WHOLE NO. 1147. 
BOSTON, TUESDAY, MAY 26. 1863. VOLUME XXIV. NO, 20. 
BY D. T. TAYLOR. 
_Number Five. 
" It would be easy " says Doctor Hody "to 
fill a volume with the testimonies and authori-
ties of the doctors of the fourth and the following 
centuries, to show with how great a zeal the doc-
trine of the resurrection of the same human body 
has always been maintained by the Church.' 
But we will now let the whole church set her 
seal to this truth by her creeds. We already 
have shown from Ireneus and Tertullian that in 
the creed of the church of their time the " Res-
urrection of the Flesh," was an article . So too 
teach the " Apostolical Constitutions." The 
"Apostle's Creed" is of great antiquity, and 
previous to the year 400 was believed by very 
many to have been written by the apostles them-
selves. In our English translation it reads 
'The resurrection of the bodg," but in the origi-
ills, the Greek and Latin, it is " The resurrec-
tion of the flesh." 
Ruffinus, a noted Christian 
writer of A. D. 400, testifies it was thus read 
"in all the churches." All the Latin churches 
read it " Carnis Resurrectio." So testifies not 
only Ruffinus but Jerome, Augustine, Chryso-
logus, and Maximus also. Cyril, Bishop of Je-
rusalem, A. D., 350, says it was sarx anastasis 
the resurrection of the flesh, in the creed of the 
Jerusalem church. The same words are found in 
the Greek creed. In a manuscript over twelve 
hundred years old, preserved in the Bodleian 
Library, England, at the end of the acts of the 
apostles, in Saxson characters is the Apostles 
creed, with the phrase "Resurrection of the 
flesh." In the ancient church at Aquileia, in 
the fourth century, because some of the Origen-
ist would talk of a new flesh, to make it more 
express they read the creed " the resurrection of 
this flesh." That the resurrection of the flesh 
was the doctrine of the Council of Nice, A. D., 
325 is evident from the confession presented to 
Arius and his party by the Emperor Constantine, 
and to which he was obliged to subscribe. In 
that confession it is eis sarx anastasis. Other 
confessions of that time read the same. In the 
creeds of the second and sixth general Councils, 
and in that which in the time of Epiphanious was 
wont to be recited by the converts that were to 
be baptized, it is only The resurrection of the 
body." In the creed of Athanasius, A. D. 325, 
we read " All men shall rise again with their 
bodies." In the creed of Damasus, Bishop of 
Rome,. A. D., 370-80 we read, " We believe 
that we shall be raised up in the same flesh in 
which we now live." Jerome says the whole 
Catholic church held this view, it being impossi-
ble he affirms to understand the doctrine any 
other way. The Creed of the first Council of 
Toledo in the year 400 says, " We believe there 
will be a resurretion of the flesh of mankind." 
Taat of the fourth Council of Toledo in 633 
reads, " We are to be raised up by Christ in 
he saute flesh in which we now live, and in the 
same form in which he himself rose." And in 
the eleventh Council of the same church, in A. D. 
670 the following was put forth, "According 
to the example of our Head (i. e ; Christ,) we 
confess that there will be a true resurrection of 
the flesh of all the dead. Neither de we believe 
that we shall rise in an aereal or any other kind 
of flesh, (as some have deleriously fancied,) but 
in that in which we live, have our being, and 
move." 
Ruffinus, (already mentioned,) in A. D. 400, 
thus clears himself from the charge laid against 
him of being a follower of Origen. He says, 
" We believe as it has been de'iv(red down to 
us from the holy fathers, that the Son of God 
arose from the dead in the very same flesh in 
which he suffered, by which he gave us also 
hope of a resurrection. We speak of the res-
urrection of the flesh not in a shuffling and de-
ceitful manner, as some falsely accuse us, but we 
believe that this very flesh in which we now live 
shall rise, not another instead of it, neither do 
we mean any other body besides this of flesh. 
If therefore we say that the body shall rise, we 
speak according to the apostle, for he uses that 
word : if we say that the flesh is to rise, we 
make our confession according to the tradition 
of the creed. It is a foolish thing to accuse us 
as if we thought a humane body could be any-
thing besides flesh. Whether therefore that 
which shall rise be called flesh according to the 
creed, or body according to the apostle, it is so 
to be believed as the apostle has set it forth, 
that which shall rise shall rise in power and 
glory, and shall rise an incorruptible and spirit-
ual body, that corruption shall not inherit incor-
ruption. Saving therefore these prerogatives of 
the body or flesh in the other life, the resurrec-
tion of the flesh is to be believed wholly and 
perfectly, so that both the same nature of flesh 
may be retained, and the state and glory of an 
incorrupted and spiritual body may not be vio-
lated. For so it is written, " These things are 
preached in Jerusalem in the Church of God, 
by the holy Bishop John. These things I, to-
gether with him, profess and maintain. If any 
one either believes or teaches any other doc-
trine or thinks that we believe any other than 
this we have now set forth, let him be accursed." 
Vigilius, an African Bishop, A. D. 484, thus 
earnestly and positively writes, " If any one says 
that a man will not rise in the day of judgment 
in the body, as God made him, let him be ac-
cursed !" 
I conclude with the testimony of the church 
of England, who asks every baptized person in 
his representative the god-father, " Dost thou 
believe in the resurrection of the flesh ?" The 
answer required is " I do." 
Number Six. 
In concluding tbese articles on the resurrec-
tion, it may be well to show the derision and op-
position with which the Christian doctrine met 
among the unbelieving philosophers and the 
heathen. This opposition was exhibited by the 
learned Grecian judges when Paul preached on 
Mar's Hill, at Athens, who, when they heard 
of the resurrection of the dead some mocked. 
" They all held the immortality of the soul, and 
believed in a life while dead, or a life in death, 
but a life front the dead by a re-living of the whole 
man, being peculiar to the gospel of Christ, they 
could not comprehend. The Greeks generally 
looked upon it as foolishness. " Not any one 
Christian doctrine," says Dr. Hody, " was so 
generally, and with so much contempt rejected." 
Says Tertullian, " there was not any one sect 
among all the philosophers but what denied it." 
The author of the " Questions and answers of 
Grecos " testifies that, " They did with all im-
aginable opposition contend against it." Au-
gustine writes, " There was nothing in the 
Christian religion so vehemently, so pertina-
ciously, and with so much contention and earnest-
ness opposed as the resurrection of the flesh. 
They say it is impossible that this earthly flesh 
should ascend up into heaven." Pliny, the nat-
uralist, affirmed that " It is beyond the power of 
even God himself to raise up a body to life when 
once it is dead ; it is madness to believe it." 
Celsus, already quoted, declared the doctrine 
" abominable, and worthy to be spit at, as ex-
tremely impure." Ciryl„ says the Emperor 
Julian " derided this above all the tenets of the 
Christians." In the " Apostolical Constitutions " 
it is said " they mocked at it." Origen writes, 
" It is a common subject of laughter." " They 
called it an old wife's tale," says Minucius Fe-
lix. And Tatian assures us that the heathens 
were wont to look upon the Christians as pitiful 
triflers and babblers for asserting it." But I 
have abundantly proved that in proportion as 
the enemies of the church ridiculed and opposed 
it, so much the more did the Christians, unmov-
ed from their faith even by martyrdom, believe 
it, cling to it, derive great consolation from it, 
and everywhere boldly proclaim it. 
It now remains for me to sum up what I have 
written. 
First : It is abundantly shown that the first 
Christians from the times of the apostles to A. D. 
250, during a period when the church was in 
her purest age, without a dissenting voice, all 
believed and taught the doctrine of the resurrec-
tion of the flesh or human body that died, at 
the Redeemer's second advent ; they making 
little or nothing of the intermediate state, but 
looking forward with joyful and constant expec-
tation to their rising again in the body, when the 
flesh, loosing none of its human nature or mate-
riality should be made immortal and glorious. 
Such was their hope. Can it be doubted they 
obtained this doctrine from the apostles? 
Second : It is shown that Origen in A. D. 
250, (whose Christianity is by some good men 
doubted,) was the first man in the church to ig-
nore the resurrection of the same fleshly body 
as a thing of naught, and to exalt the Platonic 
view of the soul's immortality in death in its 
place ; making the soul the man proper, the 
principal thing, and even an angel, and the body a 
useless appendage, a mere prison ; while he pro-
pounded the hitherto unheard-of-notion of an 
airy, aerial, firey, etherial, intangible and invisi-
ble nature for the resurrected dead. It was fit-
ting that a man who dishonored his own body and 
mutilated and unmaned his own manhood by 
emasculating himself, should thus seek to de-
grade the human form Divine and deny it its 
sacredly pledged rights in the resurrection and 
world to come. His baneful influence disturbed 
the church in her even track. He made few fol-
lowers, who with their master were universally 
Condemned ; but far too many Christians in the 
nineteenth century are followers of Origen in 
his denial of, and opposition to the pre-millennial 
advent of Christ, and bodily, literal resurrection 
of the holy dead. 
Third : It is shown that the doctrine of the 
resurrection as believed and taught by the first 
Christians was maintained by the whole church, 
(with few exceptions,) both in, and subsequently 
to Origen's day for many centuries, as exhibit. 
ed in her confessions, Creeds, Synods, Acts, and 
Councils, and in the abundant writings of her 
divines of all classes. Hence the view we are 
maintaining was the " old paths," the Divine 
way, the Scriptural teaching, and the truth of 
God. And the whole church of God at the pres-
ent day should sustain and disseminate this 
scriptural and animating faith and hope con-
cerning the resurrection to immortal and eternal 
life of the bodies of the dead, that now sleeping 
in the dust of the earth await the sounding of 
the trump of God, and second, personal, glorious 
pre-millennial coming of our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ. 
It is but just to add here that any authority in 
the main for this condensed history and the 
quotations and extracts herein presented, is the 
following rare old work, viz. : 
"The resurrection of the same body asserted 
from the traditions of the heathens, the ancient 
Jews, and the primitive church ; with an an-
swer to the objections brought anainst it. 
By Humphry Hody. D. D., &c., 12mo, PP. 
224, London. 1694. 
TRUST. 
Plant the ivy anywhere : 
By the rock that's bare and bleak, 
Where the balmy summer air 
Ne'er can bend to kiss its cheek ; 
Where no sound of brook or bird 
'Mid the solemn gloom is heard : 
Leave it clinging to the wall 
Where the wintry storms may beat, 
Where the sunbeams never fall, 
And the breath of blossoms sweet 
. Never floats among its leaves 
All the summer morns and eves 
Yet 'twill flourish, green and fair 
Twine and wave with sweetest grace, 
Fling its tendrils to the air, 
Glorify the bleakest place ; 
Never losing, day by day, 
If December or if May. 
So the soul that bears within 
Faith in God and perfect trust, 
In this wilderness of sin, 
Travel-worn, and stained with dust ; 
Wet with rains and chilled with snows ; 
Scorned by friends, and bruised by foes; 
Tempests pouring out their wrath 
On his weary, aching head ; 
Thorns upspringing in his path 
All his flair hopes crushed and dead ; 
Not a word of note or cheer 
Falling on his lonely ear. 
Yet how little careth he 
With that sweet trust in his breast. 
Near Him soon, ah ! soon I'll be, 
' Where the weary are at rest." 
Singing thus, pursues his way, 
If December or if May. 
Christian Advocate and fou-nal. 
FOR TERMS, &E., SEE SEVENTH PAGE OF THIS PAPER. 
...amminmal. 
History of the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Flesh 
from the times of the Apostles to A. D. 700. 
146 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
For the Herald. 
Our Government in the Light of Sacred History—
Its Hopes—Its Perils, 
BY REV. 0. R. FASSETT. 
[CONTINUED.] 
When we read this history of Asa and Ju-
dab, Asa's fidelity to his God, and zeal for his 
honor, and purity of his kingdom ;—his reliant 
trust in the Lord God of his fathers, it is with 
sadness that we contemplate his departure and 
apostacy from God in the days of his prosperity, 
and in the closing period of his life. But such 
is the history of nations and their rulers and 
kings in this apostate world almost universally. 
In the thirty-sixth year of his reign, not a 
powerful foreign nation like that of Egypt or 
Syria, but a comparatively weak and feeble con-
tiguous kingdom, the part of the once united 
tribes of Israel now in revolt, plotted the destruc-
tion of their brethren and the government of 
Judah and Jerusalem. (chap. 16: 1.) Asa, 
instead of as heretofore seeking protection under 
the shadow of the Almighty power, endeavored 
to court the favor of Benhadad, king of Syria, 
and enter into a league and alliance with him 
against Baasha, king of Israel, and for this pur-
pose he sent to him the consecrated treasures of 
the house of the Lord and of his own house, 
making request that he should break covenant 
with the king of Israel and come over and help 
him. Benhadad listened to this wicked propo-
sal, being purchased by the bribe of the silver 
and gold, and sent his armies against the cities 
of Israel. (v. 16.) This alliance was for the 
time being successful. But there was treasuring 
up wrath in store for Asa and his kingdom. 
