity, and the eloquence of the loftiest 
spirit around the burning throne of Jeho-
vah, I could not give utterance to the grati-
tude I feel towards my God, for fixing in my 
heart those correct views I entertain of the 
being and attributes of God. "Glory to 
God and the Lamb" for the bliss of this 
knowledge of my dear Lord, which has so 
fortified my soul against all grades of sin, 
from the vulgar to the sublime, that I feel 
sio fear from being moved a hair's breadth 
from the bleeding side of Jesus by all the 
combined and seductive powers of earth and 
hell, men and devils. I reassert that the pre-
vailing ignorance of God, both in church and 
state, (with all the advantages to have a 
correct knowledge of Him,) is the supreme 
cause of hell's triumphs in the propagation 
of last-day fanatical, and orthodox "isms," 
with which all Christendom is polluted at 
this hour. 
But for the great leading fact above allu-
ded to. 'What is it ? I answer, it is this, 
namely : That there is but one source from 
whence all the different grades of evil and 
human misery could by possibility originally 
emanate, for the supreme reason that there is 
but one solitary, single source of evil in 
God's universe, and that source is the devil, 
who, of his own choice made himself a devil, 
out of a holy angel, out of which circumstance 
mystery mongers have made a very perplex-
ing, intricate, and inexplicable affair, whilst 
it is a very plain, common sense, and easily 
comprehended circumstance without the 
least semblance of mystery about it. 
Here I again stop to say, that another 
source of latter-day infidel delusions is a 
want of a more correct view of the attri-
butes of the devil, and the three forms under 
which he carries forward so successfully his 
infernal enterprizes. Is he not now making 
fools by the wholesale out of thousands of 
professedly wise and learned men, who are 
staggering blindly into the fanatical circles, 
and infidel ranks, extant, whose leaders are 
boasting of their success and triumphing 
in their hopes for the future ? And why so 
much of all this ? I answer, ignorance of 
the attributes of the devil, and the great 
want of correct views of the great Jehovah, 
as before stated. The devil has acted under 
three special exclusive forms, ever since he 
made himself an apostate from God. First : 
under the form of wily serpent-secondly, 
ATTRIBUTES OF JESUS CHRIST. 
Who is Jesus Christ ? the Son of God, 
and man. How do you prove the divinity 
of Christ or that he is true God ? 
1st. He is' called God in the Scriptures. 
"Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever." 
Heb. 1 : 8. "The word was God." John 1 : 
1. "Christ who is over 0, God blessed for-
ever." Rom. 9 : 5. "His Son Jesus Christ, 
this is the true God." 1 John 5 : 20. 
2d. Divine attributes are ascribed to him. 
Eternity-"I am the first,• and • I am the 
last." Rev. 1 : 17. "Jesus Christ, the same 
yesterday and to-day and forever." Heb. 
23 : 8. Again He says, "Befbre Abraham 
was, I am." John 8: 58. Omnipresence-
"Where two or three are gathered together in 
my name, there am I in �
midst of them." 
Matt. 18 : 20. Omnipotence-"All power 
in heaven and earth is given unto me." 
28 : 18. "And have the keys of hell and of 
death." Rev. 1: 18. Omniscience is as-
cribed to him. "Lord, thou knowest all 
things."' John 21 : 17. 
What other proofs of Chrst's divinity are 
there ? 
1st. Creation is ascribed also to Him. 
"All things were made by him, and without 
him was not anything made that was made." 
John 1 : 3. Again Paul says, "For by 
him are all things created, that are in heaven 
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 
whether they be thrones or dominions or 
principalities, or powers, all thing., were 
created by him and for him, and he is before 
all things, anti by him all things consist, and 
he is the head of the body, the Church, who 
is the beginning, the first born from the 
dead that in all things he might have the 
preeminence, for it pleased the Father that 
in him should all fullness dwell." Col. 1 : 
16-19. 
2d. The preservation of all things is im-
puted to Lim. Hear what Paul says of him : 
"Upholding all things by the word of his 
power." Heb. 1: 3- "By him all things 
consist." Col. 1: 17. 
Have you any other proofs ? Yes, divine 
honors are ascribed, or Christ is worshipped. 
Stephen said, "Lord Jesus, receive my 
spirit." Acts 8 : 59. "Let all the angels of 
God worship him." Heb. 1 : 6. How would 
you sum up this argument in favor of 
Christ's divinity ? 1st, these attributes or 
perfections, works and worship belong to none 
but God ; 2d, but they are all ascribed to 
Jesus Christ, therefore Jesus Christ is God. 
Again, his Son Jesus Christ is the true God 
and eternal life, 1 John 5: 20. "Christ is 
over all, God blessed forever." Rom. 9 : 5. 
"For he thought it not robbery to be equal 
with God." Phil. 2 : 6. "I and my Father 
are one." John 10: 30. "For all men 
should honor the Son, even as they honor 
the Father." John 5 : 23. Did Christ take 
unto himself a true body ? Yes. "A body 
hast thou prepared me." Heb. 10 : 5. The 
Scripture was fulfilled. "Behold a virgin 
shall be with the child, and bring forth 
a Son, and thou shall call his name Jesus, 
for he shall save his people from their sins." 
Matt. 1 : 23. "He was in the likeness of 
sinful flesh." Rom. 8 : 3. "My soul is ex-
ceeding sorrowful." Matt. 26 : 38. Again, 
he is not ashamed to call us brethren, Heb. 
2 : 11. He was without sin, 4 : 15. "He 
did no sin, neither was guile found in his 
mouth." 1 Peter 2: 22. 
1st. Christ executes the office of a pro-
phet in revealing to us by his word and 
Spirit the will of God for our salvation, for 
he said, "My doctrine is not mine, but his 
that sent me." John 7 : 16. "I did not 
come to destroy the law, but to fulfill." 
Matt. 5 : 17. "He was anointed to preach 
the acceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4 : 
18. "For he taught them as one having 
authority." Matt. 7: 29. Did he introduce 
his doctrine with "thus saith the Lord," like 
the Old Testament prophet ? No ; but 
"Verily, verily, I say unto you." John 3 : 3. 
"Believe me, "said he," "for the very works 
sake." 14: 11. "That we might follow his 
steps." 1 Peter 2 : 21. 
2d. Christ executes the office of a priest, 
in his once offering up himself a sacrifice to 
satisfy divine justice and to reconcile us to 
God ; and in making continual intercession 
for us, he is a merciful and faithful High 
Priest. "To make reconcilation for the sins 
of the people;" Heb 2 : 17. "He appeared 
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." 
9 : 26. "He made his soul an offering for 
106 
H E A L D 
Al) VENT 
T H E 
of the Judge's sentence is so immediately 
connected in point of time, with 11;s advent, 
that he is represented as 'taking vengeance,' 
as he comes." 
If, then, the judgment day immediately 
follow the advent, if the righteous and the 
wicked are rewarded and punished when the 
Son of Man comes in his glory, and if the 
reward and punishment be final and eternal, 
then a universal resurrection of the dead is 
a necessity at that time, and any other theory 
must be erroneous. Our theory is more 
firmly established, if possible, by the fact 
that, on this proposition we take issue with 
him and maintain that there will be a dis-
tinction of time between the resurrection of 
the just and the unjust: 
 
The :second advent of Christ will be 
pre-millennial. This we learn from Matt. 
13th chapter, where we are told by Christ 
that the righteous kind wicked will grow to-
gether in the world till the end of the age. 
And from. Matt. 24th chapter, where the his.-
tory of all time to the second Advent is 
given ; and presents a scene of increasing 
darkness to the end. 
The general tenor of the Bible on the 
subject of the resurrection, distinguishes be-
tween the resurrection of the just- _and un-
just. 
"There shall be a resurrection of the dead, 
both of the just and of the unjust." 
"All that are in the graves shall hear his 
voice and shall come forth ; they that have 
done good, to the resurrection of life, and 
they that have done evil, unto the resurrec-
tion of damnation." 
"Thou shalt be recompensed at the res-
urrection of the just." 
"As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all 
be made alive. Every man in his own or-
der; Christ the first fruits, afterwards they 
that are Christ's at-his coming." 
proceeding, is another cause why the robbers 
escaped free. To give evidence in Rome, 
is rather worse than to be accused. The 
unfortunate passer-by who witnesses a crime, 
is summoned from day to day, when there is 
no prospect of the case being judged ; is 
compelled to attend without any compensa-
tion for his time, and if he is known to have 
given evidence tending to inculpate, becomes 
a marked victim for . the future revenge of 
the assassin. Hence, not Unnaturally, the 
universal practice among the Romans is, 
when anything unsuual occurs in the street, 
to turn. out of the way instantly, that they 
may not witness it. On the commission of 
the bloody deed above related, the street 
was, instantly empty, and the poor victims 
were left without help, while the robbers got 
safe off. 
As may be conceived,' the public indigna 
Lion at such atrocious outrage has been 
raised to the highest. That in a city with 
two police establishments, numbering many 
thousand men, and garrisoned by 20,000 
French soldier s, that common safety for life 
and property should not be attained; which 
the presence of a few dozen policemen en-
sures in many a city in England, implies 
great blame somewhere or other. The mem- 
bers of the, police force are not notoriously 
disreputable ; the government itself' is known 
to be corrupt ; criminals escape, and are 
sheltered ; what wonder, if the most damag-
ing inferences are drawu ; what wonder if, 
day by day, the cup of public indignation is 
filling to, the brim, and demanding the ex-
pulsion from power of a rrince and his 
satellites. who do not choose to fulfil the very 
first conditions of the tenure of power. 
On this occasion, as on every. other when 
its conduct has been called in question, the 
Papal government has attempted to throw 
dust in men's eyes. Immddiately after the 
murder, two men were• arrested, who were 
not the murderers. Rome was quieted for a 
few days; and the escape of the real crimin-
als, we may believe, has been thus secured. 
Meantime, the Secret National Committee 
of moderate liberals have . addressed to the 
French General in command a respectful 
and temperate, letter, representing to. him 
that if it is necessary, for high reasons of 
state, that the Roinaus should, by 20,000 
bayonets, be prohibited from putting them-
selves under a better government, at least 
those who thus prohibit. them should provide 
for the public security. If, being so well 
able to do this, they do not, they make 
themselves accomplices of the corrupt and 
incompetent power which their presence here 
tends to shore up and prolong. 
Rome, they urge, has become, by invita-
tion and encouragement of the priestly gov- 
ernment, time resort of the very dregs of man- 
kind.. The guilty, the disaffected, the 'pol-
troons who escape the military levies,the 
reactionary Neapolitans, all find welcome 
here. It is known for a fact that priests 
who have been compelled to fly from the 
kingdom of Italy, not for political reasons, 
but for the foulest and most revolting crimes 
against nature, are harbored and favored 
here. Rome, in its present state, is a dis-
grace to Christendom, and blot upon human-
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top of the mountains, the Lord himself shall 
reign in Mount nil) and in Jerusalem, but 
who shall stand in. his place ? So, my 
friends, you must come back with us. If I 
'address any Jews to-night, I would say now 
-See, I am willing to go on with you, I re-
joice with you in the prospect of your glory, 
1 assure-you it is holy glory, and that no sin-
ner in his own righteousness can stand there, 
unless you are washed in -a preeiouti 
not of bulls or of goats, but a precious .1.itoA 
which has value in it, which is of heaven ; 
a precious blood of which your prophet 
Isaiah spoke when. he used the. wordS "And 
a virgin shall conceive arid bring forth a 
son." And there was a person created in 
union with God-one person, God and man--
don't fly away at it ; don't call these harsh 
Christian words, that sound strange in your 
ears ; they are grounded in your religion, 
they are the real meaning of all your bleed-
ing'artars, they are the Teal meaning of your 
sacrifices. In the morning at prayers your 
fathers had a bleeding lamb, in the evening 
a bleeding lamb at the evening prayers-
'there was no approaching your- God but by 
bloodshed, because blood is life, and 'the 
wages of sin is death : and though when a 
man offends a man a judge may judge, yet 
if he offend God, who shall stand for him ? 
