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vices had been marked by deep solemnity and hundred thousand. Robbers, outlaws, and ex-
et. (up earnest devotion. When, Monday came the peo-
ple were reluctant to separate, and insisted on 
hearing more preaching. Livingstone was call- 
Buss, 
 ed on to officiate, but shrunk from the duty, 
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attention. 
of what man can do unto us, if we trust in the 
Holy One of Israel, who neither slumbers nor 
sleeps. Ps. 125: 3. Under the shadow of his 
wings will we find a blessed hiding-place in eve-
ry time of trouble. If we trust in our own 
strength,we shall fall by the hand of the enemy ; 
but if we have our eye continually fixed on Je-
sus, he will enable us to overcome all the evils of 
our nature, by the blood of the Lamb and the 
word of our testimony. Rev. 12: 11. It is bet-
ter to trust in the Lord than to put confidence 
in man. Ps. 118: 8. They often deceive us ; 
but the Lord never deceives those who put their 
trust in him. He will never dcsert us in our 
time of trouble. 
What if all earthly friends forsake, and the 
Lord give the bread of adversity and the water 
of affliction ; fear not, "Oh thou afflicted, tossed 
with tempests, and not comforted ; thus saith 
the Lord, Behold I will lay thy stones with fair 
colors, and thy foundation with sapphires." Isa. 
liv. 11. No weapon formed against thee shall 
prosper ; for all things shall work together for 
good to them that love God. Rom. 8: 28. And 
hereby do we know that we love him, if we keep 
his commandments and walk in the straight and 
narrow way which Jesus has laid down in his 
precious word, which is a lamp to our feet and a 
blessed light to guide us through this wilderness 
of sorrow. 
The consolations of the gospel are neither few 
nor small. 0, the exceeding great and precious 
promises which are given to those who put their 
trust in the Lord. Who would not be willing to 
part with all they have,that they may win Christ? 
Eternal life is worth striving for. Not every 
one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter 
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the 
will of my Father in heaven. We must strive 
to enter into the strait gate. We must lay aside 
every weight, and the sin that doth so easily be-
set us. We must take the shield of faith,where-
with we may be able to quench the fiery darts 
of the wicked. Eph. 6 : 16. 0, this is a glo-
rious warfare. The Captain of our salvation 
was'made perfect through suffering, and shall 
we get wearied and faint in our minds, and mur-
mur at the roughness of the way ? Let us rath-
er rejoice that we are counted worthy to suffer 
affliction with the people of God. Let us re-
member the legacy Christ left his disciples : In 
the world ye shall have tribulation ; but be of 
good cheer, I have overcome the world. John 
16: 33. 
If we trust in the Lord, our peace shall be 
like a river,—pure and constant. Great peace 
have they that love thy law, and nothing shall 
offend them. Ps. 119: 165. Thou wilt keep 
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on 
thee. Isa. 26: 3. Though Satan and all his hosts 
are encamped against us, yet if we trust in the 
Lord, he is more than can be against us. He is 
mighty to save even to the uttermost all that 
come unto him. Then let us say, Courage in 
the war ! The conflict is almost over. Soon Je-
sus will come sitting on the white cloud, with 
power and great glory, to redeem his people. 
Then we shall look up and rejoice, saying, This 
the thought that if we put our trust in the Lord,lis our God ! lo, we have waited for him, and he 
though our burdens be never so great, he will will save us. This is the Lord ; we have wait-
sustain. "He will never suffer the righteous to ed for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his 
be moved." Ps. lv. 22. We need not be afraid'. salvation. Isa. 25, 9. 
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A LITTLE WHILE. 
Beyond the smiling and the weeping, 
I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the waking dud the sleeping, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home ! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the blooming and the fading, 
I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the shining and the shading, 
Beyond the hoping and the dreading, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home ! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
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I shall be soon ; 
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Beyond remembering and forgetting, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the parting and the meeting, 
I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the farewell and the greeting, 
Beyond the pulse's fever beating, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the frost-chain and the fever, 
I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the rock-waste and the river, 
Beyond the ever and the never, 
1 shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home ! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
BON AR. 
A Wonderful Sermon. 
No single sermon, since Peter's on the day of 
Pentecost, has been attended with such visible 
evidences of the Spirit's power as that preached 
by Rev. John Livingston, at the Kirk of Shotts, 
in Scotland, June 1, 1630. He was a young 
haan,only twenty-seven, of ardent piety,but small 
experience, who had been driven by persecution 
from his own parish and found shelter in the 
household of the Countess of Wigton, as a do-
mestic chaplain. He went as a visitor to the 
Kirk of Shotts, to enjoy the commemoration of 
the Lord's supper, which in many of the Scotch 
churches is celebrated only twice a year. 
There had been a large gathering of ministers 
and people on the Sabbath, many having come 
a di stance of twenty or thirty miles ; and the ser- 
and elders of larger knowledge and experience. 
He even thought of secretly retiring from the 
meeting to escape importunity ; but conscience 
was stronger than inclination and urged him to 
the duty. "Towards the end of the sermon," 
says Flemming, who tells the story, "the audi-
ence, and even the preacher himself, were affect-
ed with a deep unusual awe—melting their hearts 
and subduing their minds, stripping off inveter-
ate prejudices, awakening the impenitent, pro-
ducing conviction in the hardened, bowing down 
the stubborn, and imparting to many an enlight-
ed Christian a large increase of grace and spir-
ituality." 
As the direct fruits of this sermon, about five 
hundred converts united with neighboring church-
es, who dated their first impressions to its pow-
er ; and it was the commencement of' a great re-
vival in Clydesdale, whose influence was discern-
ible through the whole country. Many of' the 
most eminent Christians in that region were 
either the converts of that day's sermon, or re-
ceived an impulse from it to a higher piety than 
they had before attained or desired. 
From the Watchman and Reflector. 
The Shepherd Fanatics. 
One of the most remarkable insurrections ac-
corded in history,—remarkable for its rapid rise, 
its formidable proportions, and its sudden fall,—
is that of the shepherds of Flanders and France, 
in the middle of the thirteenth century. It com-
menced in 1251, while Louis IX., the Crusader 
King of France,afterward canonized as St. Louis, 
was a captive in the hands of the Moslem. 
The movement begun in Flanders. The lead-
er, who bore the title of Master of Hungary,was 
a mysterious man,of venerable aspect. He went 
about preaching in the most persuasive manner, 
and with equal fluency, in three languages, Lat-
in, French and German. In his hand he carri-
ed a roll of parchment, containing, as he affirm-
ed, the instructions which he had received di-
rectly from the blessed Virgin, appearing to 
him surrounded by hosts of angels. The pur-
port of these instructions was, that he should 
summon the poor shepherds to deliver the good 
king, retained in disgraceful captivity, through 
the remissness of the indolent and avaricious 
clergy. 
The mysterious appearance and pathetic elo-
quence of this strange personage roused the en-
thusiasm of the common people ; and the shep-
herds, as it smitten with a supernatural and ir-
resistible impulse, left their flocks and fields, 
turned a deaf ear to the remonstrances of their 
friends, and flocked in crowds to his standard. 
Marching through Flanders and Picardy, he 
entered Amiens at the head of thirty thousand 
men. They moved on in battle array, armed 
with clubs, pikes, axes, and whatever rude weap-
ons they could most readiiy seize. A univer-
sal panic attended their march, and not a city 
dared to close its gates against them. Before 
they reached Paris, their number exceeded one 
communicated persons enlisted by hundreds in 
their ranks. Blanche, the Queen Regent, dared 
not refuse them admittance into the capital. The 
master was admitted into her presence, and re-
cieved with honor and gifts. 
He now began to assume the priestly office, 
and preached in one of the churches at Paris, 
with an episcopal mitre on his head. His fol-
lowers manifested the most bitter hostility to the 
church. They stigmatized the preaching friars 
as vagabonds and hypocrites, the Cistercian 
monks as greedy of gain, the Benedictines as 
proud and gluttonous, the canons as pampered 
worldlings, and the bishops as hunters,hawkers, 
and voluptaries. They did not stop at abusive 
words. They mercilessly slew in the streets such 
as dared to oppose their fierce fanaticism. At 
Paris the host divided into three. One went 
towards Orleans, one towards Bordeaux,and one 
to the sea coast at Marseilles. 
But now they began to encounter resistance. 
They entered Orleans, however, in spite of the 
opposition of the bishops and clergy. While the 
master was preaching in this city to an admiring, 
crowd of the common people, he was interrupt-
ed by a young student, and denounced as a her-
etic, a liar, and a deceiver of the people. This 
insult was avenged, not merely by the death of 
the bold youth, but by a promiscuous slaughter 
of the scholars,and the destruction of their books. 
The shepherds next entered Bourges, where they 
plundered the Jews' quarter, and burned their 
books. But here the master, intoxicated with 
success, is said to have promised that after his 
sermon he would work the most amazing mira-
cles. An eager crowd gathered to witness the 
performance ; they waited long in breathless ex-
pectation ; they grew impatient ; doubts and 
murmurs began to be expressed. At length a 
man, armed with a two-edged axe, rushed forth 
from the crowd, clove the master's head, and 
scattered his brains on the pavement. The mag-
istrates of fhe city were at hand with the men 
at arms ; they fell upon the shepherds, stricken 
with a panic by the murder of their leader,—
the whole host were pursued and massacred. 
The division that marched to Bordeaux met 
at once with a decisive check. Simon de Mont-
fort, who commanded there, closed the gates 
against them. The leader, the favorite compan-
ion of the Master of Hungary, was seized,bound 
hand and foot, and thrown into the Garonne ; 
many of his followers were hanged ; a few es-
caped to their homes—the rest joined the third 
division. But the movement had now lost all 
its prestige—the hallucination was over ; the 
few that reached Marseilles were easily-dispers-
ed ; the most of them perished miserably. Thus 
ended, as suddenly as it had begun, this formid-
able uprising of the Shepherd Fanatics. 
LANDOR. 
Trust. 
"They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount 
Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for-
ever." Ps. 125: 1. 
0, what a blessed promise ! How cheering is 
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"Contrabands." 
He pay $1000 for me six years ago,and I works 
out carpentering. I have paid Massa seven dol-
lars and half every week he own me, till these 
troubles come, and he pay me back fifty cents 
every time. I then work extra and support my 
family. I think I better off to have all I earn, 
than have to give Massa seven dollars out of 
every seven and a half." 
Africa spoke up and said, "I work for my 
Massa. He kind Msssa, I run a distillery for 
him to make turpentine and I. have whole charge 
of working it ; but Massa give me no wages, but 
so much corn and rice, and I hunt coons nights, 
and work extra to get nice things for my family. 
My first family,my wife and two children,Massa 
sold to go to Richmond and I never seen them 
since. That was death to me, though Massa put-
ty kind." 
The lady, a little nettled at such rejoinders, 
replied, "If you were to stay north you would 
need to study grammar." 
"I always think," said Moses, "the plain Eng-
lish be understood every where and go the world 
ly prelates of Romish Jericho, drunken with the 
blood of persecution, blown down with the blast 
of Joshua's trumpets, and with the breath of his 
mouth, even from the top of the Capitol even 
unto hell. And there shall the dragon, the beast, 
and the false prophet all together be tumbled in-
to the lake of fire, that they have kindled up,the 
fire of persecution in this world, to burn up the 
bodies of Christ's people, so they shall have fire 
and brimstone to the full, where the smoke of 
their torments shall rise up for ever and ever, 
(Rev. xiv., xx.) 
"And as these things shall fall upon Christ's 
enemies, contemners of His gospel, in such sort 
as the sun and moon shall stand still while Joshua. 
our valiant captain, shall vanquish tnirty-one 
kings, with all the glory of their kingdoms ; so, 
on the contrary side, ye shall see the true Chris-
tian Israelites divide amongst them great spoils 
of all their lands and possessions. There shall ye 
see New Jerusalem, the heavenly metropolitan 
city, all garnished with glory, like a spousers pre-
pared for her spouse, with glorious mansions,and 
pleasant tabernacles in it, prepared ready to re-
ceive you ; even such tabernacles as Peter wish-
ed in the mount Tabor to be made, when he was 
rapt with glory, that he could not tell where he 
was, nor what he spake, (Luke ix.) 
"Briefly,in that mount Nebo ye shall see what 
eyes never saw—Paradise without any serpent 
to tempt you any more, riches without measure, 
glory without comparison, life without death,day 
without night, liberty without thraldom, solace 
without ceasing, joy without ending, a land flow-
ing with milk and honey. And here to make an 
end of speaking of those things which are end-
less, looking in this mount well above you, ye 
shall see with your spiritual eyes that which 
Daniel with his prophetical eye did see so long 
before—that the kingdom, the power, and the 
magnitude of the kingdom, that is or shall be 
under heaven,shall be given to the people of the 
Highest, which kingdom shall destroy all other 
kingdoms, and this kingdom shall be everlasting, 
(Dan. vii.) To the which kingdom the eternal 
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who 
is true in His promises, and glorious in all His 
works, doth happily and speedily conduct us. 
through the merits of Jesus Christ, His Son, and 
our everlasting Saviour ! Amen." 