" And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa 
king of Judah, and said unto him, because thou 
hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied 
on the Lord thy God, therefore is the host of the 
king of Syria escaped out of thine hand." Pro-
phetic to him that no reliance could be placed 
upon the covetous king of Syria, and that in 
time he would be arrayed against him, and yet 
escape out of his hands. But the prophet pro-
ceeds with his lesson and reproof. " Were not 
the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with 
very many chariots and horsemen ? yet, because 
thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them 
into thine hand. For the eyes of the Lord run 
to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show 
himself strong in behalf of them whose heart is 
perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done 
foolishly ; therefore from henceforth thou shalt 
have wars." (vs. 8, 9.) This one act, and lack 
of confidence on the part of Asa in God, in the 
time of threatened danger to his kingdom, was 
the cause of the displeasure of the Lord against 
him, and of his being henceforth involved in 
wars! Truly, God is a jealous God. Who 
shall not fear him ! What kingdom or govern-
ment with a history of his deliverances, dare turn 
away from him, or trust in their own power, or 
that of' any arm of flesh, princes or kings, in the 
time of their danger, adversity, or calamity by 
war ? 
For this faithfulness of the Lord's prophet, 
the backslidden king " was wroth with the seer, 
and put him in prison ; for he was in a rage 
with him because of this thing. And Asa op-
pressed some of the people the same time." 
Asa, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was 
afflicted with an incurable and distressing dis-
ease ; but in it all he trusted solely in the skill 
of his physicians, and sought not the Lord ; ac-
cordingly his disease proved fatal. Closing his 
days on earth in infidelity, and leaving his king-
dom to his son, oppressed by its foes. However, 
Jehosaphat, his son, because he walked in the 
first ways of his father and of David, and sought 
the Lord and not Balim, obtained the favor of 
the Lord, and the Lord established him in his 
kingdom. 
I have thus dwelt so fully upon this impor-
tant and instructive sacred history that we as a 
people may learn a lesson of wisdom in our pres-
ent national calamities. As a R echman of God, 
ket to the defence of his character and truth, I 
feel it a duty to utter the words of God that the 
people may know what God the Judge and Ruler 
of nations saith. And I shall not be regarded 
an enemy, or disloyal to my country and my gov-
ernment, in the frank and honest expressions of 
sentiment I make, It is the wrong time to be 
untrue to our government when we are in the 
midst of perils and embarrassments threatening 
its very existence. I would endeavor to point 
the minds of the people to the great sovereign 
Arbiter and Ruler of nations, to look unto him 
for salvation and protection amid the increasing 
dangers which threaten our ruin ; confident as I 
am that unless we do so, we greatly sin against 
the God of our fathers, and are unworthy of be-
ing the children of those men who fought for the 
liberties and institutions which we inherit, and 
who founded this government in the fear and 
name of the Lord, and confident, too, that un-
less we as a nation do thus look to the Most 
High and call upon him to aid and deliver us 
from our enemies, we shall go speedily to de-
struction. Do not let us flatter ourselves that 
there is no danger'of this. I think the signs are 
ominous, fearful and portentous of a sudden end. 
No pefil is greater to any government than an 
internal rebellion and an internecine war. Jesus 
has said, " Every kingdom divided against it-
self is brought to desolation ; and cannot stand." 
And our glorious motto is, " United we stand, 
divided we fall." When we look, therefore, at 
our present distracted, dismembered condition, 
what need we expect, unless the God of nations 
interpose in our behalf and restores order out of 
confusion, and gives us peace for war, and har-
mony for discord? 
Hon. Daniel S. Dickenson says : "When this 
country commences to die, it will die rapidly. 
When this nation is given up to disruption, it 
will go to swift destruction. Rome, to be sure, 
was three hundred years dying; but then its 
physical powers were greater than ours, its 
moral force less, its nervous energy less acute 
than ours. When we fall we shall go down in 
blood and darkness ; but not in tears, for the 
dying never weep. Nero the last and the worst 
of the Caesars, sung to his harp while his capi-
tal was in flames. Tamerlane, to signalize his 
brutal ferocity reared a monument of severity 
thousand skulls. Attila declared that the grass 
should never grow where the hoof of his war-
horse trod. Ryder Ali left the Carnatic black 
with ashes and desolation—but he who destroys 
the American Union will be a greater curse 
than all or either." 
[TO BE CONTINUED.] 
For the Herald. 
THE MERITS OF CHRIST. 
The first intelligence that man ever had of a 
Saviour,—when God told the serpent that he 
would put emnity between his seed and that of 
the woman ; and that his seed should bruise the 
heel, but that of the woman the head,—was a 
promise in which some of all generations have 
greatly rejoiced—a promise of a coming Messiah. 
In the writings of all the prophets, wherever 
they prophesied of a coming Messiah, they ex-
alted him as a meritorious Saviour. Isaiah 
speaks of him as one exhibiting the most unsel-
fish benevolence—" For in him there was no form, 
nor comeliness, or beauty, that we should desire 
him ; but surely he bath borne our griefs, and 
carried our sorrows ; yet we did esteem him 
stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. He was 
wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our 
iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was 
upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. 
All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have 
turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord 
hath laid on hint the iniquity of us all." 
All this was fulfilled in Jesus, the Nazarene. 
What manifestations of pure benevolence and 
mercy ! And many, very many, have had their 
hearts and eyes fixed upon the holy One, and 
exclaimed, " Thou art my righteousness; for in 
me there is no good thing ; but in thee all good-
ness dwells !" When Jesus was but a babe in 
Bethlehem, and the wise men saw his star in the 
east and came to worship him, they felt to re-
joice ; for they knew that in him there was 
worth. With groat pleasure, mingled with emo-
tions of love and sympathy, we can trace his 
footsteps from the manger to the grave, by the 
record given of him in God's holy Word. 
Though very little is said ot him till he is ma-
tured in years and enters the ministry, yet his 
obedience to his parents in childhood, and his 
reasoning and disputing with the doctors in the 
Temple when but twelve years of age ; doing the 
will of his father and being about his business, 
deserves admiration and praise from all. 
Time has passed on, and we see him coming 
up out of Jordan's stream, with the Spirit in a 
form of a dove descending and lighting upon 
his head, and smiles of approbation from his Fa-
ther hovering over him, as a voice from heaven 
is heard, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in 
whom I am well pleased." And next we behold 
him going about doing good—healing the sick, 
casting out devils, forgiving sins, raising the 
dead, and doing a multitude of other things too 
numerous to mention. 
We now view him riding into Jerusalem amid 
shouts of hosannas from the people, taking upon 
himself the authority of' king; entering the Tem-
ple, driving out those that bought and sold ; 
overturning the tables of the money changers, 
who were making his Father's house a den of 
thieves instead of a house of prayer. 0, that 
the sanctuaries of God might be thus cleansed 
in these days ! But covetousness and the love 
of money are prominent features in our church-
es at the present day, which is most lamentable. 
While Jesus was conversing with the multi-
tude in the Temple, answering their questions, 
speaking to them in parables—which necessari-
ly condemned them—still his heart was filled 
with compassion toward Jerusalem, and he ex-
claimed, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that kill-
est the prophets and stonest them that are sent 
unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy 
children together, even as a hen gathereth her 
chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' 
What unfeigned love, mercy and compassion 
ever filled the heart of the blessed Saviour ! 
Divine pity dwelt in his heart, as he left the 
Temple for the last time, knowing that their 
house was left unto them desolate, and the de-
struction of the city was certain. And when he 
was asked by his disciples, " When shall these 
things be ?" how readily he answered their ques-
tions ; and what deep interest did he manifest 
for the church and his people, as the prophecy 
was being given; for ever and anon he would 
warn them to take heed, and exhort them to en-
dure unto the end ; and said to them, " When 
these things begin to come to pass, then look up, 
and lift up your heads, for your redemption draw-
eth nigh." After speaking to them by various 
parables, in which he describes the wise and the 
foolish, the righteous and the wicked, and gives 
the future destiny of each, we very soon find him 
amidst severe trials and afflictions; for, as the 
feast of the passover drew near, the Jews were 
plotting how they might take Jesus and kill him. 
Jesus knowing this, feels that he has deadly en-
emies, who are about to take his life. He also 
knows that he has some friends that love him ; 
for " when he was in Bethany, in the house of 
Simon, the leper, there came unto him a woman 
having an alabaster box of precious ointment, 
and poured it on his head as he sat at meat." 
Though his disciples were filled with indignation, 
and thought it a great waste, yet Jesus under-
stood the matter, and told them that she did it 
for his burial, and said, " That wherever the 
Gospel should be preached in the whole world, 
that this should be told as a memorial of her." 
In the meantime we find that Judas has cove-
nanted with the chief priests for thirty pieces of 
silver, to deliver Jesus unto them. And on the 
first day of the feast, as they sat to eat, Jesus 
exposed Judas to his disciples, by telling them 
that one of them should betray him, and Judas 
asking, " Is it I?" And while they were yet 
eating, Jesus instituted that blessed memorial of 
himself, " the Lord's Supper," which should be 
celebrated by his people till he comes the second 
time. 
We now behold him in the garden of Geth-
semane, with his disciples, where the sins of the 
world bear hard upon him, and he feels the need 
of prayer. So he commanded his disciples to 
watch while he prayed to the Father that that 
cup might pass from him if' itwaesyehsiswill. 
When he returned he found their 
 
with sleep. Little did they know of the agony 
heavy 
that pierced the soul of' the dear Redeemer, 
as 
he went once, twice, yea, thrice, to pray that the 
dreadful, agonizing, bitter cup might pass from 
his lips if it were possible. Terrible must be 
the struggle that caused him to sweat, as it were, 
great drops of blood, while contemplating what 
he must go through to become a sacrifice for ,a 
guilty world. Hard was it for him as a man to 
give up and stand in the sinner's stead. To be 
forsaken of God, ridiculed and railed upon by 
the wicked, and neglected by his friends. Truly, 
he could say, " The spirit is willing, but the flesh 
is weak." But through prayer he submits and 
becomes reconciled to the will of his Father, and 
is enabled to say, "Not my will, but thine be 
done." And when he arose and went to his 
disciples, he told them that the hour had come 
in which the Son of Man must be betrayed into 
the hands of sinners. And lo, Judas was at hand 
with a multitude to betray his Master. 
Then he was taken and led away to Caiaphas, 
the high priest, where the scribes and elders were 
assembled, there to receive his accusations, trial 
and condemnation. 
-Void must be the heart of 
sympathy, that cannot be touched by reading or 
hearing of the sufferings of the blessed Saviour. 
The sentence being given, we follow Jesus to 
Calvary, where he breathes out his life for the 
sins of the whole world. As he hangs on the 
tree, darkness covers all the land for the space 
of three hours—a fair representation of the 
blackness of darkness that shall enshroud the 
ungodly as they shall appear in judgment before 
the great God. And then we hear the appall. 
ing cry of the Son of Man, " My God, my God, 
why hast thou forsaken me?" Does the sinner 
feel that this must be his cry—that all the an-
guish that Jesus felt, he, too, must feel if he goes 
to judgment in his sins? 0, that the ungodly 
might realize their condition ; that they might 
feel that Jesus died the death of the sinner that 
they might be saved; that they might believe 
that God so loved the world that he gave his 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlasting life; 
that they might see that as Moses lifted up the 
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son 
of Man be lifted up, in order to draw men unto 
himself. 
Though our dear Redeemer forgave sins, 
healed the sick, raised the dead, and did many 
wonderful works when here in the flesh, yet all 
could not have access to him. And it was only 
those on whom he could lay his hands, or who 
could touch him, or be present with him, that 
received blessings from him. But, thanks be to 
God, he is not thus limited now; for the invita-
tion comes to all, for he says, " Look unto me, 
all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for I 
am God, and there is none else. And let him 
that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let 
him take the water of life freely." 
Shall we, now that we have followed our Sa-
viour to the cross, leave him there ? No, for he 
said, " No man taketh it (my life) from me, but 
lay it down of myself. I have power to lay 
it down, and I have power to take it again." 