What is going on now, during your disper-
sion, during the -continuance of this heavy 
chastisement? Your God has taken a people 
from among us Gentiles. It never was the 
intention in these latter times to bring them 
to perfect peace. There has been no failure 
-it has fallen out just as Christ said ; and 
there will be no failure, it will fall out just 
as. Micalfsaid. Christ spoke true and Mi-
cah spoke true. He' has taken a people from 
amongst ourselves. We look with great in-
terest upon you ; all that really value their 
Bibles have a lively interest in the prodeed-
iegs of the Jewish nation. -'We implore you, 
then, by the mercy of your God, to ask your-; 
selves what have you now instead of your 
bleeding lambs ? where is• the blood in your 
worship ? 0, friends, how can you do honor 
to the Lord God of- Israel without blood ? 
You have lost your old worship ; there was 
blood in it all ;' there was no approaching to 
your God but by blood: You have lost it. 
Join 'uS in the blood of Christ, we are 
ready to join you in giving ' you your 
place in the kingdom when He comes, 
in - giving you your 
.national triumplt 
Only - those will triumph who are cleansed 
by His blood. And our language to Chris-
tians is this : Be not • wise in youir own 
conceitS; as if' this Christian dispensation 
of ours was the last and mightiest thing 
that God has to do for the world. I would 
not have 'you ignorant of this fact, that 
blindness, in part, bath happened to Israel 
until the fulnesS of the Gentiles be come in ; 
and sc at that time all Israel shall be saved. 
Look at the 14th chapter of the Epistle of 
the Romans and do not be Wise in your own 
conceits. There never yet has been a saved 
nation. There was a circumcised nation 
that saved the remnant in it ; there are now 
baptised nations that saved the remnant in 
them. These are the two first steps, and 
the third is a saved nation. The first nation 
ag a maim is the 
Jewish nation, and the fourth a saved world, 
life from the dead to the world. And God 
be gracious to us, and give the power of his 
holy Spirit to both Jew and Christian, to 
the glory of his name, through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. 
JOSIAH LITCII, EDITOR. 
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but in the worse shape, of hyPOcrisy. In the 
system of the modern Church of Rome, not 
only are hypocrisy and lying tolerated and 
encouraged, but idolatry, gross as that .of 
Nineveh or Greece, and grosser than that of 
Imperial Rome, has entered in and repos-
sessed her people. 
More is yet behind. There is hardly a 
charge brought by our blessed Lord against 
the Scribes. and Pharasees in St. Matthew 
23, which does not find examples among 
the priesthood of modern Rome. The bind-
ing on men heavy burdens, which they them-
selves touch not ; the inordinate lust for 
distinction and outward display ; the shut-
ting up the kingdom of heaven against men, 
neithter going in • themselves, nor suffering 
them' that would enter to go 'in ; the devour-
ingwidows' houses, and for a pretence mak-
ing long prayers ; the compassing sea and 
land to make one proselyte, and when he is 
made, making him twofold worse than them-
selves ; the drawing false and unwarrented 
distinctions between sins venial and sins 
deadily ; the frittering away the religious life 
upon contemptible trifles, omitting the 
weightier matters of the law,`-straining at 
the gnat, while they swallow the camel ; the 
making clean the outside of the cup and 
platter, while within they are full of extor-
tion and excess ; the building and guarns 
ishing the sepulchres of the martyrs, while 
they themselves are trending in the steps of 
their persecutors : all these might have been 
first written as descriptions of the character 
and conduct of the priesthood, and priestly 
rulers, of modern Rome. There are excel): 
tions ; and, thank God, not a few. But 
these are exceptions, likewise, to the system. 
A good Priest is, as the word is now under- 
stood, a. bad Catholic. �
The system, as 
now laid down, and now practised, is one of 
hypocrisy, of extortion, of falsehood, of 
cruelty. "The preaching is of cursing 
and �
lies ;" the practice, such as I shall 
have to show before this letter is done. 
But it may be well to begin by speaking 
of outward and palpable things-the fruits 
by which the priestly government must be 
judged and known. And first, for the peace 
and security of the city. To insure these, 
is the bounden duty of every government. 
There may be cases where it is extremely 
dtfficult ;. where the magistrates are hams 
pered in power, or the people brutalized by 
ages of bad government ; but neither of 
these can be time case at Rome. Here we 
have the most absolute monarch in the world, 
ruling a capital by no means large with a 
numerous staff of military and police ; and, 
besides, assisted by 20,000 French troops. 
And besides this, we have here a people 
whose state, physical, moral, and. intellectual 
is the result of accumulated centuries of a 
0:iv-eminent and institutions, according to 
the Papacy, the best in the world, and ad-
ministered by infallible wisdom, unerring 
justice, spotless integrity, and unimpeachable 
truth. How, then, does it stand with Rome 
in point of' security and good order ? 
Unquestionably, in both these points, it is 
the worst city in the civilized world. And 
it is so, not in spite of the honest efforts of. 
its rulers, but with the connivance, and,. it is 
nicli.to be feared, often with the concur-
rence, of its rulers. Robbery and murder 
are the commonest occurrences in the streets 
of Rome ; detection, restitution, punishment, 
are occurrences the most uncommon. 
In order to furnish a characteristic and 
instructive example, it may nvt be amiss to 
give somewhat in detail the narrative of a 
case of street murder which occurred during 
this present spring, and has made a deep im-
pression on all classes and parties. 
Two young men, clerks in the Exchange 
office of Sig. Baldini, opposite the Chigi 
Palace in the Corso, had long been in the 
habit of carrying the money of the day 
home to their master's bank every evening. 
They always went in the same hired car-
riage, and by the same way. On Saturday, 
February 20, 1864, they were passing in 
this carriage and on this business, at half= 
past seven o'clock, up the street called the 
Via in Lucina. They were at a point not 
more than seventy paces from the Corso it-
self, out of which time Via in Lucina turns 
at a right angle. At that time, and especi-
ally on a Saturday evening, the Corso is 
usually crowded with people ; every night 
as soon as it is dusk, Papal and French 
patrols are stationed along its whole length, 
at the distance of a few paces apart. Such 
were the attendant circumstances of time and 
place. 
At the point abode mentioned, the Via in 
Lucina suddenly narrows, having passed an 
eating-shop, which projects into it and faces 
the Corso. A few.steps beyond the corner 
of this house, and opposite to its entrance, 
the two clerks were attacked by six armed 
men, dragged out of their carriage and liter-
ally cut to pieces on the pavements. One of 
them died on the spot ; the other in the hos-
pital early next morning. The sum carried. 
off by the robbers was 8,500 Roman scudi 
(upwards of <£1,700.) Of course they es-
caped, and up to this time have not been 
taken. • 
Why "of' course ?" 
Let time following 
facts reply to the question. First of all, 
there is, sad to say, a general conviction that 
time police themselves are, if not sometimes 
the perpetrators of these outrages, at least 
cognisant of them, and sharers in the plun-
der. No one who knows anything of the 
history of street-outrage in Rome will be 
surprised at such, right or wrong, being the 
impression on time public mind. It is well 
known that time police can, whenever it 
pleases them, find out the stolen goods and 
restore them.* It is also well known that 
in no other cases, no amount of evidence is 
sufficient to bring a criminal to justice. In-
deed, the very name of justice is wrongly 
used when predicated of any proceeding in 
the courts of law at Rome. All is secret, all is 
arbitrary, all is venal. Any length of time 
may elapse between apprehension and trial, 
during which time evidences may be 
suppressed in a hundred ways, or if it 
be worth the trouble, false evidences sub-
borned. 
Connected with this arbitrary method of 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
the time in which we live. There have 
never been such prepartions for war-France, 
with her enormous army, and adding from 
time to time to her navy, so that she cows. 
pels England to add to hers for her suprem-
acy of the sea, for the protection of her 
shores, and for the protection of her com-
ineree:L-the- great nations of the continent' 
disgracing themselves at this very moment 
by treating a little nation as no man ought 
to treat a dog-is there any approach to-
ward the period predicted by Micah ? Not 
the slightest..No ; nor is there anything 
in the character of the period of the world 
in which we live to attain to any such ap-
proach to universal peace. You seeathen, 
it is very serious matter. This is an in-
terpretation which will not bear comparison 
with the facts of the case ; and certainly, if 
Micah intended to give us a prophecy of the 
Christian Church for the last eighteen cen-
turies, he put it in words which do not in 
the slightest degree apply to the facts. If 
Micah and Christ prophesied of the same 
times, when one said, "Nations shall beat 
their swords into ploughshares ;" and the 
other said, "Nations shall rise against na-
tions, and there shall be wars,"-of course 
one must have spoken what was not true. 
How was it, then, that both of them spoke 
truly, which we cordially believe they did ? 
Because they spoke of different periods. 
Christ spoke of the period which immediate-
ly followed his life, and gave an .accurate 
description of what has taken place until 
now-a description which seems aggravated 
instead of ameliorated by the events, and 
will lead to a terrible collision at last.. Mi-
cah speaks of a time-the last days-when 
the mountain of the house of the Lord shall 
be established on the top of the mountains, 
and it shall be exalted above the mountains ; 
the time is yet future.' And this is what 
our interpreters find it difficult to go on with. 
They change the meaning of the words of 
prophecy to give it something like an appli-
cation to Christian history, whereas, if the 
words of prophecy be read in their integrity 
to mean the same thing when they leless 
that they mean when they curse, the, same 
thing when they restore as when they dis-
perse, then the time has not yet. come. Ill-
treated the Jews have been by nations, but 
never destroyed ; they stand, as I :said, a 
splendid antithesis to national decay. Na-
tions are .treating them differently now ; , 
they are coaxing instead of persecuting them. 
The time was when 'nations persecuted. them 
and trod them under foot, and made them a 
mere means for extorting money ; and now 
the temper of the times is changed, and they 
are made of; as if there were no doctrinal 
differences between them and us. This is a 
great - snare to them. They-are a nation 
without .a home ; they have neither em-
peror, nor king, nor president, and are a 
nation without any - fixed 'country ; the 
very peculiarities of a nation have been 
taken away, and still they are a nation. The 
time for the purposes of Jehovah is still fu-
ture. But there is another subject con-
nected with this full of vast itri,portance-for 
who shall stand when The Kint2, of the Jews 
shall appear? The prophet lire pr 
period when the Jewish nation shall be ex-
alted above the nations, when the word of 
the Lord shall come forth from them, or in 
the language of a New Testament writer, 
"when they shall be' as life from the dead to 
the world." "And thou, 0 tower of the 
flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, 
unto thee shall it come, even the first do- 
minion, the kingdom shall come to the daugh-
ter of Jerusalem." • Can anything be plainer 
than that the man who is competent to ad- 
vance into futurity on the strength of the 
word of the Lord ; to the man who is compe- 
tent to anticipate history, can anything be 
plainer ? Let me 'entreat you to grapple 
fairly with this argument. Have you con- 
fidence that these books were written by the 
inspiration of God ; have you confidence that 
Micah spoke by the influence of the . Holy 
Ghost ; have you confidence that the words 
he spoke were literally fulfilled when the ar-
mies of Rome encompassed the city ? Then 
how shall you falter when you read concern- 
ing the same Jerusalem, that unto the strong-
hold of the daughter of Zion it shall come, 
even the first dominion, the kingdom shall 
come to the daughter of Jerusalem. Then 
He shall come, whom to know is life eternal. 