This term, casually applied by Gen. Butler to 
slaves of rebel masters, has become a popular 
denominative of that class of persons. 
We were favored, the last of April, with an 
interview with two of them—Moses Bryan and 
Africa Hyman—who accompanied the Hospital 
Steward of the Twenty-Fourth Mass. Regiment 
from Newburn N. C. to his home in Roxbury 
Mass., where they stopped a few days and then 
returned South ;—they having been sent North 
with a number of wounded soldiers who needed 
such assistance. 
Wishing to ask them some questions we went, 
and found them, Moses particularly, quite intel-
ligent and well posted in the state of affairs at 
Newburn. 
While conversing with them, a woman who 
was born and educated in Newburn called to en-
quire about her friends there, from whom she 
had heard nothing for many months, and to 
learn if she could send a letter to Newburn by 
them. Finding their answers satisfactory, that 
they knew all about her friends and where they 
were, and were willing to take any unsealed let-
ter for her to Gen. Burnsides camp, instead of 
thanking them for their information and offered 
service,she informed them that she thought them 
much better off in bondage than free. Moses 
said he was "of a different 'pinion." 
"Why," said she, -a colored woman told me 
to day,that she wished she was back in slavery, 
where she had some one to take care of her." 
"Well," said Moses "I think her a very weak 
minded woman, or else she must be terrible lazy. 
to want some body take care on her. We have 
taken care of ourselves and our masters, and I 
guess we can take care of ourselves alone." 
"Did you not have kind masters ?" she asked. 
"Yes," said Moses; "but I no work for Massa. 
round." 
The intelligence and cuteness exhibited in these 
replies, were more than ordinary,and speak well 
for the class represented. 
Some of the members of the Roxbury city gov-
ernment having a desire to hear their story, sent 
for them after their adjournment, when various 
questions were asked. 
In reply to the question whether they antici-
pated, before the election of Mr. Lincoln, any 
trouble of this kind, Moses said, "Yes,four years 
ago, when Massa Freemont come so near being 
'lected and Massa Buchanan only just lected 
over him, I thought the next time the north sure 
to beat ; and when Massa Lincoln be nominated 
I think he be next president sure ; and I more 
think so cause white folks down south so mad 
'bout it." 
"When you knew Mr. Lincoln was elected, 
did yon think the south would fight ?" 
"Not at first ; but when they fire on Star of 
the West,and on Massa Anderson in Fort Sump-
ter, then I think they fight sure. 
"Did your master want you to fight ?" 
"No, he no want me to fight. He only ask me 
one day if I like go and fight Yankees, fore 'they 
esme and sell us all down to Cuba. I say, Mas-
sa, what all this war 'bout ? is it 'bout us ? Ile 
say, No, it nothing do with you. Then I say, 
Nell Massa, if the war have nothing to do with 
me I want nothing to do with the war. You 
made the war, and you may do the fighting. 
Massa then say, But 'spose they come and sell 
you all to Cuba ? I say, Massa the north strong 
'I-lough to do that ? how many folk are there 
north ? He say 'bout eighteen or twenty million. 
Then I say, How many south ? He say eight or 
ten million. Then I say, if there be eighteen or 
twenty million north, and only eight or ten mil-
lion south, the north whip as sure as guns Mas-
sa. Then massa laugh and say, You go 'long 
Moses ; you on the side of Yankee ; and he no 
more ask me to fight." 
He was asked it they heard of the battles in 
different places, and how they knew what was 
going on. 
"0," said he, "there be always a watch-goose 
out. If we cant find out one way we do 'nother. 
One time Massa carry paper into the room and 
read to Missus. He lock the door, but there be 
little colored girl there to wait on them. He no 
think little colored girl notice anything,and so he 
read to Missus 'bout a great battle,and say Fort 
Henry taken up on Tennessee river, and then 
Fort Donelson with 15000 soldiers taken up on 
Cumberland. Then he read how Yankees take 
Roanoke island. The little colored girl then slip 
out and tell her mother in kitchen what Massa read 
'bout. Her mother say, You find paper and bring 
me. So she watch and get paper and give her 
mother, and her mother go with it to some col-
ored man that can read, who read it to us, and 
we all write it down on our hearts and tell it to 
one 'nother. When we meet two or three in the 
street, we talk 'bout it, and we begin to think 
Massa Lincoln be our Moses sure, and so we 
talk 'bout Moses, but mean Massa Lincoln, 
When white folks hear us, they think we mean 
Moses. And when we talk 'bout the war, if 
John Fox's "Christ Triumphant." 
(From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy.) 
1Concluded.) 
Fox took great interest in prophecy, as may 
be seen specially in his sermon on Rom. xi., 
"The Gospel Olive-tree," preached at the bap-
tism of a converted Jew. It is said to be the 
only piece relating to the Jews in the works of 
the British Reformers. And as he tried the harp 
on the subject of "Christ Triumphant," so we 
have from his pen a full and excellent sermon, 
very doctrinal, entitled "Christ Jesus Trium- 
phant," wherein is described the glorious tri-
umph and conquest of Christ over sin, death, the 
law, the strength and pride of Satan, with all 
other enemies against the poor soul of wan. Lit-
tle, however, of the poem or drama appears in 
the sermon ; all is solid discourse on spiritual 
themes, handled in a most scriptural manner. 
But Fox does at times, in his prose writings 
elsewhere, soar into the regions of prophecy and 
poetry too,as may be seen in the extract we sub-
join from his sermon on "Christ Crucified." He 
asks his reader to climb with him for a little the 
hill of Nebo, and take a view of the spiritual 
country and the glorious kingdom :— 
"There shall you see your factor and agent, 
Christ Jesus, taking possession for you in heav-
en ; yea, and which is more than all that can be 
most, passing all admiration, there shall ye see 
this our own flesh, our own very flesh, sitting at 
the right hand of the almighty majesty of God. 
There shall you see our noble and triumphant 
captain Joshua,our Savior Jesus, with His priests 
and Levites, and His people following Him, sev-
en times going about the city Jericho,with trum-
pets of jubilee in their hands. 
"And I doubt not but He hath gone six times 
about already, and when the seventh blast shall 
come, then beware, great Jericho ! Then shall 
ye see the walls of this world fall down ; then 
shall ye see the rich men of this world, with 
their bags of gold and silver, come tumbling 
down. Then shall ye behold the stout giants of 
this earth, the sons of Anak, brought full low. 
Their gay houses, their princely palaces come 
rattling down ; the tall trees of Libanus, the 
mighty oars of Basan, the high turrets with 
their defenced munitions, the fair ships of Tar-
shish, and whatsoever is beautiful and comely in 
the sight of this world. Add to this the out-
grown house of England come tumbling over and 
over ; every high mountain brought down, and 
low valleys exalted, (Isa. ii. 40.) • 
"Moreover, there ye shall see the roaring lion, 
the venomous serpent and old dragon, the devil 
which hath kept such a stir here so long, with 
all his hellish rabble of bloody persecutors ; also 
with the great Turk, and the great Caliph of 
Damascus, with the great Caliph also of ancient 
Rome, (the Emperor of Germany,) and all other 
cruel tyrants and potentates of this world, which 
have abused their swords to the destruction of 
Christ's saints, fall headlong into the perpetual 
pit of pedition. The law shall cease—death shall 
be destroyed—sin, hell, malediction, with all 
other enemies which wrought us woe before,shall 
be vanquished. Briefly, there shall ye see the 
whole world, with all his pomp and pride, with 
adulterers, fornicators, usurers, and covetous 
persons, dwelling in sinful Jericho,with all their 
force and puissance broken down to dust ; only 
the house of' Rahab standing side—that is, those 
penitent sinners which received God's message, 
and repent their sins, shall be preserved from 
the ruin. 
"Over and besides all this,yet one other sight 
I will declare to you which will do you good to 
behold. For there ye shall see the proud triple-
crowned bishop, even the great Antichrist, and 
the false horned-lamb, which hath so exalted 
himself above God and His Son, with his high 
mountain castle of St. Angelo ; also with his 
whole college of Babylonical strumpets and state- 
white man come 'long, one say, Have first rate 
meeting last night. Yes, say 'nother, hope have 
good meeting to night. Then one say, Aint some 
our members need looking after ? aint they get 
backslid ? By that time white man get by, 
thinking we talk 'bout meeting, and then we go 
talk 'bout Fort Donelson and Roanoke island 
'gen." 
"Can you read, Moses?" "Yes, Massa." 
"How did you learn ?" 
"When we boys, we get into some rich man's 
kitchen, 'cause the rich man's kitchen be the last 
place they think looking for nigger school ; and 
there some colored man who can read learn us." 
"Well Moses, How did you get away from 
your master ? did you run away ? 
"No Massa. Massa, he run away : he seceed-
ed from me. He want me go to, but I terrible 
sick that day; no hold my head up till Massa 
gone." 
"When did you first know the Union soldiers 
were near Newburn ?" 
"After Roanoke island 
li 
of river and look out, see what's going on, and 
then come back and report. One morning he 
gone only half an hour and come back and say, 
H—1, 'n d—m—n to pay down below ! Gen. 
Burnside be on the way up with 'mense fleet ! 
Then the colonel that was whipped at Roanoke 
island and home on parole, say, I on parole and 
can't fight ; but I give you just four hours to get 
out Newburn ; for he say,if the Yankees cant get 
here no other way they swim right up the river. 
Then folks scamper, and Massa seceede. When 
Gen. Burnside get there he throw shot and shells, 
and they go screaming through the air, and I 
think the resurrection come, that day of judg-
ment come sure. When he take the city, I go 
and call on him. I ask, 'Whin Gen. Burnside's 
tent ?' They say 'that one.' I go in an say, 
'Good morning Massa Burnside, my name's Mos-
es Bryan, I took liberty to call on you.' The 
General say, 'Good morning, Moses, I am Gen. 
Burnside. Are you a good Union man Moses?' 
am that,' I say : and General Burnside say, 
'Then give me your hand Moses. 'Have you been 
looking for us ?"Yes Massa, I say, and my peo-
ple have watched and have prayed for you so 
long and so often.' The General say, 'What, 
.was'nt you afraid we sell you all to Cuba ?"No 
Sir,' I say, 'we know you never do that ; we 
know the north our friends.' And so we talk a 
while,and then I make bow and say 'Good morn- 
ing General;' and the General he shake my hand 
and say 'Good morning Moses.' 
When asked what he had seen that day in 
Boston, he said, "I been to the Governor's pal- 
ace (the state house), to the navy yard, and to 
top of Bunkum Hill. but did not go to top of 
tower it looked so terrific." 
"What shall you tell your folks about the 
north when you get back ?" 
"The Massachusetts boys down to Newburn 
say they can raise hundred thousand men home 
to come down south ; and Union folks in New-
burn say, Moses when you go north you look 
around and see if' they can do it. And so I look 
about, and see every body 'bout their business 
here,and folks so thick I don't see how anybody's 
gone ; don't miss 'em, and should'nt know there 
was a war. You don't feel it here. When I go 
back I shall tell folks just what I see and that I 
think Massachusetts (which he seemed to con-
found with the whole north,) "can raise hundred 
thousand men, and if necessary a million." 
Moses was evidently sincere in his estimate of 
the military numbers Massachusetts might fur-
nish, and did not seem to consider but that look-
ing around in Boston gave him sufficient data 
for the formation of a reliable judgement. But 
however insufficient his reasoning, his opinions 
will be auracular among his own people at home, 
and his visit north may have no unimportant in-
fluence in its results. 
Both of these contrabands could read, and pro-
fessed correct and religious principles. When 
asked to sing a song, they preremptorily declin-
ed, and said they sung only hymns, which they 
pronounced as if spelt with a long i ; and when 
offered tickets to a circus, they repelled the 
temptation, and declared it to be against their 
"Trust in the Lord, ye trembling saints, 
And keep your courage up ; 
He'll raise your spirits when they faint, 
And far exceed your hopes." 
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bath a particular relation to this kingdom. It is and anticipated earthquake had verefied the 
the street or place of this city—that is, the most truth of the prophecy as interpreted by the sub-
fair or eminent part of it. The witnesses must jugated church. The witnesses were slain. 
remain dead upon this street,and upon this they 'The events which completed the work are 
must be raised again. And, as the death of the thus stated by Croly : " A. D. 1793. January 
witnesses and their resurrection have a relation 21, the king was murdered. June 23, the con- 
principles to visit such places. In reply to the 
question whether, if free, the slaves would be 
willing to work for their masters for wages? 