Though he experienced the sinner's death, and 
his soul passed into Hades, and his body was 
laid in the tomb, yet that power which he pos-
sessed, reunited soul, body and spirit, burst the 
 
bands ot death, and he came forth triumphant 
over death and the grave, glorious and glorified. 
Yes, he died for our transgressions, rose for our 
is seat- 
justification, was received up into glory, 
ed at the right hand of the Father makingin-
tercession for us, that we, by believing in him, 
might be partakers of the same spirit, raised by 
the same power, and have our bodies fashioned 
his
like unto his glorious body, when he shall appear 
to_be admired in his saints and reign with 
people gloriously. 
" Precious Saviour, Lord divine, 
Who can help but Thee adore? 
Fill our hearts with love like thine ; 
Give us grace forevermore." 
S. E. G. 
Shrewsbury, Vt., May, 1863. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
147 
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 
caused his army to serve a great service against editions of 5,000 each, and have been trans-
Tyrus ; every head was made bald, and every lated into fifty-eight languages. Of his" Church 
shoulder was peeled ; yet had he no wages, nor History " there have been twenty translations. 
his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had The American Tract Society has issued 42,798 
served against it : Therefore thus saith the Lord copies of the Bible Stories in German and Span-
God, Behold I will give the land of Egypt unto ish, and 17,500 
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ; and he shall man. 
take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take 
her prey ; and it shall be the wages for his army. 
I have given him the Lind of Egypt for his la-
bour wherewith he served against it, because they 
wrought for me, saith the Lord God." 
In illustration of this prophecy, history in-
forms us, "that when the Tyrians saw their city 
must fall, they put their most valuable effects on 
board their ships, and fled with them to the 
islands and their colonies, so that the city being 
taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of 
his labor." 
After this destruction of the city, Tyre was to 
lie, desolate for seventy years. " Howl, ye ships 
of Tarshish ; for your strength is laid waste. 
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre 
shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the 
days of one king : after the end of seventy years 
shall Tyre sing as an harlot." 
There is a remarkable coincidence in the des-
olation of Tyre for seventy years, and the cap-
tivity of Judah in Babylon that length of time, 
and the duration of the Babylonian empire for 
the same 'period. The overthrow of the Baby-
lonian power relieved those nations which had 
been oppressed by it. 
At the termination of the seventy years Tyre 
was to arise again according to prophecy. "Take 
an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast 
been forgotten : make sweet melody, sing many 
songs, that thou mayest be remembered. And 
it shall come to pass after the end of seventy 
years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she 
shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornica-
tion with all the kingdoms of the world upon the 
face of the earth." 
Accordingly, we find, at the time Alexander 
had engaged in his conquests, the Tyrians had 
grown to such power and greatness, they stopped 
the progress of that rapid conqueror longer than 
any part of the Persian empire. Thus was Tyre 
on the island. 
This city was to be taken and destroyed 
again, says Isaiah, Ezekiel and Zechariah. 
Pass ye over to Tarshish ; howl, ye inhabi-
tants of the isle. And in their wailing they 
shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament 
over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like 
the destroyed in the midst of the sea? And 
Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped 
up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire 
of the streets. Behold, the Lord will cast her 
out, and he will smite her power in the sea ; and 
she shall be devoured with fire." 
The situation of Tyre was one of great strength, 
being on an island, and in addition to the de-
fence the sea afforded, she was fortified by a wall 
one hundred and fifty feet in height, and propor-
tionably thick. Tyre was also one of the most 
noted places for wealth. 
But notwithstanding all her riches and strength, 
the Lord declared he would " cast her out and 
smite her pos;er in the sea." She was to be de-
voured by fire. " Thou hast defiled thy sanctu-
aries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the 
iniquity of thy traffick ; therefore will I bring 
forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall de-
vour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon 
the earth in the sight of all them that behold 
thee." 
[CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.] 
 
" Bible Stories " passed through 157 German " 87th year of the cycle ; 23d of the Em- 
peror. Great drought. 
" 38th year of the cycle ; 24th of the Em-
peror. Great drought. The various classes of 
people prayed in the mulberry groves, confess-
ing their sins. Rain fell.' 
 
of the Church History in Ger- " Then comes a further account of the transac- 
tions of this year :— 
" When the drought had lasted seven years 
the Emperor Tang in person, supplicated in the 
mulberry groves and the desolate places. He 
prayed, saying :— 
" I am the man who alone has not prayed 
for the lives of the people, although all classes 
have confessed their sins, saying, we have not 
regulated our passions. I have not paid the at-
tention I ought to have done to the people, 
and consequently they are afflicted with this 
calamity sent from heaven. Females are beg-
ging even for the grain devoted to sacred pur-
poses. Plants and grass are no more produced. 
I have also suffered the most eminent persons to 
be calumniated.' He had not finished these words 
when rain fell over a large extent of the coun-
try.'" 
* Our own estimate makes the date of the fam- 
ine 1824 B. C. It does not appear from the 
above how the reckoning is brought down to the 
present time, and therefore we have no means of 
determining the value of the computation. 
S. B. 
For the Herald. 
SABBATH SCHOOL EXERCISES. 
0 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto 
me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation 
upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus 
saith the Lord God, thou sealest up the sum, full 
of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast 
been in Eden, the garden of God ; every pre-
cious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, 
and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the 
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the car- 
buncle, and gold ; the workmanship of thy tab-
rets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the 
day that thou wast created. Thou art the 
anointed cherub that covereth ; and I have set 
thee so ; thou wast upon the holy mountain of 
God; thous hast walked up and down in the 
midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect 
in thy ways from the day that thou wast creat- 
ed, till iniquity was found in thee. By the mul- 
titude of thy merchandise they have filled the 
midst of thee with violence, and thou 'last sinned ; 
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the 
mountain of God ; and I will destroy thee, 0 
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of 
fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy 
beauty, thou hest corrupted thy wisdom by rea-
son of thy brightness ; I will cast thee to the 
ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they 
may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanc-
tuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by 
the iniquity of thy traffick ; therefore will I 
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall 
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon 
the earth in the sight of all them that behold 
thee. All they that know thee among the peo-
ple shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a 
terror, and never shalt thou be any more." 
Then because of their cruelties to the children 
of Israel. " Because ye have taken my silver and 
my gold, and have carried into your temples my 
goodly pleasant things : Thus saith the Lord ; 
For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, 
I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 
secause they delivered up the whole captivity 
to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly cov-
enant. Son of man, because that Tyrus bath 
said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken, that 
was the gates of the people : she is turned unto 
me : I shall be replenished, now she is laid 
waste : Therefore thus saith the Lord God : Be-
hold, I am against thee, 0 Tyrus, and will cause 
many nations to come up against thee, as the sea 
causeth his waves to come up." 
The instrumentality God intended to employ 
was foretold. " For thus saith the Lord God, 
Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadnez- 
zar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the 
north, with horses, and with chariots, and with 
horsemen, and companies and much people. He 
shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the 
field ; and he shall make a fort against thee, and 
cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buck• 
ler against thee. And he shall set engines of 
war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall 
break down thy towers. By reason of the abun-
dance of his horses, their dust shall cover thee; 
thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horse-
men, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, 
when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter 
into a city wherein is made a breach. With 
the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all 
thy streets ; he shall slay thy people by the 
sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down 
to the ground. And they shall make a spoil of 
thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise ; 
and they shall break down thy walls, and de- 
stroy thy pleasant houses : and they shall lay thy 
stones, and thy timber, and thy dust, in the 
midst of the water. And I will cause the noise 
of thy songs to cease ; and the sound of thy 
harps shall be no more heard." 
Accordingly, we are informed, that Nebuch-
adnezzar did besiege Tyre on the continent thir-
teen years, and finally took it, and utterly de-
stroyed it. 
This is confirmed by Ezekiel, who speaks of 
the siege of Tyre as an event of the past. " And 
It Came to pass in the seven and twentieth year 
In the first month, in the first day of the month, 
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying' 
A Biblical Confirmation. 
THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 
The published " Transactions of the Chrono-
logical Institute of London," for 1861, announces 
an interesting discovery, which the London Re. 
view thus records :— 
" Mr. Williams, the Honorary Secretary of 
the Chronological Society, is the possessor of a 
curious Chinese work, in thirty-four volumes, 
with the title of Kang Deer E Che,' and in 
endeavoring to trace out whether the early Chi-
nese annals might not throw some light upon the 
ancient empires of Central Asia, he met with a 
remarkable fact in the early history of China, 
which, although not relating to the points of his 
own investigations, affords a curious and singu-
lar confirmation of the famine which caused the 
children of Israel to go down into Egypt. To 
begin with, there must have been some special 
reasons why all countries came to Egypt to buy 
corn, and these might be thought to be found in 
the great geographical extent of the famine—so 
great, that it is said to have been over the whole 
earth—and the peculiarly favorable conditions 
of Egypt for the growth of corn. 
" The date of the famine has never been ac-
curately determined from the statements in the 
Bible. Archbishop Usher, who decided that of 
the creation of the world to the fractional part 
of an hour, states it as 1703 B. C. ; Du Fresnez, 
at 1708 B. C. ; Helvicus, in 1711 B. c. ; Peta-
vius, that Jacob and his family went down in 
1747 B. C. ; and Predow, that this journey took 
place in 1756 B, c. Playfair makes the date 
of the famine 1772 B. C. From these varying 
and conflicting statements it is clear that the ex-
act period is far from being fixed, when there is 
exhibited a difference of sixty-nine years between 
the extremes of the dates assigned. * From 
the Chinese annals, however, we have a fixed 
date for a similar occurence in the year 1764 
B. c., the number of the years of the famine be-
ing the same, and the account being given with 
such simplicity and clearness, without figure or 
mystical exaggeration, as to give great proba-
bility to its correctness. The only place where 
Jacob could hear of corn was in Egypt ; but its 
plenty there was owing, it is stated, not to the 
usual harvests, but to the wise precautions or 
Joseph in laying up stores out of the preceding 
years. All surrounding nations seem to have 
suffered most severely, and as the drought ex-
tended even over Egypt, we must hence suppose 
the cessation of the annual inundations of the 
Nile. The inference from this would be, that 
the countries from which the waters of the Nile 
are derived must have been for that period with-
out rain ; and if the seven years of famine which 
Mr. Williams has found recorded in Chinese 
history be identical with that recorded in Egyp 
and the surrounding countries, it would show 
that the drought prevailed universally through-
out the East, and everywhere produced the usu-
al results of famine and distress. 
" Tne Chinese account runs thus :— 
" 32d year of the cycle. This year Chang 
Tang, king of the Shang, ascended to the throne 
of China. He had already reigned eighteen 
years over the Shang. This year there was a 
REV. DR. BARTII of GERMANY, died last Nov. great drought. 
 
" 33d year of the cycle ; 19th of the Em- 
aged 64 years. As an author Dr. Barth has 
been*widely known and eminently useful. In peror. Great drought. 
 
his Missions Blatt, or Missionary Journal, a " 34th year of the cycle ; 20th of the Em- 
valuable periodical, he popularized the subject peror. Great drought. In the summer of this 
and extended the knowledge of the progress and year a ferocious banditti infested the district 
results of missions. For many years he edited of Ting Shang. 
four monthly religious and missionry periodicals. " 35th year of the cycle ; 21st of the Em 
 
He founded and devoted his best energies to the peror. Great drought. The gold obtained at 
. Chwang Shang was coined into money to supply 
German and Foreign School-book Society, con 
ducted in the Spirit of the Religious Tract the wants of the people. 
" • 36th year of the cycle ; 22d of the Em- 
Society of London. He was the author or 
many excellent works for the young. The peror. Great drought. 
For the Herald. 
THEORY AND PRACTICE. 
G. A. M. 
Gustavus Adolphus' Army Song. 
Fear not. Oh little flock, the foe 
Who madly seeks your overthrow ; 
Dread not his rage and power : 
What though your courage sometimes faints, 
His seeming triumph o'er God's saints 
Lasts but a little hour. 
Be of good cheer : your cause belongs 
To Him who can avenge your wrongs ; 
Leave it to him, our Lord. 
Though hidden yet from all our eyes, 
He sees the Gideon who shall rise 
To save us and his word. 
Ars true as God's own word is true, 
Nor earth nor hell with all their crew 
Against us shall prevail ; 
A jest and by-word are they grown. 
God is with us we are his own ; 
Our victory cannot fail. 
Amen. Lord Jesus, grant our prayer ; 
Great Captain, now thine arm make bare ; 
Fight for us once again. : 
So shall thy saints and martyrs raise 
A mighty chorus to thy praise, 
World without end. Amen. 