We received a letter sometime in May 
from Lebanon, Boone County, Ill., with no 
name. If the writer will give us his name, 
we will answer his question. 
H. B. BALCII.-Your papers were directed 
to II. B. Budd ; and the Herald stopped by 
time post-master. 
in." Isa. 53 : 10. "His own self bare our 
sins in his own body on the tree." 1 Peter 
2 : 24. "The Lord laid on him the iniqui-
ties of us all." Isa. 53 : 6. "He *s wound-
ed for our transgressions and bfitised for 
our iniquities." Verse 5. "He was once 
offered to bear the sins of many." Heb. 9 : 
28. �
"He gave himself' Mr
-- ng -SacrifiCe'tO 
God, for a sweet smelling savor. Eph. 5 : 
2. Again, "by one offering he perfected for-
ever them that are sanctified." Heb. 10 : 14. 
"For he made peace through the blood of 
the cross." Col. 1 : 20. "Wherefore he is 
able to save them to the uttermost that came 
unto God by him, seeing that he ever 
liveth to make intercession for them." Heb. 
7 : 25. �
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, 
3d. �
Christ executes the office of a king, 
in subduing us to himself, in ruling and de-. 
fending us and in restraining and conquering 
all his and our enemies. "Thy people shall 
be willing in the day of thy power." Psalm 
100: 3. Again Jesus says, "On this rock 
will I build my church, and the gates of 
hell shall not prevail againSt it." Matt. 16: 
18. "He must reign until he bath put all. 
enemies under his fi!et." 1 Cor 15: 25. 
Yes, the last enemy that shall be destroyed 
is death." Verse 26. "Those of mine ene-
mies which would not that I should reign 
over them bring hither, and slay them before 
me." Luke 19: 26. 
ATTRIBUTES OF TIIE HOLY GHOST. 
The Holy Goliost or Holy Spirit is the. 
third person in the Godhead, proceeding from 
the Father and the Son, and manifested for 
our sanctification. 
1st. How do you prove the Holy Ghost is 
God ? In the same way I proVe Christ to 
be God, viz., lie is expressively called God, 
in the-ScriptureS of divine truth, for various 
attributes and works of the supreme God. 
"Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to 
the Holy Ghost ; thou hast not lied unto men, 
but unto God." Acts 5 : 3, 4. 
2d. What divine works is ascribed to him ? 
Creation. "The spirit of God hath made 
me." Job 33 : 4. "All the host of heaven 
were made by the breath or spirit of, his 
mouth." Psalm 3: 6. "Thou sendeth 
thy. Spirit, they are created." Psalm 104 : 
30. �
What divine attributes are ascribed to 
him? 
1st. Omnipresence-"Whither shall I go 
from thy Spirit." Psalm. 139 :. 7. 
Omniscience-"The Spirit searcheth of 
&hugs, yea, the deep things, of God." 1 Cor. 
2: 10. "The things of God knoweth no 
man,- but the Spirit of God"-Verse 11. 
Again, "Baptizing them in the name of the 
Father, and the .Son, and the Holy. Ghost." 
Matt. 28 19.. 
What is the work of the Holy Spirit ? 
1st. He enlightens us, "praying that God 
may give you the spirit of wisdom and rev-
elation in the knowledge of him, the' eyes of 
your understanding being enlightened." Eph. 
1 : 17, 18. 2d. He convinces us of . sin 
when he is come. "He will reprove the 
world of sin." John 16: 8. 3d. lie renews 
us; "he saved us by the washing of regeneration 
and the renewing of the Holy Ghost." Titus 
3 : 5. 4th. He comforts us. Hear what 
Paul says.: "Because the love of God. is 
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy .Ghost 
which is given unto us." Rom. 5 : 5. "He 
shall give us another comforter, even the 
spirit of truth." John 14: 16, 17. 5th. 
He is a teacher. Hear what Jesus says : 
"But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father will send in my name, he 
shall teach you all things, and bring all 
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I 
have said unto you"-verse 26. Again, "But 
the anointing which ye have received of 
him abideth in you, .and ye need not that 
any man teach you ; but as the same anoint-
ing teacheth you of all things and is truth 
and is no lie, and even as it bath taught you, 
ye shall abide in him." 1 John 2 : 27. "The 
spirit will guide you into all truth." John 
14 : 13. Jesus says, "He shall receive of 
mine and shall show it unto you"-verse 14, 
6th He gives access to Christ. "Through 
him we both have access by one spirit to the 
Father." Eph. 2: rs. Again, "The Spirit 
bcareth witness with our spirit, that we are 
the children of God." Rom. 8 : 16. "Endeav-
ouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the 
bond of peace there is one body, and one 
spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of 
your calling, one Lord, one faith, one bap-
tism, one God, one Father of all, who is 
above all, and through all, and in all:" Eph. 
4 3-6. "But ye beloved, building up your-
selves on your most holy fimith, praying in 
the Holy Ghost." Jude 20. Again, Paul 
exhorted the Thessalonians not to quench 
the spirit-Thess. 5 : 19. Hear what Jesus 
says : "But he that shall blaspheme against 
the Holy Ghost, hath never forgiveness; but 
is in danger . of eternal damnation." See 
Mark 3. 29. 
Thus you have my views on the attributes 
of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
Orrstown, Pa., June 18, 1864. 
My Post-Office address for the present, 
will be Hydeville, Vermont. 
D. BoswoRTH. 
My address will be until further notice, 
1815 Lombard St., Philadelphia. 
JAMES MORRISON. 
two .of the Aferit. 
WAR NEWS. 
All the communications with Richmond 
have been cut, and railroads destroyed. 
Petersburg is closely besieged and being 
shelled. �
But active operations by the 
army of the Potomac are not anticipated: at 
present. Gen. Hunter has caused great 'de-
struction of railroads, bridges and military 
supplies, south and west of Lynchburg. 
Gen. Sherman is still progressing in his 
onward march in Georgia. He has out-
flanked and forced the rebels from their 
strong position on Kenesaw Mountain. The 
rebel General Ewell is reported to have re-
lieved Johnson of his command in Georgia, 
and that the latter has gone to Richmond. 
The Herald's headquarters army dispatch of 
the 29th, says General Ledlie occupied a 
knoll last night, securing an important posi-
tion, in which siege guns will be immediate-
ly placed. The rebels opened on that posit 
tion f'rom three directions. 
Secretary Chase, who has so long and 
ably conducted the Treasury Department, 
has resigned his post, partly, it is said, on 
account of his disagreement with the Presi-
dent as to financial measures and appoint-
ments, and partly from a determination long 
since formed to do so. Senator Fessenden 
has been nominated by the President, and 
unanimously confirmed by r the Senate, .to 
fill his place. He has accepted the appoint-
ment. 
There seems to be universal satisfaction 
all over the country with the appointment." 
One 'of the first effects of his appointment 
was a decline of 57 'cents on a dollar in the 
price of gold. The highest figure to which 
and they that have done evil unto the res-
urrection of damnation,' John 5 29. Ob-
serve, three of the six passages treat directly 
of the judgment, and two others, in their, 
reference to the eternal reward of the right-
eous, and punishment of the wicked, obvi-
ously refer to the same event. They teach 
us plainly, the future personal advent of Je- 
sus Christ to judge the world." �
• 
To this we reply, that the judgment will 
take place in connection with the second per-
sonal advent of Christ. But for the present 
we pass to his second paragraph under this 
head. 
"2d. That the judgment is immediately 
connected with the advent, in point of time. 
Two of the passages quoted are direct upon 
this point. These supply what is omitted in 
the others, though there are allusions in 
them which imply plainly the same. 
The Saviour in Matthew gives us a de-
scription of the judgment scene. All na-
tions are gathered before him ; they are sep-
arated one from the other according to 
their characters ; and sentence is pro-
nounced upon each class. In answer to 
the question, When shall these things be ? 
says plainly, 'when the Son of Man shall 
come in his glory.' 
When Christ himself 
has thus answered, who dares dispute and 
contend for a thousand years, or some in-
definite period of time, between the advent 
and the judgment ?" 
On this point we are at one again, that 
the judgment is immediately connected with 
the advent. But we :think our brother is in 
error when he attempts to identify Matt. 
25: 31, as an answer to the question in 
Matt. 24: 3. Christ had just spoken of 
the temple and said, "There shall not be left 
here one stone on another which shall not be 
thrown down." "Tell us," said the disciples, 
"when shall these, things be ?" Not when 
shall the day of judgment be ? "And what 
shall be the sign of thy coming ?" The ab-
stract fact is true, that Christ has .settled the 
question, when the day of, judgment will be, 
viz., at his second advent, when lie "shall 
come in his glory, then shall lie sit in the 
throne Of his glory." 
"Who dares" . . . "contend fora thousand 
years, or some indefinite period between the ad-
vent and the judgment ?" 
'Will our brother inform us precisely how 
long the day of judgment will be ? Will it only 
consist of twenty-four hours, or perhaps less ? 
Can he, by any clear Scriptural authority, 
prove that it will not last a thousand years ? 
That it will begin with the second advent of 
Christ is clearly settled. That it will not 
instantly be completed, is reasonable, from 
the great number of events to be accomplish-
during its progress. 
Here we think' our brother errs. He en-
deavors to do up the work, or rather have it 
done, in a greater hurry than the word of 
God will warrant. We were mice of his 
opinion, and had very confused ideas of the 
"Day et' the Lord," which "is as a thousand 
years." We had flaming notions of Christ's 
coming, the heavens dissolving, time moun-
tains melting, the earth burning, the dead 
arising, the judgment sitting, sinners lamept-
ing and the saints rejoicing. But more de-
liberate exkunination,of time whole subject 
has convinced us that the Lord will take 
his time to judge the world. That he will 
judge nations as such. That lie will judge 
individuals, and that he will execute judg-
ment upon all. 
We are satisfied that Christ will subdue 
nations and conquer the whole world to him-
self. We do not pretend to know how long 
a time will be required or taken, but should 
not think it strange if it occupied a thousand 
years from first to last. The Lord was not 
in a hurry before lie made the world, lie 
was not in a hurry when he made it, neither 
has he been in a hurry to fulfill its course, 
nor do we believe he will hurry in the pro-
ceedings of the judgment. But let us hear 
our brother still further : "Again, 2 Thess. 
1 :. 6, 7, Paul tells the church at Thessalon-
ica which was then suffering persecution, 
'It is a righteous thing with God to recom-
pense tribulation to them which trouble you,' 
and to recompense 'rest to you who are tree-
bled.' When, inquires time 'rhessalonian 
Christian. 'When the Lord Jesus shall be 
revealed from heaven with his mighty an- 
gels,' the apostle answers. Not so, says 
some modern teacher. The persecutor will 
not be recompensed until a thousand years, 
at least after the Lord Jesus �
revealed 
from heaven." 
We apprehend that the apostle had in 
his mind the whole period of the day .o 
judgment, was to begin with Christ's coming 
and continue a longer or shorter period as 
lie sees fit ; and that in that period, be it 
longer or shorter, the persecutor will re-
ceive his reward. Does our brother cer- 
tainly know that it will be all done the in-
stant of Christ's appearing ? If' he does not, 
it may, after all, be a thousand years after 
his coining. If he can prove that it will be 
instantly done, our columns are open for him 
to do it. 