Moses' reply was, "Yes Massa, we must work 
to live; and we just as lives work for our 
masters as anybody,if they pay us." 
They were firmly convinced that their slave 
shackles were broken forever, and were sironglv 
attached to their southern homes, where they 
wished to spend their days — saying it was their 
own country, and they knew no other. 
Getting much interested ourself in these Con-
trabands, and the condition of their class being 
one now of great and growing interest in the com-
munity, we thought the above might not be with- 
out interest to ouroreaders. 
ED. 
The Two Witnesses. 
(Continued from our last.) 
to France, it may well fall out that we are not 
far distant from the time." Fleming says, "The 
French monarchy will begin to be humbled as 
soon as 1794." 
When that revolution broke upon the world, 
many good men, even some devoted ministers, 
participated in it who afterwarde regreted hav-
ing done so. They were mistaken in its charac-
ter, supposing that, as it was designed to destroy 
their old oppressors, it must be of God, and of 
course worthy of their sympathy. 
The true philosophy of the French revolution 
is expressed in one of those comprehensive sen-
tences of Robert Hall which contain a volume : 
"Infidelity is the offspring of corrupt Christiani-
ty." It is one of the great artifices of the ad- 
versary to misinterpret tlee word of God, and 
then point to that misinterpretation as a reason 
for rejecting the word itself. The word had been 
"hurt" by being perverted to sustain the anti-
christian system, and now the victims of the de- 
ception turn on their deceivers. Voltaire states 
the whole case, as between these parties, in a 
single question and answer. "What is faith ? 
Faith is folly." When the faith of the Roman 
church was referred to Voltaire was right. 'When 
that of the gospel was referred to he was a blas- 
phemer. He made no distinction. The true and 
the false shared alike. It was the first illustra-
tion on a grand scale of the results of misinter-
preting the word of God, The earthquake 
brought all down together. As in the case of 
the strong man when he tore away the pillars of 
the pagan temple,the witnesses were at the same 
time the slain and the slayers, in the sense that 
those who predict an event are said to do it. 
They had travelled over the route beforehand, 
and while anticipating their own fate, had doom-
ed their enemies in advance. Those who had 
hurt them in this manner were killed. 
The slaying of the witnesses is charged upon 
the beast out of the bottomless pit. The beast is 
the symbol of the Gentiles in their organized po-
litical capacity. Inasmuch as France, by her 
accession to the papal system and her command-
ing position in that. system, completed it and in-
stigated its acts, whatever was done by France 
as a nation may be said to have been done by 
the organization of which she was a prominent 
member. But the Bible distinctly holds a par-
ty responsible for that which they occasion (see 
Matt. v. 32) ; for that which they approve by 
sympathy, or which is the result of their exam-
ple—the principle on which the implicated par-
ty have acted [see Luke 11. 47-51]. In all these 
respects the revolutionists were sustained by pre-
cedent in the history of' the old anti-christian 
system. The watchword of the revolutionists, 
"Crush the wretch !" ascribed to Voltaire, and 
aimed at everything which bore the Christian 
name, was only a different formula to give ex-
pression to the same spirit and principle which 
had been thundered in the bulls of the popes for 
the extermination of heretics. The great anti-
christian system was a diabolic monster with a 
divine title—a beast full of names of blasphemy. 
The revolutionists in their secret vocabulary had 
assumed the names of the apostles, and of the 
stitution of the republic was proclaimed. Sep-
tember 28, the Christian era was abolished. The 
era of the republic was substituted. Sunday 
was to be observed no more. October 16, the 
sections of Paris demanded at the bar of the 
constitution the total suppression of religious 
worship. They passed through the hall shout-
ing, 'No more altars, no more priests, no God 
but the God of nature !' November 1, Gobet,the 
Vicar-General of Paris, attended by a body of 
his priesthood, abjured his functions and Chris-
tianity, uttering the fearful words, 'All religion 
is an imposture !' November 19, it was ordered 
that in all burial places a monument should be 
erected representing sleep , with the inscription 
'Death is an eternal sleep !' The republican 
system was now complete. Immorality and in-
fidelity had produced their natural fruits in re-
bellion, regicide and national atheism. This 
tremendous consummation was all the work of a 
single year—the first year of the republic."—
Croly on Apoc. 96, 97. 
"In the year 1793, twelve hundred and sixty 
years from the letter of Justinian declaring the 
Pope 'Universal Bishop,' the Gospel was, by a 
solemn act of the legislature and the people, 
abolished in France. The indignities offered to 
the actual copies of the Bible were unimportant 
after this ; their life is in their doctrines, and 
the extinction of the Bible. By the decree of 
the French Government, declaring that the na-
tion acknowledged no God, the Old and New 
Testaments were slain throughout the limits of 
Republican France. But contumelies to the 
Sacred Books could not ha,ve been wanting, in 
the general plunder of every place of worship. 
In Lyons they were dragged at the tail of an 
ass in a procession through the streets."—Croly 
on Apoc. p. 119. 
The word of God was to remain politically 
dead three years and a half in France. Was 
this the fact ? 
"A. D. 1797. On the 17th of June, Camille 
Jourdan, in the 'Council of Five Hundred,' 
brought up the memorable report on the 'Revi-
sion of the laws relative to religious worship.' 
It consisted of a number of propositions, abol-
ishing alike the Republican restrictions on Po-
pish worship, and the Popish restrictions on Pro-
testant. 
"Those regulations, in comprehending the 
whole state of worship in France, were, in fact,a 
boon to Protestanism."—Croly on Apoc. p.123. 
"The church and the Bible had been slain in 
France from November, 1793, till June 1797, 
The three years and a half were expended, and 
the Bible, so long and sternly repressed before, 
was placed in honor, and was the only book of 
free Protestanism !"•—Croly on Apoc. p. 124. 
(To be continued.) 
From the Christian Witness. 
The Coming Kingdom. 
to what is said in the article referred to, of the 
"overturning" of the nations,it is written in hag. 
2: 7, "I will shake all nations, and the desire of 
all nations shall come." Now I am aware that 
this prophecy is generally applied, to the first 
Advent of Christ,and primarily no doubt, it does 
refer to that ; but St. Paul referring to it, in his 
Epistle to the Hebrews,seems also to apply it to the 
Second. "Whose voice then, he says, shook the 
earth, but now he bath promised, saying, "Yet 
once more I shake not the earth only, but heav-01 
en, and this word, yet once more, signifieth the ,n 
removing of those things that are shaken, as of 
things that are made, that those things that can- 
not be shaken may remain." These words, there- 
fore, seem to point to another shaking, which is 
to precede the Second Coming, and this harmon- 
izes with the Savior's own words, that his Ad- 
vent should be preceded by great convulsions 
both in the moral and national world—the sea and 
waves roaring, distress of nations, and men's 
hearts failing them for fear, for the powers of 
the heaven shall be shaken. Such are sonic of 
the signs which he predicted. Have not the na- 
tions within the last few years been distressed ? 
Has it not seemed as if God had reached down 
from heaven, taken the nations of' the earth in 
his hands and shaken them together ? For sev- 
eral years past the nations of the old world have 
been dashing against each other like the waves 
of an angry sea, and now our own land is con-
vulsed, and at this present moment scarcely a 
nation on the globe is in a quiescent state. 
The New York Times has had within the last 
few days an article headed "The Great Tribula- 
tion in Europe," in which the writer shows that 
the Old World is on the eve of the most tremen-
dous convulsions that ever occurred. What do 
these things mean ? It is true, that wars and ru-
mors of wars are no new thing. But were the 
nations of the earth ever so generally, so univer-
sally shaken as now ? 
Again, to the prophet Daniel several particu-
lars were revealed which was to characterize the 
last days. One was:that there should be a time 
of trial. Another that many should run to and 
fro. A third that knowledge should be increased, 
and finally that the wicked should do wickedly, 
and the wise should understand. Now, I sup-
pose it will be generally admitted that whatever 
development of knowledge, or wickedness, which 
the prophets predict, must be regarded as extra-
ordinary. If, for example,the increase of knowl. 
edge is to characterize the last days, it is extra-
ordinary increase—knowledge, probably connec-
ted with some remarkable invention or discovery 
So in regard to locomotion, or the "running to 
and fro." What then are the characteristics of 
this age in these respects ? 
Do we not all admit that if a man even twenty 
years ago had predicted the improvements and 
inventions which we now see, he would have 
been considered a fit subject for an Insane Asy-
lum ? Consider the speed with which we travel. 
See, also, the multitudes on the move ; think of 
the distance passed over in a single day. A man 
can now go over to Europe and back and scarce-
ly be missed in the community where he lives. 
A boy of a dozen years can have seen more of 
the world than his grandfather in his life time. 
If, in fact, human life is to be measured by what 
is seen, heard, known and experienced, we live 
longer now than Methuselah did. The increase 
of knowledge is even more wonderful than the 
improvement of locomotion. 
Progress has been the watchword of this gen-
eration. Discovery and invention, in every de-
partment of art and science, have been the or-
der of the day. Books are multipled ad infin-
itum. Papers, periodicals, pamphlets, sermons, 
essays, and addresses are fairly showered upon 
the land. It is said, upon good authority, that 
one printing press in the city of New York, 
prints in one day what would require for the 
human hand to write, a period of ten thousand 
years. But the climax of invention for the knowl. 
edge or intelligence is the telegraph. What a 
wonder is this ? Intelligence carried thousands of 
miles away in a second of time, borne, in fact, 
upon the lightning's wing. And now the elec-
tric wires belt the Continent, stretching from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, conveying messages with 
such velocity that time itself seems outrun, and 
TIIE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 
Marks a historical boundary with stronger 
and deeper lines than any other similar fact 
known to history. Like the Deluge, the Exode, 
the Crucifixion, the Refbrmation, it stands as a 
class by itself, without a parallel. The ablest 
pens that ever made their mark have shown that 
the brilliancy of its genius and the appalling 
horror of its atrocities, the extent of its destruc-
tive results and of human endurance, its exhaust-
ing demands and its prodigious outlays, make 
all similar exhibitions like mere child's play. 
To the whole papal Europe it was like the fire-
traced inscription on the palace walls of the 
doomed Babylonian dynasty : "Mene, Mene, 
Tekel, Upharsin ! Thy kingdom is divided ! 
Thou art weighed in the ballance, andtfound 
wanting !" To the oppressed Christian popula-
tion it was like the "Land ho !'zof the mariner, 
which brings every man to his feet, sets the eye 
wide open, and makes the heart palpitate with a 
deeper and stronger homeward-bound throb ! 
Precisely such a breaking up of the old anti-
Christian system of Europe had been anticipat-
ed for more than a hundred years. Sir Isaac 
Newton refers to this fact in these remarkable 
words : "The time has not yet come for under-
standing these prophecies perfectly, because the 
main revolution predicted in them is not yet 
come to pass." p. 252. Newton's work on the 
prophecies was published in 1733, sixty years 
before the "main revolution" to which he look-
ed. 
The expectation ofthis revolution was based 
on this particular portion of prophecy. Dr. 
Thomas Goodwin, President of Magdalen Col-
lege, Oxford, in 1639 ; Dr. H. Moore, in 1663 ; 
Rev. Peter Jurieu, of the French Church at 
Rotterdam, in a work translated in 1687 ; Rev. 
John Willison, minister of Dundee, in 1742 ; 
and Rev. R. Flemming of the Scotts' Church, 
London, in 1701, are some of the expounders of 
this prophecy, whose writings are well known. 
Although they wrote so long before the event, 
and in countries widely separated from each oth-
er, and with no apparent theory to maintain,they 
pointed out the locality,many of the particulars, 
and the results of the French revolution,with the 
precision of actual history, Dr. Goodwin says: 
"Now which of these ten kingdoms [may be 
intended] it is not hard to conjecture ; though it 
be rashness peremtorily to determine. 
"The saints and churches of France God has 
made a wonder unto me in all his proceedings 
towards them, first and last ; and there would heroes and sages of Rome, Greece, and the an-
cient world generally. They prepared the agents 
and fought the battle of the revolution with the 
weapons which had been employed to crush the 
life-blood out of the nations by Papal Rome. It 
was a terrible providential retaliation. "The 
real authors of the revolution were an absolute 
government, a despotic ministry, and a haughty 
nobil4."—Cyclopedia Amer. vol. v. p. 211. 