ALTENBURO. 
AUSTRALASIA.—The Australasian Conference of 
Wesleyan Methodists met in January, 1862, at 
Adelaide. The increase of members in the colonies 
has been 1137, besides 1059 on trial. In the mis-
sion districts there has been an increase of 5455, the 
largest being in Fiji, and the smallest in Zealand, 
where the relations of the Maori and European 
populations are still in an unsettled state. 
In order to achieve any greatness, in either 
affection, taste, intellect or goodness, there must 
exist a model, standing clearly out in the forms 
of the imagination and in the light of reason. 
This model, or ideal, for each must be of each 
one's forming ; and in its formation consists the 
chief use of abstract, theoretical studies. The 
ideal thus formed must be realized—wrought in-
to the living life—not by any stroke of innate 
genius, not by taking advantage of some great 
crisis, not by waiting for opportunities, but by 
constant watchfulness in the minute details of 
daily duties. Once the true ideal formed, let 
even the most insignificant act of life be vig-
orously conformed to it. Thus will the char-
acter be gradually and permanently approximat-
ed toward the highest type which the rational 
imagination is capable of distinctly modeling. 
Galena, Ill., May 12, 1863. 
148 
THE ADVENT HERALD! 
ter's cause have paid the penalty with their lives. much like the money which certain chief priests a 
This relentless war against the Son of David and his 
claims to dominion were all forseen and foretold by 
him before his crucifixion. And not by him alone, 
but by the holy prophets who had preceeded him. 
" He shall wear out the saints and prevail against 
them," said the prophet Daniel. And thus it is to 
be till the " Ancient of Days shall come, that the 
saints shall possess the KINGDOM." 
Each successive experiment at expurgating the 
dominions of earth by the introduction of a new and 
more perfect race and administration has proved 
abortive. 
The first adminisiration was vested in the hands 
of Adam in his primeval holiness as already shown 
But the seducer entered Eden's happy bowers, and 
in an evil hour seduced him from his allegiance and 
duty, and prostrated his dominion in the dust. 
Things went on from bad to worse, till the earth 
was filled with violence and every thought and im-
agination of man's heart was evil, and only evil, and 
that continually. In this state of things the Lord 
swept the race, with the exception of one righteous 
man and his family from the earth, and gave to him, 
on his emergence from the ark, the dominion of 
Adam, which in the beginning was vested in him, 
but with no better success. In the days of Abram 
and Lot, Sodom and the cities of the plain were so 
corrupt that not ten righteous persons could be 
found there, and the storm of fire swept them away. 
Egypt, and Canaan, too, so debased themselves by 
rebellion against God that they were given up to de-
struction. At length God's chosen people, under a 
government of his own framing, were planted in a 
good land under the most favorable circumstances, 
surrounded by such influences as were the best cal-
culated to keep them obedient, but all in vain. The 
administration of Moses, Joshua. the judges, Samu-
el, David and all his descendants, were perverted, 
till God said, " I will overturn it, and it shall be no 
inure till he comes whose right it is ; and I will give 
it him." Then David's house and Judah's tribe 
went into captivity, and David's royalty was sus-
pended till the coming of Messiah. 
Thus every institution of earthly government has 
been perverted by Satan from its design to be an 
agency for good to the human race, to be an engine 
of oppression. 
The institution of government has been of God; 
its perversion of Satan. He has managed in each 
instance to obtain the control of affairs to accom-
plish his own diabolical purposes. 
But God's plan of establishing on earth a perfect 
government is not always to be defeated. He shall 
yet set up a " kingdom which shall never be de-
stroyed, nor be left to other people. But it shall 
break in pieces and subdue all these kingdoms and 
stand forever." 
INFINITUDE OF CREATION. 
REY. J. LITCII :—I send you the following 
beautiful passage, being a portion of a lecture, 
delivered in New York City, by the late and 
much lamented Prof. Mitchel. Indeed, he Was 
another victim of this cruel and unjust war, and 
doubtless most are acquainted with him, as a co-
pious writer on astronomy, and as a lecturer 
on that deep subject. His book entitled " Plan-
etary and Stellar Worlds," is known to be a pro-
duction of unusual depth to every lover of sci-
ence. 
This passage breathes such sublime emotions, 
showing the infinitude of creation, the immensity 
of the works of the Almighty, that perhaps the 
readers of the Herald will peruse it with care. 
When the yellow fever struck down Prof. 
Mitchel, it took one of the brightest ornaments 
in America. But death is no respecter of per- 
sons, it is said. 
J. S. B. 
Light traverses space at the rate of a mil-
lion miles a minute, yet the light from the near-
est star requires ten years to reach the earth, 
and Herschel's telescope revealed stars two 
thousand three hundred times further distant. 
The great telescope of Lord Ross pursued these 
creations of God still deeper into space, and 
having resolved the nebulae of the Milky Way 
into stars, discovered other systems of stars—
beautiful diamond points, glittering through the 
black darkness beyond. When he beheld this 
amazing abyss—when he saw these systems 
scattered profusely throughout space—when he 
reflected upon their immense distance, their im-
mense magnitude, and the countless millions of 
worlds that belonged to them, it seemed to him 
as though the wild dream of the German poet 
was more than realized. 
" God called man in dreams into the vesti-
bule of heaven, saying, Come up hither, and I 
will show thee the glory of my house.' And to his 
angels who stood about his throne he said, Take 
him, strip him of his robes of flesh ; cleanse his 
affection ; put a new breath into his nostrils ; 
but touch not his human heart—the heart that 
fears hopes and trembles.' A moment, and it 
was done, and the man stood ready for his un-
known voyage. Under the guidance of a mighty 
angel, with sounds of flying pinions, they sped 
away from the battlements of heaven. Some-
times on the mighty angel's wings they fled 
through Saharas of darkness, wildernesses of 
death. At length, from a distance not counted; 
save in the arithemetic of heaven, light beamed 
upon them—a sleepy flame, as seen through a 
hazy cloud. They sped on in their terrible 
speed to meet the light ; the light with lesser 
speed came to meet them. In a moment the 
blazing of sons around them—a moment the 
wheeling of planets ; then came long eternities 
of twilight ; then again, on the right hand and 
on the left appeared more constellations. At 
last the man sank down, crying, Angel, I can 
go no further, let me lie down in the grave, and 
hide myself from the infinitude of the universe, 
for end there is none.' End there is none ?' de- 
manded the angel. And from the glittering 
stars that shone around, there came a chora 1 
shout, End there is none !" End there is none ? 
demanded the angel again, and is it this tha 
awes thy soul ? I answer, end there is none t 0 
the universe of God! Lo, also, there is no be 
inning ! '" 
g 
The New Tract 
By Rev. I). Bosworth, is now ready for distribu-
tion. " The Cup of Wrath taken from the Hand 
of the Jews and Put into the Hand of the 
Gentile—A Sign of the Times." 
The design of this tract is to show that the times 
of the Gentiles, (Luke 21 : 24,) are closing upend 
the great day of God's wrath on the nations is at 
hand. The facts enunciated as to a change in the 
condition of the Jews among the nations is conclu-
sive evidence that Messiah's throne is soon to be set 
up. For, said the Lord, (Ezek. 21 : 27—"It shall 
be no more till He come whose right it is, and I will 
give it Him." 
A clergyman says of it, " It is a very impressive 
thing, and should be scatterred like the leaves of 
Autumn." 
Price-30 cents per hundred, or $2 50 per thou-
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The Outgoing and Incoming Administrations. 
AD VENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, MAY 26, 1863. 
JOSIAH LITCH, EDITOR. 
To Correspondents. 
J. C 
KNOTT.— Have none of Bliss' " Sacred 
Chronology ;" they are out of print. Will send 
Siess' book soon. 
Religion in California. 
I may as well say here as anywhere, what I think 
of the standard of Protestant piety in California. 
It is fair to say that it is as high as might reasona-
bly be expected, when we take into view the circum-
stances in which the great body of the people went 
to that state. A rush was made for gold, and no-
thing else was talked about, or thought or dreamed 
of but gold, and each man should "make his pile." 
Nuggets, and pockets, and big strikes, were in all 
their thoughts, and if they did not on Sunday work 
with pick and pan, they performed ether kinds of 
labor which they postponed that day, because it 
would otherwise interfere with the actual digging 
of gold. They observed Sunday as many lumber-
men in the logging-swamps of waine used to ; they 
ground their axes and mended their chains and sleds 
on that day. Sunday was the day for the miner to 
lay in his supplies, and of course the day for the 
trader to furnish them. Everybody was employed 
either in mining or supplying miners, and so all be-
came involved in the sin of Sabbath breaking. 
This neglect of the Sabbath and sanctuary let the 
piety of professed Christians down to a low level, 
and it has never gone up to the standard of tie At-
lantic states. Let me state a fact. Last June, 
when I was in Sacramento, a "Floral Festival," as 
it was called, was given in aid of the Presbyterian 
minister. Dancing was the chief attraction of the 
festival, and I was told the managers were obliged to 
add that the the programme for the young people 
would not pay their tickets. "The children of the 
church" were there, and some of them undoubtedly 
danced, as well as did the daughter of Herodias, and 
pleased God no better than she did. It may be that 
I am behind the times, but it seems to me that 
money got for religious uses by dancing, is very 
[TO BE CONTINUED.] 
long time ago invested in a potter's field. In an-
other California town a series of entertainments was 
got up in aid of the Presbyterian minister, the chief 
attraction being the dancing ; but the project proved 
a failure. This same thing may have happened of 
other denominations ; but as our Presbyterian friends 
are regarded as the straightest sect among Protes-
tants, the facts stated verify the assertion I have 
made in regard to the standard of Protestant piety 
in California. 
Here is an anecdote on the subject. A country. 
man espied a clerical acquaintance on the ears goit g 
to New York. Among a dozen questions lie put to 
him was this : "Perhaps you're going to California?" 
The clergyman told him that he expected to go by 
the next steamer. "Going to give up religion and 
go to California. Well, well, Pmember you're ex-
perience ; you took 'ligion very hardlj, had dread-
ful struggles, and now.going to give it all up and 
go to California." That man must have been a re-
turned miner. It is too true, I fancy, that many 
professed Christians when they get to California 
give up a good deal of their religion in a short time 
But I know this need not necessarily be so, for 
have seen active and zealous Christian men are 
women in California. But I don't think the num. 
her of them is so large in any city, as to crowd 
sinner off the sidewalk.—MALLAM 
Watchman 
The Closet. 
No Christian can be comfortable or prosperou 
without retirement. Popular ministers may preach 
converse, or pray in public, to the edifying of others 
and yet decline in their own souls for want of es 
amination, humiliation, and secret prayer, suite 
immediately to their own case. Nay, the most abl 
ministers will generally cease to be very useful 
their religion is neglected, or hurried over in a fot 
trial manner. This the fervent Christian khove 
He will, therefore, redeem time for retirement at ti 
expense of many inconveniences : and the friends 
popular ministers should remember this, and no 
too much intrude upon the regular needful hours fc 
retirement of those persons in whose company the 
most delight. In prosecuting the word of God, ou 
own inclinations must be thwarted, we must no 
"spend our time" with them when duty calls us an 
other way, or when a prospect is before us of doin 
essential good. 
During the long pause of suspense, while wain' 
fur the inevitable battles of the spring, the inter( 
and activity of our benevolent people army-wa 
have been greatly on the wane. The first enthu 
asm, which incited men to generous giving and NI 
men to be overflowing in good works, has groi 
cold. We have become accustomed to the thong 
of war. No moving tales of special suffering ho 
stirred us lately. The soldiers in our thinned h, 
pitals are comfortable and kindly cared for. 
truth, we are very prosperous here at home, a 
much at ease, and settled down upon our loss. I 
now a cry comes up into our ears from off the b 
tle-field. Strong crying of sorrow and angui 
Awaken, pitiful hearts ! Arise up ye that sit 
ease'. It is time to give and to work. Let us 
ture to ourselves those sorrowful scenes about Fr 
ericksburg ; our brothers lying alone upon the c 
ground, bleeding their lives away, with the let 
thirst of wounds upon them, crying out unheard 
water; waiting terrible hours, days, even, for 
mercies of the surgeon's knife, while their wou 
turn to gangrene. Let us picture it as of our se 
our husbands, and then resolve what we will 
We cannot all flock to the battle-field to minister 
the sufferers, but all can strengthen the hands I 
extend the power of tried and experienced MiDiSi 
by giving freely of their goods and money. 