But he says again : "3. That the right-
eous and the wicked are raised simultaneous-
ly at the advent of Christ, and previous to 
the judgment. This is proved 
1. By fair inference. If, as we have al-
ready shown, the judgment day immediately 
follows the advent, and that then all nations 
appear before him ; if then, all that are in 
the graves hear his voice and come forth ; 
if John in prophetic vision saw truly, 'the 
dead, small and great, before God ; if, when 
'the Lord Jesus Christ is reavealed from 
heaven,' Christians and their persecutors, 
that have slept in the dust of Thessalonica 
for ages are recompensed, according to their 
deeds ; then the inference is unavoidable, 
that the wicked and the righteous are raised 
from the dead, at the coming of Christ, pre-
paratory to the general judgment. 
Lest it be thought that the punishment in-
flicted on the wicked at that day, be con- 
fined to the wicked then alive, we remark 
that the punishment is to be final and eter-
nal. 'These shall go 'away into everlasting 
punishment,' shall be punished with ever- 
lasting destruction.' This is time second 
death.' Observe the apostle's language : 
'The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
heaven taking vengeance.' The execution 
ORDER OP THE RESURRECTION OP 
THE DEAD. 
Under this caption we find an article in 
Zion's Herald of June 22d, from the pen of 
Rev. L. D. Wardwell of Thomastown, Me. 
The article is ably written and is perhaps as 
strong a defence of the doctrine of a simul- 
, taneons resurrection of the whole human 
race at the second Advent of Christ, as has 
appeared in print. And as we regard this 
question as a key-note to the whole Millen-
nial theory, we are glad to find it brought 
forward and so ably discussed. 
We propose reviewing- the article in the 
columns of the Advent Herald. The writer 
concedes and maintains the doctrine' of a lit-
eral resurrection of the human body and of 
all the race of Adam. In pursuing his ar-
gument, he first quotes six texts in the. New 
Testament, which speak of the resurrection 
and judgment. This is as it should be, as 
they constitute the groundwork of the whole 
doctrine of the resurrection. He next com-
pares these six texts one with the other, and 
concludes the comparison thus : "But we 
will pursue this no further. The harmony 
of the several quotations is so obvious, that 
as. we have already said, may be considered 
superfluous. Having said thus much, how-
ever, we remark in passing, that although no 
one of these passages alone, gives a full and 
plain statement of' the grand and thrilling 
events alluded to, yet when combined, we 
can determine quite accurately, we think, 
their relative order, and hence can decide, 
whether the resurrection of the dead is one 
event, or two. Having decided that the 
Scriptures above quoted, refer to the same 
events, we think they explain each other. 
What one does not state, is supplied by one 
or more of the others ; and what may be 
alluded to only in one, is more fully set 
forth by others." 
The next proceeds to a more particular 
inquiry as to what the Scriptures quoted 
teach us. And it is to this part of his arti-
cle we invite the attention of our readers. 
He finds in the texts-1st. "That Christ 
will come personally to judge the world. 
The whole world." 'When the Son of Man 
shall come in his glory, then shall he sit up-
on the throne of his glory, and before him 
shall be gathered all nations,' &c., Matt. 25 : 
3J to 46; "The Lord Jesus shall be re-
vealed from heaven, . . . in flaming fire, 
taking vengeance on them that know not 
God . . . and to be glorified in his saints,' 
2 Thes. �
: 7, 11 ; 'The heavens and the 
earth which are now, . . . are reserved un-
to fire against the day of judgment and per-
dition of ungodly men,' 2 Pet. 2 : 7 ; 'And 
I saw the dead small and great, stand be-
fore God,' &c., Rev. 20 : 11 ; 'They that 
have done good unto the resurrection of life ; 
*A brother of Cardinal Antonelli was robbed; the 
next day the police restored the whole of the property, 
A well known English expositor of the 
Apocalypse interprets the sublime descrip-
tion of the 'opening of' the sixth seal as re-
ferring to the downfall of Paganism in the 
time of Constantine. To this interpretation 
there are many, and to my mind insuperable, 
objections. But to them all we may add 
this : �
What if Paganism have 
NEVER 
FALLEN? 
The Church of Rome 'calls itself Christ-
tian : the city of Rome gives itself out as 
the metropolis of the Christian world. And 
doubtless the Church of Rome is based up-
on Christianity, and the city of Rome is full 
of Christian names and Christian emblems. 
But notwithstanding, a strong conviction 
possesses me, that what really happened in 
the much vaunted reign of Constantine was 
really a victory of Paganism, not a defeat. 
It was idolatry, as with Greece-"Grcecia 
capta ferunz victorem cepit :" 
"The cap-
tive Greece her victor captive led." And 
this conviction has been wought irresistibly 
in me by what I have seen and heard during 
a winter in Rome. 
Rome is essentially a Pagan city. Her 
churches, numerous as the days of the year, 
rise everywhere around you. Bells are 
continually going ; the commemoration of 
saints and martyrs is endless. Yet, with very 
rare exceptions indeed, time worship of the 
people in those churches has nothing in com-
mon with Christianity. It is not even the 
one God- 'OT Jews and -ChriStiariS who, as 
as matter of fact, is adored in them ; it is 
not He whom Christians believe to be God 
blessed for ever, incarnate in the flesh of 
man. God has passed out from the practi-
cal worship of this people; the Son of God 
has, as matter of fact, ceased to be an object 
of their adoration. The eternal Father is 
found in their pictures as an old man,-the 
divine Saviour as a little child ; but both are 
subservient, and nearly all their worship is 
subservient, to one purpose ; to the glorifica-
tion of a great goddess, and, after her, not of 
the Father, Son, nor Spirit, but of a host 
of men and women, made into objects of ad-
oration by themselves, and, whatever may be 
alleged to the contrary, clothed, as she is 
prei;reiriently clothed, with the incommuni-
cable attributes of time Godhead itself. 
I know I am making strong assertions. 
But the facts themselves are stronger. I 
shall have to adduce them, somewhat in abun_ 
dance, by-and-by. But now I go on to say 
more. 
The Jewish Church had fallen -far in the 
time of our Lord's ministry an earth. But 
the Roman Church has fallen further now. 
The demon of idolatry had been cast out 
by the judgment of the captivity. His hab-
itation had' been left empty and garnished ; 
and he had returned, not in the same form 
Our language to the few in the meantime 
then is, bath God cast away his people ? 
No ; not so, universally. All are not Israel 
that are of Israel ; all are not children of 
God that were the children of Abraham ; 
remember, it is of Isaac that his seed were 
to be called ; all were not the children of 
God in the days of Elias the prophet. But 
always there have been some Jews who be-
lieved time words of the Lord, "If you do 
not believe, sorely you will not be estab-
lished ;" always there have been some Jews 
who believed the words of Moses, that with-
out the shedding of blood there could be no 
remission of sin ; always there have been 
some Jews who believed that the blood of 
bullocks and goats could not take away sin ; 
always there have been Jews who felt the 
force of the words of the prophet Samuel, 
"If one man sin against another the judge 
shall judge him, but if a man sin against 
God who shall answer for him ?" Always 
there have been Jews who perceived that 
though they were bound to repent of their 
sins and to confess their sins, they never had 
forgiveness for so doing, but were obliged to 
bring a bullock or a lamb or a ram, or if 
they were too poor for this, to bring a turtle 
dove or two young pigeons, something in 
which there was blood, before they could 
stand in the presence of God ; always there 
had been Jews who entered into the mean-
ing of Hezekiah when he spoke of a shep-
herd smitten with a sword for the sake of 
the flock; always there have been Jews who 
believed these words, "Our heart's desire 
and prayer before God for Israel is, that they 
may be saved." As a nation they have been 
looking forward to national distinction with-
out considering that their king is holy-
without considering how they can meet him, 
and stand before Him. When the Jewish 
people shall again take their place, and the 
mountain of the house be established in the 
REV. CANON M'NEILE D. D., ON THE 
JEW. 
Concluded. 
In the mind of many readers they have 
raised a strong prejudice against the Bible, 
because supposing this prophet in the chap-
ter before us to have predicted the time of 
the Christian church, then he prophesied 
falsely. No Jew will deny that. And I 
have an argument that I think no Christian 
will gainsay. Standing at the commence-
ment of these Christian times, and looking 
forward through them to the time of the end, 
our Lord and Master said, "When ye shall 
hear of wars be not troubled, for all these 
things must come, but the end is not yet. 
For nation shall rise against nation and 
kingdom against kingdom, and there shall 
be famine, and pestilence, and earthquakes." 
Now, here was a prophecy of what is called 
the Christian times, uttered eighteen centu-
ries and a half ago, and literally fulfilled. 
There issuot the slightest approach to uni-
versal peace among the nations ; and if ever 
there was . a period in the history of the 
world when, instead of learning war no 
more, the time, the talent, the science, the 
wealth ofAll the great nations of the earth 
are all gist& to the learning of war-it is 
To the Editor of the Advent herald: 
Dear Sir-1 send you a dollar for your 
paper six months; and if you Think proper, 
please publish the following: 
Angels who left their first estate are per-
mitted to roam ,around the earth to prepare 
the, way of the second coming of Christ ; al-
though their object is to defeat His coining ; 
but God frequently brings good out of evil. 
The kingdoms of this world must be de-
stroyed before the kingdom of Christ can be 
set up ; the stone from the mountain is 
breaking in pieces the kingdoms of this world, 
that the God of heaven may set up his 
kingdoin. The dream of Nebuchadnezzar, 
in the second chapter of Daniel, is now 'coin-
ing to pass. Nation. against 'radon Will con-
tinue to rise, until tritiY destroy each other. 
Then will appear the Son of Man in His 
second corning, to set up his kingdom in the 
hearts of true believers; for the kingdom of 
heaven will be within them, and Christ will 
work more miracles, which he said should 
follow those who believe. The time is at 
hand when every soul who will not obey the 
Gospel must be cut off from the earth, and' 
all shall know the Lord. �
JOHN Dix. 
Griggsville, M., June 27, 1864. 
_ 
We differ from our brother, in respect to 
the kingdom of God being set up in the 
hearts of' Christians at the second coming of 
Christ. That the love of' Christ will pre-
dominate in their hearts there is no doubt, 
but. that this :is what is called the kingdom 
of heaven, is not so evident. The case is 
here : John . the Baptist, Christ and the 
apostles had for some year been preaching, 
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand." The 
people ;who heard them, and in, fact the dis-
ciples themselves believed that the message 
meant, "The Messiah is at hand to take pos-
session of David's throne,. and reign in Jer-
usalem over the tribes of Israel." He was 
to conic to Zion, as predicted Zech. 9: 9, 
"On an ass and a colt the foal of an ass." 
The time drew near which had been thus pro-
claimed. The Pharisees, not his disciples, 
asked him "when the kingdom of God should 
appear," Or, when the Messiah should ap-
pear; for the ideas were in the mind of the 
Pharisees, synonimous. Timis all admit. He 
answered them, (the Pharisees,) "The king-
dom of God cometh not with observation, 
neither shall they say, lo here, or lo there;' 
 
for, behold the kingdom of God," or the 
Messiah, "is among" or "in the midst of 
yeti." It certainly did not mean that the 
Pharisees with whom he was speaking, had 
the grace of' God in their hearts, nor did 
they so, understand it. Much less could it 
mean that a certain class of people, who 
should live 2000 years afterward, should have 
it, and that that would be the kingdom of God 
Christ will come as personally to reign over 
all the earth at his second advent, when he 
comes in the clouds of heaven, as he came 
riding on an ass and colt, at his first royal 
advent, when he came to the Jews. 