The first throes of the earthquake vibrated 
through France in 1789.• The oppressions of 
royalty and its statelites had become intolera-
ble, and the work of vengeance began in the 
destruction of the feudal titles,and the castles of 
the nobility who held them. In 1793 the throne, 
the royal family, the priesthood, and their false 
seem some great and special honor reserved for 
them yet at the last ; for it is certain that the 
first light of the gospel, by that first and second 
angel's preaching in chapter 14 (which laid the 
foundation of Antichrist's ruin), was out from 
among them, namely those of Lyons, and other 
places in France. And they bore and under-
went the great heat of that morning of persecu-
tion, which was as great, if not greater than 
any since ; and so, as that kingdom had the first 
great stroke, so now it should have the honor of 
having the last great stroke in the ruin of Rome." 
Jurieu says, "But who must begin this last re-
volt ?"~'Itcannot be any country but 
France." , . .. "Seeing that the tenth part of 
the city that must fall is France, this gives me Christian system, fell in the common wreck. 
some hopes that the death of the two witnesses The 1260 years had expired. The predicted 
Mr. Editor :—I am exceedingly interested in 
the article on the " Coming Kingdom," in the 
Witness of the 21st of February. No subject 
can be more deeply interesting than this to the 
true christian, and while we may differ as to the 
personal reign of Christ on earth, and deem it 
unwise to fix dates, yet it is not only our duty 
to watch the signs of the times, and see if they 
do not indicate the approach of that hour when 
the Son of man shall appear in his glory, with 
all his holy angels with him. Without,therefore, 
entering into the chronological deductions, let us 
look at the prophecies which in general terms 
describe the events immediately preceding the 
Second Advent,and compare them with the pres-
ent state of the world. 
If we refer to the Old Testament, in addition 
An article which we copied from Prot. 
Churchman into the Herald of' January 11th, 
signed S. H. T. ; which we supposed to be the 
initials of Stephen H. Tyng, but which the Wit-
ness says are those of a deceased clergyman of 
the Episcopal Church. 
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stance that it must be the genuine number. The 
same view being subsequently given in the Londonl 
Investigator, a correspondent enquired the ground 
on which it rested ; to which the editor replied : 
"There is no single manuscript known to be 
extant, whether Hebrew or Greek,that sanctions the 
reading of 2400 days. It rests entirely upon a man-
ifest typographical error of the Vatican edition,tak-
en from the Vatican manuscript ; which the Chi-
sian edition of Daniel notices, and says, that the 
Vatican manuscript reads 2300." investigator,1831, 
2, p. 441. 
In a subsequent volume of the Investigator, a wri-
ter over the signature of "E," which we suppose to 
be that of Rev. E. B. Elloitt,D D., says of the same 
period. 
"It may be prounounced respecting the prophetic 
numeral that though the Vatican copy of the Sep-
tuagint reads "2400 days, " and copies translated 
by Jerome "2200 days," yet the authorities are so 
decidedly in favor of the received reading of "2300 
days," that there is probably no numeral in the 
Scriptures the correctness of which may be more 
entirely relied on.". Investigator, 1833, 4. v. 3. p. 
30. 
This disposition of tte question wa?seemingly 
conclusive at the date refered to ; but in the year 
following the Jewish missionary ,Rev. Joseph Wolf, 
D. D., addressed a letter to Mr. F rere, dated May 
14. 1835, in which he says : 
"The Jews of Ispahan are in possession of a vast 
number of Hebrew manuscripts,partlycontaining the 
whole, party portions of the Old Testament ; and 
among others I saw a manuscript containing the pro-
phetic writings of Daniel in exact agreement with the 
copies we are in possession of, except in Daniel 8: 14, 
the number 2400 instead of 2300 is to he found. 
The Mss. is esteemed to be from the fifth century. 
The Jews of Bokhara are in possession of the same 
manuscripts, and as they believe of the third centu-
ry after Christ ; for they received them from the 
Jews coming from Sabyawar, soon after the inva-
sion of Tshingis Khan : so that the manuscript is of 
high antiquity ; and it also contains the number 
2400. When I told the Jews of Bukhara that you 
had asserted by simple calculations, that the origi-
nal number is 2400 they replied that the Gentiles in 
Europe must he very wise people. I however took 
the number 2300 in myargutnents with the Mullahr 
at Luchnow ; for as the most number of the Mss. 
contain 2300,1 had not made up my mind about it ; 
but it is very striking, that the more ancient Mss. 
had 2400 while the more modern had 2300. At 
Adrianople, (when there in 18160 an American 
Mss. of the Bible was shown me written with Greek 
characters. It is supposed to be of the fifth centu-
ry, and translated by Mesrop. I asked one of the 
priests to read to me the 8th t bapter of Daniel,and 
I observed that it also contains 2400." Investiga-
tor, 1834-5 vol. 4. p. 315. 
The Editor of the Investigator, who had previous-
ly been of the opinion (as argued by Win. Cun- 
ningham Esq. of Lainshaw Scot. in 1826, in review 
of Frere) that the reading of 2400 "was a typogra-
phical error of a printed edition from the Vatican 
manuscript—the manuscript itself having 2300," 
was led by the above testimony of Mr. Wulf to re-
view his opionion. 
In doing this, he says : The statement "by Mr. 
Wolf, of his having discovered ancient Hebrew Mss. 
at Ispahan, Bokhara and Adrianople, containing 
the number 2400 ; and that though there were many 
Mss. having 2300, yet the more ancient manuscripts 
had 2400, places the matter upon a very different 
footing ; and the question therefore now is,whether, 
instead of accounting the reading of the Vatican a 
typographical negligence, we have not reason to 
suspect that the editor had reason for deliberately 
altering it, having also seen some ancient Ms. or 
Mes. the authority of which over-weighed with him. 
Be this as it may, tile evidence of Mr. Wolf is suf-
ficient at least to neutralize our former objection ; 
and though we presume not, without 
any 
of further investigation, to come to any decision in 
the matter ;and though we likewise leave alone the 
question as to the period of the begining and end of 
the 2400 years (supposing them to be years), yet 
we are bound to say that the numerical powers which 
the number 2400 possesses, as shown by Mr. Frere 
in our pages, and the entire want of any such pow-
ers in the number 2300, create a very considerable 
leaning in our mind to the reading which yr. F. 
has adopted." 
Investigator, v. 4. (1834-5), p. 356. 
The foregoing testimony renders it possible that 
2400 is the correct reading of this number. We do 
not however consider the evidence demonstrative, 
and our own predilection continues in favor of 
2300. 
The "Manner of time" here expressed,—in ac-
cordance with the principle evolved in the discus-
sion of that of the "little horn," of Dan. 7: 25—is 
clearly symbolic, each day being representative of a 
year. 
a man in California receives his tidings apparent. 
ly before they are sent. An interesting thought 
connected with this subject, is that the Hebrew, 
word translated in Daniel's prophesy "increased," 
may be rendered shooting forth as the lightning. 
In view of this, some have supposed that the 
telegraph was really intended. Whether this is 
so or not, yet it is sufficient wonder to claim a 
place in prophecy. But we have become as ac-
customed to marvels that we have almost ceased 
to wonder at anything, no matter how startling 
or marvellous. Does it not, however, seem as if 
within the last few years the mind has been 
brought up to the most intense activity, and that 
man in wrestling the very elements to do his bid-
ding, almost rivalled Omnipotent power? We 
believe, in fact, that it is conceded by all writers 
upon the subject, that the last half century, in 
invention, discoveries and facilites for the in-
crease and dissemination of knowledge,throws all 
previous periods entirely in the shade. At all 
events they are most extraordinary, and may 
 
well be considered as fully meeting the prophecy 
of Daniel. 
To be continued. 
The Chinese Rebels. 
Rev. Mr. Roberts, the American missionary 
who instructed the "Heavenly Ruler" in the ru 
diments of Christianity, has been compelled t 
flee from his celestial neophytes in order to sav 
his life, and now denounces them as sham relig 
ionists and bloodthirsty usurpers. In a recen 
letter to a Hong Kong paper he says : 
"From having been the religious teacher o 
Hang Sow-chuen, in 1847, and hoping that goo 
—religious, commercial and political—would re 
suit to the nation from his elevation, I hav 
hitherto been a friend to his revolutionary move 
ment, sustaining it by word and deed, as far a 
a missionary consistently could without vitiatin 
his higher character as ambassador of Chris 
But after living among them fifteen months an 
closely observing their proceedings—politica 
commercial and religious—I have turned ov 
entirely a new leaf, and am now as much oppo 
ed to them—for good reasons, I think—as I e 
er was in favor of them. Not that I have aug 
personally against Hang Sow-chuen ; he has bee 
exceedingly kind to me. But I believe him 
be a crazy man, entirely unfit to rule, withou 
 
any organized government ; nor is he, with h 
Coolie Kings, capable of organizing a gover 
ment of equal benefit to the people with ev 
the oJd imperial government. 
He is violent in temper, and lets his wrath f 
heavily upon his people,making a man or wom 
'an offender for a word,' and ordering such i 
stantly to be murdered, without 'judge or jur 
He is opposed to commerce, having had mo 
than a dozen of his own people murdered sine 
have been here for no other crime than tradi 
in the city, and has promptly repelled eve 
foreign effort to establish lawful commerce h 
among them, whether inside the city or not. 
religious toleration and multiplicity of chap 
turn out to be a farce—of no avail in the sprc 
of Christianity, worse than useless. It o 
amounts to a machinery for the promotion a 
spread of his own political religion, making hi 
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self equal with Jesus Christ, who, with God t 
Father, himself, and his own son, constitutes 
Lord over all ! nor is any missionary who 
not believe in his Divine appointment to t 
high equality, and promulgate his political 
ligion accordingly, safe among the rebels in ii 
 
servants, or property. He told me soon afte 
arrived that if I did not believe in him I slam 
perish, like the Jews did for not believing in 
Saviour." 
A servant of Mr. Roberts was maliciou 
murdered by one of the Tae-Ping's officers 
Mr. Roberts own house and presence, and 
missionary himself was savagely beaten and gr 
ly insulted by the murderer. Mr. Roberts thi 
the assault was committed for the purpose of 
ducing him to retaliate, in order to obtain an 
cuse for murdering him also, but he refrai 
from offering the least resistance. Mr. Rob 
was obliged to leave behind him all his clothi 
 
books and personal effects, the official menti 
tioned refusing to give them up. 
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Exposition 
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"And he said unto 
he three hundred days 
ne cleansed" v. 14. 
Though the enquiry 
his answer is made to 
re- the prophets, who 
fe, ly, who prophesied 
r I come unto you : searching 
of time the Spirit 
ild signify, when it testified 
the of Christ, and the 
1: 10, 11. As this 
sly sufferings, it must 
, in Jerome mentions 
the this number reads 
)Ss. tion of the LXX. 
,ks ings have caused 
in- "2300" is not the 
different times, has 
ex- and several writers 
led 
James Halley Frere, 
q'ts View of the Prophecies," 
llg, that the number 
on- a Jubilee of years,
times 7 being only 
of Daniel's Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
THE 2300 DAYS. 
me, unto two thousand an 
: then shall the sanctuary 1 
be not made by Daniel, tl 
him. Ile, doubtless, was one , 
"enquired and searched dilligen 
of the grace that that shou 
what, or what manna 
of Christ which was in them d 
beforehand the sufferini 
glory that should follow." 1 Pe 
does not have respect to Christ 
to the time of his glory, 
having seen copies in whi, 
"2200 ;" and the Vatican ee. 
reads "2400." These various rea 
some writers to suppose th 
genuine number, Mr. Faber, 
adopted each of these reading 
have favored the larger one. 
Esq., author of "A Combin 
London, 1815, notici 
2400 is very near the square 
-49 times 49,or 7 times 7 time 
2401,—concluded from the circu 
Mr. Mede evidently regarded the 2300 days as on-
ly literal days ; for he speaks of "the 2300 evenings 
and mornings allotted to the calamity under Antio-
chus, from the beginning of the transgression of de-
solation unto the time the temple was cleansed." 
Works, p. 597. 
Also : "Let it be shown in all the prohecy of 
Daniel,(or,for our aught I know,in any other of the 
prophets,) where times of things prophecied express. 
ed by days are not to be understood of years : for 
when the angel means days in Daniel, lie express-
eth it therefore not by day (for so it were doubtful) 
but by evenings and mornings, (ch. 8: 14,) where 
he speaks of the time of the time of the persecution 
of Antiochus." Ib. 566. 