The most extended agency for such relief', the lo 
est in the field, best known and proven, is the Ifni 
States Sanitary Commission. Read the record 
its works of mercy at Antietam, at Murfreesbo 
during all that terrible Peninsula campaign, 
elsewhere, and then make haste to put it in its p 
er to repeat like deeds.. Never were its coffer 
empty, and never were its demands so great as n 
This day—before lying down in comfortable 
this night—let every man, every woman, ree 
what of their superfluity—what of their conifer 
what even of their finery—they can give to alley 
that great cry of suffering which comes from 
Reppahannock.—A Member of the Woman's 
sylvania Branch. 
Sanitary Commission Department. 
What God takes away from his 
ple, he will one day or other restore v, 
advantage. 
A CRY FROM THE BATTLE-FIELD. 
and Reflector. 
The readersof the Herald are most earnestly besought 
to give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God 
may be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it 
may be onducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judg-
ment and discernment of the truth, in nothing carried 
away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly 
disputation. 
While we should be thankful to our Heavenly 
Father for so good a government as that with which 
we have been favored, yet amid the din of war and 
the clashing of party politics ; the upheavings of so-
ciety in all its departments, together with the 
hreatened overthrow of thrones and kingdoms, the 
tudent of the Bible can but think of Jehovah's dec-
aration, " I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, 
and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of 
the Gentiles.'} If God's word shall not pass till all 
be fulfilled, then the present dynasties of earth are 
to give place to something better. While we do not 
think party politics a subject about which the disci-
ples of Christ should waste their energies, we cannot 
subscribe to the dogma, that there is no connection 
between politics and religion. The true Christian 
is a pure politician. Christianity, in short, is noth-
ing else than politics. It relates purely to the sci-
ence of the government of earth, and only will have 
its perfect development and realization when the 
" kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of 
the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all domin- 
ions shall serve and obey him." (Dan. 7 : 27.) 
And when we speak of this political aspect of the 
Christian religion, which is thus to culminate, we 
do not mean that it shall so spread and establish it- 
self by means of present instrumentalities as to give 
a Christian character to governments now existing, 
but that the governments of earth are to be dashed 
in pieces and ground to powder by the kingdom 
which the God of heaven shall set up. (Dan. 2 : 44.) 
This incoming administration is to be a restoration 
of that which was in the beginning when God made 
man and gave him dominion over all the earth and 
over every living thing which moveth on the earth. 
God was supreme, Adam his vicegerent, and the off-
spring of Adam his joint heir to the dominion. 
" Multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it and 
have dominion." " Let them have dominion." 
(Gen. 1: 26-28.) The great rebellion entered the 
garden of Eden, and sin blighted this fair heritage, 
till God drove man from the garden and guarded 
the way to the tree of life, that he might return 
unto the dust. Was not this original kingdom the 
one which God " prepared from the foundation of 
the world," and which Christ will give his sheep at 
the day of judgment ? (Matt. 25 : 34.) 
The great questions which have confused the earth 
and made it a Golgotha fur so many thousand years, 
have been the right of dominion over the earth. The 
old usurper, the instigator of rebellion, proclaims 
himself the monarch of all the kingdoms of earth 
and all their glory. Thus when the Son of God had 
been proclaimed from heaven at the banks of Jur-
. dan, and was led up into the wilderness to be tempt- 
ed of the devil, among other proposals was this : 
He " showed him all the kingdoms of the world in 
a moment of time" and said, " All this power will 
I give thee and the glory ; for that is delivered un-
to me , and to whomsoever I will I give it. If 
thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine." 
The dominion of earth, then, was the question at 
issue between the Son of God and Satan. The 
tempting bait of a bloodless possession of the do-
minion of earth. Rejecting it, as President Lincoln 
did a similar one, he took tip the gauntlet thrown 
down by the arch rebel, and with full knowledge of 
the blood which must flow, he proclaimed, " I came 
not to send peace on earth but a sword. Hence-
forth there shall be five in one house divided ; three 
against two and two against three." " A man's 
foes shall be they of his own house." The onset 
was made on Christ himself, and pursued to the 
death of the Messiah for his assumption of royal 
character against the claims of Satan. Since then, 
uncounted millions for their adherence to their Mas- 
mar 
THE ADVEN r HERALD 
149 
Here is my heart !—in Christ its longing end, 
Near to the Cross it draws ; 
It says : " Thou art my portion, 0 myFriend ! 
Thy blood my ransom was." 
And in the Savior it has found 
What blessedness and peace abound— 
My trusting kart. 
Here is my heart !—ah! Holy Spirit, come, 
Its nature to reuew, 
And consecrate it wholly as thy home, 
A temple fair and true. 
Teach it to love and serve thee more, 
To fear thee, trust thee, and adore— 
My cleansed heart ! 
Itentiary, two factories, a foundry, a block of build-
ings, medical purveyor's and other government 
buildings : also several miles of railroad track and 
both bridges over Pearl river. 
FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 
The news by late arrivals is uninportant. 
Great Britain.—In the House of Commons, Lord 
Palmerston defended the course of Mr. Christie, the 
British Minister to Brazil, and repudiated the at-
tacks upon him by Gen. Webb, the American Min-
ister. 
France.—The Paris correspondent of the Morning 
Post says : " There is every reason to suptiose that 
Russia, if invited, will submit to a conference on 
Poland. Napoleon is said to have received assuran-
ces from the Czar on this point." On the 2d, the 
insurgents under Tizanowski were defeated near 
Burzelu. Tizanowski was wounded. 
Poland.—The insurgents under Franz have been 
dispersed a short distance from the Austrian fron-
tier. The Austrians have received fifty fugitive 
insurgents, six wagon loads of arms and two pieces 
of cannon. Four thousand Bashi Bazouks, desert-
ers from the Greek faith, armed by the Russian 
government, were devastating the Lavonia with fire 
and sword. Six hundred Russians were repulsed 
by Minewski, at Olkus, in the government of Ru-
dow on the 5th. 
Here is my heart !—it trembles to draw near 
The glory of thy throne ; 
Give it the shining robe thy servants wear, 
Of righteousness thine own ; 
Its pride and folly chase away, 
And all its vanity, I pray— 
My humbled heart ! 
Here is my heart !—teach it, 0 Lord, to cling 
In gladness unto thee ; 
And in the day of sorrow still to sing : 
" Welcome, my God's decree." 
Believing, all its journey through, 
That thou art wise, and just and true— 
My waiting heart ! 
From the German of Ehrenfried Liedich 
Here Is My Heart. 
Here is my heart—my God I give it thee ; 
I heard thee call and say ; 
" Not to the world, my child, but unto me "— 
I heard and will obey. 
here is love's offering to my King, 
Which in glad sacrifice I bring— 
Here is my heart ! 
Here is my heart !—surely the gift, though poor, 
My God will not despise ; 
Vainly and lung I sought to make it pure, 
To meet thy searching eyes. 
Corrupted once in Adam's fall, 
The stains of sin pollute it all— 
My guilty heart ! 
Here is my heart !—my heart so hard before, 
Now by thy grace made meet ; 
Yet bruised and wearied, it can only pour 
Its anguish at thy feet. 
It groans beneath the weight of sin, 
It sighs salvation's joys to win— 
My mourning heart. 
Here is my heart !-0 Friend of friends be near, 
To make the tempter fly ; 
And when my latest foe I wait with fear, 
Give me the victory ? 
Gladly on thy love reposing, 
Let me say, when life is closing, 
" Here is my heart ! 
Worth of Your Hope ! 
A correspondent of Zion's Advocate refers thus to 
a statement which is not unfrequently made, and 
not always with the very nest of reason : 
" Not loag ago I heard a person make this re-
mark : I do not know that I am a Christian, but 
I have a hope that I would not exchange for a thou-
sand worlds.' It was a person of whose religious 
character I was somewhat acquainted. The ques-
tion at once arose, whether if I had a million of 
worlds, I would give a thousand of them for such a 
hope n—for that particular hope. This, of course, 
led me to think what it had done for its possessor, 
what it was now doing towards purifying the heart 
and producing the fruits of Christian life, and I 
concluded that I did not wish to purchase. No, I 
said, such a hope would not be worth three cents to 
rne. I think it is better to judge of the worth of a 
religious hope by what it is actually doing for us 
from day to day, than by what we would take for it 
in trade." 
A FABLE.—A young man once picked up a sov-
ereign lying in the road. Ever afterwards, as he 
walked along the road, he kept his eyes steadfastly 
fixed on the ground, in hopes of Ending another. 
And in the course of a long life, he did pick up at 
different times a good amount of gold and silver. 
But all these days, as he was looking for them. he 
saw not that heaven was bright above him, and na-
ture beautiful around. He never once allowed his 
eyes to look up from the mud and 'filth in which he 
sought the treasure ; and when he died a rich old 
man, he only knew this fair earth of ours as a dirty 
road to pick up money as you walk along.—Theo-
dare Parker. 
For the Herald. 
MY JOURNAL. 
Tuna WEST. No. 11. 
Meeting at Ottawa—interview with Rev. Mr. Scho-
field—Rev. Mr. Coleman—Cause ire Ottawa—
Amboy. 
Our meetings were continued twice a day till 
Friday, Feb. 13th, when they closed in triumph 
over all obstacles. In the afternoon of each day I 
gave practical discourses on the duties and hopes 
of Christians ; and in the evenings prophetical. 
There was a daily increase in numbers and in inter-. 
est to the last. And among our hearers were num-
bered the most intelligent citizens and church mem-
bers, with many of the clergy. 
Bid. Calkins, and many of the brethren were in 
attendance from Deer Park, eight miles out, and 
gave us sympathy and aid. These with a few be-
lievers in the city enjoyed the meetings much, and 
were cheered and encouraged. They once had a 
good church here, but the candlestick was removed 
several years ago, and the remnant have had to 
seek instruction from the churches about them, as 
best they could. I trust they will find in Elder 
Coleman Christian sympathy, and " meat in due 
season," under his faithful ministry. He is not an 
Adventist, it is true , but he is a Bible man, and 
agrees with us in many of themost important truths. 
He attended all the lectures, and spoke, and asked 
questions on any points not clear to his miod. 
And in all respects he showed himself a brother, 
and a Christian gentleman. God bless him, and 
his happy flock. 
I need not speak of the course of other professed 
ministers in Iowa, who knew of no Adventists who 
did not have a stain on their character ; who had 
no sympathy for Adventism, or those who held them. 
Who believed that persons who embraced Advent 
views, give evidence in this act that they were never 
converted, and who, at the same time by their own 
confession had never studied, and therefore did not 
understand the subject on which they sit in judge-
ment ; or the excellence of the persons they con-
demned ! Such men should remember, that mi-ds-
ters of their own faith have fallen into sin, as well 
as Adventists, and the argument is just as good in 
such a case against congregationalism as it is against 
Adventism. 
I enjoyed an excellent visit with Bro. McLain, 
and family. Our acquaintance begun in Rochester, 
N. Y., where I preached in the Market-place twenty 
years ago. A circumstance occurred there which 
none of us will ever forget. I hung up my larg, 
chart on the outside door of the Market, and stooc 
on the sill, or threshold, and the large crowd were 
in the street in front. While I was explaining the 
vision of the seventh of Daniel, I had come to th, 
" Little hour," which symbolized the Papal power. 
a large Irishman, a Roman Catholic, threw a bottle 
of ink upon the chart and besmeared it nearly all 
over. Though our faith was not popular, yet this 
act was very unpopular. The man was seized by 
the police, and as I learned paid dearly for this out-
rage on our rights. 
Bro. McLain and wife were present and saw thi, 
act, and were associated with us in the cause then 
and elsewhere before they came West. They still 
retain their faith in the doctrine, and sympathiz 
with its advocates. It was trying to part with 
this kind, and genial household. They have my, 
thanks for liberal and kind offices, and may God re-
ward them. I had to leave at 2 A. M., in order t. 
make the railroad connection at La Salle, with the 
train to Amboy, the next day. So I got little or 
no rest, though I needed it very much. On my ar 
rival at La Salle, I put up at the hotel and though 
it was near daylight, yet I took a bed for rest, as I 
could sleep in the morning to a late hour, and then 
be in time for the train to Amboy. I got several 
hours good sleep and was refreshed. On going 
down to the bar-room to pay my bill, the landlord, 
who was a coarse gruffy Irishman, said to me, 
" Will you take breakfast?" 
Yes, I replied, but I have my breakfast with me. 
I will eat it at your table, if you please. 
" We have no such works here, Sir," he replied. 
 
But, said I, I can't eat your swine's flesh, and 
grease, and pepper and salt, and other condiments 
that you have on your table. He looked at me 
sternly, and said : 
" Well " that is curious—indade it is." 