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LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA. 
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fot imme-
oest to be dis- 
cordance. to trace h out, and I -become con-
fused in may mind. Will not some One trace 
the subject? 
I feel anxious to see some of the Advent-
ists. I feel as though-I should shout. I am 
living among Deists', a people 'that do not 
believe in the Bible. In their debates they 
try to put it dewn. My sons said they 
wished some good Eastern preacher, would 
come and help them hi the debates, for they 
had to fight alone. I feel like a stranger in 
a strange land. But I trust the morn will 
soon break, or I shall soon leave this wicked 
world for a better one. 
It seems the clouds are breaking and the 
"The day-star shines on high." 
We intend to leave here and go to Ore-
gon, on account of the famine. There is 
scare any grass for our stock. 
From your sister in faith, hope and char- 
ity. �
ABIGAIL R. BUNKER. 
Cosumne, Cal., May 25, 1864. 
Obituary, 
ELLA GOING SAGE. 
it had gone up in New York July 1st, was 
$2.82, from which it at once fell to $2.25. 
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"‘to prate against us with malicious words," 
and words not always truthful. 
, But as it is written, so it has come to 
pass—"the wrath of man shall praise thee," 
it has turned out to the furtherance of 'the 
good cause which is onward. 
Our pastor, Eld. C. P. Dow, by his faith-
ful efforts among and for us, has won our 
eittire confidence as a church, and there is no 
division among us on account of minor dif-
ferences of opinion; and it is due to him to 
say, that he enjoys the confidence of many 
without., and that there is "an effectual door 
of utterance open" to him, though there are 
many adversaries. 
We have very reluctantly consented to 
have him leave us for a time to labor in the 
great West, and visit friends there who have 
requested him to do- So. And we pray 'that 
he may be "blest and made a blessing" to oth-
ers, and hope for his safe and speedy return 
to us. 
Brethren, let us "fight the good fight of 
faith and lay hold of etenal life." The end 
is near. 0, let us be ready to hail the glad 
day of glorious deliverance. Hoping that 
God's grace may help and guide you in all 
your deliberations for the common cause of 
our coming Redeemer, I subscribe myself, 
your brother, in behalf of the church. 
JAMES SARGENT, Clerk. 
June 1, 1864. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
By the arrival of the steamer Arabia, we 
have European dates to the 19th ult. 
A letter was sent to Loyds yesterday from 
the Foreign office stating that Her Majesty's 
Minister at Copenhagen has reported that 
the Danish Government has not yet deter-
mined on the length of notice to be given to 
British shipping in the event of the estab-
lishment of a blockade of the German posts, 
but that some delay will be certainly al-
lowed. 
LONDON, June 19.—The Conference met 
yesterday and adjourned to the 22d inst. 
Nothing transpired. 
It is reported that France declined to co-
operate with England in the naval demon-
stration in the Baltic. 
The Spanish. Minister at Paris declares 
that Spain has no idea of conquest in Peru. 
GENERAL NEWS ITWfIS. 
A new park for Paris is being opened. 
likeness to the missing man in the Japanese, in 
spite of his shaved head and oriental cos-
tume, and this led to the meeting, which was 
a joyful one. 
It is said that the emigration to the far 
West is still unprecedented. A newspaper 
published in Troy, Doniphan county, Kan-
sas, describes the road "blockaded with 
teams," and estimated the number of wagons 
which passed through that place in one week 
at seven hundred—a hundred a day. The 
The harvest prospects in Great Britain are• 
represented to be unusually favorable. 
The American Telegraph Company have 
completed their White Mountain line over 
Mount Washington. 
The London Times states that a quantity 
of forged Confederate bonds of £20 each 
have been put in circulation in England. 
There are nine thousand persons annually 
committed to prison in England for small 
debts, by the county courts. 
An order has been issued to make fighters 
of our colored troops, instead of diggers, 
teamster, etc., in which service they are A friend of the old man had detected a strong 
mostly now employed. 
Gen. Taylor,- Commissary of Subsistence 
for the Army, and a brother of the late 
President Zachary Taylor, died-in Washing-
ton last 'Wednesday morning. 
Out of a large rebel force captured by a 
Maine regiment recently, one hundred of 
them comprised men seventy years old or 
thereabouts, and boys of fifteen. 
Henry W. Johnson, of Canadaigua, N. 
a colored man, has been admitted to the bar 
in Rochester, after passing an examination emigrant wagons, it is said, averaged at 
least three merit() each. Thus the vast re-
gion west of the Mississippi is rapidly filling 
up with enterprising laborers. 
VALUABLE TABLE. 
The following information gives the num-
ber of seeds in a given quantity, and the 
space they will sow : 
One ounce of parsley seed has in it 16,200 
seeds,- and a quarter of it will sow a drill- 
sixty yards long, • �
• 
One ounce of salmon radish Seed contains 
1,950 seeds, and.. will sow broadcast a, bed 
containing'ten square yards. • 
One ounce of onion seed • contains 7,600 
seeds, and sown broadcast will suffice for 
fourteen square yards of ground; but if 
sown in drills, will . be enough for twenty 
drills, each four yards long, or for about 
twenty-four square yards of ground. 
One: pint of dun-colored dwarf-kidney 
beans contains 750 seeds, which are -enough 
to sow four rows, each seven yardalong. 
One pint of scarlet runners contains 264 
seeds, amid-is enough for seven rows, each 
nine yards' imig. 
One pint ofbroad Windsor beans has. 170 
seeds, and is sufficient for seven rows, each 
four yards long. 
One pint of Knight's dwarf marrow peas 
contains 1,720 seeds; one pint of early War-
wick peas, 1,860 ; one pint of scimetar peas, 
1,299 ; •and -any one of those pints will sow 
eight rows, each four yards long; as the 
larger peas require to be sown wider apart 
in the rows than the smaller-seeded peas. 
One ounce of carrot seed Or parsnip seed, 
sown broadcast., will • be sufficient for a bed 
containing sixteen Square yards;. and for 
one containing twenty-eight square yafals, if 
sown in &MS. 
One ounce of any kind of cabbage or 
praccoli seed. will be enough for a bed con-
tabling nine square yards, if sown broadcast, 
or for sixteen square yards in drills, 
CANADA EAST AND VERMONT CON-
FERENCE. 
This Conference commenced its thirteenth 
annual session in Cabot, Vt., Tuesday after-
noon, June 14th, 1864, with a season of so-
cial devotional exercises. At 6 o'clock, after 
prayer by Eld. Cleaveland, Eld. C.. P. 
Dow preached from Heb. 3: 12-14, "rake 
heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you 
an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from 
the living God; but exhort one another 
daily, while it is called to-day, lest any of 
you be hardened through the deceitfulness of 
sin; for we are made partakers of Christ if 
we hold the beginning of our confidence 
steadfast unto the end." 
WEDNESDAY. 
Met at half past 10 A. M. Eld. S. W. 
Thurber was elected President; Eld. S. S. 
Garvin, Vice President, and Eld. C. P. Dow, 
Secretary pro tern. 
The rest of the forenoon 
was devoted to voluntary speaking, prayer 
and praise, and Many felt that they could 
say from a full soul, "It is good for us to be 
here." 
After the opening service, at 2 o'clock, 
Eld. Garvin preached from 1 Peter 3 :15, 
"Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and 
be ready always to give an answer to every 
man that asketh you a reason of the hope 
that is in you with meekness and fear ;" af-
ter which Elds. J. M. Orrock and C. P. 
Dow were elected Secretaries, and a Business 
Committee chosen, consisting of Elds. C. P. 
Dow, J. M. -Orrock, J. A. Cleaveland, J. 
Chapman and S. S. Garvin, (Elds. D. Bos-
worth, and N. Wheeler were subsequently 
added.) Closed with the benediction by the 
President. 
At 6 o'clock, Eld. S. W. Thurber gave a 
running commentary on 1 Peter 1st chapter, 
dwelling more particularly on verse 22, 
"seeing ye have purified your souls in obey-
ing the truth through the spirit unto un-
feigned love of the brethren, see that ye love 
one another with a pure heart fervently." 
THURSDAY. 
Prayer-meeting at 9 o'clock. At half past 
ten, J. M. Orrock spoke from three texts, 
viz., Eph. 2: 12; 2 Cor. 5: 17, and Philip 
1 : 23, dwelling on the expressions which 
they contain—"without Christ"— the state 
of nature; "in Christ"—the state of grace; 
and "with Christ,"—the state of glory. 
On motion, the ordination of Eld. Nathan 
Wheeler, of Cabot, Vt., was recognized, and 
lie was received as a minister of the Con-
ference. 
The Committee appointed two years ago—
and by a vote of the last conference contin-
ued in office—to revise, if judged best, our 
Constitution and By-Laws, and present them 
in a consolidated form, being called upon to 
report, Eld. Dow said: "As Chairman of 
that Committee in the absence of Dr Hutch-
inson, I have to report that after consulta-
tion a majority of the Committee are agreed 
with a large class of students. 
man named Maguire has just had a 
claim decided in his favor in St. Louis, by 
which, after twenty years of litigation, lie l The tragedy of Santiago came very near 
la repetition, recently in Montevideo. In one 
of the fashionable churches in Holy Week, 
when brilliantly illuminated, a taper 'com-
municated fire. to some combustibles near it. 
A cry arose, and a rush was made by the 
congregation for the doors. Ladies in ele-
gant costume were- thrown down and tram-
pled „upon, badly injured, and. the wildest 
panic prevailed for a time. The fire was 
happily extinguished without, loss of life. 
A few days ago a . flock of large birds of 
strange appearance alighted from a flight 
over the lake, at Burlington Bay, near Ham-
ilton, in Upper Canada. It was found that 
they were pelicans, all the way from the 
shores of the Gulf, or the lower reaches of 
the Mississippi. These birds have often been 
killed as far up the Mississippi as Keokuk, 
in Iowa, but their appearance in Canada is 
very unusual. Another rare visitor has 
been shot at Girondines, Canada. It was 
the glossy ibis, found in Texas, Mexico and 
California,. but seldom seen at the North. 
WATERLOO. 
To the C. E. and Northern Vt. Confer-
ence assembled in Cabot, Vt. Brethren 
assembled once more in the providence of 
God to deliberate upon and adopt such meas- 
ures as may conduce to the well-being of the 
church of Christ in this her state of orphan-
age, that, you may .know our state, the 
church of adventists of Shefford, with Chris-
tian greeting sends this their annual report. 
Through the blessing of' Almighty God, 
our heavenly Father, the labors of his ser-
vant, Eld. J. M. Orrock, our minister, have 
been blest the past year to the edification of 
the church: and congregation to which lie. 
ministers, in confirming the faith of' believers, 
and in awakening some others to "search the 
Scriptures" with a true Berean spirit, which 
has resulted in removing prejudice against 
the distinctive doctrines of our -creed and in 
determining,some to consent to be the Lord's, 
and to unite with Us in churaih fellowship. 
Within the past Couferenc.e year, seven 
persops have thus united with us ; two by 
letter, and five by profession of faith, hut;king 
been buried with Christ in baptism. Dur-
the same period one of our niimber has been 
removed by death, so that out increase in 
number is Six. Others, however; are expect-
ed soon to receive the orninance of baptism. 