Again he says : "Take for another example the 
computation of the time allotted to the calamity of 
the Jews under Antiochus ; whiff I the rather al-
lege, because he is commonly counted for a type of 
Antichrist : the beginning of that 2200 evenings 
and mornings, or six years and somewhat more than 
a quarter, which that calamnity was to continue, 
from the beginning thereof until the temple should 
be cleansed, (Dan. 8 : 13, 14) was not to be reck-
oned from the height thereof when the daily sacrifice 
should be taken away, (for thence it is but three 
years, 1 Mac, 1: 54, &c., with Chap. 4 : 52,) but 
from the beginning of the transgression which occa-
sioned this desolation, and is described 1 Mac. 1: 11, 
&c. So likewise the end of the of the kingdom of the 
Greeks, wherein the calamity was to happen, is not 
to be counted only when Ameilius the consul had 
quite finished the conquest of Macedon, (for this 
points out only the height of that calamity) but 
from the beginning of that last fatal war which put 
an end to that kingdom ; which was about some 
three years and a half before, and jumps with the 
beginning of the transgression of desolation, as the 
finishing of the conquests doth with taking away of 
the daily sacrifice." Mede's Works, London Folio, 
of 1677, p. 659. 
Dr. Cumming of London, refers to Mr. Mode as 
having "shown that the 2300 years which Daniel 
gives as one of the great chronological epochs,termi-
nate about the year 1821 or 1822," GreatiTrib. v.2, 
p. 10. He gives, however, no authority for his 
statement, and we cannot reconcile it with the fore-
going extracts from Mr. Mede's writings, 
A Desire for an Answer to those Questions. 
From Bro. A. Pearce. 
On reading the reply of brother limes to broth-
er Campbell's questions, in this day's issue of the 
Herald, I am disappointed that he makes no at-
tempt at answering them, as I understand the 
questions, but simply evades them. I cannot con-
ceive how he can treat a matter of such grave im-
portance in this way. I think we may set it down 
for granted that what brother Bliss has pointed 
out as errors, are really and substantially such, and 
that we are bound to receive them as errors until 
they are shown to the contrary. 
ANTHONY PEARCE. 
Providence, R. I. May 24, 1862. 
Fortunately, what are specified as errors are of 
such a simple nature, that no one can examine them 
without being able to see at once on what founda-
tion the claim that they are such rests. If we are 
in error, we only desire to be enlightened. 
From Bro. A. Brown. 
"I am certain it is a great mistake to suppose that 
those who do not adopt a new 'definite time' are ac-
tuated by considerations of the 'good opinion of the 
world,' the fear of 'losing caste' &c. &c.; but rather 
by the fact that the evidence is not half so conclu-
sive as that which has pointed to previous times. 
And besides, there are to thinking minds insepera-
ble chronological and other objections to the whole 
argument." 
A BROWN. 
In a question of such moment, the proper way, 
as we conceive, is, to present all the evidence in 
in its support, and then to closely scan the relia-
bility and conclusiveness of the evidence. This 
may be done,we think, without any reflection on the 
motives of those advocating, or any imputation on 
the considerations of those who detect errors and 
sophisms in arguments and estimates advanced. Let 
these be avoided on either side, and there may be 
mutual benefit derived from the candid and intelli-
gent discussion of questions of difference. 
CORRECTIONS. The foot note on the 6th page, 
(p. 166,) and 1st. col. of the last issue of the Her-
ald, was editorially appended, and should have had 
the suffix of "Ed," as written, but which our types 
failed to express 
In the Herald of May 3d. P. (140) the types 
made errors in the figures of the table of the 4th 
col. in the time for Joshua ; which, instead of 19, 
15 and 20, should have read, 19, 19. 25. The com-
ments preceeding indicated what those numbers 
were designed to be. 
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of Israel, when they came of the land of Egypt." 
1. K. 8: 9. 
ry also commanded the approach, situated on a 
bluff some 200 feet above the water ; and a strong 
force of sharpshooters occupied rifle-pits on the 
banks. The Galena anchored about half a mile 
from the battery, and opened fire at 7: 45 A. M. 
The Monitor coming up,advanced much nearer, but 
being unable to elevate her guns enough, fell back 
to the same line, and also opened fire, while the 
other vessels joined in the cannonade from a great-
er distance. The action continued sharply for four 
hours, when the Union fleet retired, its munition 
failing. The enemy's practice was excellent. The 
Galena was struck twenty-eight times, and eighteen 
of these shots plunging down from so great a hight, 
penetrated the thin iron of her deck, killing four-
teen and wounding fifteen of her crew. The Moni-
tor was hit three times, but not damaged beyond a 
little bending of the iron plates. The rifled 100-
pounder of the Naugatuck burst after a few dis-
charges, but without injuring the crew. The Nau-
gatuck's casualties were only one flesh wound and 
one contusion ; the Monitor's none at all. It is 
probable that the batteries are so strongly placed 
and defended, that a land attack will be necessary 
to take them. 
understood, advancing from Winchester upon Har-
per's Ferry. Our troops are being rapidly rein-
forced. 
Rumor says that Gen. Jackson is advancing to 
the support of Ewell and Johnson,and there are also 
reports that there is still another force behind him. 
Prompt means have been taken to meet the emergen-
cy, if truly reported. 
On Sunday also, Gov. Andrew of this state issued 
his proclamation, fur the whole active militia of 
Massachusetts to report on Boston Common to day 
(Monday, May 26), in pursuance of orders from the 
President. 
Perley, the Washington correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal, telegraphs : 
Washington, May 25, 1862. 
Numerous rumors are afloat here, but when, in-
quired into, they are generally found destitute of 
foundation. The Government is well prepared for 
any emergency in any direction. 
Questions about the Tabernacle. 
Who did God inspire with wisdom to make 
all the things commanded of Moses? 
Ans. Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, 
the Lord bath called by name Bezaleel, the son of 
Uri, the son of llur, of the tribe of Judah ; and he 
bath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom,in 
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all man-
ner of workmanship ; and to devise curious works, 
to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in 
the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of 
wood, to make any manner of cunning work. 
And he bath put in his heart that he may teach both 
he, and Ahliab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe 
of Dan. Them bath he filled with wisdom of heart, 
to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of 
the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in 
blue, and purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and 
of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and 
of those that devise cunning work. Ex. 35: 30-35. 
How did Moses procure the materials and 
means for making all these ? 
Ans. "All the congregation of the children of 
Israel departed from the presence of Moses. And 
they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, 
and every one whom his spirit made willing, and 
they brought the Lord's offering to the work of the 
tabernacle of the congregation,and of all his service, 
and for the holy garments. And they came both 
men and women,as were willing-hearted,and brought 
bracelets, and ear-rings, and rings, and tablets, ail 
jewels of gold ; and every man that offered offered an 
offering of gold unto the Lord. And every man with 
whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and 
fine linen, and goats' hair,and red skins of rams,and 
badgers' skins, brought them. Eerey one that did 
offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord's 
offering ; and every man with whom was found shit-
tim-wood for any work of the service brought it. 
Er. 35: 20-24. 
How did the women aid in the work ? 
Ans. "All the women that were wise-hearted did 
spin with their hands, and brought that which they 
had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scar-
let, and of fine linen. And all the women whose 
heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. 
Ex. 35 ; 25-6. 
What did the rulers bring in aid of the work ? 
Arts. "The rulers brought onyx-stones,and stones 
to be set, for the ephod, and for the breast-plate ; 
and spice, and oil for the light, and for the anoin-
ing oil,and for the sweet incense." Er. 35: 27, 8. 
Did the children of Israel do all this willing-
ly? 
Arts. "The children of Israel brought a willing 
offer* unto the Lord,every man and woraan,whose 
heart made them willing to bring, for all manner of 
work which the Lord had commanded to be made 
by the hand of Muses." Ex. 35: 29. 
What occurred when Moses had finished the 
work ? 
"Then a cloud covered the tent of the congrega-
tion, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 
And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the 
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and 
the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle." Ex. 40: 
34, 35. 
How did the cloud on the tabernacle indicate 
when Israel was to journey? 
Ans. "When the cloud was taken up from over 
the tabernacle,the children of Israel went onward in 
all their journeys : but if the cloud were not taken 
up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was 
taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the 
tabernacle by day, and the fire was on it by night 
in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout 
all their journeys." Ex. 40: 3G-8. 
Where did the Israelites erect the tabernacle 
*when they had entered and subdued the land of Ca-
naan ? 
Ans. "The whole congregation of the children of 
Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the 
tabernacle of the congregation there," (Josh. 18: 1.) 
—Shiloh, being situated on a pleasant mountain 
twenty-three miles north of Jerusalem. During the 
reign of Saul it was removed to Nob, six miles north 
of Jerusalem, and afterwards to Gibeon. 
Did the Ark always continue in the Taberna-
ore ? 
Ans. The Ark was taken in the time of Eli by 
the Philistines, who retained it seven months, and 
then sent it hack from Gath to Kirjath-jearim, nine 
miles west pf Jerusalem, where it remained seventy 
years, till David removed it to mount Zion. And 
after the erection of Solomon's Temple, it had a 
place in an apartment of the Temple corresponding 
to the inner tabernacle,and called also the "Holy of 
Holies." 
NV hat did the Ark contain in the time of Sol-
omon ? 
Ans. "There was nothing in the ark save the two 
tables of stone, which Moses put there at eloreb, 
when the Lord made a covenant with the children 
Crown •Him Lord of All. 
A Sunday School teacher was dying. The light 
of heaven was in his eye, seraphic smiles played up-
on his thin lips, and precious thoughts of Jesus, and 
of his mighty love, filled hie heart with joy I can-
not describe. Just before he sank away, he turned 
to his daughter, who was bending most lovingly ov-
er his bed and said : 
"Bring—" 
More he could not say, for no strength had he to 
speak more. Ilis child looked with earnest gaze in-
to his face, and said : 
"What shall 1 bring my father ?" 
"Bring—" 
His child was in an agony of desire to know that 
father's last request, and she said : 
"Dear, precious father, do try to tell me what 
you want. I will do anything you wish me to do." 
The dying teacher rallied all his strength, and fi-
nally murmured : 
"Bring—forth—the royal diadem, 
And crown him Lord of all." 
And as these words died away upon his lips, his 
soul departed. 
Wasn't that a happy death,my children ? Would 
you not like to die thus should that hour come ? If 
so, learn to live loving, honoring and praising Je-
sus. Learn to love him now, so that your heart 
will ever sing— 
"Bring forth the royal diadem, 
And crown him Lord of all " 
GUN-BOATS REPULSED. 
Our gun-boats, after the destruction of the Mer-
rimac and the occupation of Norfolk, were at once 
sent up the James River to co-operate with our land 
force on its advance. This fleet, consisting of the 
Galena Aroostook, Monitor, Port Royal, and Nau-
gatuck, ascended the James without any trouble ex-
cept getting aground a few times, until,on the 15th 
of May, they reached Ward's Bluff, about eight 
miles below Richmond, where two barriers had 
been placed across the river—one of piles, and the 
other of sunken vessels, including, it is reported,the 
Yorktown and the Jamestown. A powerful batte- 
The War. 
MILITARY ASPECT. 
The news of the war is of almost nothing except 
details, preparations, slow and cautious advances, 
delays to exhaust the enemy,precautions more strin-
gent than ever against news—Halleck, it is said, 
having even peremptorily ordered all newspaper cor-
respondents out of his lines. Perhaps,in the absence 
of marches of battles, the fact of most importance,as 
indicating a progress of the arms of the United 
States,is—though in itself rather political than mili-
tary—the last chapter of affairs in North Carolina. 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
It seems that some little time ago, some agents of 
Jeff. Davis arrested, in the night and suddenly, Mr. 
Respess, Mayor of the City of Washington, on the 
Pamlico River, in North Carolina, on a charge of 
having conferred with Gen. Burnside soon after the 
taking of Newbern, and hurried him off in irons to 
Richmond, where he was thrust into a dungeon, and 
prevented from seeing any friends or even receiving 
food or cloths from them. In progress of time, Mr. 
Respess was put on trial before Davis. This out-
rageous proceeding, however, caused a great excite-
ment all over North Carolina. The State Conven-
tion—the same body which passed the secession ordi-
nance—having never dissolved,was in session at this 
time at Raleigh, and immediately instructed Gov-
ernor Clark to demand peremptorily the instant de-
livery of the person of Mr. Respess. This was re-
fused by Davis, who said the trial must proceed. On 
this, the Convention appointed a committee, who 
went to Richmond, and plainly informed the rebel 
government that unless Gov.Clark's requisition was 
at once complied with, the state of North Carolina 
would release the Mayor by force ; whereupon Mr. 
Respess was delivered to the committee, and was ta-
ken home, where he was received with great demon-
strations of joy, state pride,and Union feeling. This 
same committee, while they were about it,also noti-
fied Jeff. Davis that North Carolina was competent 
to invest the characters of her own citizens,and that 
no more such arrests must be made in the state. The 
Convention has moreover squarely refused Davis's 
demands upon the state for more troops and trans-
portation, ordered all the North Carolina troops 
home, refused to permit any of them to retreat in-
to the cotton states, and refused the use of her rail-
roads to the rebels, except to retreat South. And 
Union meetings are held, and the Stars and Stripes 
are displayed, throughout the western or mountain 
countries, and in many other parts of the state. 