Oh yes, it may be to you. but this is my way of 
living. And if I pay you the same, as though I 
ate your food, I suppose you will not object? He 
smiled now for the first time and said, 
" All right." 
ri-3- Those that are willing enough to 
take the pleasure and profit of sin, are 
backward enough to take the blame and 
shame of it. 
TILE LATEST NEWS. 
ARMY MOVEMENTS. 
At eleven A. M., May 24, the President received 
the following dispatch from Washington announc-
ing that VICKSBURG IS OURS : 
" Cleaveland, Ohio, May 24. A dispatch from 
Mr. Fuller, the manager of the telegraph at Mem-
phis, dated late in the night, says, " The stars and 
stripes float over Vicksburg, and the victory is 
complete. I have held hack this message hoping 
to get confirmation, but the line has been interrupt-
ed, and I now give it to you as it reached me. I 
think the wires will be all right soon." 
We consider this as trustworthy as anything but 
official or direct information can be, and reading it 
in the light of the previous news, it is hardly possi-
ble to doubt that the crowning victory of the long 
struggle for the great river has at last been won, 
and that Vicksburg is ours. 
Gen. Grant attacked the upper batteries of Vicks 
burg on Sunday, while the gunboats attacked the 
water batteries. On Tuesday the upper batteries 
were captured and turned on the water batteries. 
it is reported that Gen. Sherman has taken Haines 
and Chicksaw Bluffs, with 8000 prisoners, 100 
guns, and ammunition and commissary stores. The 
prisoners were paroled and sent across the Yazoo. 
Washington May, 24. The following official de-
tails of the battle of Black river have been received : 
Memphis, Tenn., May 23-11 : 30 A. M., 
Hon E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War : 
The following dispatch has been received at these 
headquarters and is forwarded as requested. 
S. A. HURLBURT, Major General. 
Rear of Vicksburg, May 20-6 A. M. 
Hosr. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War : 
Gen. Grant won a great and momentous victory 
over the rebels under Pemberton on the Jackson 
and Vicksburg Railroad at Baker's Creek on the 
16th inst. Pemberton had a most formidable po-
sition on the crest of a wooded hill over which the 
road passes longitudinally. Ile had about 25.000 
men. The battle began at 11 A. M. and was 
gained at 4 P. M. Its brunt was borne by Hovey's 
division of McClernand's corps, and by Logan's 
and Crocker's divisions of McPherson's corps. 
Hovey attacked the hill and held the greater part of 
it until 2 o'clock, when, having lost 1600 men, he 
was succeeded by Boomer's and Holme's brigades of 
Crocker's division, by which the contest was ended 
in that part of the field. Boomer lost 500 men. 
Logan operated on the right and cut off the enemy's 
direct retreat, so that he was compelled to escape 
by his right flank through the woods. Logan lost 
400 in killed and wounded. We took about 2000 
prisoners. On the 17th, advancing to the Big 
Black, we fought Pemberton again at the bridge 
there, and captured 3000 more prisoners. Ile 
fought in rifle pits protected by a difficult bayou full 
of abattis. Lawler's brigade of McClernand's corps 
a.farged the rifle pits magnificently and took more 
prisoners than their own numbers. Pemberton 
burned his bridge and returned to Vickburg with 
only three cannon out of 60 that he had taken out. 
Building four bridges over the Big black Gen. 
Grant arrived before the town on the evening of the 
8th, and now holds it closely invested. He had 
opened a line of supplies on Chicksaw Bayou, hav-
ing cut the town off from Haines' Bluffs, which are 
abandoned by the enemy, and which Gen. Grant will 
occupy. There was sharp fighting through the day 
yesterday. Steele won and holds the upper bluffs, 
and the enemy's upper water batteries, and gets 
water from the Mississippi river. Sherman's corps 
lost yesterday 500 in killed and wounded. Mc-
Pherson, who holds the centre, lost little, as did 
McCclernand, who holds the left. The gunboats 
kept the enemy on the alert during the night, and 
probably the town will be carried to-day. There 
are from 15,000 to 20,000 men in it. The Navy 
Department has received information that Admiral 
Porter has been co-operating with Gen. Grant 
in the siege of Vicksburg. His fleet is cannonad-
ing the city and its works—still in the hands of the 
rebels—by night, while Grant's army assailed it by 
day, thus giving the rebels within the town and in-
trenchments, not a moments relaxation from the 
peril of their situation. The same Department has 
also received official information that Admiral Far-
ragut's fleet is actively engaged in bombarding Port. 
Hudson. 
Various reports say that Price is moving towards 
the Missisippi and had at last accounts crossed the 
Arkansas. Marmaduke is said to have joined him. 
A Brandon, Miss., dispatch of the 17th, to a 
rebel paper says :—" Two gentlemen rode to Jackson 
to-day and traversed the city, which the enemy had 
evacuated about two o'clock. They are supposed 
to number 40,000, and have retreated towards Vicks-
burg. Firing has be.en heard in that direction, and 
it is supposed that Pemberton is in their rear 
They burned the Confederate House, depots, pea: 
JOSHUA V. HIMES. 
To Gon, YOUR FATHER.—GOd is indeed the Fa-
ther of us all, in that He is our Creator ; but is He 
our Father, in that He has regenerated and adopted 
us ? If so, we shall love His Word, His Sabbaths, 
his sanctuary, his people and his cause; and more-
over, we shall love his Sun, Jesus Christ our Lord ; 
for that Son was authorized to say and did say, 
" If God was your father, ye would love Me." 
(John 8 : 43.) 
EVERY DAY RELIGION —There is not much solidi-
ty in a religion that will not stand the test of every-
day experience. " There are a good many pious 
people," says Douglas Jerrold, " who are as care-
ful of their religion as of their best service of china, 
only using it for holiday occasions. for fear it should 
get ulipped or flawed in working-day wear." 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
The Richmond Sentinel of the 19th contains an 
article against receiving men sent South by Presi-
ident Lincoln, and says : " We must require of all 
who are received that they join their efforts with 
ours against the common enemy. They must as 
sume our allegiance and its duties. 
Gen. Banks, in a private letter, expresses the ex-
pectation that Louisiana will soon be ready to enter 
the Union again, this time as a free State. 
The Richmond Enquirer has a very long editorial 
on the subject of retaliation, and pours forth great 
griefs over the difficulties which beset the matter. 
It admits that the only chance for retaliation is in 
accordance with the resolution of the rebel Congress, 
authorizing the putting to drath of all white officers 
found connected with negro regiments. But then 
it adds, " The Yankees will in turn hang our offi-
cers," and closes with a " boo-boo" over the mis-
fortunes of the Confederacy. 
A letter from Hilton Head of a recent date says : 
" There has not been a death in this department 
during the week. The latest death of a New Eng-
land soldier was that of private Charles H. Good-
win, 11th Maine Regiment, May 6th, of consump-
tion, at General Hospital No 5, in Beaufort." 
The officers and crew of the flagship Wabash have 
raised $1200, by subscription, in aid of suffering 
Ireland. 
William Robe, of Morgan county, Ind., was shot 
dead while at work in a field on the 21st inst., by a 
"Copperhead," named Bailey. Robehad been col-
lecting evidence against the Knights of the Golden 
Circle. 
Ten Righteous Men. 
There was a time when they, only ten, could have 
saved a city from the fire of a just vengeance. 
Why may not ten righteous men save this coun-
try now ? 
Because wickedness abounds, and no signs of re-
pentance appear, we are not to take for granted that 
there are none in secret places who have turned 
from their evil ways, and are now crying mightily 
unto God for the salvation of this people. 
Try it, ye who have the spirit of prayer. Try i 
in faith, nothing doubting. Women of America, 
mothers in Israel, ye have power with God ; go 
again and often, a,nd give him no rest day nor night, 
till he come and save. Ye ministers of his, who 
stand at his altars and intercede for his people, your 
strength is in prayer. There ought to be ten times 
ten thousand praying, righteous men, who will now 
take hold on God. 
In every village, in every church, there ought to 
be a praying circle composed of .at least " ten righ-
teous men," who will pray till the wished-for bless-
ing comes.— Observer. 
150 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
In thisdepartment,artieles are solicited , on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities,and to study Christian courtesy in all reference: 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
egarded as dise, t itling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
nee Hess .unkii d, or uncourteouscontroversy. 
1111111111, 
CORRESPONDENCE 
For the Herald. 
it will be needed until the Blessed Lord in whom 
it glories shall consummate faith with the light of 
Himself. 
After such a rough drawn thread of thought per--
mit me in conclusion to say that these our brethren 
sisters and fathers never had reliance upon any 
other authority for any doctrines than that of Holy 
Scriptures as interpreted by the apostles of the Lord 
in the light of His own glorious Self at the Right 
Hand of the Majesty in the heavens. That the Tal-
mudists were all against this " Common faith ;" 
that Philo and his school of Simon Magus's and 
Bar jesus's always " perverted the right ways of the 
Lord :" That all the accredited Fathers of the 
Christian church, from Origen down, mainly follow-
ed him as he followed Philo. Both followed Plato ; 
and both swamped the scriptures—Philo the old, 
Origen, both the old and new—in the sloughs of 
the Greek and Chaldean philosophy ; and, there-
fore, they are no authorities to quote for our heed-
ing, any more than they were for our early breth-
ren. And, further, let me say, as by heeding them 
a general shipwreck of faith and apostasy followed 
n the early ages of the Christian church, so sim-
ilia , simelibus, the same effects will follow the same 
course now. Facts in proof are abundant. 
All paternal affection in the Lord. 
Yours. 
For the Herald. 
FROM ELDER D. W. SORNBERGER. 
Brother Litch :—I intended to have written soon 
after your reply to my article giving my opinion on 
man's original condition ; but having been laid 
aside from labor by sickness since last December, 1 
have deferred writing, and perhaps should not have 
written upon this subject now (as I consider there 
are more important subjects,) were it not that I am 
misunderstood. You say in your reply to the arti-
cle on Immortality, in the Herald of Jan. 20th, in 
speaking of man's probation not being as brother 
S. assumes for life, for he possessed it, but for 
death. Here you misunderstood. I claim he had 
life, as you see in my article, but a probationer for 
immortality on the one hand, and mortality and 
death on the other. And although man had life, 
yet the continuance of that life depended upon the 
privilege of using the means to perpetuate it—that 
means was, eating of the tree of life. See Gen. 2 : 
9, and 3 : 22. "And your going a step further'. 
and saying " that he was immortal in the true scrip-
taral sense," has not changed my opinion in the 
least, nor will it so long as 1 know I have the Bible 
on the side of the question I advocate. 
I hope you will understand me. I do not claim 
man mortal, nor immortal, but possessing life and a 
probationer tor eternal life and immortality, or mor-
tality and death. Another wrong impression has 
been expreseed in reference to my article by brother 
Bursell, (and I erhaps by others,) as expressed in his 
letter in the Herald of April 21st. In referring to 
the article, after mentioning the two names—yours 
first—he then adds '• 1 agree with the latter ;" 
and it would seem by the remainder of his letter, 
that he had the impression that I believed man was 
all body and no spirit, But he has not understood 
me. Mortality or immortality belonged or was pre- 
sented as the result of obedience to God to the body, 
or as a physical condition of man. But man had 
the life of God in him, which he lost or was alien-
ated from, and partook of the spirit of the master to 
whom he yielded himself a servant to obey, and thus 
he lost the promised blessings. 1 have been labor-
ing to get sinners brought to Christ, or to God 
through Christ, and 1 never expect the downward 
course of the outward man will be changed until 
the inward man is changed and brought to God. 
Then the change will appear in the outer man ; then 
we again possess life, but a hidden life. " It doth 
not yet appear what we shall be ; but (having the 
moral qualification,) we know that when he (Christ) 
shall appear, we shall be like him, (physically,) for 
we shall see him as he is." 
'Tis truth that bears our spirits up, 
While we expect that blessed hope ; 
The bright appearance of the Lord, 
And faith* stands leaning on his word." 
Exercised by the inner man. 
Stansteed, May 15, 1863. 
[Nom.—We are glad to find that our correspon-
dent and ourself come so near an agreement on this 
question. I. We both agree that man in his crea-
tion had life, the life or zoe of God. 2. That if he 
had not sinned he would have continued forever in 
that happy, divine life. 3. That he is now alienat-
ed rom that life of God, and is, therefore, mortal, 
or subject to death. 4. That he has both an in-
ward and outward man ; and that the inward man 
is the subject of conversion, and governs, when re-
newed, the outward man, and will, ultimately, make 
it immortal. We call that happy, divine life, or 
life of God, which would never end if man was obe-
dient, immortality. Brother S. calls it probation 
for immortality or mortality. Our points of agree-
ment then are four, and of disagreement one. On 
that one we will agree to differ.—En.] 