But not the least encouraging feature haS 
been the Sunday School, which has been 
especially prosperous. The whole number 
who have atierided as scholars has been 
above eighty, the average attendance being 
about fifty.. Thirty numbers. of the "Youth's -
Visitor" are taken. Thus.agood number o P 
our :youth are reeaving„instruction in the 
great truths of time bible through the un-
wearied labors of our pastor, who takes 
charge of an interesting Bible class. 
Public worship is regularly maintained, 
and we have good and attentive audiences. 
Eld. Orrock preaches to us three fourths of 
the time, and in his absence a sermon is read ; 
and we have also regularly sustained prayer-
meetings evet:y Sabbath and Wednesday 
evening, with an attendance, if not as large 
as desirable, yet sufficiently large to entitle 
us to the promised blessing graciously vouch-
safed to "two or three." We. have also a 
monthly covenant meeting On the first Sab-
bath of' eadh 'month. 
For all these privileges we are devoutly 
thankful and hope to be found "pressing 
forward to the mark for the prize of our 
high calling in Christ Jesus."- Craving an 
interest in the prayers of the conference for 
our fUrther and continued prosperity, in the 
spirit of Christian fellowship, we would, say 
to you, brethren, in the language of' .the 
apostle, "Grace be with all them that love 
our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.' 
In behalf of the church, • 
R. PARMALEE, Scribe. 
Waterloo, June 13, 1864. 
Remainder next week. 
Died at Lewiston, N. J., Feb. 10; 1864, 
of diptheria, Ella Going Sage, only daugh-
ter of' William H. and Sarah G. Sage, aged 
5 years, 7 months, and 14 days. 
The bereaved parents„little Charley Frank, 
their only remaining child (aged eight 
years,) and other family coneections, feel 
their loss deeply, and yet they "sorrow not 
eviin as others Who have no hope ;" for they, 
confidently believe that little Ella "sleeps in 
Jesus," and will very soen "come again fii.inn 
the.land of the enemy, and come to her WWII 
border," (Jar. 31 : 16, 17,) when the curse 
will be effectually removed from the earth, 
and there will be no more sorrow, sickness, 
pain, nor- death. 
During my six weeks stay in Lewiston 
the past winter, making it my home in. Bro. 
Sage's piily, I became intimately acquaint-
ed with little Ella, aud. very much . attached 
to,hea. Haying. natually a bright intellect, 
and being more throughly instructed on the 
Advent subject than children of that age 
generally are, she: would frequently ask 
questions on the subject, which sometimes 
surprised me ; and knowing she placed Un-
founded confidence in me, I was very cau-
tious in answering. In tfinS doing, I had oc-
casion more than ouce, to quote huller bear-
ing Isa. 56 : 19-21 ; and with the twentieth 
verse in particular, she became deeply in-
terested, committed it to memory, and with 
suitable.solenmity, and emphasis would often 
repeat it in the hearing of the family, seem-
ing to rejoice in the prospect before her. 
In a letter from Sister Sage, of recent . 
date, we learn other interesting particulars. 
She says, "During the winter, till her de-
cease, Ella's conversation had been unnatur-
al for la child that had long to stay in this 
world, enjoying, as she did, perfect health until 
her late brief, andlast sickness. She was unusu-
ally delighted with the bright sunset ; would 
often stand and - watch its receding. rays, 
and opening clouds, seeming to think that 
was the.place where "God would call all the 
good people. to meet him in that beautiful 
world," and on tiptoe would earnestly en-
quire, "Mamma, when will God come and 
take us up them-c? I cannot wait," &c. A 
short time before her last sickness she gave 
up all her little playthings to her brother, 
except a large beautiful pet doll, and said, 
'This, mamma, I want you to putin my arms 
when I am dying, for it may be that God 
will take it with me.' She anticipated 
heavenly employment, ainong which .was 'to 
help Jesus take care of the numerous little ones 
whose parents were not there.' She ar-
ranged all her little concerns that she was 
about to leave, with as much calmness and 
regularity as could be expected from one of 
riper years." Being confident that she should. 
sicken and die, she requested her papa to go 
to Buffalo and get her a nice little coffin, 
that she might see it; for he would not 
have time when she was dead. Selected the 
spot for her burial (in a little yard near 
their house) and requested her mamma to 
plant some flowers on her little grave. 
Selected a particular dress that She wished 
to .be buried in, also the person who should 
dress her, and put her in the coffin (her 
uncle's wife whom she dearly loved.) There-
fore, when suddenly attacked with that fatal 
disease, she was all ready to go, her little 
work was done. When it was manifest to 
herself and others, that she was dying, she 
enquired "must I 
 go alone ?" and being 
assured by the family that they would be 
with her soon, her little heart was cheered, 
and she exclaimed, "0, I love Jesus, and 
am not afraid to go alone; do, come and 
kiss me before I leave." It, was readily re-
sponded to by all, and when this was done, 
little Ella expired, or quietly dropped to 
"sleep in Jesus" without a struggle or a 
a i
n an. 
THE PRICELESS GIFT.—The Rev Dr 
Wentworth relates the following interesting 
incident: "The Chinese are exceeding mer-
cenary. They will do almost anything for 
money. They have no notion of any man 
taking a course which does not tend to profit. 
Many of' them think we, pay people to be-
come Christians; that we hire men and 
women to receive baptism, and profess faith 
in the doctrine of Jesus. One of our new 
converts recently held the following dialogue 
with a neighbor who attempted to catechize 
him on the subject: 
"How. much did these foreigners give you 
to join their church? twenty dollars ?" 
"More than that." 
"A thousand dollars ?" 
"More than that." 
"How much, pray ?" 
"More than the value of the weight of this 
mountain in silver amid gold." 
"In the name of Buddha! what ?" cried 
the astonished-interrogator. 
"This precious book," said the Christian; 
holding up the Bible, "which tells me of God 
and Christ, Calvary, salvation, everlasting 
life in heaven !" 
Mr. McGonegal, teacher of the Academy 
there, preached an interesting sermon on the 
occasion, it is said, from these words, "All ' 
the days of my appointed time will I wait 
till my charge come." Job 14: 14. The 
Lore bless and sustain the bereaved family, 
is my sincere and most ardent prayer. 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
Long Point, Ill., June 15, 1864. 
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of water, will furnish a good meal for forty 
men, at one and a quarter cents a meal. 
The Philadelphians are about to present 
an elegant mansion to Gen. Hancock for his 
residence in that city. 
There has been but one year in the last 
twenty-three when there was less rain in 
June, than during the last month. In 1853 
there were three-eighths of an inch; in the 
month just past there was about one inch. 
The bakers. of New York have decided to 
sell no more five cant loaves, pledging them-
selves to sell only for ten cents. 
Wheat, in various parts of Indiana, was 
ready for the reaper on the 20th ult. 
John Clancy, editor of the Leader, died in 
New York last Friday, from the effects of a 
sunstroke. 
Mr. Isaac Page, of Lowell, Mass., has 
an apple-tree which never blossoms, and yet 
is loaded every year with fruit. Grafts from 
it blossom. The seeds are frequently par-
tially or wholly exposed to view at the out-
side of the "blow" end of the fruit, while the 
centre of the fruit is as compact as that of a 
turnip: 
It is said that the cathedral in Mexico is 
the largest building in America, being five 
hundred feet long, four hundred feet wide, 
and seating thirty thousand persons. One 
picture hanging on its walls is so ornament-
ed with pearls that it is said to be worth 
$14,000,000, and the most extravagant mag-
nificence is displayed throughout the estab-
lishment. 
A Hollander named Bleckman, living in Pa-
ris, has discovered his long lost son, who had 
gone many years to seek his fortune, and 
was supposed to be dead, in the person of 
one of the Japanese Embassy now at Paris. 
climbing trees, or ascending smooth surfaces' 
The means of defence with which nature ha 
provided reptiles are many; and although 
their appearance is sufficient to repel most 
animals, yet they are furnished with other 
safeguards, which render an attack upon 
them, to say the least, unpleasant. The 
crocodile and turtle are sufficiently protected 
against ordinary assaults; the agility of tile 
lizard serves him well, for he darts into his 
hole at -the expense possibly of his tail, which 
is soon reproduced. The great boa can pre-
vail over every foe but man; and the poison-
ous fangs of other serpents, and the bristling 
spines of the horned lizards, are amply suffi-
cient to guard them from the attacks of pre-
dacious members of the animal kingdom: 
Reptiles are very useful to man in van-
ours ways; some fulfill the law of their being 
by catching insects, whilst others serve as 
food,' or supply material useful in the arts. 
The muscles of reptiles are red, though paler 
than in mammals or birds; they preserve 
their irritability for a long time after death. 
Tortoises have been known to live eigh-
teen days after his brains had been removed. 
Most reptiles grow slowly, live long, and are 
very tenacious of life. The sense of touch 
is dull, whether exercised by the skin, toes, 
lip or tongue, or tail; taste must also be 
dull, as the food of reptiles is swallowed 
without mastication. Reptiles eat and drink 
compartively little, and are able to go a long 
time without food. The young, when born, 
are able to provide for themselves, and are 
generally indifferent to the mother. 
have what is far betters My treasure is in 
heaven."—Dr. _Tynyc: 
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.---A 
fearful _ accident occurred on the Grand 
Trunk Railroad, last Wednesday morning, 
at St. Hilaire, near Montreal. An emigrant 
train, consisting of eleVen cars, with three 
hundred and fifty-four Germans emigrants, 
went over the Beloid bridge At last ac-
counts eighty-seven dead bodies bad been re-
covered,. and, many were taken out badly 
injured. One car bad not been sufficiently 
reached to allow the dead to be taken from 
it. The engineer went down with the en-
gine, but escaped with slight injuries. A 
dreadful responsibility rests with this man 
for violating the standing order to stop. The 
depth of 'water where the accident occurred is. 
about ten feet. The conductor and fireman 
are reported killed. 
SIMPLE MODE OP COMPUTING INTEREST. 
—A new methed of computing interest on 
any number of dollars at six per cent., which 
appears simple. Multiply any give nnumber 
of dollars by the number of days of interest 
desired, separate the right hand figure, and" 
divide by six; the result is the true interest 
of such sum for such number of days, at six 
per cent. This rule is so simple and so true, 
according to all business usage, that every 
banker,. broker, merchant or clerk should 
pest it up fbr refereace. and use. There be-
ing no such thing as a fraction in it, there is. 
scarcely any liability to error or mistake. 
By no other arithmetical process can thode-
sired inforniation be obtained with so few 
figures. 
Torropudrum 
FROM JOHN DIX. 
that there is no absolute ' 
diate action, and therefor( 
missed.. 
After this dismission the following reso-
lution was introduced, received and adopted. 
Resolved, That, Dr. R. Hutchinson, C. 'P. 
Dow, Dr. R. Parmalee, S. W. Thurber and 
J. M. Orrock be a Committee to prepare 
and arrange business for the next Confer-
ence. 
The A. M. session closed with the bene-
diction. 
At 5 o'clock, Eld. Dow spoke from Rom. 
13: 11, 12—"And that knowing the .time, 
that now it is high time to awake out of 
sleep ; for now is our salvation :nearer than 
when. we believed; the night is far, spent, 
the day is at hand, let us therefore cast off the 
works of darkness, and let us put on the ar-
mor of light.". He gave a definition of some 
of the terms employed figuratively by the 
apostle, and dwelt on the "salvation" to be 
revealed at the advent. 
At 6 o'clock, Bro. C. W. Learned of Ma-
lone, N. Y., gave a discourse from Rev. 11 : 
15-19, presenting some of the evidences 
existing in the "distress of nations,". the 
modern developments of "the spirits of de-
mons," &c., of our proximity to the soletnn 
events connected with the sounding of the 
seventh trumpet. 