President'Lincoln has appointed lion. Edward Stan- 
ley, a native of North Carolina, military governor 
of the state. He is a gentleman of great ability and 
popularity, is at once to enter upon his government, 
and will undoubtedly soon put all things in a train 
towards the quiet replacement of the "Old North 
State" within the Union, which indeed she never 
more than half left after all.—N. Y. Ind. 
P. S. We make up our columns so early in the 
week that we shall not be able to give our readers 
the result of great events seemingly in progress. Our 
army under Gen. McClellan is near Richmond, but 
there is some doubt in respect to the precise position 
and intention of the rebels :The main body of them 
is supposed to be encamped beyond Richmond ; but 
it is also rumored that it has gone north in large 
force to take theeoffensive. We know indeed that 
General Banks was attacked on Sunday, as per the 
following dispatch : 
Washington, May 25. The enemy, under Gener-
als Ewell and Johnson, with a superior force, gave 
battle to Gen. Banks, this morning, at daylight, at 
Winchester. Gen. Banks fought them six hours, 
and then retired in the direction of Martinsburg, 
with what loss is not known. The enemy are, it is 
The Slaves at Roanoke and Hatteras. 
A Newburn correspondent of the Independent thus 
writes : 
"At Roanoke the slaves, who had been compelled 
to leave the island on the approach of General Burn-
side, returned at the first opportunity ; and many 
of those who had been compelled to work on the 
rebel fortifications, came down and found employ-
ment and protection upon the arrival of the troops. 
Whole schooner loads of contrabands came from 
Elizabeth City and places on Albemarle Sound. 
They were made useful as cooks and camp servants ; 
employed in the hospitals; in the construction of 
wharves by Mr. David Crockett, who found them 
very willing and efficient laborers ; and finally, in 
building Union forts on the east of the island, to 
command Roanoke Sound. 
One vessel containing twenty-five persons, a por-
tion of them children, were fallen in with by Gen. 
Foster, in one of his expeditions up Albemarle 
Sound. He placed a pilot on board, who conducted 
them to Roanoke,where they came to anchor a short 
distance from the shore. In a short time the whole 
party engaged in singing hymns,whichidrew a crowd 
of soldiers to the shore,and visitors from the vessels. 
They were celebrating their deliverance from bond-
age. 
I witnessed another affecting example of the same 
kind at Hatteras, when a party of forty-two men, 
women, and children, arrived from South Creek on 
Pamlico River. After finding themselves really among 
friends, they joined in singing some of their simple 
chants and hymns ; and when the party were being 
transferred to the shore, one of the women, with an 
infant at her breast, broke forth in exclamations of 
praise and thanksgiving to God, which in its simple 
pathos reminded me of the song of Miriam, celebrat-
ing the deliverance of the children of Israel on the 
banks of the Red Sea. They walked in slow and 
solemn procession up to Fort Clark, chanting as 
they went— 
"Oh ! ain't I glad to get out de wilderness." 
Quoting Scripture in Congress. 
Mr. Daly, a member of Congress, set the House 
in a roar of laughter by quoting in a speech,as from 
the Bible, the familiar lines,— 
"And while the lamp holds out to burn, 
The vilest sinner may return." 
But Mr. Daly was more nearly right than the 
laughing members imagined, as will be seen by the 
following story. 
When the Old School Presbyterian General As- 
sembly were preparing a Hymn Book,it was brought 
before the Body for adoption,at its meeting in Phil-
adelphia. The work of the Committee was vigor- 
ously criticized, and various amendments proposed 
and some adopted : hymns modified or rejected at 
the will of a couple of hundred of song members. 
One member assailed the hymn beginning— 
"Life is the time to serve the Lord." 
Ile said it teaches false doctrine, that while the 
lamp of life holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may 
return ; whereas we all know it is not true, for 
many sinners are abandoned of God, given over to 
perdition and sealed to destruction before they cease 
to breathe. He moved to strike out those two lines, 
and also the first two of the next verse, making one 
verse of the two, and avoid the heresy of teaching 
that every sinner is within the reach of mercy as 
long as he lives. The Assembly heard the criticism, 
were oonvinced of its soundness, and without any 
ado forthwith voted out the objectionable lines. 
A few minutes afterwards the Rev. Robert J. 
Breckinridge, D. D., came into the house, and was 
informed of the singular step the Assembly had 
just taken. "Why,they have stricken out the words 
of God himself," said Dr. B. ; and immediately ris-
ing he called the attention of the house to the fact 
that the hymn in question is a beautiful paraphrase 
of the ninth chapter of' Ecclesiastes, and the obnox-
ious lines are another form of stating the divine de-
claration, "To him that is joined to all the living 
there is hope." 
The Assembly saw its error, and restored the lines 
instanter. 
Extract from Luther, 
BY L. REIMER. 
"New heaven and new earth." 2 Pet. 3 : 19. 
"God has promised the prophets hither and thither, 
to create a new heaven and new earth."—Isa. 65, 
etc. I will make a new heaven and earth," 
.etc. ; also Isa. 30, etc. : "The light of the moon 
shall be as the light of the sun," etc. And Christ 
says, Matt. 13, etc., "The righteous shall shine as 
the sun," etc. How these will be we do not know, 
except that which God tells us, namely, that there 
shall be such heaven and earth, wherein there is no 
sin, but dwelleth righteousness and God's children. 
As also St. Paul says,Rom. 8, etc., "There shall be 
nothing but love,and joy and peace," etc. How do 
people trouble themselves to know whether the hap-
py souls will fly about in heaven or on earth. The 
text here says, "they shall dwell on the earth ;" so 
that heaven and earth shall be a new Paradise,where-
in God will dwell, etc. 
The Lord:: Coming. 
Augustin writes of the Lord's coming :—"How 
long shall it be said, Wait, still wait ? What is it 
I wait for? Do we not look for our Lord Jesus 
Christ, who will change these vile bodies of our hu-
miliation and made them like to His glorious body ? 
We look for the Lord, and expect till He return and 
lead us unto the marriage. Come, Lord, and make 
no tarrying. Come,Lord Jesus Christ,and visit us in 
peace. Come, and lead thy prisoners from their 
prison-house, that we may rejoice before Thee with 
perfect heart. Come, Saviour ! come, Desire of the 
nations ; shine on us with Thy face, and we shall be 
saved ! Come, my light, my Redeemer ; lead my 
soul out of prison to confess and bow before Thy holy 
name."—Manual of Devotion. 
Welsh Confession of Faith. 
In an old sketch of the "Welsh Association," in 
a magazine of that day, we read as follows :— 
"1732. Blaenau, 29th and 31st of May.—The 
Confession of Faith was prefixed to this letter, like 
the last. Joy was expressed because the churches 
did strive together against errors. excluding those 
who extended redemption beyond election,&c. There 
was a query, 'Whether it were necessary and profit-
able to preach the reign of Christ upon the earth a 
thousand years?' Reply, 'That the Association in 
general looked upon that to be a truth, and under a 
blessing, it might be profitable, when done with 
good light and understanding, with much caution." 
door against me. So I visited &bout the city, and 
scattered what light I could, and awaited the deci-
sion of the " powers that be" about the morrow. 
Put up with Bro. Morrill, where I felt myself truly 
in 8) Christian home. 
Sabbath, March. 12. At 9 o'clock A. M., in 
company with Bro. Morrill, attended a Methodist 
love feast, in the M. E. Chapel, where I preached 
last Sabbath. It was a pleasant occasion. At the 
close the question of my preaching was settled. I 
was to have the house in the evening, and was re-
quested to address the Sabbath School in the after-
noon. So I went to the first Wesleyan Church at 
11 o'clock. They have a large chapel and audience, 
not withstanding the late secession. The junior pas-
tor preached, from Isa. 35 : 8. It was a sound 
and faithful discourse. I was blessed. It is so 
seldom I can hear preaching, that I prize the privi-
lege. At the close 1 went to the Cathedral, where 
I was in time to hear another sermon, by the chief 
minister, on the rest of the Christian traveller. It 
had many points of interest, and I think gave good 
cheer to the Christian pilgrim. The audience was 
large, and very solemn. 1 felt that God was there. I 
The minister is a believer in the personal and speedy 
coming of Christ. He ha preached and published 
on the subject. 
At 3 P. M. I addressed about a hundred young 
persons, in the Sabbath School connected with the 
seceding Wesleyans, where I was to speak in the 
evening. It was one of the most interesting Schools 
I have attended. I spoke for half an hour or more, 
and had the most solemn attention. The children 
appeared intelligent and promising. My theme was 
the value of God's word to the young, with an ex-
hortation to give themselves to Christ and follow its 
blessed counsels. 
In the evening 1 preached on the parable of the 
ten virgins, Matt. 25 : 1 — 13. I had freedom in 
speaking about an hour and a half, to a very atten-
tive audience. At the close Bro. Bowman, one of 
the local preachers, who had given way for me to 
preach, gave notice that he would on the next Sab-
bath morning read Dr. A. Clarke's comments on 
the 24th chapter of Matthew. He would do this, 
because I had said that Dr. Clarke, in his exposi-
tion, had spiritualized the second coming of Christ 
into the destruction of Jerusalem. And in justice 
to himself and Bible class, whom he had taught on 
Dr. Clarke's views, he thought it his duty to show 
whether Dr. C. or the speaker spiritualized this sub-
ject. This was well, and I hoped for good to come 
out of it, although I could not be present to hear or 
reply. 
I learned afterwards, by Bro. Morrill, that Bro. 
Bowman did read and explain Dr. C.'s comments on 
the 24th of Matthew ; at the close of which Bro. 
M. rose to ask the following question : — . 
Do I understand you, Bro. Bowman, to say that 
Christ's second advent took place at the destruction 
of Jerusalem ? 
Bro. B. replied that he should answer that ques-
tion next Sabbath. 
Bro. M. said, I do not wish any discussion ; I 
wish an answer now, yes or no. Dld Christ come 
then, or not ? 
Bro. B. replied he did come then. 
Bro. M. then said, in conclusion, I now under-
stand you. You believe Christ came in the clouds 
of heaven, in power and great glory, and gathered 
his elect from the four winds of heaven, at the de-
struction of Jerusalem. 
Bro. B. said, yes. 
Eso. M. That 's all. 
And so I hope my visit has done some good, in 
bringing up the great question of the age for discus-
sion among them. I hear that Bro. B. did not 
make many converts to his views. I trust the good 
leaven will work, and many be enlightened on the 
power and coining of Christ in His kingdom. 
JOSHUA V. RIMES. 
Rev. I. R. Gates, of Williamsport, Penn. ; Bros. 
Edward and George Lampkin, of Cainsville. 
After which, the following Committees were ap- 
pointed : — 
J. Parker, S. Lamkin, and D. W. Flanders — on 
Business. 
J. W. Canfield, J. Pearce, J. Lampkin — on 
Nomination. 
D. W. Flanders to Supply the Desk. 
The hours fixed for meetings were 9 o'clk, A. M. 
and 1 o'clock P. M. 
Then adjourned until 2 o'clock. 
Afternoon session commenced by reading the 
Scriptures, singing, and prayer. The President 
called for reports from Committees and reports from 
Churches. 
The report of the Nominating Committee, pre- 
sented and adopted, was as follows : — 
Elder J LITCH, President. 
J. W. CANFIELD, Vice President. 
D. W. FLANDERS, Cor. and Rec. Secretary. 
Bro. J. LAMI'KIN, Treasurer. 
Bro. J. Barker, of Kincardin, commenced the re-
ports from Churches by letter. 
The First Annual Report of Messiah's Church, Kin-
cardin Village, in the County of Bruce, to the 
Elders, Deacons, and Lay Delegates in Confer-
ence assembled, at Cainsville, Canada West. 
BELOVED BRETHREN : — We beg respectfully to 
report to you our existence, and to inform you that 
although numbering hut eight souls yet we have 
enjoyed many happy meetings in Church fellowship 
together. At times we feel to despair of ever in-
creasing our number, and have reason to know that 
the various sects by which we are surrounded treat 
us and those scriptural teachings which we regard 
as important with contumely and reproach. Yet so 
long as we can cherish the belief that the Lord of 
Hosts is with us, and that the God of Jacob is our 
refuge, we will not fear, neither be dismayed, but 
be confiding in the never failing goodness of Him 
whose good pleasure it is to give the kingdom to the 
little flock. 
We are willing to be made the butt of ridicule 
and to be grossly misrepresented. We have been oc-
casionally cheered by visits and labors of Elder's D. 