FROM REV. D. I. ROBINSON. 
Dr. Litch :—I perceive that you and I are prob-
ably both misunderstood in the object of our quo 
tationg from Jewish writers of the time of Christ 
and the apostles ; and the mistake is likely to be as 
mischievous as they apprehended our quotations 
would be. I never quoted them as authority for 
any doctrine. I do not suppose you did. I did not 
suppose any one would think so—perhaps brother 
W. does not. I quote the Bible, and that only as 
authority. But when we do that, there are some 
who will deny that Christ and the apostles meant 
any such thing, and go on to explain it all away. 
 
Now how shall it be settled what they did mean*? 
Not by our assertions, or their denials, but by proof 
What is proof? Evidence of the meaning of tie 
words they used, as commonly used in their day. 
This can be had only by going to the writers of 
their day. This we have done for this end, and this 
only—done it clearly, fully, demonstrably—not as 
authority for doctrine, but meaning of words as 
used in their day. And they using them, the com-
mon words to the common people, must, if honest 
and intelligent, have used them in the same sense. 
and so been understood at the time by the people ; 
as they gave no explanation or intimation of any 
other sense. Will any one show how a fact of an- 
cient times can be proved any other way ? Was it 
not for this that " The Voice of the Church" was 
written ? Not as authority of doctrine on the Lord's 
coming, but from the faith of Jewish and Christian 
churches it isgeroved that they understood the word 
of Christ and the apostles as we do ; and, therefore. 
we have the primitive, common and true sense, in-
stead of any spiritual sense, or no sense at all. Just 
so on the other subject. I can prove as clearly, as 
fully and positively from the fathers and sages, that 
the soul was believed to exist out of the body, and 
after the resurrection forever in happiness or mice 
ry, according to its character, as " The 'Voice of the 
Church" proves the other. Consequently all other 
senses are untrue and perversions of the truth. 
Neither are authority for doctrine, but would justly 
be so for what was believed, and, therefore, in what 
sense the words were used at the time. I say this 
by way of explanation, and that all may know for 
what purpose and what only we quoted them. it 
matters not how many other things they believed, 
or whether they were true or false, so far as this 
point, and fact, and object are concerned, the proof 
is as good for what it is brought, as though they 
believed nothing else, or if so, that all they believed 
were true. 
Yours for the truth. 
FROM BRO. WOLSTE.NBOLM• 
Continued from Herald of May 12. 
This mighty service for the powers of this world 
was accomplished by Origen, a church teacher of 
Alexandria. Enamored with the Platonic glozing 
of the Philoic Alexandrian Judaism, he introduced 
it into his exegesis of Holy Scripture, in his teach-
ings, for that of the Gospel. He was an author- 
ized teacher, learned, pious; in high repute with 
all leading minds of his time, and of course he was 
successful. The effect of his labors is plainly 
marked in the concurrent history of the times. A very 
similar state of things ensued in the Christian domi-
nant churches which we at the present day lament 
as so prevalent ; a declension in Christian courage, 
an ignoring first in church teachings by those in au-
thority, and then others, suppressing in the teachings 
of the mundane regal rights of the great and exalted 
Son of David, and His Work which he hath 
wrought to that end ; with the reasons why he is re-
tained in the heavenly places, and His purposed and 
certain personal return—and for why and for what' 
and together with this, a growing tendency to spir-
itualize and allegolize every Scripture which had, 
by its prior literal understanding, imparted such 
wonder, vigor, valor, vivacity, and intrepidity to be-
lievers ; civil power and authority was invoked and 
used to back such exegesis ; and so, Second Ad-
ventism in the Chiliasts was suppressed, and the 
churches of popular Christendom soon presented a 
moral spectacle of emasculation truly and emphatic-
ally symbolized by the personal status of their great 
eunuch expositor. 
The clear intelligible faith of the apostles was 
driven away to seek a refuge in the widernesses out-
side of civilization and popular literature. The con-
sequent change in apparent church-life was back 
from light to darkness ; from the power of God to 
Satan ; from the gospel to " vain jangling " ; and 
from the sobriety of the Christain faith to the mon-
kery of the Essenees and the Therapeuta of the Alex-
andrian Jews. 
And so far as they had any Christian faith left it 
was projected into a special prominence of the doc-
trine of Atonement, disassociated with the Incar-
tion, and bearing no necessary, or important rela-
tion thereto. The " Incarnation " and its conse-
quent behoovements were held in all the simplicity 
and grandeur of the " things " of Jesus, which the 
" Holy Ghost sent down from heaven " had " de-
monstrated " by the Chiliasts; it was to them an 
important fact ; its clearness to their minds was 
the clearness of the Faith of God, no mystery about 
it ; their faith was its revelation, and its signifi-
cance. Now, that significance had ceased to those 
who had suppressed the Chiliasts ; and now begun 
the vain babblings on the nature of the Logos—the 
atonement—free will &c., which is only a magnifi 
cent and voluminous darkening counsel with words 
without knowledge, to the dismay and destruction 
of millions of the human race who would otherwise 
have been saved in the Lord. And these disasters 
to the church of God in the past, and also in its 
present emasculated condition, is all, or, in the 
main attributable to a departure from the living foun-
tains of the apostolic faith, as found by the Chiliasts 
in a plain common-sense exegesis of scripture, and a 
turning to the broken cisterns of those authorita-
tive Fathers who followed Philo, the Alexandrian 
Jew, and the later Talmudists, in their exegesis of 
scripture. But I would not be understood to be- 
lieve that the faith of the Chiliasts perished, when 
it was said they were " suppressed." No, no ; as 
it had sustained their fathers and brethren under 
the tread of Satan in the Imperial persecutions, so 
it sustained them in the mountains of Armenia, and 
wherever else they took refuge outside of the sway 
of the dominant churches. Under the names of op-
probrium by which they are handed down by the 
popular literature of teheir cotemporary and the 
subsequent ages, we may note many facts which 
shine out as the diamond in the dirt, which in spite 
of the animosity of the historians in the partial and 
one-sided statements of fact we see the difference—
that difference we see in the instinctive reliance 
upon the faith, wisdom, and power of God of the 
one, and the shambling, nerveless, weakness of a 
conscious incompetency, incident to a grope in the 
dark of the other. Their women had such a knowl-
edge of the scriptures, and could present them un-
aided by other authorities with such success that 
even men educated for priests in the panoplied 
church, were converted by their teachings ; and, on 
the new strength imparted by the despised faith 
could with zeal go forth enduring all the privations 
of the proscribed, preaching the gospel for 35 or 40 
years. Nor did the zealous panderers to the epos 
t ate exegesis even successfully expurgate the Chili-
ast faith from their own ranks ; for no brighter or 
nament of the faith in any .age is found that one 
IsTinyas, a dignatary in the proud church of Con- 
stantinople in the twelfth century ; and I am per-
suaded it will continue so long as it is needed. And 
tributary. The ruling power, as well as the Lord's 
city and sanctuary, was to be of this tribe, and 
sanctuary to he trodden down of the Gentiles, at 
there was therefore a definite period given for the 
the end of which their dominion over that tribe 
must cease. The Lord Jesus being the true heir to 
David's throne, will then begin his reign of right-
eousness, and every child of God will say, glory to 
God that this time is near. 
Now as a time is a definite period of 360 years, 
there will be but 2520 years from the beginning of 
Gentile dominion, until it will begin to decline, 
and until the Lord will begin to reign. That there 
will be a time after the. Lord begins to reign in 
which the judgements of the Lord will overtake the 
impenitent, and when there will be a time of trouble 
such as never was before, it is evident. Then as 
there is a fixed period for the subjection of the tribe 
of Judah, and for Jerusalem to be trodden down, 
if there is any truth in history, and also in the time 
given for the reigns of the kings of Judah after 
Samaria was taken, there was about 120 years from 
the taking of Samaria before Jerusalem was taken, 
and there will then be 2400 years to the end of the 
seven times. 
We can then reckon the seventy years captivity, 
and the seventy weeks to Christ's ministry, and the 
apostles half week, and deducting thirty-seven from 
the birth of Christ to that time, and we have 453 
and 70, to the A. D. and 1877, A. D, will make 
2520 years. 
For 
120 
70 
453 
1877 
Total 
2520. 
Now as this period of seven times is confirmed by 
events which were to take place in the last half of 
the seven times, and from the best evidence of his-
tory they are nearly finished, and may end before 
1877, A. D., we are justified in looking for a speedy 
end to Gentile dominion. For the exact time when 
the captivity begun we cannot know, and therefore 
cannot fix the 70 years with certainty as beginning 
at any particular period, as there was twenty years 
or more from the time the first captives were car-
ried to Babylon before Jerusalem was desolated. 
Uhere was also several times of carrying captives to 
Babylon, and eleven years from the first to the see-
and time, which may be reckoned before the seventy 
years captivity is reckoned by the Lord. We are 
then passing the last uncertain period of this age 
before the time of trouble. 
Marblehead, May 18, 1863. 
For the Herald. 
FROM CANADA, 
FROM REV. D. ELWELL. 
Brother Litch :—I have now been nearly four 
months in my new field of labor. January 14th I left 
Shippe, Pa., for Canada. For over two years I had 
labored there, my first charge, preaching the Gospel 
of the kingdom. The little church there was 
strengthened and the cause advanced in the neigh-
borhood. I felt sad when called to leave them ; but 
committing them to the care of our Father in 
heaven, I look forward to meet them in the king-
dom. May God keep them faithful, is my earnest 
prayer. They enjoy the labors of brother pollen 
every third Sabbath 
January 17th I commenced my labors in Canada 
West. I found a flourishing church at Woodhouse, 
of some forty-seven members. It was organized by 
Elder I. R. Gates, of Penn., in the spring of 1862, 
with Elder D. Flanders as pastor, who visited them 
once a month, though for some three months previ-
ens to nay arrival, they had no regular preaching. 
their chapel was nearly finished, and to be dedicat-
ed at Conference. I preached here three Sabbaths, 
morning and evening, previous to Conference. The 
congregations were large, and good attention was 
paid to the ward. On the 8th of February we ded-
icated our new house of worship. Preaching in the 
morning, dedication sermon, by. the writer, from 1 
Sam. 2: 30. Afternoon, by Elder B. S. Reynolds, 
from Isa. 28 : 16-22. Evening, by Elder D. Flan-
ders, from Mark 16 : 15, 16. The house was well 
filled each service. 
We visited Cainsville in the latter part of Febru • 
ary, and preached several times in the neighborhood, 
at brother Reynolds' appointments. There were 
large congregations, and good attention. Elder 
Reynolds is well received in that section, and is do-
ing much to advance the cause of our coming Sing. 
On Thursday, March 5th, in company with bro. 
R., we left Caineville for Wellington Square, where 
he now resides. It is pleasantly situated on Lake 
Ontario, seven miles belo've Hamilton. Like most 
of the Canadian towns which we have seen, there 
seems to he a lack of that enterprise and activity so 
characteristic of towns in the United States. The 
war, however, greatly affects the business of Cana 
da. We were kindly received by the family of bro. 
Collector Goodrich, of Boston, acknowledges in 
the Transcript the receipt of $193 from some per-
son unknown, who says it is " due the United States 
Treasury." 
FROM BRO. JOHN REYNOLDS. 
Bro. Litch I take the liberty to write you, as 
Bro. Bliss has finished his course and his body has 
fallen asleep, while we have reason to believe that 
his spirit has united with the spirits of the just 
made perfect, Heb. 12 : 23. 
But as we live yet in the flesh we have a work to 
do, and if we are faithful it is possible that we may 
not fall asleep. The times of the Gentiles is a fixed 
period, and we know that they must soon end, fur 
there are but seven of them in all. For so it is 
written in the law, Lev. 26 ; one jot of which can 
never fail till all be fulfilled. 
The times of the Gentiles must begin with their 
dominion over the Lord's people, and all who can 
read can know that Gentile dominion begun when 
Samaria was taken, and was complete when eru-
salem was taken and the tribe of Judah was made 
,Alca.',SVMS,11,EVMMOIBMCH 
THE ADV EN T HERALD 
151 
Reynolds, and by other friends in the neighborhood, 
and spent a week preaching the glad tidings of the 
kingdom. The membership there is small, and the 
interest was not so great as I found at other places 
on the circuit. 