FRIDAY.. 
Prayer-meeting at 9 A:*Ma 
.At half past 
ten, reports from the churches were called 
fbr ; and from them we give the fbilewing 
letters and extracts: 
CA•NADA EAST. 
Brome, June 11th, 1864. 
TO the breth- 
ren assembled in cOnThrence, greeting:: Dear 
brethren, seeing 1 cannot attend your yearly 
feast, I thought I would let you know that I 
am with. you mentally, if not bodily—and 
and .thus give an account of myself. as a 
member of the conference, which I believe 
to be the duty of all our ministers. Not 
having labored as a pastor during the past 
year, I would say I have preached a few times: 
in Bolton, where a few years ago I organ-
ized a 'church ot fifteen or twenty members.; 
though others have since preached there, 
and another organization has been formed. 
I • have labored some on Tibet's Hill in 
Brome ; one fourth of the time in the Ciat 
ting neighborhood, and one -fourth of the - 
time in and about Fulford, where - I reside: 
Though some revival influence has been felt 
under my labors, the wheels move slowly,• 
and my report, I think, will .not profit you 
much a but as I love the truth, I love truth-
ful reports-if they are not so eocouraging 
as we might desire. 
Brethren, I love the "blessed hope" and I 
love to, preach it where God will bless it. 
I love and fellowship many of the dear 
brethren of' our conference, and my prayers 
'are for you, that God may grant you his. 
.blessieg. Pray for me. 
Yours in hope, �
S. C. HURLBuT. 
NORTH aroma AND EAST FARNIIANL 
To the brethren in Conference assembled: 
We rejoice to say that there are some pre-
cious souls here who are waiting the return 
of' the Nobleman to gather his ransomed. 
home, "where the wicked -cease from troub-
ling, .and the. weary are at rest." During 
the, past year we have had many trials. 
Three families haveanoved away—the losS 
of which We deeply feel—yetthe Lord is at 
work ; there have been four baptized and 
eight added to our minibet, making in mill 
forty-nine members. We still have the la-
bors of 'Eld. J. Chapman one fourth... of 
the time. We have prayer-meetings on 
Thursday; and on the Lord's day when 
there is no preaching. Brethren, let us be 
faithfUl, for truly the signs portend the day. 
near when God will arise to -shake terribly 
the earth. May we keep unspotted fronm. 
the world that we may be saved in the com- 
ing kingdom. �
LOREN MARSH, Deacon. 
RUSSIA, IN BOLTON. 
The church Sends Christian greeting, and 
reports: We are still looking for the return 
of our Lord and Saviour, having our trials in 
common with .others, but our motto. is, On-
ward! We have preaching during the year 
a quarter of the time by Eld. John Chapman, 
also a; monthly meeting and prayer-meetings. 
The interest- has been good. and the meetings 
well attended. The church numbered 4 
year ago thirty-two members, but .now forty-
five, though one has. fallen asleep. Eld. 
Chapman labors among us to good accep-
tance. Pray for us. Done in behalf of the 
church. �JOSEPH RANDAL, Clerk. 
mAGOG. 
Eld. Orrock remarked that the church of
Adventists in Magog was organized Dec. 18, 
1851, and thirty members in all have had 
their names attached to the covenant ; of 
these eight have died, as we trust in the 
Lord, including our well-known poetess, Sis-
ter H. M. Johnson; two have been cut off 
from membership.; three dismissed by letter; 
and five have removed, or live at such a dis-
tance that most. of them have united with 
other advent- churches—thus leaving the 
apostolic number—twelve. They have had 
during the past year, scarcely any preaching, 
on the speedy, personal, pre-millennial ad-
vent ; but as the apostles, even after one of 
their number apostatized, enlightened the 
world, it- is greatly to be desired that the 
"very small remnant" left by the Lord of' 
hosts in Magog will make a vigorous and 
continued effort to have the glorious doctrine 
of the Crown made as prominent there as 
the precious doctrine of the Cross is by oth-
ers; and thus, according to God's will, 
The cross and crown together blend 
Till Jesus come, and time shall end. 
EAST BOLTON. 
Dear brethren in Christ in conference as-
sembled: It becomes my duty to inform you 
that through the kind providence of God we 
still maintain our church organization with 
a membership of twenty-nine, though one 
has fallen asleep. The interest in the cause 
is still increasing—more are expected- to 
unite soon. Quite a number have been bap-
tized during the last year, and more are ex-
pected to be baptized next Sabbath. 
Our meetings are attended by large and 
attentive congregations. Many from the 
resident denominations in the vicinity have 
become Constant and interested attendants 
upon our preaching, which has caused some 
recovers lands worth $500,000. 
Last Saturday, Paterson's Block, in Louis-
ville, Ky., was destroyed by fire. The total 
loss is one million dollars, half of which falls 
on the government. The fire is supposed to 
have been incendiary. 
Wm. Spencer, of Providence, R. I., and 
John C. Donovan, of New York, have sailed 
for Europe in a boat whose keel is only fifteen 
feet long, and is less than two tons register. 
She is called the "Vision." 
Three match manufactories in Boston, 
owned by one man, consume twenty cords of 
wood and five hundred pounds of brimstone 
per day. By the new tax of one cent per 
box, he will have • to pay the government 
$.1400 a day in taxes. 
The foreign news by the steamship Ara-
bia, states :that the confederate pirate Ala- 
bama left Cherbourg, France, on the 18th to 
fight the U. S. gunboat Kearsage. Heavy 
firing was heard, but the result was not 
known. 
An East Indian correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal, writing from Melur, February 
18th, says that the cholera is prevailing in 
many places in India. In the city of Poona 
near Bombay, eight hundred died in a week, 
and in a village four miles from Mobil' one 
hundred died in about fifteen days. 
A dead mule, belonging to 4 Memphis 
citizen, was being hauled out of the lines the 
other day when a bayonet thrust revealed 
the fact that the carcass contained 60,000 
percussion caps, a quanity of ammunition, 
and other contraband articles, which some 
rebel sympathizer had taken this means of 
smuggling. 
Farmers and others interested in agricul-
ture, can now send small, parcels of seeds, 
cuttings,. &c., to the Agricultural Depart-
ment, by mail, without pre-payment a pos-
tage. They can also receive these articles, 
when on hand for distribution by addressing 
the Commissioner. 
There are in Prussia 985 synagogues. 
The propotion is 1 for 255 persons of. the 
Jewish population. The proportion of Pro-
testant churches to the Protestant population 
in the same kingdom is 1 for 1,302 persons, 
and of the Roman Catholics 1 for 1,249 
persons. 
Deacon Joseph Merriam, of Grafton, 
reached his 93d birth day on the 7th of 
June, on which occasion- • his seven children, 
whose united ages are 427 years, assembled 
as a surprise party at the old home-stead. 
In one of the rooms of his house hangs a 
looking glass which has never been removed 
from its place since 1773. 
A lady in New York lately bought two 
pair of chickens and a turkey at an up-town 
stall. They were fat almost to bursting, 
and looked beautifully. • On preparing them 
for cooking. the plumpness was discovered 
to result from a pair of old wool stockings 
wadded into each chicken, while the gob-
bler had been loaded with an old pair Of 
drawers. 
The library of Yale College has just re-
ceived from the Emperor of Russia A gift of 
rare value and beauty. It is a fac-simile 
copy of the celebrated Greek manuscript of' 
the Holy Bible, found in 1859 at the con-
vent of St Catherine, on Mt. Sinai, by Dr. 
Tischendorf, well known as one of the most 
learned students and critics of the sacred 
texts. 
White beans are the cheapest and most nu-
tritious food which can be eaten. Beans and 
pork furnish nearly all the elements neces-
sary to human subsistence. A quart of 
beans at eight cents and a pound of pork at 
twelve cents will feed a small family for a 
day. Four quarts of beans and two pounds 
of corned beef, boiled to rags, in fifty quarts 
TREASURES IN HEAVEN.—We read of a 
philosopher who, passing through a mart 
filled with -articles of taste and luxury, made 
himself quite happy with this simple yet sage 
reflection: "How many things there are 
here that I do not want !" Now this is just 
the reflection with which the earnest believer 
passes happily through the world. It is 
richly furnished with what is called good 
things. It has spots of honor and power lo 
tempt the restless aspirings of ambition of 
every grade. It has gold and gems, houses 
and lands, for the covetours and ostentatious. 
It has innumerable bowers ef taste and lux-
ury, where seli-indulgence may revel. But 
the Christian, whose piety is deep-toned, 
and whose spiritual perceptions are clear, 
looks over the world and. exclaims, "How 
much there is here that I do not want! I 
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To the Editor of the Advent Herald: 
Dear Brother—I have been about ten 
years away from Danville, Vt., and have not 
had the privilege of hearing an Advent ser-
mon, or of reading an Advent pumper I 
 feel 
as though I had been asleep, and am waking 
up again. I think I have some view of the 
day-star shining on high. I have read my 
Bible more the last week than I ever did a 
week in my life. In reading the last chap-
ter of Daniel, it seems as if after the purify-
ing time, the Adventists would have to 
wait about 45 years, or after the Advent 
light first broke out, unless the days are 
shortened for the sake of the elect. 
Zech. 3d chapter. Is not this Joshua's 
filthy garments, dry morality? 
Is not 
Joshua where Satan can tempt him in this 
world? I think all watchmen ought to 
stand in clear light in these last days. I 
was not interested in the time, but received 
the doctrine and the event as very nigh 
I would like a few Advent papers. I have 
no religious privileges here, only reading and 
praying. 
I feel anxious to hear from the Adventists 
in the East. It is about ten years since I 
got any light except from God and his Holy 
Word. I have lately been much interested 
in the king of Assyria. It appears to me that 
what is said of him in the Bible must have 
something to do with these last days. But 
I cannot see it clearly, and I have no con- 
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of those around him in the cars, when trav-
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
108 
Aotieto. 
the tamitg 
TILL HE COME. 
Who succeeded to the throne of the 
eastern empire? 
Theodosius II., son of Arcadius, 408 
A. C. 
Was he a good sovereign? 
He was mild and pious, but had not 
wisdom and energy to govern. 
Who assisted him in public affairs? 
His sister, Pulcheria. 
What city on the globe has exerted 
the greatest influence over the nations? 
Rome-both pagan and papal. There 
is no power on earth which possesses so 
large an influence now as papal Rome! 
THE LITTLE BOY THAT DIED. 
"Till He come "-0, let the words 
Linger on the trembling chords! 
Let the little while between 
In their golden light be seen; 
Let us think how heaven and home 
Lies beyond that "Till He come !" 
When the weary ones we love 
Enter on their rest above, 
Seems the earth so poor and vast, 
All our life is overcast? 
Hush! be every murmur dumb-
It is only "Till He come ! " 
Clouds and conflicts round us press; 
Would we have one sorrow less? 
All the sharpness of the cross, 
All that tell the world is loss, 
Death and darkness, and the tomb, 
Only whisper, "Till He come!" 
The late Dr. Chalmers is said to have been 
the author of the following beautiful lines, writ-
ten on the occasion of the death of a young son 
whom he greatly loved: 
I am all alone in my chamber now, 
And the midnight hour is near, 
And the fagots' crack, and the clock's dull tick, 
Are the only sounds I hear; 
And over my saltl in its solitude 
Sweet feelings of sadness glide; 
For my heart and my eyes are full when I think 
Of the little boy that died. 