Campbell, J. Litch, D. W. Flanders, R. Hutchin-
son, S. K. Lake and J. Pearce ; and have done what 
we consistently could to assist in renumerating the 
travelling expenses, etc., of these servants of our Mas-
ter, with the exception of Bro. Pearce, whose labors 
we believe are invariably gratuitous. We think that 
were an effort put forth here at .a period of the year 
when the roads are good, and that effort sustained 
for several weeks continuously, many who are be-
ginning to enquire whether the doctrines wt hold 
are scriptural would be even confirmed in them, and 
would co-operate with us to support an Evangelist 
(who would be both able and willing to disseminate 
the glorious truths we hold) in this• section of coun-
try. Brother Joseph Barker (the bearer of this re-
port, and whom we beg you to receive as our dele-
gate to your conference),has for some time past con-
ducted the services of the sanctuary for us at least 
once every Sabbath. And, in conclusion, we earnest-
ly pray that the Great Bead of the Church may be 
with you and guide you in your deliberations, and 
crown your labors with success; So- far as those la-
bors may be in accordance with His will and word. 
JOHN CAMPI3ELL, Secretary. 
Signed in behalf of Messiah's Church, Kincardin 
Village, this eighth day of February, 1862. 
Bro. J. Lampkin said thaehe considered the 
church at Cainsville in a better condition to advance 
in spirituality and numbers than at any other time 
hitherto, and, although we have fightings without 
and fears within, the Lord has prospered us ; and 
we have been enabled to erect a house in which to 
worship him,and to which we can invite all to come 
and participate with us in the Bible truths we en-
joy. We have had five added to our number during 
the past year, and have had many tokens of remem-
brances from the Coming One. And our prayer is 
that the deliberations of this Conference may cul-
minate in the greatest good to the cauee.in which 
we are enlisted. 
Bro. Pearce, of Port Union, informed the Confer-
ence that himself and dear companion conetiate 
the Church where he now resides ; and although he 
did not consider himself authorized to report to this 
Conference, yet he thought they were agreed in 
faith, and hope, and purpose, and longed for the 
time when they should be delivered from the bond-
age of sin and the power of death into the glorious 
liberty of the children of God. 
Bro. James Campbell not being present, Elder 
Campbell stated that the members composing the 
Freelton Church are now principally connected with 
those at Carlisle, making a Church of seventeen 
members—the Lord having helped them with a re-
vival during the labor of Elder Gates with them last 
fall, at which time eight persons were baptized and 
Messiah's Chui!ch Conference, in Canada 
West. 
The Conference convened, agreeable to adjourn-
ment, near Cainsville, in the township of Brantford, 
on the 12th day of February, 1862. The President 
not having arrived, the business of the session was 
not commenced until the following day ; the time 
being occupied in religious services. Elder J. W. 
Campbell preached in the afternoon, and Elder S. 
K. Lake in the evening. 
February 13th. Conference called to order by the 
President, and, after a season of mutual devotion, in 
which nearly all present participated, names of mem-
bers were enrolled, as follows : — 
Ministers.— J. Liteb, J. W. Canfield, D. Camp-
bell, S. K. Lake, D. W. Flanders. 
Delegates. —Bros. J. Parker, of Kincardin ; J. 
Lawrence, of Fingall ; J. Pearce, of Port Union ; 
J. Campbell, of Freelton ; J. Lampkin, of Cains-
ville; W. Pickle, of Westminster. 
Visiting Members. — Bro. Powley, of Brantford ; 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should ba 
regarded as disentitling the writer to '
any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
16 : 31., says : " It is indeed very generally sup-
posed that the souls of good men, as soon as they 
are dislodged from the body, go directly to heaven; 
but this opinion has not the least foundation in the 
oracles of God; on the contrary, our Lord says to 
Mary, after the resurrection, " Touch me not ; for 
1 am not yet ascended to my Father, in heaven." 
Do they believe Mr. Wesley? 
At this funeral I met my old friend Elder I. R. 
Gates, from Pennsylvania, who had been attending 
the Messianian Conference at Brantford, with Eld. 
J. Litch and others. It seems that they have 
formed a new sect in this Province, out of the old 
Adventists, who repudiate the doctrine of the un-
conscious sleep of the soul, and the destruction of 
the wicked. No person entertaining this view is el-
igible to membership in their body, and preachers 
or members of this view are not tolerated among 
them. Bro. Gates said to me that they heard and 
had reported that I was among the " dead sleepers," 
and, of course, could not be tolerated among them 
if this were true. But in coming into the Province 
I had no idea of meeting with any of the preachers 
or churches of this new sect, and, having work 
enough to do in other fields, it made no difference to 
me. But my views of the definite time would also 
shut me out from their association, as I understood 
a resolution against preaching the definite time was 
introduced with favor into their late conference. 
I informed l3ro. G. that I had changed my views 
on the question of the spirits of the dead holding 
communications with the living ; and that such 
change was produced by reading the book of the late 
Dr. Ramsey, of Philadelphia, on that subject.* 
On other questions I had no special light as yet to 
lead to a public change. Yet I did look favorably 
on those who hold to the mortality of man, among 
the many thousands of Adventists in this and other 
lands, and that I labor with them as I have always 
done. And should I see light in that direction to 
convince me of the truth of their position, I shall as 
an honest man embrace it. And those who assuisse 
to dictate what others shall believe, and persecute 
and cut off those who differ, could do so ; the 
world was wide, and the field was large. I should 
probably live in the exercise of Christian liberty and 
receive all the light which God is pleased to bestow 
till Jesus come — whether it be on the state of the 
dead, on the time of the resurrection, or any other 
great question. For true Christian liberty consists 
in this : " Girt with friends or foes, a man may 
speak the things he will," without the fear of man, 
and in the true fear of God, to whom we are ac-
countable for all we believe, and for every word we 
speak. 
But for this Christian and manly spirit, I should 
never have taken Father Miller by the hand when 
no others did or would, and sacrifice all in order to 
receive and publish a new and very unpopular truth. 
Mr. Miller gave me light on the word of God, which 
the Christian denomination (of which I was a mem- 
ber) did not believe or preach. The question for 
me to settle on hearing this truth was, shall I obey 
God and conscience, or shall I reject the light and 
live in condemnation ? I chose to obey God, and 
take the consequences. So I have sufkred the loss 
of membership in the denomination in which I was 
connected and lived many years, and suffered many 
things for the truth's sake. I am still living in the 
same spirit of sacrifice, and shall follow where God 
leads, if it be at the loss of all things. I do not be-
long to that class who have to wait till the truth 
becomes popular before they can embrace and fol-
low it. 
In the evening, failing in the appointment in 
Belmont, by the request of Bro. Gates I preached 
in Messiah's Chapel, in Westminster, to about one 
hundred souls. My subject was practical religion, 
a thing very much needed. in these days. Incon-
sistent professors and ministers, all, got " badly cut 
up," and some resolved and promised to amend. I 
was very kindly received by all ; and, by invitation, 
gave several other sermons on other evenings and 
one afternoon of the week. I visited Bro. Pickel 
and others in the place. Also visited and gave sev-
eral sermons in Belmont, where I had a good hear-
ing. Visited with Bros. Coupron and Storms, whom 
1 had known in the lower Province many years ago 
The renewal of old acquaintance was very pleasant. 
They are still looking for the kingdom. While in 
Belmont vicinity I enjoyed the hospitality of Bro. 
Joseph Simpson, from whom I received every atten-
tion. 
Saturday, March 22. Bro. Simpson took me to 
London, where I was to speak oa the Sabbath. I 
found on arrival that my Sabbath in London would 
he lost, as no appointment had been given out, and 
it was doubtful if I could get one. Since last Sab-
bath A. M. some of the Wesleyans, who were great-
ly delighted with my sermon then, had heard that I 
was an Adventist ; this spoiled the sermon for them. 
So much for prejudice, which was likely to shut the 
* Spiritualism a Satanic Deinsion. 
MY JOURNAL. 
VISIT TO CANADA WEST. 
FRIDAY, MaIssh 14. Bro. A. Gray took me, with 
Mrs. Gray and others, in his carriage, to St. Cath-
arines, C. W., where we called upon his friends and 
were refreshed ; after which I took the cars for 
Hamilton, where I received cordial greetings from 
Elder F. G. Brown and family, who are pleasantly 
settled here with the Baptist Church. The evening 
was very stormy, so that we had no meeting, and I 
had to leave for my next appointment, in London, 
the next day. But it is my intention to visit Ham-
ilton again, and preach the gospel of the kingdom. 
This is my third visit to this Province. The first 
was with Father Miller, to Toronto, in 1844. The 
second to Wellington Square, and Hamilton, some 
years ago. I now enter the Province again with a 
view to make a more extensive tour, and visit cities 
and towns, as the door may open, to preach " the 
gospel of the kingdom." I came by the invitation 
of Adventists who are looking for the blessed hope, 
who desired to hear me again on the time and the 
signs indicative of the Lord's near coming. I shall 
survey this field and see what the Lord has for me 
to do, and faithfully perform my duty. I know not 
what is before me, but trust to Him who has prom-
ised to be with His people to the end. • 
Saturday, March 15. Took my leave of Bro. 
Brown and his family, and left in the cars for Lon-
don. The storm of rain, hail, and snow still con-
tinues. The trees are loaded with ice, and many of 
them are falling, and others are shorn of their 
branches, by the weight of the ice. Everything is in 
wintry dress. Arrived in London at 6 P. M. Bro. 
J. P. Simpson, of Belmont, met and took me to the 
residence of Hon. S. Morrill, by his special request, 
where I was very cordially received. Bro. M. is a 
member of the Wesleyan Society, but has been an 
Adventist in faith since 1842, and a subscriber to 
the Herald. 
Sabbath, March 16. Rose refreshed after a good 
night's sleep. Preached this morning in the Wes-
leyan Church, lately seceded from the main body, 
on account of having a minister forced upon them 
whom they did not want. They worship in the M. 
E. Chapel, as the Episcopal Methodists have run 
out, and the Chapel was vacant. The Episcopal 
minister of the district at present is employed to 
preach for them a part of the time. The pulpit was 
to be occupied by a local preacher this A. M., who 
invited me, by Bro. Morrill's suggestion, to preach 
the morning sermon. The audience was good, and 
I had ,a good hearing, on the subject of entire conse-
cration, from Rom. ith and 8th chaps. It was well 
received by most, but the views on eating and drink-
ing to the glory of God, together with the way to 
live generally, was rather severe on the unscriptural 
habits of some — who were a little stirred up I 
hope, however, for good results. There is too much 
form without the power, and too much conformity 
to the world among the Wesleyans generally. They 
need another Wesley to stir them up, on holy living 
and entire consecration. 
At the close of this service Bro. Simpson took me 
in his sleigh eleven miles, to Westminster, to attend 
the funeral of a little son of' his brother, Lewis 
Simpson. The house Was crowded with people of 
all denominations. I spoke on the resurrection of 
the righteous dead, at the coming of Christ, and did 
not attempt to comfort the parents and friends of 
the deceased by teaching them that the child had 
gone to heaven, and was glorified and rewarded ; 
but that the body had gone to the dust, and the 
spirit.to God who gave it, and the reward and glori-
fication would come " at the resurrection of the 
just." I found that this doctrine did not suit the 
Spiritualists, who say that the moment we die the 
soul goes immediately to heaven. And so 1 was set 
down as a " dead sleeper," as they are called here. 
And yet I preached only the teaching of Christ and 
the Apostles on the state of the dead. Many of my 
hearers were Wesleyans and Methodists, who profess 
to follow him. And it may be interesting to them 
to know that Mr. Wesley, in his sermon on Luke 
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much encouragement given to the cause. They have 
a house in course of erection for the Messiah, in 
which to celebrate his name. And the church are 
anxious, providence permitting, that the Conference 
hold its next annual meeting at this place. 
Elder Lake spoke of the cause at Wellington 
Square (as there was no Delegate from that church) 
as being in a low condition ; and unless the Lord 
help them, there is but small hope of success in that 
place, as human agencies fail to create lasting good. 
Elder Campbell informed the Conference that there 
had been an impression produced favorable to the 
cause in the region of Brighton, and that at Smith-
ville ten persons had been baptised while Bro. 
Gates was laboring in that vicinity ; and desire the 
brethren, in Conference to remember them in their 
prayers, and to endeavor to assist them with minis-
terial aid. 
Bro. Tickle, from Westminster, reported the 
church in that place as being in a good condition,as 
far as unity and spirituality is concerned, as ever 
they were. Although their numbers have been less-
ened ley removals, their meetings are regular and 
well attended. 