On our return to Woodhouse we ,found Elder 
Gates, of Penn., engaged in a ;,debate with Mr. 
Austin a Universalist minister. We attended the 
last day of the debate, which terminated in the tri-
umph of truth. At the close a resolution was in-
troduced, to the effect that Mr. Austin had utterly 
failed to support successfully the doctrine of Uni 
vernal salvation by Scripture testimony. The reso-
lution was almost unanimously carried ; the Uni-
versalists refusing to vote. 
Elder Gates preached for us a week after the close 
of the debate, and then went to Norwichville to ar-
range for a discussion with a Destructionist. Mr. 
Lewis, of Norwichville, accepted Elder Gates' chal-
lenge, and the following questions were discussed in 
order, the debate continuing three weeks : 1. Do 
the Scriptures teach the spirit of man to be unin-
terruptedly and eternally conscious ? 2. Do the 
Scriptures teach the punishment of the wicked to be 
eternal torment? 3. Do they teach probation after 
the second advent of Christ? Elder Gates took the 
affirmative of the first two questions, and the nega-
tive of the last. We attended nearly two weeks 
during the discussion of the first question. Never 
before have I heard such a wilful perversion of the 
Word of God by a professed Christian. Mr. Lewis 
repeatedly made the following assertion : " I have 
the negative of this question, and am not here to 
prove anything, to remove any difficulties, or to har-
monize any Scripture. Mr. Gates has the affirma- 
tive, and it is his place to lead off and prove the 
points. I am to follow him and tear to pieces his 
arguments if I can." Upon that principle he pro- 
ceeded, utterly refusing to tell us what he believed 
the Scriptures do teach. Thus refusing to commit 
himself except when driven to do so, or led into it 
unawares, he was free to take any ground he chose 
in ans.vering Elder Gates' arguments. We have a 
full report of the discussion of the first question, 
except the first night, which we may condense for 
the readers of the _Herald. 
We hope good was done. 
Perhaps brother Gates will publish in the Herald 
an account of his labors in Canada. We have la-
bored and have standing appointments at Nanticoke. 
Oak Grove school-house, and at Five Bridges, at 
1 which places there seems to be much interest in the 
I doctrines which we preach. There is a large and 
inviting field of labor in Canada,. We need more 
ministers, men who will devote their time to the 
work. 
Our Conference commenced its session at thie 
place on the 10th of February, and closed on the 
13th. The attendance of delegates was very small. 
A number of churches were not represented either 
by delegate, pastor, or by letter. We presume, 
however, that the Minutes of the Conference will be 
published in due time 
The Executive Committee of the Missionary So-
ciety have engaged Elder S. K. Lake as General 
Agent of the Society. He is to visit those churches 
which have no pastor, and also those places where 
his labors are desired, and will be productive of 
good. He is to organize auxiliary societies, and 
raise funds by collection or subscription, in behalf 
of Messiah's cause in Canada. 
May God help us all to do what we can while we 
are spared. The harvest is plenteous and the labor 
ern but few. 
Yours in the blessed hope. 
Port Dover, C. T'V., May 15, 1863. 
The Old Jew On Mount Walt. 
BY H. BONAR. 
He stood bewildered on his lonely hearth, 
Sadness was written on his fixed brow, 
Tor he had witnessed days of holy mirth 
Where silence dwells and desolation now. 
The grief he felt he cared not to avow. 
Calmly he stood, yet sorrowfully too, 
The latest leaf upon the topmost bough 
Of the green olive that so lately threw 
Aloft its leafy arms when the glad spring was new. 
JOSIAH LITCH, 
Committee 
J. M. 0 ItROCR, 
on 
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laid still till people came and took him down.-Sol. 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
The Do Society Again. 
The ball is in motion and rolling on. 
Come, my little frieLds, take hold and give 
it a push. There is Susy, who has prom-
ised to write me; and now Mary says she 
will send me a letter when some others 
have done so first. So they are waiting 
one for another. 
It is time to hear something about books 
for the contrabands. Who is to be the 
first to do something for them? 
But here comes another section of mem-
bers with what they do: Florie, 50 cents; 
the youngest in the family, too. Helen, 
30 cents; Frank, 20 cents; Fannie, 20 
cents; Robert 50 cents; Mary 20 cents. 
and by some means there was 30 cents 
come more than was appropriated, and we 
will call that Master Mistake, 30 cents— 
$2.20 cents. Total, 
$9.2] 
A pretty good :u u that to begin with. 
TREASURER. 
"FEED MY LAMBS."—JOhR21:15. 
BOSTON, MAY 26, 1863. 
For the Herald. 
THE SCHOOL HOUSE. 
What a Child Can Feel and Do. 
There is a charming simplicity in the 
way in which children often accept the 
promises of the Gospel and perform its du-
ties, from which older persons, whose per-
ceptions have been blunted by,worldly life, 
inay learn good lessons : 
In passing through a street in Belfast, I 
The contraband School house, at Hamp- was told that a little boy was very ill. I 
ton, is well worth a visit. flow I wish called. He was a stranger to me. I found 
that some of my little readers who dread him in bed. 
the school bell's toll, and lag by the way " What ails you, my dear boy ?" said I. 
so unwillingly, who love play so much, "0, my sins, sir ! I cannot bear the 
and books so little, could see these dusky weight of my sins." 
children as they crowd into Mr. Day': " Do you feel that you are a sinner ?" 
school at the first tap of the bell. " 0, sir, 1 am the chief of sinners." 
Some would think it a very plain struc- "And what are you doing?" 
ture, and the rough board seats very hard : "1 am praying to Jesus." 
thcr is no room for desks, upon which n " And what are you asking Jesus to do 
lean ; and in stormy weather, the rain has for you?" 
an unpleasant fashion of dropping from the " To take away my sins." 
leaky roof down among the scholars. He was coiled up in bed, his hands firm- 
The school house, was once used for a I y clasped. Even when I spoke to him and 
court room, but the Rebels have left noth pointed him to the lamb of God, he confin-
ing, save the bare walls standing in front ued in earnest prayer. When I called a-
of the old whipping tree, where many a gain, he was full of joy. He had found the 
poor slave has been cruelly beaten for try- Messiah. 
ing to be free, still remains. When the I asked him, " Is there anything you 
contrabands began to gather here, the first would like to do for Jesus ?" 
thing they did was to repair this old court His reply was, " I would like to bring all 
house, and poor as they were, they roofed my brothers and sisters and the world to 
it, and put in new windows, floors, and Him." 
stairs, with their own hands. On Sundays I called again soon after. He was there, 
they meet there to worship God. SO you but not alone. A number of his oompati-
will see that though the building is very ions, little boys, had gathered in. What 
rough, and homely, and that the wind and did this child do? He was not ashamed 
rain enter it freely, yet in the eyes of God, of Jesus, or afraid to tell what he had done 
and all good men, it must be a very noble for his soul. He appealed to his compan-
structure ; because it is a free offering of ions about their souls. He then told them 
the oppressed and stricken, to God and to what lie felt and how he felt; what Jesus 
their children; and because that from these had done for him. He proposed to pray 
walls they have called unto him who hears for them, and they all knelt down. I heard 
the cry of the poor and downtrodden ; and that prayer. It was most simple, touching 
that here for the first time in Virginia, and earnest. Before I lett, one of the boys 
they have learned to read His holy word, was enabled "to believe, and give his heart 
"with none to molest or make them afraid." to Jesus." The two little fellows embraced 
But to return to the Scholars. Here each other. How they spoke of the love 
they are of all hues and ages. Yonder is of Christ ! of the power of his Holy 
an old--old man poring patiently over let- Spirit !—of their own joy ! How, in the 
ten which the youngest of you know by presence of all, did they encourage each 
heart. Here are some with ruby lips, other to stand firm and cleave to Jesus ! 
light blue eyes, and flaxen hair, fair as the 
fairest of children, but who still could have 
Pull it Up by the Root. 
 
been sold away from home and mother's 
arms, just as readily as the darkest slave "Father, here is a dock," said Thomas, 
child in the land. Yonder sits "Little as he was at work with his father in the 
Daisy Peak," the pet of the school, and garden; "shall I cut it off close to the 
pride of Hampton--may her sweet eyes, root?" 
be ever as bright and beautiful as now. " No," replied his father, "that will not 
How eager they all seem to learn; how do; I have cut it up myself many times, 
attentive and orderly. Here are some who hut it grows again stronger than ever. 
one year ago did not know the alphabet, Pull it up by the root, for nothing else will 
now they can read and spell quite readily. kill it." 
D my little readers know what it is to Thomas pulled again and again at the 
thirst for water, or long for dainty food? It dock, but the root was very deep in the 
seems as though many of these colored ground, and he could net stir it from its 
iildren, hungered and thirsted for knowl-
edge more than they do for food and com-
fort. Many will walk long miles.through 
snow and sleet, or chilling rains, with a 
scanty dinner in their pockets, and their 
little dusky toes peeping from worn out 
shoes. When it is time to close the school, 
how they delight to join in singing beau-
tiful songs and hymns. Led by Mr. Day 
they make the old school house ring with 
melody. 
Would that you might all visit them, 
and.make them happy with your encoura-
ging smiles. Perhaps you might even 
learn something of patience and hope from 
these ignorant slave bcr,i-children. One 
thing I am sure they would tell you, that 
the only pathway to honor or greatness, is 
through virtue and knowledge. Strive 
then, with them, to be both wise and good. 
From the OLD DOMINION. 
place; so he asked his father to come and 
help him, and his father NI/cut and soon 
pulled it up. 
" This dock-root, Thomas," said hi 
father, " which is an evil and fast-grow-
ing weed in a garden, puts me in mind of 
the evil things that grow so fast in the 
hearts of children. If a boy is ill-tem-
pered, we must not expect to find him in 
good humor, cheerfulness, thankfulness, 
and a desire to make others happy. And 
a little girl who is idle, we need not expect 
to be industrious, neat, or cheerful. If a 
child is undutiful to his parents, and de-
spises the commandments of God, we 
might as well look for a rose or a tulip in 
a bed of nettles, as hope to find in his 
heart those graces and good desires that 
we love to see growing there. Every bad 
habit, every evil passion which troubles 
you, you should try with all your heart 
and mind to, overcome ; you should, if pos-
sible, tear it up. But as you will find 
your own strength but weakness, go 
straightway to that Almighty Friend who 
alone is able to strengthen and assist you. 
He can take from your heart the love of sin, 
and this is the silly way of destroying it, 
as we have destroyed the deck by pulling 
it up by the roe t."—Children's Treasury. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Notice to Brethren in the West. 
As many are calling for a share of my time, and 
labors in the West this summer, I would say : 
First : That in connection with the camp-meet-
ings contemplated, there will be considerable time 
which I can devote to grove and conference meet-
ings. 
Second : If the Elders and brethren will fix on 
suitable and important points, and make arrange-
ment for such meetings, I will, if notified in season, 
so arrange that I can attend them. Let us have 
system, and economize our time. 
Third : In all cases so arrange that the laborers 
shall be sustained. I wish only to share with my 
brethren. 
Fourth : Our meeting at Amboy takes place the 
last of May, so that there will be about a month's 
time before the campmeeting in Hamilton, St. Jo-
seph's Co., Ind., near Mich. line, which time 1 
designed for the campmeeting proposed to be held 
n Sauk CO., Wis. But this meeting may not be 
held at this time, and therefore I can labor else-
where. So brethren in Ill. wilt arrange, at, or 
before the Conference, so that 1 can devote this time 
to their interest. 
Fifth: I intend to make a short tour after the 
Mich. and Ind. campmeetings to Fingal, C. W., 
to fulfill an engagement and hold a grove meeting 
there, and will hold a grove meeting on my way, in 
Memphis, Mich. I will be glad to hear from friends 
in these places. Also, from Iowa, Southern Ill., 
Wis., and Min., where I shall spend the latter 
part of the season. 
My post office address will be Amboy, Ill., till 
June 15th, till further notice. 
Let uS all wake up to our work, and faithfully 
perform our great mission to prepare a people for 
the coming of the Lord. 
I have at much labor and expense prepared and 
provided books, tracts, and charts of great value 
for our meetings. So that 6, he that reads may 
run. ' 
JOSHUA V. IIIMES. 
Boston, May, 16, 1863. 
Canada East and Northern Vt. Conference. 
This Conference will be held in Richford, Vt., 
commencing Wednesday, June 10th., at half-past 
10, A. M., and closing on Friday evening. Ser-
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Sunday, by one or more ministers of the Conference, 
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the commencement of the Session. Come, brethren, 
with warm hearts and liberal hands. Come pray-
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