I went one night to my father's house- 
Went home to the dear ones all, 
And softly I opened the garden gate, 
And softly the door of the hall. 
My mother came out to meet her son- 
She kissed me, and then she sighed; 
And her head fell on my neck, and she wept 
For the little boy that died. 
[Original.] 
The Conversational Historian, 
THE rArs:220
..r NEWSPAPER. 
, 
"Fanny," L �
Mrs. Adams to her 
sister, "how do you manage to teach 
your children everything? Mine go 
to the same school, and are in the same 
classes, but they seem so far behind 
them when they are playing together. 
Now, I believe we learned a half a 
dozen things from Maria and Willie 
when they were at our house last Sat- 
urday. She showed me how to kill the 
moths in my carpet, by laying a wet 
cloth over it, and passing a wet cloth 
over it softly. The steam is sure death 
to them. Then Will got our bucket 
out of the well by using the steelyards 
and clothes-line. We were at our wits' 
end because the rope had broken, and 
we had not a drop of water to get din-
ner with. How do they know all these 
things, I should like to find out 7" 
"They read the papers, Annie !" said 
the mother laughing. "That is the only 
branch they take up different from your 
children. Then have taught them to 
make a scrap book together, in which 
they save all the useful, interesting lit- 
tle items that would otherwise be lost 
and forgotten. I dare say you will find 
that 'remedy for moths' in it among the 
receipts, arid I remember Willie's tell-
ing me of some boy he read of, who got 
the bucket out of the well in that man- 
ner. You,know I have often urged you 
to take a good family paper, if only for 
your children's sake. The political one 
you have can of course not be very in- 
teresting or profitable to them. A good 
religious newspaper, which the children 
are taught to read every week, is like a 
gold mine in your garden. You cannot 
estimate its worth in gold. �
They will 
gather new and valuable ideas from it 
by hundreds; they will learn lessons 
that will be useful to themselves and 
others all their lives; they will be more 
intelligent men and women when they 
grow up, and be far better fitted to take 
care of themselves in the world. The 
reading men and women get a living a 
great deal better than others.. Then, 
too, the religious knowledge they gain 
may be, as it often has been, the means 
of h ading their souls to Jesus. �
By all 
means, Annie, take a religious paper 
this year for your family, if you wear 
your winter bonnet all summer to pay 
for it. It is an easy matter to save out 
two dollars from your household ex-
penses when you have such an impor-
tant end to gain." 
Will not every mother take to heart 
this lesson, and encourage her children 
to read with care the family paper, and 
instruct them how to preserve in a 
readable state the useful items they may 
find in it? And remember you do a 
life long kindness to every family you 
can by any means induce to take your 
family newspaper. 
A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF 
MEETINGS IN PENNSYLVANIA AND 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
Lord willing, I will spend the last four 
Sabbaths in July in Pennsylvania, as breth-
ren Hollen, Laning, and Jackson may ar-
range. They will please give notice in the 
in the Herald of the appointments they de-
sire me to fill. The month of August I will 
spend in New Hampshire, as Bro. Bunday 
and others may arrange. �
L. OSLER. 
Providence, R. I., June 18, 1864. 
ELDER OSLER will act as agent for the 
Herald and Visitor, receiving subscriptions, 
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Book Concern, Thursday, July 7th, at 10, A. 
M., in the Herald office, Boston, Mass. 
JOSIAH LITCH, President. 
F. GUNNER, Recording Secretary. 
Addison, Vt., June 6, 1864. 
Please inform the friends through the Herald, 
in the region of Colburn, Smithfield, Bellville 
and Kingston, that I purpose to make them a 
visit to preach the Gospel, as soon as possible, by 
the Divine permission. 
DANIEL CAMPBELL. 
REMOVAL.-Messiah's Church (Evangelical 
Advent) in New York, on and after May 8, will 
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indent and Modern Empires, Kingdoms and States. 
He did, until the year 422 A. C., when 
he died. 
When was Valentinian III. crowned 
emperor? 
Two years after the death of Hono-
rius, 424 A. C. 
When did the emperor lose Africa? 
In 439 A. C., by the revolt of Count 
Boniface, who gave all up to the Van-
dals! 
Who was the Vandal king in Africa? 
His name was Genseric. 
Did the other provinces of the Ro-
man empire immediately fall under the 
dominion of the barbarians? 
They did not at this period. 
How long did the Vandal kingdom 
last in Africa? 
About 100 years. 
Did the Huns after the Gothic con-
quest, ravage the Roman provinces? 
In the year 445 A. C. they ravaged 
Illyrium, Thrace, Dacia and Mesia and 
imposed a heavy tribute. 
Soon after these events did Atilla in-
vade Gaul ? 
He did with 500,000 men; but was 
met by Actius on the plains of Chalons 
and who defeated the Hun, with less 
than 160,000 men. Not long after how-
ever, Atilla invaded Italy, and Valen-
tinian III. was compelled to purchase a 
peace. 
Did Atilla die soon after this affair? 
He did, and thus protracted the final 
downfall of Rome. 
Was the march of the Huns deso-
tating 
it was indescribably desolating, and 
their leader was called truly, "The 
scourge of God." 
What became of Actius who had slain 
so many Huns in battle? 
Through The jealousy of a Eunuch, 
Valentinian stabbed him with his own 
hand, and the very next year the em-
peror himself was assassinated. 
Who was proclaimed emperor on the 
death of Valentinian 
Maximus II., the one who instigated 
the murder of Valentinian; he assumed 
the purple 455 A. C. 
Who did he marry? 
Eudoxia, the wife of his predecessor ! 
He however soon met the vengeance of 
the people, who stoned him with stones 
till he died! 
Is it often the case that the same cru-
elties a person inflicts on another with-
out cause, are visited hack with in-
creased vengeance upon their own 
heads? 
Very often in our short, lives we wit-
ness the retributive justice of Jehovah. 
The pit a man has dug for his neigh-
bor, he often finds to be his own recep-
tacle. 
BY NATHANIEL BROWN. 
Author of Essays on Education. 
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CHAPTER LII. 
Rome.-Valeatinian, Theodosius, Ar- 
cadius, Honorius, Alaric. 
Who succeeded Gratian? 
Valentinian II., a brother of Gratian, 
but who was dispossessed by Maximus 
and afterwards restored to the throne 
by Theodosius. In a few years after 
he was strangled by a Gaul, who in 
turn was put to death by Theodosius, 
who assumed the purple 379 A. C. 
Did the whole empire come into the 
possession of Theodosius? 
After the death of Valentinian, The-
odosius reigned over the whole Roman 
world. 
Was he the last of Roman emperors 
who ruled both over eastern and west-
ern Rome? 
He was the last; he was surnamed 
the Great. 
Who was Theodosius the Great? 
He was the son of Count Theodosius, 
an able general, who had been behead- 
ed by the order of Gratian. Gratian to 
atone for his crime, made the Count's 
son a colleague with him in the empire 
and gave him the east for his portion. 
What was the religion of Theodo-
sius? 
He was a Christian by profession and 
orthodox in sentiment. It is said that 
the gods of the pagans were dragged in 
triumph at the chariot wheels of Theo-
dosius. 
When and where did Theodosius 
die? 
He died at Milan in Italy, 395 A. C. 
Who succeeded him in the empire? 
Arcadius and Honorius; the latter in 
the west and the former in the east. 
What was the state of public morals 
at this period? 
In a state of degeneracy; while the 
Roman empire in the west seemed on 
the very verge of ruin. 
Was the division of the empire one 
cause of ruin 
Undoubtedly it was. 
What were the names of some of the 
barbarous tribes who overturned the 
Roman empire in the west? 
They were called Goths, Vandals, 
Suevi, Alani, &c. 
By what skilful general was the em-
pire of Honorius saved from ruin? 
By Stilicho, a brave and good man, 
but who was afterwards beheaded by 
the order of Honorius, 408 A. C. 
Did Alaric, the king of the Goths, sack 
Rome soon after this event? 
In the year 410 A. C. Rome was then 
pillaged and burned by Alaric! The 
city was ravaged for six, days and vast 
numbers perished. 
Was this Alaric the same Gothic king 
that carried desolation to the very bor-
ders of Constantinople, and throughout 
the classic country of Greece? 
He was the same barbarian con-
queror. 
Did Honorius and many of his pre-
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unwisely towards the subordinate offi-
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Very often the historian has to say-
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FIRES IN JAPAN. 
It is impossible to ride through the 
streets of Yeddo without noticing one of 
the most striking and constant features 
of the city, no matter what the season 
of the year-large gaps where charred 
timbers and rubbish mark the scene of a 
recent fire; and often, standing alone in 
the midst of smouldering heaps and 
blackened walls, are single houses, un- 
scathed and erect. �
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proof houses, built of mud chiefly, from 
one to two feet thick, and with windows 
faced with iron, closing all access to the 
interior hermetically. They certainly 
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though simple enough, and not of any 
very expensive material, although there 
is often a sort of coquetry about them, 
in the shape of lackered shutters and 
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by their terrible enemy in a single 
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at short distances, and an elaborate and 
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have exercised some baneful influence 
by increasing the motives for arson !" 
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shall not give rise to an attendant 
evil. 
Be this as it may, the Japanese look 
for no aid in this direction, and take the 
burning down of a whole quarter peri-
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an earthquake or a typhoon-calami-
ties beyond the power or wisdom of man 
to avert. They build their houses, ac-
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pense, as foredoomed, sooner or later, to 
be food for the flames, arid when the 
evil comes, lose no time in vain lamen-
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years! It is certainly very rare that a 
night passes without the fire bell of the 
quarter ringing a fearful alarm and 
rousing all the neighborhood; and often 
during my long residence I have heard �
The gate which leads to life is a 
them in different quarters, and seen the straight gate, therefore we should fear; 
sky lurid in two or three directions at it is an open gate, therefore we should 
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Evil. A Discourse on Ephesians 6 : 12. By Joseph A. 
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striking.
,,Forw e Twh ye tar: 
t
fo �
lgoavrins 
st flesh and blood, but 
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those who wish to examine the sure word of prophecy 
By Wm. C. Thurman, Philadelphia. 
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amination, and therefore are not prepared to spate 
its merits. It enters very fully into the chronoloralti. 
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with many others, that of assigning the "daily" to 
1st Persia, 2na Greece, 3rd Rome, each of which p 
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Did Eudoxia call upon the Vandal 
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Did Genseric come with help 
He came with a large army of Moors 
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Next, Majorian ; he made unsuccessful 
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laws. Next, Severus Ill. ; he was soon 
poisoned. Next, A thernius was called 
to the empire by the unanimous suf-
frages of the people, senate and army, 
467 years A. C. This emperor being 
murdered, Olybrius was proclaimed his 
successor, and dying soon after was 
succeeded by Glycerus. �
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Julius Nepos was proclaimed at Rome. 
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.Odoacer, was now the master of Rome. 
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CHAPTER LIM 
Rome.-Alaric, Valentinian III., Max-
imus IL, Genseric, Atilla. 
What was the state of morals when 
Rome was taken by the Goths? 
The nobility were sunk in effemi-
nancy, luxury and all sorts of vicious 
indulgencies. �
The common people 
were debased, and Rome was a putrid 
mass of moral corruption. 
What did Alaric do after the conquest 
of Rome? 
He made preparations to invade Sic-
ily and Africa, but was taken sick and 
died. 
What course did Honorius pursue? 
He entered into a treaty with Ataul-
fus, the successor of Alaric, and gave 
him a portion of Spain, and his sister 
Placidia in marriage. 
Did Honorius continue to reign in the 
west?