Bro. J. Lawrence, from Fingall, being called up-
on, stated that he did not know whether he should 
attend the Conference when he left home, and did 
not consider himself a delegate. However,he thought 
that he could say for the church that they still loved 
the appearing of Christ, notwithstanding they had 
waded through pressing difficulties during the past 
year and see but little propect for the future. His 
prayer is that their trials m iy be overruled for their 
good, and prove their rejoicing in the day of reck-
oning. 
Adjourned untill next morning. 
Preaching in the evening by Elder Litch. 
Friday Morning, 14th. Conference called to order 
as usual. Character of ministeral brethren con-
sidered. 
Adjourned. 
Afternoon Session. Opened by singing and pray- 
er. The report of the Business Committee was re- 
ceived and adopted-as follows :- 
Your committee beg to lay before this Conference 
the following questions for consideration :- 
1st. What is the duty of the church of Messiah, 
at the present time, in relation to the custom of 
public tea parties, Sabbath School picnics (so call-
ed), now so prevalent among most all of the pro-
fessedly Christian churches ? 
2nd. Has any fresh evidence been given to the 
church and world with regard to the exact period of 
our Lord's second advent ? 
3rd. Does the spirituality of Messiahs church in 
any way depend upon the unanimity of the teach-
ing of its ministers ? 
4th. Do the Scriptures teach two translations in 
the order of Christ's receiving his saints ? 
5th. Is there aught in the general expressions of 
the Scriptures which would justify us in postpon-
ing the coming of Christ ? 
Respectfully submitted, 
Jos. BARKER, Chairman B. C. 
The Conference adopted a resolution as follows:- 
Upon item 1st. 
Resolved, That this Conference 
earnestly and affectionately recommend all our mem-
bers, and especially our young members,to discoun-
tenance them. 
While considering item 2nd, an adjournment was 
carried until following morning. 
Preaching in the evening by Elder Canfield. 
Saturday morning, 15th. Conference convened as 
usual, after the prelinienaries. 
Item 2nd was resumed and discussed this entire 
forenoon, ending in a resolution that no fresh light 
has been given for a reliable period. 
Afternoon session. The time was occupied with 
item 3rd, resulting in a desire that our ministers 
teach in accordance with the word of God and trans- 
cribed principles of faith, and thus seek unanimity 
in teaching. 
Then adjourned until Monday. 
Preaching in the evening by Elder Gates. 
Sabbath Morning. Elder Litch preached a cheer-
ing and appropriate dedicatory discourse, and ded-
icated the chapel to the service of God, ending the 
sermon with a prayer most touching and befitting. 
Notwithstanding our numbers were smaller and our 
tabernacle less magnificent than was Israel's at the 
dedication of Solomon's Temple,yet we went to our 
homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness 
the Lord had shown us. 
Preaching in the afternoon by Bro. Gates and in 
the evening by Bro. Litch. 
Thus ended the labors of the Sabbath. 
Monday morning, 17. Conference convened, and 
after reading the Scripture, singing, and prayer, the 
Conference resolved itself into a committee of the 
Whole to consider the general interest of the cause. 
Continued during the day. 
Adjourned until morning. 
Preaching in the evening by Elder Campbell. 
Tuesday morning, 18th. The committee of the 
Whole arose and reported as follows : The differences 
hitherto existing between certain brethren are ami-
cably settled. 
The Conferebee Was thee called to order by the 
President, and then adjourned, to give opportunity 
fur the Missionary Board to hold their session. Af-
t ter the meeting ofthe Missionary Board the confer-
ence was called to order, and adjourned until next 
morning. Preaching in the evening by Bro. Gates, 
Wednesday morning, 19th. Conference opened by 
reading the scripture, singing and prayer. 
At the close of the day's Conference it was resolv-
ed that the next annual meeting be at Carlisle, and 
that it convene upon the second Tuesday in Febru-
ary.1863. 'Tire Conference then ajourned until that 
date. 
D. W. FLANDERS, Secretary Con. 
N. B. Our brethren will understand that this re-
port has been delayed not intentionally, but from 
causes uncontrollable. D. W. FLANDERS. 
From Bro. Daniel Campbell. 
BRO Bless: will you communicate the following 
request to Eld. T. M. Preble ? You truly need 
great wisdom to guide you in these perilous mo-
ments. The brethren here believe you to be very 
competent to detect any unsound argument,and rely 
on you to refute such. 
NOTE TO ELD. T. M. PREBLE. 
BRO. PREBLE. I saw in the Herald some time 
since, something from your pen in relation to Shim-
eall's chronology. As we believe you to possess ad-
vantages for giving your reasons for embracing any 
definite time that can be proved, or for refuting any 
unfounded arguments in its support, we would like 
co hear from you,on that subject,and whether or not 
the errors specified by the editor of the Herald are 
not, as we think, clearly sustained. And you will 
oblige many. Your brother in hope, 
DANIEL CAMPBELL. 
West Flanders, May 17, 1862. 
AD VERTISEIVIENTS. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
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losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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The Miller's Daughter. 
i!2113 
BY MRS. BRADLEY. 
" 0, mother ?" said little Annie, 
"-May I go up to the mill? 
The cardinal flowers are in blossom, 
v. And acorns are thick on the hill. 
'And the miller's daughter, Mysie, 
Is to be he there all the day, -„;, 
And we are to have a party — 
A party all in play ! 
"May I go?" said little Annie,' 
And her mother said, " You may go, 
But you must not cross the mill-bridge, 
For the stream is deep below. 
If you fall into the water 
in the midst of your thoughtless play, 
And I lose my little daughter, 
I'd be lonely many a day." 
Little Annie kissed her mother, 
And promised sure that she 
Would remember what had been told her, 
And mind it faithfully. 
She tied on her long-sleeved apron 
And her little bonnet white, 
And her mother watched her footsteps 
Until she was out of sight. 
She smiled, looking out at the window, 
At the pretty childish face -- 
At the curls by the wind blown outward, 
And the tiny figure's grace. 
And she thought my little Annie 
Will come back safe to me ; 
I've never a fear in the world for her, 
Such a truthful child is she. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
The miller's daughter, Mysie, 
Was tired of play on the hill, 
And tired of watching the water 
That turned the wheel of the mill. 
She said that they were stupid playthings, 
Those acorn cups so brown, 
And under her feet the cardinals 
She scornfully trampled down. 
She said to little Annie, 
"Come on the bridge with me ; 
My father is busy in the mill, 
And nobody's here to see. 
You can see the water rushing 
As white as clouds in the sky, 
And it makes the merriest music; 
0, it's nice to sit so high !" 
A Naughty Think. 
"Mamma," said Kitty, " papa calls me 
a good little girl, and aunty does, and most 
everybody; but I am not, mamma, good 
at all." 
" I am very sorry," said mamma. 
"So am I," said Kitty; " but I have 
got a very naughty think." 
"Naughty what ?" asked mamma. 
" My think is naughty inside me," said 
Kitty. " When I dressed to go to ride yes-
terday, and the carriage came and there 
was no room for me, 1 went into the house, 
and aunty told you I behaved very good 
about it. She said I didn't cry, or any-
Little Annie thought of her mother, 
thing; but, mamma, I thought wicked 
And. the promise she had made; 
She would not go up to Mysie, things, and I ran up stairs and lay down, 
But on the hiil-side stayed ; 
and kicked, and kicked, and kicked; I 
While the miller's wilfull daughter was so — so — so mad. I wished the car- 
Played fearlessly about, 
riage would upset, and the old horses run 
And danced across the narrow ledge 
away. That 's what I did. It was a 
With many a laugh and shout. 
But at last she lost her balance, naughty think in me." 
And with a loud, wild cry, 
" Well, nobody knew it," said John. 
Down into the rushing water 
"Somebody nil) know it," said Kitty. 
She fell from the bridge so high. 
" Who? " asked John. 
Little Annie to her mother 
Went safely home that day, 
God," answered Kitty. " He cannot 
But the miller's only daughter, call me good, as aunty and papa do. Mam- 
All drowned, was borne away. ma, how can I be good inside ?" 
Kitty is not alone in asking that ques- 
And never again on the hill-side, 
Or in the miller's home, 
tion. Many and many a one is asking it 
Could the echo of Mysie's laughter very sorrowfully. How can I be good in- 
So wild and blithesome come. side ? King David felt like Kitty, and he 
Many a night in the darkness, 
fell down on his knees and prayed this lit- 
By a little empty bed, 
Her mother, alone and childless, tee prayer : "Cleanse Thou me from secret 
Wept sadly for Mysie, dead. faults." Secret faults are in some sense 
And the miller turning the mill-wheel, the worst sort of faults, because, first, they 
Looked ever for Mysie's face, deceive others, for they are inside, and no- 
And her trim little childish figure, body sees them ; and then they deceive 
That flitted from place to place. ourselves, for we are apt to think nobody 
And often he gazed on the water will find them out, and that if they are 
In the bitterest grief, and sighed not found out it is no matter. 
The more that his little daughter Was Kitty deceived ? No. She knew 
In disobedience died. 
they were not kept secret from God, and 
Children's Magazine. it troubled her. And when her mother 
told her of King David's prayer she prayed 
The Angel of the Hearth. that little prayer herself, and she prays it 
"Come to me, darling; papa's cross to every day. "Cleanse Thou me from secret 
night," said a young mother, as she ex- faults," she whispers in her Saviour's ear. 
tended her arms affectionately to a little And the Saviour hears and answers this 
 
girl of three years, who had left her to little prayer. As she offers it she watches 
ys over her own heart, and when a "naughty 
and playthings to climb upon her father's think " comes into her bosom she fights 
knee. v 
against it. She says to it, " Go away, go 
The child hazarded a puzzled look at away," and asks the Saviour to help her 
t 
that dark, stern countenance, and without to resist it. Go it does, and sweet peace 
 comes and nestles in her bosom instead. 
a glance of reassurance, stole softly to his Kitty's way may help other children. 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON. MAY 31. 1862. 
side. Not a word was spoken, and the 
gloomy man sat sad and sullen, his mind 
wholly absorbed with the world's busy ex-
citements. Although a husband and father, 
he was evidently in no humor to partici-
pate in the pleasures of a "home circle." 
The child, not at all discouraged. by the 
forbidding look of her parent, crept gently 
upon his knee, and placing one tiny arm 
about his neck, the other glided affection-
ately over the opposite cheek, while her 
innocent lips pressed gently the troubled 
brow. In a subdued breath she whispered, 
" Nellie loves papa so much; " and she 
drew her little soft hand caressingly down 
on either side of that care-worn face, until 
they met beneath the heavily bearded 
chin. 
Observe the effect ; 'twas electrical ; the 
stern features relaxed, the sullen gloom 
disappeared, and the whole countenance 
assumed a lively, animated expression. 
The scene was most touching. Words 
fail to express the exquisite beauty of such 
a picture. As the transformed parent drew 
the little girl to his bosom, and pressed a 
kiss upon that innocent, upturned face, 
the finer feelings of his manly nature were 
in his voice, as he said : — 
" No, my child, papa could never be 
cross with a loving daughter to calm the 
heart the world has tortured into despair." 
The moral is too palpable to be misun-
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J. M. Onnocn, Sec'y of Conference. 
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R. HUTCHINSON. 
MOORE'S VILLAGE, N. Y., April 19, 1862. 
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different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family w'll write res-
pecting it,without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
their names ! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
the full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
paper is sent. 
Those.mailing, or sending money to the office by other 
persons, unless they have a receipt forwarded to them, are 
requested to see that they are properly credited below. And 
if they are not, within a reasonable time, to notify the office 
immediately. 
As a general thing, it is better for each person to write 
respecting, and to send money himself, for his own paper 
than to send by an agent, or any third person, sinless such 
one is more likely to get his own name and post-offile right, 
than another person would be ; that money sent in small 
sums, is less likely to be lost than when sent in larger ones, 
and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
to accommodate the one who sends. 
Anson Smith, 1127 ; D. W. Flanders, 1156 ; L. Nicholls, 
1119 ; David S. Beamer, 1092 ; J. Morrill, 1119 — each 
$1.00. 
J. B. Estabrook, 1144 ; Ebenezer Dudley, 1133 ; J. H. 
Lamsen, 1140 —sent books the 26th inst. ; Joseph M. 
Sargent, cannot credit without his Post Office address —
it is not at N. B. ; Mr. Thomas M. Ohapman, 1137 ; P• 
Morrell, 1135, and $4 DO to balance account ; Mary 
Green, 1127 ; Dr. T. Wardle, 1192 -- have not heard from 
that package ; D. Emery, 1127 ; Rev. P. K. M'Cue, 
112 7 — each $2.00. 
Charles Powley, 1141— $3 00. 
Andrew Weldon. 1107 — 50 cents ; D. Campbell, 1076 ; 
.John Kniffer, 1147 — $225 ; John .Matthew:, 1.03, and 
book — $1.75.